Wednesday, March 29, 2023

MSc Thesis Defence: Michelle Caruso

  MSc Thesis Defence:  Michelle Caruso Title: Location-Based Sentiment Analysis using Bayesian Networks on COVID-19 Twitter Data When: 04-18-23 Time: 2:00 pm Location: Via Zoom CANDIDATE: Michelle Caruso... More

Thursday, March 23, 2023

Distinguished Lecture Series in Statistical Sciences – Eric Joel Tchetgen Tchetgen

CANSSI Ontario will be hosting an upcoming lecture by University of Pennsylvania Professor Eric J. Tchetgen Tchetgen, who will be delivering the annual Distinguished Lecture in Statistical Sciences (DLSS) in Toronto on May 9 and 10, 2023. The DLSS will be broadcast live via ZOOM for those who cannot attend in person and recorded and posted to... More

Monday, March 20, 2023

MSc Thesis Defence: Simon Kuttner

Title: Applications Of The Subset Sum Problem Over Finite Abelian Groups When: 04-25-23 Time: 10:00 am Location: 510 Tory CANDIDATE: Simon Kuttner... More

Monday, March 20, 2023

Probability & Statistics Seminar

Title: Individual model selection Speaker: Prince Osei, Carleton University Location: HP 4351 (MacPhail Room) - Carleton University Date: Friday, March 24, 2023 Time: 1:00 – 2:00 pm Abstract:  In the study of decision-making patterns by individuals, such as the Iowa gambling task (IGT) process, there are several competing models suitable... More

Monday, March 13, 2023

1st Anniversary – Luc Bourbonnais Memorial

The School of Mathematics and Statistics honoured the memory of Carleton instructor Luc Bourbonnais on September 30, 2022 by unveiling a memorial plaque in the outdoor area next to the Herzberg building. The ceremony was attended by his family, friends, and Carleton colleagues who all said a few words about Luc's legacy.  In spring... More

Wednesday, March 8, 2023

COLLOQUIUM – School of Mathematics and Statistics, Carleton University

Title: Dense clusters in hypergraphs Speaker: Yuly Billig, Carleton University Date: Friday, March 17, 2023 Time: 3:30 - 4:30 PM (coffee starting at 3:00) Location: HP 4351 (MacPhail Room) Abstract: Hypergraphs are generalizations of graphs where each edge  joins an arbitrary number of vertices, and not just two as in the case  of graphs.... More

Monday, March 6, 2023

Probability & Statistics Seminar (Virtual)

Title: Investigating the Relationship Between the Bayes Factor and the Separation of Credible Intervals. Speaker: Farouk Nathoo, University of Victoria (https://www.math.uvic.ca/~nathoo/ Location: via zoom (https://carleton-ca.zoom.us/j/97371740556) Date: Friday, March 17, 2023 Time: 1:00 – 2:00 pm Abstract:  The relationship between confidence... More

Tuesday, February 21, 2023

COLLOQUIUM – School of Mathematics and Statistics, Carleton University

Title: Imputation through random forests for missing survey data Speaker: David Haziza, University of Ottawa Co-authors: Mehdi Dagdoug (University of Ottawa) and Camelia Goga (Université de Bourgogne Franche Comté) Date: Friday, March 3, 2023 Time: 3:30 - 4:30 p.m. (coffee starting at 3:00 p.m.) Location: HP 4351 (MacPhail Room) Abstract:  Item... More

Friday, February 10, 2023

Successfully Defended: Congratulations Adam Reeves and your supervisors Dr. D. Amundsen R. Richardson

Title: Modelling Nuclear and Mitochondrial Dynamics Governing Cell Survival Following Radiation Exposure When: 06-02-23 Time: 1300 Location: 507 Southam Hall CANDIDATE: Adam Reeves  ... More

Wednesday, February 8, 2023

Probability & Statistics Seminar-Virtual

Title: Grafted and Vanishing Random Subspaces. Speaker: Tanzy Love, University of Rochester https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/biostat/people/faculty/love.aspx Location: Virtual (via zoom https://carleton-ca.zoom.us/j/96943828616 ) Date: Friday, February 17, 2023 Time: 1:00 – 2:00 pm Abstract:  The Random Subspace Method (RSM) is an ensemble... More

Thursday, February 2, 2023

Future Learning Innovation Fellowship Recipient

Congratulations Kyle Harvey on being one of 13 candidates selected across all of Carleton University for a Future Learning Innovation Fellowship. This program supports faculty members and instructors in the exploration and implementation of new and innovative teaching and learning practices. The fellowship provides recipients with a stipend and... More

Wednesday, January 25, 2023

Probability & Statistics Seminar

Title: Functional Data Analysis to Describe and Classify Southern Resident Killer Whale Calls Speaker: Paul Nguyen Hong Duc (Carleton University) Date:  Friday, February 3rd, 2023 Time:  1:00 – 2:00 p.m. Location: HP 4351 (Macphail Room) Abstract:  The Southern Resident killer whale (SRKW) is an endangered  population of whales found... More

Wednesday, January 11, 2023

Colloquium – School of Mathematics and Statistics, Carleton University

Date: Friday, January 20, 2023 Time: 3:30 - 4:30 PM (coffee starting at 3:00 p.m.) Room: Herzberg building, room 4351 (MacPhail Room) Title: Cluster analysis of microbiome data via mixtures of Dirichlet-multinomial regression models Speaker:  Sanjeena Dang, Carleton University Abstract:  The human gut microbiome is an essential component of our... More

Tuesday, December 13, 2022

Faculty of Science Teaching Award

Congratulations Ahmed Almaskut on receiving the Faculty of Science Teaching Excellence... More

Tuesday, November 29, 2022

Successfully Defended: Congratulations Yuanxiang Zhou and your supervisors C. Ingalls and J. Crann

    Title: Survey on the Irreducible Representations of Lie Algebras and Lie Groups When: 21-12-22 Time: 1100 Location: HP 5345 (Hertzberg) CANDIDATE: Yuanxiang Zhou https://carleton.ca/math/wp-content/uploads/Zhou-MSc-December-21-11-am.pdf... More

Thursday, November 17, 2022

Probability & Statistics Seminar

Date:  Friday, November 25, 2022 Time:  1:00 – 2:00 p.m. Location: Zoom - https://carleton-ca.zoom.us/j/92672331592 Title:  Evaluation of latent-class mixed-effect models for trajectory clustering in complex data sets through simulation studies Speaker: Dr. Yuan Fang, School of Public Health, Boston University... More

Friday, November 4, 2022

Math Society Colloquium – Carleton University

Date:  Tuesday, November 8, 2022 Time:  5:00 – 6:00 p.m. Location:  Herzberg room 4351 (Macphail) Title:  An Example of a Locally Contracting Étale Groupoid Speaker: Joseph Gondek, (master's student, supervised by Prof. Charles Starling) Abstract. Groupoids are algebraic objects that capture properties of groups, group actions, and... More

Friday, November 4, 2022

School of Mathematics & Statistics Fall Open House

On October 22nd, four faculty members from the School of Mathematics and Statistics participated in Carleton University's Fall Open House. At our information booth, Ahmed Almaskut and Brett Stevens interacted with a steady stream of prospective students and their parents, answering a wide variety of questions. Afterward, Wayne Horn and Lucy... More

Monday, October 31, 2022

Probability & Statistics Seminar

Date:  Friday, November 4, 2022 Time:  3:00 - 4:00 p.m. Location: Zoom (see below) Title:  An Equality in Law of Loop-Erased Random Walks with Applications on Some Fractal Spaces. Speaker:  Shiping Cao (University of Washington). Abstract. We introduce the partial loop erasure (PLE) procedure, under which loops are erased only when the... More

Tuesday, October 25, 2022

Probability & Statistics Seminar

Date:  Friday, October 28, 2022 Time: 1:00 – 2:00 pm Location: HP 4351 (MacPhail Room), Carleton University Title: Covariance estimation for filtering in high dimension Speaker: Marie Turcicova (Carleton University) Abstract:  Estimating large covariance matrices from small samples is an important problem in many fields. Among others, this... More

Tuesday, October 18, 2022

Applied Analysis Day – Carleton University

Date: Friday, November 4, 2022 Time: 8:45 a.m. - 5:10 p.m. Room: Herzberg building, room 4351 (MacPhail Room) Organizers: Emmanuel Lorin & Abbas Momeni _____________________________________________________ The goal of this event is to bring together all nearby researchers (professors, graduate students, PDF) in this area, in order to exchange... More

Friday, October 7, 2022

School Colloquium – School of Mathematics & Statistics

Colloquium - School of Mathematics and Statistics, Carleton University Date: Friday, October 21, 2022 Time: 1:00 - 2:00 p.m. Room: Herzberg building, room 4351 (MacPhail Room) Title:  How myths about noisy data may mislead us? Speaker:  Grace Yi, Western University Abstract:  Thanks to the advancement of modern technology in acquiring data,... More

Thursday, September 22, 2022

COLLOQUIUM – School of Mathematics and Statistics, Carleton University

Date: Friday, September 30, 2022 Time: 2:45 - 3:45 PM (coffee starting at 2:30 PM) Room: Herzberg room 4351 (MacPhail Room) Title: List version of the 1-2-3 conjecture Speaker: Prof. Xuding Zhu, Zhejiang Normal University Abstract:  The well-known 1-2-3 Conjecture by Karonski, Luczak and Thomason states that the edges of any connected graph with... More

Wednesday, August 17, 2022

Successfully Defended:  Congratulations Mihail Santean and your supervisor Dr. I. Bumagin

MSc Thesis Defence:  Mihail Santean Title: On Applications of Topological and Combinatorial Methods to the Theory of Groups When: 09-15-22 Time: 1200 Location: Zoom CANDIDATE: Mihail Santean  ... More

Wednesday, August 3, 2022

Successfully Defended: Congratulations Subhendu Paul and your supervisor Dr. Emmanuel Lorin

PhD Thesis Defence: Subhendu Paul Title: A Theoretical Analysis of COVID-19 Pandemic Using Public Database When: 06-09-22 Time: 1400 Location: 510 Tory CANDIDATE: Subhendu Paul   https://carleton.ca/math/paul-phd-22-09-06/... More

Monday, July 25, 2022

Successfully Defended: Congratulations Benjamin Cheng and your thesis Supervisor Dr. D. Amundsen

Title: Resonantly Forced Waves and the Effect of Tank Geometry on the Free Surface When: 08-29-22 Time: 1000 Location: Zoom CANDIDATE: Benjamin Cheng  ... More

Monday, July 25, 2022

Successfully Defended: Congratulations Anna Gow and your thesis Supervisors Dr. J. Crann and Dr. C. Starling

  Title: Tensor Networks for Operator-Algebraic Constructions of Gauge Theories When: 2022-08-17 Time: 1300 Location: Zoom CANDIDATE: Anna Gow  ... More

Wednesday, July 20, 2022

Successfully Defended: Congratulations Ehssan Ghashim and your thesis Supervisor Dr. Y. Zhao

Title: On Bayesian Inference for Markovian Queueing Models When: 08-26-22 Time: 1430 Location: Zoom CANDIDATE: Ehssan Ghashim... More

Wednesday, July 20, 2022

Applied Probability Seminar

Date: July 22, 2022 Time:  11:00 a.m. Location: Faculty of Science - 3230 Herzberg building (Dean's boardroom), Carleton University On-line through zoom: https://carleton-ca.zoom.us/j/97483042994 Cost: Free Speaker: Dr. Jing Gai ( Royal Military College of Canada) Title: The exact analyses of GI/Ma,b/C Queueing System Abstract:   Bulk-service... More

Thursday, July 14, 2022

Successfully Defended: Congratulations Xiang Zhang and your thesis Supervisor Dr. Y. Zhao

Title: Modeling The Volatility Of Stock Indexes And Predicting Var Using Markov-Switching GARCH Models When: 08-30-22 Time: 1330 Location: Zoom... More

Tuesday, March 29, 2022

Probability and Statistics Seminar

Date & Time: April 1, 2022, at 2:00 pm Location: Virtual, on Zoom see below for details Cost: Free Speaker: Maadooliat, Mehdi (Marquette University) Title: Functional Singular Spectrum Analysis Abstract: : In this talk, we introduce a new extension of the Singular Spectrum Analysis (SSA) called functional SSA to analyze functional time series.... More

Wednesday, March 16, 2022

Successfully Defended: Congratulations Narjes Alabkary and her supervisor Dr. M. Neufang

Title: A Dynamical Hierarchy of Banach Algebras When: 05-05-22 Time: 1400 Location: Zoom CANDIDATE: Narjes Alabkary  ... More

Monday, March 7, 2022

Successfully Defended: Congratulations Joshua Miller and his supervisor Dr. N. Stepanova

Title: Sparse Signal Recovery With Subbotin Noise When: 13-04-22 Time: 1300 Location: Zoom CANDIDATE: Joshua Miller... More

Friday, March 4, 2022

Ottawa Hockey Analytics Conference 2022 and Big Data Cup 2022

Registration (free!) link and info on OTTHAC22 (the Ottawa Hockey Analytics Conference) running March 25 and 26, 2022 is up now. To register, go to http://www.statsportsconsulting.com/otthac22/ The 2nd annual Big Data Cup (BDC22) data will be released at OTTHAC22 and there will be info at OTTHAC22 on how to work on such hockey data. The... More

Friday, March 4, 2022

Science Café – Combining a love of sports with a love of statistics

Take a break and join us online for our next Science Café:  Combining a love of sports with a love of statistics Moneyball meets Basketball.  The game of basketball is undergoing a revolution. Analytics has unveiled the inherent value of the three-point shot.  This talk will explore how the spatial structure of the game... More

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