Unless otherwise noted, seminars in the Department of Statistics are from 4:10 - 5:00 p.m. on Thursdays, in Sidney Smith Hall, room 1083. Please join us! The seminars are a great way to interact with other statisticians, and learn about research ideas. Graduate students are particularly encouraged to attend.
All are welcome to drop by the 6th floor lounge for cookies at 3:30. Graduate students have an opportunity to meet informally with the speaker, in the lounge, at 3:00.
Suggestions are welcome: please contact the seminar coordinator Nancy Reid
Week |
Speaker |
Title (Local Host) |
| Special Seminar Thursday June 21, 2 pm Bahen Centre Room 1160 |
Judea Pearl, UCLA Honorary D.Sc. University of Toronto |
The Mathematics of Causal Inference
co-hosted by the Depatments of Computer Science, Economics, Mathematics, Philosophy, Public Health Sciences and Statistics |
| Special Seminar Thursday June 21, 4 pm SS 1088 |
Stephen Fienberg Maurice Falk University Professor of Statistics and Social Science Carnegie-Mellon University |
Bayesian Mixed Membership Models for Soft Clustering and Their Application (ME) |
| Jan 11 | Therese Stukel Institute of Clinical Evaluative Sciences |
Analysis of Observational Studies in the Presence of Unmeasured Treatment Selection Bias: Effects of Invasive Cardiac Management on AMI Survival (NR) |
| Jan 18 | Russell Steele McGill University |
Modelling Birthweight in the Presence of Gestational Age Measurement Error - A Semi-parametric Approach (NR) |
| Jan 25 | Patrick Brown Department of Public Health Sciences |
Continuous time transition models with spatially and temporally varying rates (NR) |
| Feb 1 | ||
| Feb 8 | Omer Angel University of Toronto |
Global divergence of spatial coalescents |
| Feb 15 | Etienne Marceau Université Laval |
On a general class of compound renewal risk models with dependence (AB) |
| Feb 22 | Reading Week | |
| Feb 26 Fields Institute 1:00pm Note unusual time and place |
Mary Thompson, FRSC University of Waterloo | Generalizing from a sample to a population: reflections on history |
| Mar 1 | Balint Virag University of Toronto |
Scaling Limits of Random Matrices |
| Mar 8 SS 2135 Note change of room |
Andrey Feuerverger University of Toronto |
Statistical analysis of an archeological find |
| Mar 15 | ||
| Mar 22 | Jim Booth Cornell University |
A Multivariate Variance Components Model for Analysis of Covariance in Designed Experiments (NR) |
| Mar 29 | ||
| Apr 5 | Andrew Paterson Hospital for Sick Children |
Genetics of long-term complications of type 1 diabetes (RC) |
| Apr 12 | Graduate Student Research Presentations | (RN) |
| First Term | ||
| Sept 7 | Wilfrid Kendall University of Warwick |
Perfect simulation: a survey. (JR) |
| Sept 14 | Michael Levine Purdue University |
Variance estimation via difference sequences. The full paper is also available here. Joint with the Department of Economics |
| Sept 21 | Stephen Raudenbush and Guanglei Hong University of Chicago and OISE/UT |
Evaluating Kindergarten Retention Policy: A Case Study of Causal Inference for Multi- Level Observational Data (NR) (paper to appear in JASA) |
| Sept 28 | ||
| Oct 5 | Damla Senturk Pennsylvania State University |
Semi-parametric covariate adjustments (FY) |
| Oct 12 | Jan Hannig Colorado State University |
Fiducial inference: the good, bad and ugly (FY) |
| Oct 19 | ||
| Oct 26 | ||
| Nov 2 | Xin Gao York University |
Construction of Gene Network via Composite Likelihood Approach (NR) |
| Nov 9 | Vova Vinogradov Ohio University |
On a Relationship Between the Inverse Gaussian & Sichel's Exponential Dispersion Models and the Conjecture of Jorgensen and Wentzell (NR) |
| Nov 10 11:30 am SS 2098 |
Manuel Morales Université de Montréal |
On the Expected Discounted Penalty Function for a General Perturbed Levy Risk Process (SJ) |
| Nov 16 BA5256 Note change of location |
Hans Tuenter Ontario Power Generation |
Stochastic Modeling of Wind Speed Time Series (SJ) |
| Nov 23 | Graduate Student Seminars | Description thanks to Andrey |
| Nov 30 | Yuhong Yang University of Minnesota |
Combining/Selecting Models/Procedures (RC) |
| Dec 7 | David Stanford University of Western Ontario |
Transplant Queues (SL) |
This is where I collect various campus seminars of potential interest.
Suggestions always welcome!
Week |
Speaker |
Location/Notes |
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May 10 SAS Institute 280 King St E 5/F TO |
SORA, TABA and SAS presenting a workshop on longitudinal data analysis in business and biostatistics |
Workshop web site |
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May 8 Koffler Institute 569 Spadina Ave, Room KP 108 6 pm |
The Inaugural Nathan and Beatrice Keyfitz Public Lecture Joel Cohen, Rockefeller University |
How Many People Can the Earth Support? And How Do You Know That? |
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Mar 27--30 McMaster University |
Professor Don Dawson is giving the Britton Lectures |
Details |
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Mar 21 12:00 pm |
John Braun University of Western Ontario |
Bootstrapping a Deterministic Fire Spread Model Faculty of Forestry ES 1016M |
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Mar 15 5:30 pm |
Vova Vinagradov Ohio University |
Fields Institute |
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Nov 21 4:00-5:00 pm |
Keith Worsley McGill University |
Ross Building N638 York University Detecting connectivity between images by thresholding random fields |
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Oct 29 3:00-4:00 pm |
Jeff Rosenthal University of Toronto |
Medical Sciences Auditorium
Royal Canadian Institute: Free Science on Sundays The curious world of probabilities |
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Oct 13 11:00-12:00 am |
Ben Shneiderman University of Maryland |
Bahen 1160
Department of Computer Science
Distinguished Lecture Series The thrill of discovery: visualization for high-dimensional spaces |
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Oct 5 4:30 pm |
Madhur Anand University of Guelph |
Ramsay Wright 432
Sigma-Xi Distinguished Lecture From Local Causes to Global Effects: Complex Systems Ecology |
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Sept 20 12:30-2:00 pm |
Stephen Raudenbush University of Chicago |
252 Bloor Street West, OISE/UT 9th floor, Room 105 Abstract |