Seminars - Fall 2025/Winter 2026
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 2025/Winter 2026 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.
MEET & GREET with in-person speakers, (coffee/cookies will be served) from 3-3:30 PM (Room 1140) prior to each seminar
FALL 2025
| Date | Speaker | Title | Recording |
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| Aug 27, 2025 IN-PERSON |
Leonardo Grilli (U of Florence) | Combining Multiple Imputation and the Knockoff Filter for Variable Selection, with an Application to Large-Scale Assessment Data | |
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Sept 3, 2025 |
Fatema Shafie Khorassani (Boston University) | Data Fusion for Studying Cancer Surveillance Databases | |
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Sept 10, 2025 |
Dehan Kong (University of Toronto) | Fighting Noise with Noise: Causal Inference with Many Candidate Instruments | |
| Sept 17, 2025 IN-PERSON |
Li-Pang Chen (National Chengchi University) |
Statistical Machine Learning Methods for Noisy Survival Data Analysis |
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| Sept 24, 2025 VIRTUAL |
James Zou (Stanford) | AI agents to automate biomedical discoveries | |
| Oct 1, 2025 IN-PERSON |
Valentine Laizet (Amaris Consulting) | Presentation of the Health Economics and Market Access (HEMA) department at Amaris Consulting for consulting in Healthcare Economics and Outcomes Research (HEOR) | |
| Oct 8, 2025 IN-PERSON |
Justin Weltz (Duke) | ||
| Oct 15, 2025 | NO SEMINAR - Reading Week - Oct 14-17, 2025 | ||
| Oct 22, 2025 VIRTUAL |
Nima Hejazi (Harvard) | Evaluating the Causal Effects of Continuous Exposures under Network Interference with Induced Modified Treatment Policies | |
| Oct 29, 2025 IN-PERSON |
Magali Richard (U Grenoble Alpes) | Statistical and Computational Methods for the Analysis of Tumor Heterogeneity | |
| Nov 5, 2025 IN-PERSON |
Camila de Souza (Western) | Advancing Functional Data Clustering and Survival Analysis with Variational Inference | |
| Nov 12, 2025 | Ting Ye (U of Washington) | ||
| *Friday, Nov 21, 2025 CSMQ Seminar Series IN-PERSON |
Sudipto Banerjee (UCLA) | ||
| Nov 26, 2025 VIRTUAL |
James Zou (Stanford) | AI agents to automate biomedical discoveries | |
WINTER 2026
| Date | Speaker | Title | Recording |
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| Jan 7, 2026 | |||
| Jan 14, 2026 | |||
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Jan 21, 2026 |
Chixiang Cheng (Maryland) | ||
| Jan 28, 2026 | |||
| Feb 4, 2026 IN-PERSON |
Guilherme de Oliveira (McGill) | ||
| Feb 11, 2026 | |||
| Feb 18, 2026 | |||
| Feb 25, 2026 IN-PERSON |
Alex Levis (Carnegie Mellon) | ||
| Mar 5, 2026 | NO SEMINAR - Spring Break March 2-6, 2026 | ||
| Mar 11, 2026 | Oscar Competition - tbc | ||
| Mar 18, 2026 |
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| Mar 25, 2026 | |||
| Apr 1, 2026 | |||