Plenary and Statutory Sessions
Invited Sessions Organized by SSC Sections
Plenary and Statutory Sessions
Presidential Invited Address (Organizer: Mike Evans, University of Toronto)
Michael Jordan, University of California, Berkeley.
SSC Gold Medal Address (Organizer: Christian Léger, University of Montreal)
Jeffrey Rosenthal, University of Toronto.
SSC Impact Award Address (Organizer: Thérèse Stukel, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences Ontario)
David Thomson, Queen’s University.
CRM-SSC Prize in Statistics Address (TBA)
Pierre Robillard Award Address (TBA)
CJS Award Address (TBA)
Invited Sessions Organized by SSC Sections
Isobel Loutit Lecture (Organizer: Tom Loughin, Simon Fraser University)
Bradley Jones, JMP.
Statistical Challenges in Modern Astronomy (Organizer: Jason Loeppky, University of British Columbia Okanagan)
Shane Reese, Brigham Young University.
Earl Lawrence, Los Alamos National Laboratory.
SErik Rosolowsky, University of Alberta.
Business Analytics: Where does the Statistician Fit? (Organizer: Georges Monette, York University)
Kaiser Fung, Vimeo.
Jeff McGill, Queen’s University.
Krzysztof Dzieciolowski, Rogers.
Semi and Unsupervised Learning (Organizer: Paul McNicholas, University of Guelph)
Geoff McLachlan, University of Queensland, Australia.
Salvatore Ingrassia, University of Catania, Italy.
Irene Vrbik, University of Guelph.
Survey Section Presidential Invited Address (Organizer: Susana Rubin-Bleuer, Statistics Canada)
Claire Durand, Université de Montréal.
Big Data (Organizer: Susana Rubin-Bleuer, Statistics Canada)
Steven Heeringa, University of Maryland.
Hugh Chipman, Acadia University.
Jean Pignal, Statistics Canada.
Lily Ma, Statistics Canada.
David Binder Memorial Session (Organizer: Mary Thompson, University of Waterloo)
Milorad Kovacevic, United Nations Development Programme.
Natalie Schlomo, University of Manchester.
Abdellatif Demnati, Statistics Canada.
Analysis of Business Micro-Data (Organizer: Danny Leung, Statistics Canada)
Anne-Marie Rollin, Statistics Canada.
Jay Dixon, Industry Canada.
Robert Petrunia, Lakehead University.
Stochastic processes and their applications (Organizer: Barbara Szyszkowicz, Carleton University)
Miklos Csorgo, Carleton University.
Don Dawson, Carleton University.
Don McLeish, University of Waterloo.
Levy Processes and Applications (Organizer: Xiaowen Zhou, Concordia University)
Andreas Kyprianou, University of Bath, Great Britain.
Jean-Francois Renaud, University of Quebec at Montreal.
Alexey Kuznetsov, York University.
Stochastic Spatial Processes (Organizer: Tom Salisbury, York University)
Louigi Addario-Berry, McGill University.
Deniz Sezer, University of Calgary.
Balint Virag, University of Toronto.
Weakly Interacting Processes in Finance and Economics (Organizer: Bruno Remillard, HEC Montreal)
Christoph Frei, University of Alberta.
Jianhui Huang, Hong Kong Polytechnical University.
Minyi Huang, Carleton University.
Stochastic Modelling in Industry (Organizer: Neal Madras, York University)
Guangyu Fu, Scotiabank.
Dan Wilson, Invidi Technologies Corporation.
Ping Wu, Bank of Montreal.
Bridging the Gap Between Methods Development and Implementation in Biostatistics (A Panel Discussion, organizer: Eleanor Pullenayegum, University of Toronto & Hospital for Sick Children)
Lehana Thabane, McMaster University.
Brian Feldman, University of Toronto.
Martin Offringa, University of Toronto.
Melanie Barwick, University of Toronto.
Modern Statistical Methods for Complex Health Data (Organizers: Kevin He and Yi Li, University of Michigan)
Richard Cook, University of Waterloo.
John D Kalbfleisch, University of Michigan.
Yi Li, University of Michigan.
Ross L. Prentice, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.
New Directions in Causal Inference (Organizers: Lawrence McCandless, Simon Fraser University and Russell Steele, McGill University)
Mireille Schnitzer, Université de Montréal.
Peter Austin, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences and University of Toronto.
Dave Stephens, McGill University.
Recent Advances in Spatial Statistics (Organizer: Mahmoud Torabi, University of Manitoba)
Rhonda J. Rosychuk, University of Alberta.
Ying MacNab, University of British Columbia.
Mahmoud Torabi, University of Manitoba.
Teaching Introductory Statistics with R (Organizer: John Braun, Western University)
Kevin Thorpe, University of Toronto.
Alison Gibbs, University of Toronto.
Joel Dubin, University of Waterloo.
Delivering a Successful Stats Service Course (Organizer: Gordon Hines, University of Guelph)
Jeanette O'Hara Hines, University of Waterloo.
Gordon Hines, University of Guelph.
Tom Nudds, University of Guelph.
Statistical Education of Scientists in Light of Philosophy of Science (A Panel Discussion, organizer: Jeff Picka, University of New Brunswick)
Maya Goldenberg, University of Guelph.
Nathan Young, University of Ottawa.
Jeff Picka, University of New Brunswick.
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Our Introductory Courses (Organizer: Bethany White, Western University)
Bob delMas, University of Minnesota.
Michele Millar, Mount Saint Vincent University.
Bruce Dunham, University of British Columbia.
Statistical Methods in Actuarial Science (Organizer: Yi Lu, Simon Fraser University)
Arthur Charpentier, University of Quebec at Montreal.
Natalia Nolde, University of British Columbia.
Edward Furman, York University.
Actuarial Finance (Organizer: Jean-François Renaud, University of Quebec at Montreal)
Runhuan Feng, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Carole Bernard, University of Waterloo.
Tom Salisbury, York University.
Graduate Student Presentations in Actuarial Science (Organizer: Jiandong Ren, Western University)
Fangda Liu, University of Waterloo.
Oscar Quijano, Concordia University.
Chen Yang, Western University.
Dameng Tang, University of Toronto.
Hassan Omidi, University of Montreal.
Optimal Design of Experiments (Organizer: Julie Zhou, University of Victoria)
Weng Kee Wong, University of California, Los Angeles.
Peter Qian, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Saumen Mandal, University of Manitoba.
Statistics of Sea Surface Winds and Non-Gaussianity in Climate Variability (Organizer: Priscilla Greenwood, University of British Columbia)
Adam Monahan, University of Victoria.
William Thompson, University of British Columbia Victoria.
Philip Sura, Florida State University.
Recent Developments in Small Area Estimation (Organizer: Mahmoud Torabi, University of Manitoba)
Jiming Jiang, University of California, Davis.
Gauri S. Datta, University of Georgia.
Narasimha Prasad, University of Alberta.
Statistical Genetic and Genomic Modeling and Analysis of Complex Traits (Organizer: Brad McNeney, Simon Fraser University)
Joseph Beyene, McMaster University.
Angelo Canty, McMaster University.
Jo Knight, University of Toronto.
Challenges and New Developments in Complex Multiple Comparison Procedures (Organizer: Jianan Peng, Acadia University)
Frank Bretz, Novartis Pharma AG, Switzerland.
Yulia Gel, University of Waterloo.
Jianan Peng, Acadia University.
New Methods for Analyzing Brain Imaging data (Organizer: Ivor Cribben, University of Alberta)
Ivor Cribben, University of Alberta.
Linglong Kong, University of Alberta.
Farouk Nathoo, University of Victoria.
Predictive Density Estimation (Organizer: Eric Marchand, Université de Sherbrooke)
Xinyin Xu, Ohio State University.
Fumiyasu Komaki, University of Tokyo.
William Strawderman, Rutgers University.
Shape-Constrained Maximum Likelihood: Methods and Applications (Organizer: Hanna Jankowski , York University)
Fadoua Balabdaoui Ceremade, Université Paris-Dauhpine.
Ming Yuan, University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Bodhi Sen, Columbia University.
Statistical Challenges in High-Throughput Genomic Data (Organizer: Kun Liang, University of Waterloo)
Sunduz Keles, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Wei Sun, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Hongkai Ji, Johns Hopkins University.
Statistical Analysis with Data Complications (Organizer: Lang Wu, University of British Columbia)
Joan Hu, Simon Fraser University.
Sanjoy Sinha, Carleton University.
Leilei Zeng, University of Waterloo.
Statistical Issues in Health Economics and Health Technology Assessment (Organizer: Nicholas Mitsakakis, University of Toronto)
Andy Willan, University of Toronto.
Kristian Thorlund, McMaster University.
Heejung Bang, University of California at Davis.
Recent Advances in the Analysis of Complex Surveys (Sponsored by ICSA – Canada Chapter. Organizers: Wendy Lou, University of Toronto and Victoria Landsman, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research)
Barry I. Graubard, National Institutes of Health.
Sunghee Lee, University of Michigan.
Victoria Landsman, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research.
New Developments in Nonlinear Time Series Modelling and Robust Methods in Time Series Analysis with Applications (Organizer: Ying Zhang, Acadia University)
Ian McLeod, Western University.
Hao Yu, Western University.
Herold Dehling, Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, Germany.
New Developments in High Dimensional Data Analysis (Organizer: Abbas Khalili, McGill University)
Jinch Lv, University of Southern California.
Hui Zou, University of Minnesota.
Anand N. Vidyashankar, George Mason University.
Publishing and Reproducible Research (A Panel Discussion, organizer: Karen A. Kopciuk, Cancer Control Alberta, Alberta Health Services and University of Calgary)
Veronique Kiermer, Nature Publishing Group.
Robert Platt, McGill University.
Theresa Hyslop, Duke University.
Bioinformatics and Copula Models (Sponsored by Women in Statistics, organizer: Laura Cowen, University of Victoria)
Jemila Hamid, McMaster University.
Kelly Burkett, University of Ottawa.
Michelle Zhou, Simon Fraser University.
Gaussian Process Regression: Innovations and Applications (Organizer: Martin Lysy, University of Waterloo)
Derek Bingham, Simon Fraser University.
Jason Loeppky, University of British Columbia.
Martin Lysy, University of Waterloo.
Copula Theory and Methods (Organizer: Ruodu Wang, University of Waterloo)
Claudia Czado, Technische Universität München.
Haijun Li, Washington State University.
Emiliano Valdez, Michigan State University.
Survival Methods in Genetics (Organizer: M'Hamed Lajmi Lakhal Chaieb, Université Laval)
Laurent Briollais, Samuel Lunenfel Research Institute.
Martin Leclerc, Université Laval.
Yildiz Yilmaz, Memorial University.
Recent Developments in Finite Mixture Models (Organizer: Pengfei Li, University of Waterloo)
Jiahua Chen, University of British Columbia.
Hiroyuki Kasahara, University of British Columbia.
Hajo Holzmann, Philipp University of Marburg, Germany.
New Developments in Statistical Neuroscience (Organizer: Shoja'eddin Chenouri, University of Waterloo)
Sam Behseta, California State University.
Matthew Harrison, Brown University.
Paul Marriott, University of Waterloo.
Statistical Analysis for Infectious Diseases (Organizer: Juxin Liu, University of Saskatchewan)
Rob Deardon, University of Guelph.
Nathaniel Osgood, University of Saskatchewan.
Erin Schliep, Duke University.
New Challenges and Developments in Survival Analysis and its Applications (Organizer: Jiajia Zhang, University of South Carolina)
Jiajia Zhang, University of South Carolina).
Yingwei Peng, Queen's University.
Grace Yi, University of Waterloo.
Wenbin Lu, North Carolina State University.
Opportunities and Challenges in the First Years of an Academic Career (A Panel Discussion, sponsored by the New Investigator Committee, organizer: Anne-Sophie Charest, Laval University)
Pengfei Li, University of Waterloo.
Hanna Jankowski, York University.
Masoud Asgharian, McGill University.
Financial Mathematics (Organizer: Adam Kolkiewicz, University of Waterloo)
Matt Davison, University of Western Ontario.
Adam Metzler, Wilfrid Laurier University.
Anatoliy Swishchuk, University of Calgary.
Machine Learning (Organizer: Ruslan Salakhutdinov, University of Toronto)
Ali Ghodsi, University of Waterloo.
Peter Orbanz, Columbia University.
Ruslan Salakhutdinov, University of Toronto.
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