Samuel Cohen
University of Oxford
Room: M3 3127
An undergraduate student data competition.
All members of your team need to register.
Registration is now closed. Email Greg Preston if you have questions.
Learn more on the event page.
Actuarial Science and Financial Mathematics seminar seriesBrendan Pass Room: M3 3127 |
The Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science is delighted to announce that it is hosting a conference to celebrate the remarkable contributions of Jerry Lawless and Mary Thompson to the fields of life history analysis and survey sampling methodology. An exciting program of speakers has been lined up for what promising to be a stimulating and enjoyable two days of talks by leading researchers including collaborators, friends and former students of Mary and Jerry.
A banquet will be held on the evening of the 28th.
Richard Cook (Chair)
Joel Dubin
Pengfei Li
Peijun Sang
Changbao Wu
Yeying Zhu
Email sasevent@uwaterloo.ca for any general event inquiries.
The Master of Actuarial Science (MActSc) program is celebrating its 15th anniversary. Join us at Federation Hall on Friday, May 31st, for a cocktail reception and dinner. Everyone is welcome!
Early bird tickets: $55 per person (rate available until April 19th)
Regular ticket: $65 per person
Distinguished Lecture Series
Bhramar Mukherjee
John D Kalbfleisch Distinguished University Professor of Biostatistics
Siobán D. Harlow Collegiate Professor of Public Health
Chair of the Department of Biostatistics
University of Michigan
Room: DC 1302
The Data Struggle of the Unseen
Despite several proposed roadmaps to increase diversity in scientific research, most of the world's research data are collected on people of European ancestry. We rely on summary statistics from historically privileged populations and then devise clever statistical methods to transfer/transport them for cross-ancestry use. In this talk, I would first argue the obvious: for building fair algorithms we need fair training datasets. However, till we have reached the dream of equitable big data at a global scale, statisticians have an important role to play. In fact we have the perfect tools to study the "unobserved" through modeling of missing data, selection bias and alike. I will share examples from my personal journey as a statistician where doing good and timely statistical work with imperfect data quantified important disparity in health outcomes and led to policy impact. I will conclude the talk with a call to arms for statisticians to lead efforts for creating, curating, collecting data and pioneering new scientific studies, not just remain on the design and analytic fringes. As public health statisticians, our job is not just to predict, but to prevent. The talk is based on years of work with my students and colleagues at the Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan and inspired by the transformative experience we shared as a statistical team working on the COVID-19 pandemic.
The 2024 Joint Research Conference on Statistics in Quality, Industry and Technology will be held in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada from June 17-20, 2024 at the University of Waterloo. This is a joint meeting of the 29th Spring Research Conference on Statistics in Industry and Technology and the 40th Quality and Productivity Research Conference. The conference is co-sponsored by the American Statistical Association Section on Quality and Productivity, the American Statistical Association Section on Physical & Engineering Sciences, and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. Organization of this conference is also in partnership with Virginia Tech.
The goal of this conference is to stimulate interdisciplinary research and innovative solutions to practical problems though interactions among statisticians, data scientists, quality professionals, engineers, students, and others from diverse fields. The theme of this year’s conference is, Data Science and Statistics for Industrial Innovation.The technical program will focus on statistical methodology and creative problem solving to address scientific, industrial, and business challenges, drawing upon advances from the fields of statistics, machine learning, and data science.
Organization of the conference is underway. This website will be expanded with additional details as they arise. To contact the conference team with questions, please email Nathaniel Stevens at nstevens@uwaterloo.ca.
The Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science is delighted to announce that it is hosting a conference to celebrate the remarkable contributions of Gord Willmot to the field of Actuarial Science. An exciting program of speakers has been lined up to celebrate Gord’s upcoming retirement. The 1.5-day conference will feature talks by leading researchers including collaborators, friends and former students of Gord to celebrate this important milestone for the Department.
A banquet will be held on the evening of July 5th.
