SSC 2019: Join Us at the University of Calgary for An Exciting Line-Up of Committee- and Section-Sponsored Invited Sessions

The 2019 meeting is a little more than two months away. Thanks to the many SSC members and colleagues who have contributed to the invited program. Here is a listing of committee-sponsored and section-sponsored sessions. Start planning the ones that you will attend!

Lisa Lix, University of Manitoba

Program Chair, SSC 2019, on behalf of the Program Committee

Committee-Sponsored Invited Sessions

Committee	Title	Organizer	Affiliation
The International Chinese Statistical Association - Canada Chapter	Recent Advances in Statistical Inference for Complex Data Structures	Liqun Wang	The University of Manitoba
CANSSI	CANSSI Postdoctoral Showcase	John Braun	The University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus
CANSSI	Collaborations Across CANSSI Health Science Collaborating Centres	John Braun	The University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus
New Investigators	Recent Statistics Research of New Investigators Across Canada	Reza Ramezan	The University of Waterloo
New Investigators	Tenure and Promotion: Insightful Tips From the Applicants and Reviewers	Hua Shen	The University of Calgary
Women in Statistics	Novel Statistical Methods and Applications in Genomics	Mireille Schnitzer	The University of Montreal

Section-Sponsored Invited Sessions

Section	Title	Organizer	Affiliation
Actuarial Science	Capital Allocation	Hélène Cossette	Laval University
	Recent Advances in Risk Theory	Bin Li	The University of Waterloo
	Recent Advances in Actuarial and Quantitative Finance	Jean-François Bégin	Simon Fraser University
	Graduate Students in Actuarial Science	Anne MacKay	The University of Quebec in Montreal
Biostatistics	Advanced Statistical Methods for the Integration of Omic Data	Thierry Chekouo	The University of Calgary
	Recent Developments in Survival Analysis with Complex Data	Xuewen Lu	The University of Calgary
	Measurement Error Models and Its Impacts in Health Sciences	Mahmoud Torabi	The University of Manitoba
	Making Sense of Complex Featured Data with Statistical Methods	Grace Y. Yi	The University of Waterloo
	Biostatistics Section Presidential Invited Address	Patrick Brown	The University of Toronto
Business and Industrial Statistics	Analytics in Sports	Shirley Mills	Carleton University
	Designed Experiments for Complex Engineered Systems	Ryan Lekivetz	JMP
	Implementation, Advances, and Precision in Mixture Model-Based Classification	Brian C. Franczak	MacEwan University
	Isobel Loutit Invited Address: Max Morris, Iowa State University	Devon Lin	Queen’s University
Probability	Applications of Nonstandard Analysis to Probability Theory and Statistics	Daniel Roy	The University of Toronto
	Stochastic Processes and Applications	Mary Thompson	The University of Waterloo
	Extreme Values	Gail Ivanoff	The University of Ottawa
	New Directions in Mathematical Finance	Alexandru Badescu	The University of Calgary
Statistical Education	Innovations in Data Science for Undergraduates in Canada	Bruce Dunham	The University of British Columbia
	Effective Implementation of Statistics Capstone Courses	Asokan Mulayath Variyath	Memorial University of Newfoundland
	Best Practices in Experiential Learning	Sohee Kang	The University of Toronto
	Building the Pipeline: The International Data Science in Schools Project	Alison L. Gibbs	The University of Toronto
Survey Methods	Integration of Probability and Non-Probability Samples	Jean-François Beaumont	Statistics Canada
	Modeling, Imputation, and Non-Response	Susie Fortier	Statistics Canada
	Measuring the Quality of Multisource Statistics	Wesley Yung	Statistics Canada
	Survey Methods Section Presidential Invited Address: Jack Gambino, Statistics Canada	Susie Fortier	Statistics Canada