Seminars - Fall 2026/Winter 2027
Some of the purposes of these sessions are: to promote biostatistics and biostatistical methodology; serve as a learning opportunity for both students and faculty; foster communication, collaboration, professionalism, career development. The format will be varied: seminar presentations, journal club, discussions of work in progress, interact with guest speakers, etc.
Who is invited: biostatisticians and biostatisticians in training; all other hyphenated-, unhyphenated- and soon-to-be-statisticians with interests in applied statistics.
PLEASE NOTE: The Fall 2026/Winter 2027 Seminar Series will be held in hybrid format (in-person/Zoom) on Wednesdays from 3:30 to 4:30 PM, at the SPGH, 2001 McGill College, Room 1140. Please refer to announcement titles below for details.
FALL 2026 |
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| Date | Speaker | Title | Recording |
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| Sept 16, 2026 IN-PERSON |
Irina Pivneva (McGill University) | ||
| Sept 23, 2026 VIRTUAL |
Junxi Zhang (Concordia University) | Fairness in Precision Medicine: Optimal Treatment Learning with Censored Outcomes and Beyond | |
| Sept 30, 2026 IN-PERSON |
Kara Rudolph (Columbia University) | Improving Efficiency in Estimating Transported Average Treatment Effects | |
| Oct 7, 2026 IN-PERSON |
Francesca Chiaromonte (Penn State) | ||
| Oct 14, 2026 | NO SEMINAR - Reading Week - Oct 9-14, 2026 | ||
| Oct 21, 2026 VIRTUAL |
Emily Roberts (University of Iowa) | ||
| Oct 28, 2026 IN-PERSON |
Joel Greenhouse (Carnegie Mellon University) | ||
| Nov 4, 2026 VIRTUAL |
Melanie Poulin-Costello (University of Toronto) | ||
| Nov 11, 2026 VIRTUAL |
Ava Kamseh (University of Edinburgh) | ||
| Nov 18, 2026 VIRTUAL |
Ivana Malenica (University of North Carolina) | ||
| Nov 25, 2026 VIRTUAL |
Oliver Dukes (Ghent University) | ||
| Dec 2, 2026 VIRTUAL |
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WINTER 2027 |
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| Date | Speaker | Title | Recording |
| Jan 6, 2027 IN-PERSON |
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| Jan 13, 2027 IN-PERSON |
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| Jan 20, 2027 VIRTUAL |
Toryn Schafer (Texas A & M University) | ||
| Jan 27, 2027 | |||
| Feb 3, 2027 IN-PERSON |
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| Feb 10, 2027 IN-PERSON |
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| Feb 17, 2027 IN-PERSON |
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| Feb 24, 2027 IN-PERSON |
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| Mar 1,2027 | NO SEMINAR - Spring Break March 1-5, 2027 | ||
| Mar 10, 2027 IN-PERSON |
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| Mar 17, 2027 IN-PERSON |
Andrea Benedetti | Oscars Competition | |
| Mar 24, 2027 IN-PERSON |
Judith Lok | ||
| Mar 31, 2027 IN-PERSON |
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| Apr 7, 2027 IN-PERSON |
Rob Deardon | ||
| Apr 14, 2027 IN-PERSON |
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