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

Thursday, March 31, 2016

**Special** Algebra Seminar

Title: Differential algebraic groups and their applications Date: Tuesday, April 5, 2016 Time: 1:30 - 2:30 p.m. Room: HP 4325 Carleton University Speaker: Andrei Minchenko ABSTRACT: At the most basic level, differential algebraic geometry studies solution spaces of systems of differential polynomial equations. If a matrix group is defined by a set... More

Tuesday, March 8, 2016

Colloquium Talk

Speaker: by Mike Hidiroglou, (Adjunct Professor, Carleton University, Former Director, Survey Research and Innovation Division Statistics Canada) Title: Theoretical and Practical Issues for Stratifying Skewed Populations Date: Friday, March 11, 2016 Time: 3:30 - 4:30 p.m. Place: HP 4351 (Macphail room) Carleton University Abstract: Skewed... More

Thursday, February 25, 2016

Algebra Seminar

Title: Morse geodesics in lacunary hyperbolic groups Date: Friday February 26, 2016 Time: 2:30 p.m. Room: HP 4369 Carleton University Speaker: Elisabeth Fink ABSTRACT: A geodesic is Morse if quasi-geodesics connecting points on it stay uniformly close. If the embedding of the cyclic subgroup generated by an element is a Morse geodesic, then that... More

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