M.Sc. and Ph.D. Defences
Below is the schedule of upcoming defences for graduate students in the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science. If you wish to attend, please email statgrad at sfu.ca.
Spring 2025
| Date | Time | Location | Degree | Speaker | Title / Abstract Link |
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MARCH |
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| 7 | 11:00am | Zoom | M.Sc. | Yulia Kozhevnikova |
BLOST: Bayesian Longitudinally Ordinal Sequential Trial Design for Evaluating Respiratory Disease Treatments |
APRIL |
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| 15 | 10:00am | Zoom | Ph.D. | Jingxue (Grace) Feng | Advanced Bayesian Modeling for Public Health |
| 16 | 9:30am | LIB 2020 & Zoom |
M.Sc. | Chen Liu | A comparison of two extreme-phenotype sampling designs for sequencing studies of disease endophenotypes |
| 22 | 10:00am | LIB 2020 & Zoom |
Ph.D. | Renny Doig | Combining compound proposal mechanisms and annealing schemes to construct more effective modern Monte Carlo methods |
| 22 | 2:15pm | LIB 2020 | M.Sc. | Yingfei Sun |
Optimal hurdle rate and investment policies in lifetime pension pools |
| 23 | 2:00pm | ASB 10920 & Zoom | Ph.D. | Matthew Parker | Advances in Ecological Modelling and Disease Analytics |
| 24 | 10:30am | LIB 7200 | M.Sc. | So Yeon Park |
Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Terror Attacks in South Asia with Extended Hawkes Process Models |