Tuesday, May 16, 2017

Stochastics Days

Stochastics Days Workshop, May 29-30, in 4351 HP (Macphail Room). Program - Stochastics Days, May 29-30, 2017 Abstracts, May 2017 This event will be dedicated to Miklos Csorgo on the occasion of his 85th birthday and Don Dawson on the occasion of his 80th birthday. http://people.math.carleton.ca/~ddawson/... More

Monday, May 15, 2017

Distinguished Research Professor Jon Rao’s 80th Birthday

In Honour of Distinguished Research Professor Jon Rao’s 80th Birthday Distinguished Research Professor Jon Rao is turning 80 in May of this year (2017). In honour of Professor Rao’s extraordinary research contribution to the world’s statistical community,  “Rao Conference 2017” will be held from May 24 to 27 this year at Kunming,... More

Monday, April 24, 2017

MSc Thesis Examination – Lu Zhu

Candidate:  Lu Zhu Title:  Statistical Evaluation of Malware Classification Algorithms When:  Thursday, May 4, 2017 Time:  2:00 p.m. Location:  Herzberg Laboratories Room:  4369 CANDIDATE: Lu Zhu, Doctor of Philosophy, Wuhan Univ, 2010, Bachelor of Engineering, Wuhan Univ, 2003 EXAMINATION... More

Wednesday, April 19, 2017

MSc Thesis Examination – Yaqin Yang

Successfully defended.  Congratulations Yaqin and your Supervisor Sanjoy Sinha. Candidate:  Yaqin Yang Title:  Inference with Misspecified Linear Mixed Effects Models When:  Friday, May 12, 2017 Time:  10:00 a.m. Location:  Herzberg Laboratories Room:  4351 CANDIDATE: Yaqin Yang, Bachelor of Economics, Southwestern U of Fin & Econ, 2015... More

Wednesday, April 12, 2017

MSc Thesis Examination – Xiang Chen

Successfully defended.  Congratulations Xiang and your Supervisor Minyi Huang. Candidate:  Xiang Chen Title:  Cooperative Linear-Quadratic Mean Field Control and Hamiltonian Matrix Analysis When:  Friday, April 28, 2017 Time:  2:00 p.m. Location:  Herzberg Laboratories Room:  4369 CANDIDATE: Xiang Chen, Bachelor of Science, Wuhan Univ, 2015... More

Monday, April 10, 2017

Ottawa International Hockey Analytics Conference 2017 – May 6th at Carleton University

Ottawa International Hockey Analytics 2017 - the 3rd annual offering of this conference is happening Saturday May 6, 2017 at Carleton University This is co-organized by Michael Schuckers of St. Lawrence U., Canton, New York and Shirley Mills of Carleton U., Ottawa. Watch   http://statsportsconsulting.com/otthac17/   for registration info. and... More

Monday, April 10, 2017

MSc Thesis Examination – Mengjie Zhou

Successfully defended. Congratulations Mengjie and your Supervisor Minyi Huang. Candidate:  Mengjie Zhou Title:  Mean Fields Games with Poisson Point Processes and Impulse Control When:  Wednesday, April 26, 2017 Time:  10:00 a.m. Location:  Herzberg Building Room: 4351 CANDIDATE: Mengjie Zhou, Master of Science, Univ of Western Ontario,... More

Thursday, March 30, 2017

MSc Thesis Examination – Ying Zhou

Successfully defended.  Congratulations Ying and your Supervisor Shirley Mills. Candidate:  Ying Zhou Title:  Statistical Analysis of Classification Algorithms for Predicting Socioeconomics Status of Twitter Users When:  Tuesday, April 11, 2017 Time:  2:00 p.m. Location:  Herzberg Building Room:  4351 CANDIDATE: Ying Zhou, Qualifying... More

Tuesday, March 28, 2017

MSc Thesis Examination – Wasaif Alruwaele

Successfully defended. Congratulations Wasaif and your Supervisor Lucy Campbell. Candidate:  Wasaif Alruwaele Title: A Symptotic Analysis of Perturbations to Travelling Wave Solutions of Nonlinear Advection-Diffusion-Reaction Equations of Fisher Type When:  Thursday, April 27, 2017 Time:  10:30 a.m. Location:  Herzberg Building Room:  4351... More

Tuesday, March 28, 2017

Joint Colloquium: Carleton University – University of Ottawa

Speaker: Nassif Ghoussoub (UBC) Title: Optimal Mass transport as a natural extension of classical mechanics to the manifold of probability measures Date: : Monday, April 10, 2017 Time: 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. Place: HP 4351 (MacPhail Room), Carleton University (Refreshments will be provided in the faculty lounge before the talk) ABSTRACT: I will... More

Wednesday, March 22, 2017

PhD Thesis Examination – Georgios Tzanakis

Successfully defended.  Congratulations Georgios and your supervisor Daniel Panario. Candidate: Georgios Tzanakis Title: Covering arrays from maximal sequences over finite fields When: Friday, April 28, 2017 Time: 10:00 a.m. Location: Herzberg Laboratories Room: 4351 (Macphail) CANDIDATE: Georgios Tzanakis, Master of Science, Carleton... More

Friday, March 17, 2017

Probability & Statistics Seminar

Speaker: Brajendra Sutradhar (ARP, Carleton) Title: Cumulative dynamic logits model for longitudinal ordinal categorical data Date: Friday, March 31, 2017 Time: 1:30-2:30 p.m. Place: HP 4351 (Macphail room), Carleton University ABSTRACT:... More

Wednesday, February 22, 2017

Statistical Privacy, Differential Privacy and an Application to Model Selection

Speaker:  Anne-Sophie Charest,  Professeure adjointe Département de mathématiques et de statistique Université Laval Title: Statistical Privacy, Differential Privacy and an Application to Model Selection Date:  Tuesday, March 7, 2017 Time:  4:00 - 5:30 p.m. Room:  HP 4351 (Macphail Room), Carleton University While statistical agencies... More

Thursday, February 2, 2017

PhD Thesis Examination – John Talboom

Successfully defended.  Congratulations John and your Supervisor Yuly Billig. Candidate: John Talboom Title: Representation theory of the Lie algebras of divergence zero and Hamiltonian vector fields on a torus When: Friday, March 31, 2017 Time: 1:00 p.m. Location: Southam Hall Room: 617 CANDIDATE: John Talboom, Master of Science, Wilfred Laurier... More

Thursday, February 2, 2017

Actuarial Science Presentation – February 16th

Nicole Johnson, who is University Liaison-Actuarial Science, CAS will be making a presentation about Actuarial Science to students in Mathematics and Statistics at Carleton University next week on Thursday, February 16th at 11:30a.m.-12:30 p.m. in 4351 Herzberg Bldg. The School will be providing a pizza lunch to attendees. NOTE: RSVP to... More

Thursday, January 26, 2017

Joint Colloquium: Carleton University – University of Ottawa

Speaker: Zenghu Li (Beijing Normal University) Title:  Stochastic equations for branching processes Date:  Friday, February 10, 2017 Time: 3:30 - 4:30 p.m. Place:  HP 4351 (MacPhail Room), Carleton University ABSTRACT: continuous-state branching process is the mathematical model for the evolution of a large population of small individuals. The... More

Monday, November 28, 2016

Joint Colloquium: Carleton University – University of Ottawa – **Cancelled**

**Please note that this Colloquium has been cancelled** Speaker: Peter Glynn (Stanford University) Title: Limit Theorems for Queues in the Presence of Non-renewal Traffic Date: Friday, December 9, 2016 Time: 3:30-4:30 p.m. Place: HP 4351 (MacPhail Room), Carleton University ABSTRACT: Much of the mathematical theory for queues has been developed... More

Monday, November 28, 2016

Combinatorics and Optimization Seminar

Speaker: Daniel Panario (Carleton University) Title: Periods of Iterations of Mappings over Finite Fields with Indegrees Restricted to {0, k} Date: Friday, December 2, 2016 Time: 11:30 a.m. Room: HP 4351 (Macphail Room), Carleton University ABSTRACT: Let [n]= {1,...,n} and let \Omega_n be the set of all mappings from [n] to itself. Let f... More

Monday, November 21, 2016

Joint Colloquium: Carleton University – University of Ottawa

Speaker:  Rita Gitik (University of Michigan) Title:  On Intersection of Conjugate Subgroups Date:  Friday, December 2, 2016 Time:  3:30 - 4:30 p.m. Place:  HP 4351 (MacPhail Room), Carleton University ABSTRACT:  We present an algorithm deciding if the intersection of a quasiconvex subgroup of a negatively curved group with a conjugate is... More

Friday, October 28, 2016

Joint Colloquium: Carleton University – University of Ottawa

Speaker: Konstantina Trivisa (University of Maryland) Title: On mechanical models for tumor growth: modeling, analysis and simulations Date: Friday, November 4, 2016 Time: 4:00 p.m. Place: University of Ottawa, KED B005 ABSTRACT: Tumor growth modeling is the investigation of the complex dynamics of cancer progression using a mathematical... More

Thursday, October 6, 2016

Joint Colloquium: Carleton University – University of Ottawa

Speaker: Dr. Hsien-Kuei Hwang, Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. Title: Maxima in multivariate samples and related structures Date: Friday, October 21, 2016 Time: 3:30-4:30 p.m. Place:  HP 4351 (MacPhail Room) Carleton University ABSTRACT:  Dominance-based maxima of multidimensional samples have been intorduced in many... More

Tuesday, September 20, 2016

PhD Thesis Examination – Graeme Turner

Successfully defended.  Congratulations Graeme and his supervisor Saban Alaca. Candidate:  Graeme Turner Title: The Discriminant and Conductor of Bicyclic Quartic Fields When:  Friday, November, 04, 2016 Time:  2:00 p.m. Location:  Southam Hall Room:  617 CANDIDATE: Graeme Turner, Master of Science, Univ of Waterloo, 2010, Bachelor of... More

Tuesday, September 20, 2016

PhD Thesis Examination – Zafer Selcuk Aygin

Successfully defended. Congratulations Zafer and your Supervisor Saban Alaca and Co-Supervisor Ayse Alaca. Candidate:  Zafer Selcuk Aygin Title: Elsenstein Series, Eta Quotients and Their Applications in Number Theory When:  Friday, September 16, 2016 Time:  3:00 p.m. Location:  Tory Building Room:  502 CANDIDATE: Zafer Selcuk Aygin, Bachelor... More

Tuesday, September 20, 2016

MSc Thesis Examination – Moritz Hof

Successfully defended. Congratulations Moritz and your Supervisor Emmanuel Lorin. Candidate:  Moritz Hof Title: Analysis of the Schwarz Waveform Relaxation Domain Decomposition Method for the Linear Schr\”odinger Equation When:  Tuesday, September 20, 2016 Time:  10:30 a.m. Location:  Herzberg Building Room:  4302 CANDIDATE: Moritz Hof, Bac... More

Friday, September 9, 2016

NSERC & OGS – Tuesday, September 13, 2016

NSERC/OGS Graduate Scholarship Workshop for Science Students 1:30pm Tuesday Sept 13 in Macphail Room (4351 HP) NSERC Graduate Scholarships (for both master's and Ph.D. students) and OGS are two major external scholarships for graduate students in Science. A good application is very often the key for success. As a supplementary to... More

Tuesday, September 6, 2016

First Colloquium 2016/17

Speaker: Elena Fimmel (Mannheim University of Applied Sciences, Germany) Title:   Error-Detecting Genetic Codes Date:  Friday, September 16, 2016 Time: 1:30 - 2:30 p.m. Place:   HP 4351 (MacPhail Room), Carleton University ABSTRACT: The genetic code is the major tool that nature uses for the transmission of information. Several approaches... More

Wednesday, May 11, 2016

Ottawa-Carleton Discrete Math Days 2016

Ottawa-Carleton Discrete Math Days 2016 May 26-27, 2016, Carleton University http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/activities/15-16/Discrete-Math-Days  ... More

Thursday, May 5, 2016

Number Theory Seminar

Speaker: Karl Dilcher, Dalhousie University Title: Gauss Factorials, Jacobi Primes, and Generalized Fermat Numbers Date: May 9, 2016 Time: 2:00 – 5:00 p.m. Location: 4351 HP (Macphail room), Carleton University ABSTRACT: This talk is about various aspects of the Gauss factorial $N_n!$ which is defined as the product of all positive integers up... More

Friday, April 22, 2016

MSc Thesis Examination – Daniel Hockey

Candidate: Daniel Hockey Title: Network Kriging – Predicting the Attributes of Nodes in a Network Date: May 4, 2016 Time: 9:30 a.m. Location: Carleton University, River Building Room: 1200 CANDIDATE: Daniel Hockey, B. Math. (Hon) Major in Statistics, Carleton University 2014... More

Wednesday, April 20, 2016

MSc Thesis Examination – David Wilson

Candidate: David Wilson Title: Mining NHL Draft Data and A New Value Pick Chart Date: May 2, 2016 Time: 2:00 p.m. Location: Carleton University, River Building Room: 1200 CANDIDATE: David Wilson, B. Ed., Brock University, 2006, B. Math (Hon), co-op with distinction, University of Waterloo, 2003... More

Tuesday, April 19, 2016

MSc Thesis Examination – Michel St-Louis

Candidate: Michel St-Louis Title: Reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces with applications to time series Date: May 11, 2016 Time: 10:00 a.m. Location: Carleton University, Herzberg Building Room: 4351 CANDIDATE: Michel St-Louis... More

Thursday, April 14, 2016

MSc Thesis Examination – Yibo Wang

Candidate: Yibo Wang Title: Estimation of the Amount of Sparsity in Normal Mixture Models Date: May 9, 2016 Time: 10:30 a.m. Location: Carleton University, Herzberg Building Room: 4351 CANDIDATE: Yibo Wang, B. Sc. (Appl. Mathematics), Wuhan University, 2014... More

Wednesday, April 13, 2016

PhD Thesis Examination – Gregory Doyle

Candidate: Gregory Doyle Title: Quadratic Form Gauss Sums Date: May 10, 2016 Time: 9:00 a.m. Location: Carleton University, Herzberg Building Room: 4351 CANDIDATE: Gregory Doyle, M.Sc. (Mathematics), Carleton University, 2011, B. Math. (Hon), Carleton University, 2004 EXAMINATION  ... More

Wednesday, April 13, 2016

MSc Thesis Examination – Yanjiang Yu

Candidate: Yanjiang Yu Title: Associations between long term exposure to air pollution and the incidence of dementia and cognitive impairment in a Canadian prospective cohort study Date: April 27, 2016 Time: 10:00 a.m. Location: Carleton University, Herzberg Building Room: 4351 CANDIDATE: Yanjiang Yu, Bmath (Hon) – Combined Major in Statistics... More

Monday, April 4, 2016

Colloquium Talk

Speaker: Dr.  Jean-Francois Plante  (Associate Professor,  Department of Decision Sciences HEC, Montreal) Title: Challenges, Tools and Examples for Big Data Inference Date: Friday, April 15, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Time: 3:30 - 4:30 p.m. Place: HP 4351 (MacPhail Room), Carleton University Abstract: The Opening Conference and Boot Camp of the Thematic... More