Seminars - Fall 2024/Winter 2025
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 2024/Winter 2025 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 1201 or 1140. Please refer to announcement titles below for details.
| Date | Speaker | Title | Recording |
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FALL 2024 |
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| Sept 4, 2024 | Lu Xia (Michigan State U) | Estimating Equation-Based Approaches for Complex Longitudinal Data: High-Dimensional Inference and Transfer Learning | N/A |
| Sept 11, 2024 | Huimin Cheng (Boston U) | Graphon Cross-Validation with Application to Drug Repurposing | |
| Sept 18, 2024 In-Person |
Audrey Beliveau (U of Waterloo) | A Penalization Method for Improving the Parsimony of Network Meta-Analysis Models | |
| Sept 23, 2024 In-Person (Monday) |
Zhonghua Liu (Columbia U) | Integrating a novel robust Mendelian randomization method for proteomics data analysis and AlphaFold3 for predicting 3D structural alterations | |
| Oct 2, 2024 In-Person |
Rebecca Hubbard (Brown U) | Context is king: Addressing informed presence bias in EHR-based research | |
| Oct 9, 2024 In-Person |
Eric Laber (Duke U) | Bayesian Basket of Bandits | |
| Oct 16, 2024 | NO SEMINAR - Thanksgiving Holiday & Reading Week - Oct 15-18, 2024 | ||
| Oct 23, 2024 In-Person |
Alex Stringer (U of Waterloo) | Two New Methods for Nonlinear Regression in Epidemiology and Environmental Toxicology | |
| Oct 30, 2024 | Guanghao Qi (U of Washington) | ` | |
| Nov 6, 2024 | Shu Yang (NCSU) | Enhancing Statistical Validity and Power in Hybrid Controlled Trials: A Randomization Inference Approach with Conformal Selective Borrowing | |
| Nov 13, 2024 | Souvik Seal (MUSC) | ||
| Nov 20, 2024 | Jack Bowden (U of Exeter) | Instrumental Variable methods to target Hypothetical Estimands with longitudinal repeated measures data: Application to the STEP 1 trial | |
| Nov 27, 2024 In-Person |
James Hanley (McGill) | Studies in the history of probability and statistics, LI: the first conditional logistic regression | |
WINTER 2025 |
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| Jan 8, 2025 | Hengrui Cai (UCI) | ||
| Jan 15, 2025 | TBC | ||
| Jan 24, 2025 Joint EBOH/CSMQ (Friday) |
Marie Davidian (NCSU) | ||
| Jan 29, 2025 | TBC | ||
| Feb 5, 2025 | Zhana Duren (Clemson U) | ||
| Feb 12, 2025 | TBC | ||
| Feb 19, 2025 | TBC | ||
| Feb 26, 2025 | TBC | ||
| Mar 5, 2025 | NO SEMINAR - Spring Break March 3-7, 2025 | ||
| Mar 12, 2025 | TBC | ||
| Mar 19, 2025 In-Person |
Andrea Benedetti/Qihuang Zhang (McGill) |
Oscar Award prediction competition
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| Mar 26, 2025 | TBC | ||
| Apr 2, 2025 In-Person |
Daiwei Zhang (UNC) | ||