We are excited to announce the following invited sessions at the upcoming SSC annual meeting. Don't miss these great topics!
- Risk Quantification in Actuarial Science (sponsored by Actuarial Section) Silvana Manuela Pesenti (silvana.pesenti@utoronto.ca)
- Fairness and Discrimination in Insurance (sponsored by Actuarial Section) Marie-Pier Côté (Marie-Pier.Cote@act.ulaval.ca)
- Machine Learning in Actuarial Science and Finance (sponsored by Actuarial Section) Chengguo Weng (chengguo.weng@uwaterloo.ca)
- Mortality Forecasting and Longevity Risk Management (sponsored by Actuarial Section) Yingli Qin (yingli.qin@uwaterloo.ca)
- Recent Advances in Epidemiology and Ecology (sponsored by Biostatistics Section) Rob Deardon (rob.deardon@ucalgary.ca)
- Harnessing Statistical and Computational Models for Neuroscience (sponsored by Biostatistics Section) Reza Ramezan (rramezan@uwaterloo.ca)
- Advanced Statistical Inference for Emerging Infectious Disease Epidemics (sponsored by Biostatistics Section) Lam Ho (lam.ho@dal.ca)
- Presenting Your Technical Work to Non-Statistical Audiences (sponsored by Biostatistics Section) Eleanor M. Pullenayegum (eleanor.pullenayegum@sickkids.ca)
- Bridging the Gap: Navigating Collaborative Research with Non-Statisticians (sponsored by Business and Industrial Statistics Section) – Panel Reza Ramezan (rramezan@uwaterloo.ca)
- Innovative Strategies in High-Dimensional Data Analysis with Applications to Business and Industry (sponsored by Business and Industrial Statistics Section) S. Ejaz Ahmed (sahmed5@brocku.ca)
- Modern Approaches for Clustering Data (sponsored by Business and Industrial Statistics Section) Brian Franczak (franczakb@macewan.ca)
- Bridging the Gap with Large Language Models (sponsored by Business and Industrial Statistics Section) – Panel Vahid Partovi Nia (vahid.partovi-nia@polymtl.ca)
- Advancements in Sports Analytics (sponsored by Data Science and Analytics Section) Tianyu Guan (tguan@brocku.ca)
- Reproducibility in Machine Learning and Statistics (sponsored by Data Science and Analytics Section) Tiffany A Timbers (tiffany.timbers@stat.ubc.ca)
- Ensemble Learning for Developing Predictive Models (sponsored by Data Science and Analytics Section) Jabed Tomal (jtomal@tru.ca)
- Inference for Autoregressive and Markov Models; A Memorial Session for Wolfgang Wefelmeyer (sponsored by Probability Section) Priscilla E. Greenwood (pgreenw@math.ubc.ca)
- Recent Advances in Random Walks (sponsored by Probability Section) Jean Vaillancourt (jean.vaillancourt@hec.ca)
- Advanced Development on Time Series and Their Applications (sponsored by Probability Section) Bruno N. Rémillard (bruno.remillard@gmail.com)
- Inference Methods in Stochastic Processes with Change-Points: Recent Advances (sponsored by Probability Section) Sévérien Nkurunziza (severien@uwindsor.ca)
- Generative Artificial Intelligence and What’s Next for the Teaching and Learning of Statistics (sponsored by Statistical Education Section) – Panel Alison L. Gibbs ( alison.gibbs@utoronto.ca)
- Past, Present, and Future of Statistical Education (sponsored by Statistical Education Section) Yildiz Yilmaz
- Teaching Introductory Statistics to Nonspecialists (sponsored by Statistical Education Section) Léo Belzile
- Approaches to Teaching the Analysis of Large-Scale and Complex Data (sponsored by Statistical Education Section) Alexander Shestopaloff (a.shestopaloff@qmul.ac.uk)
- New Advancements in Formal Privacy Methods and Synthetic Data Generation (sponsored by Survey Methods Section) Bei Jiang (bei1@ualberta.ca)
- Restoring Survey Response Rates and Mitigating the Nonresponse Error: Current Approaches and Recent Findings (sponsored by Survey Methods Section) Peter G. Wright
- Statistical Challenges: Privacy, High-Dimensionality, and Real-World Applications (sponsored by Survey Methods Section) Zeinab Mashreghi (z.mashreghi@uwinnipeg.ca)
- Networking for Large Programs of Research, Thérèse Stukel (stukel@ices.on.ca) with Lisa Lix, Robyn Tamblyn, Robert Platt, Derek Bingham, Shelley Bull
- Convergence of MCMC Algorithms, Jeffrey Rosenthal, (jeff@math.toronto.edu)