Tuesday, April 21, 2015

MSc Thesis Examination – Alexandr Diaz-Papkovich

Successfully defended.  Congratulations Alexandr and his supervisor, Dr. Shirley Mills. Candidate: Alexandr Diaz-Papkovich Title: Data Mining the Play-by-Play: Assessing and Applying NHL Performance Metrics Using Statistical Methods When: April 29, 2015 Time: 10:00 a.m. Location: Herzberg Building Room: 4351 CANDIDATE: Alexandr Diaz-Papkovich,... More

Monday, April 20, 2015

Joint Colloquium: Carleton University – University of Ottawa

Speaker:  Peter E. Caines (McGill University) Title:  Mean Field Game Control Theory: Introduction and Recent Results Date:  Friday, April 24, 2015 Time:  3:30-4:30 (coffee starting at 3:00) Location:  HP 4351 (MacPhail Room), Carleton University ABSTRACT: The complexity of large population multi-agent competitive and cooperative stochastic... More

Thursday, April 9, 2015

MSc Thesis Examination – Nikolina Beg

Successfully defended.  Congratulations Nikolina and her supervisor Dr. Jason Nielsen. Candidate: Nikolina Beg Title: Model Based Penalized Smoothing for Panel Data Under a Markov Assumption When: April 30, 2015 Time: 1:00 p.m. Location: Herzberg Building Room: 4351 CANDIDATE: Nikolina Beg, Bachelor of Mathematics (Honours), Carleton University,... More

Wednesday, April 8, 2015

MSc Thesis Examination – Olga Kosta

Successfully defended. Congratulations Olga and her supervisor Dr. Natalia Stepanova! Candidate: Olga Kosta Title: Efficient Density Estimation Using Fejer-Type Kernel Functions When: April 29, 2015 Time: 10:30 a.m.. Location: Herzberg Building Room: 3230B CANDIDATE: Olga Kosta, Bachelor of Mathematics, University of Waterloo, 2010... More

Tuesday, April 7, 2015

End of Term Joint Colloquium, Carleton University – University of Ottawa

Date:  Friday, April 10, 2015 Place:  HP 4351 (MacPhail Room), Carleton University Times:  2:00-3:00 p.m. - Don Dawson (Carleton University) 3:00-3:30 p.m. - Coffee break (Reception) 3:30-4:30 p.m. - Garth Dales (Lancaster University)            **Please see below for more details on both talks and speakers**... More

Wednesday, March 25, 2015

PhD Thesis Examination – Christopher Gravel

Successfully defended.  Congratulations Christopher and his supervisor Dr. Patrick Farrell. Candidate: Christopher Gravel Title: On the Correction for Misclassification Bias in Electronic Health Data Using Validation Sample Approaches When: April 28, 2015 Time: 1:00 p.m. Location: Herzberg Building Room: 4351 CANDIDATE: Christopher Gravel, Master... More

Thursday, March 5, 2015

Joint Colloquium: Carleton University – University of Ottawa

Speaker: Anton Izosimov (University of Toronto) Title: Free multidimensional rigid body and algebraic curves Date: Friday, March 13, 2015 Time: 3:30-4:30 p.m. Place: HP 4351 (MacPhail Room), Carleton University Abstract: It is a classical result of Euler that the rotation of a torque-free three-dimensional rigid body about the short or the long... More

Tuesday, March 3, 2015

Joint Colloquium: Carleton University – University of Ottawa

Speaker: Peter Glynn (Stanford University) Title: Convergence to Equilibrium for Queueing Models Date: Friday, March 6, 2015 Time: 3:30-4:30 p.m.; Coffee/tea will start at 3:00 p.m. Place: HP 4351 (MacPhail Room), Carleton University Abstract: We will discuss, in some detail, the rate of convergence to equilibrium for one-dimensional reflected... More

Tuesday, March 3, 2015

Joint Colloquium: Carleton University – University of Ottawa

Speaker: Paul Bourgade (Courant Institute) Title: From the mesoscopic to microscopic scale in random matrix theory Date: Thursday, March 5, 2015 Time: 2:30 - 3:30 p.m. Place: University of Ottawa (B005) Abstract:  Eugene Wigner has envisioned that the distributions of the eigenvalues of large Gaussian random matrices are new paradigms for... More

Friday, February 27, 2015

Probability & Statistics Seminar

Speaker: Keith O'Rourke - Ottawa, Ontario Title: Can we get a mathematical framework for applying statistics that better facilitates communication with non-statisticians as well as helps statisticians avoid getting “precise answers to the wrong questions*”? Date: Friday, March, 6, 2015 Time: 1:30-2:30 p.m. Place: HP 4351 (Macphail room),... More

Friday, February 20, 2015

Colloquium Talk

Speaker:  Peter Glynn (Stanford University) Title:  Convergence to Equilibrium for Queueing Models Date:  March 6, 2015 Time:  3:30-4:30 p.m. Place:  HP 4351 (MacPhail Room), Carleton University ABSTRACT:  We will discuss, in some detail, the rate of convergence to equilibrium for one-dimensional reflected Brownian motion (RBM) with negative... More

Friday, September 12, 2014

PhD Thesis Examination – Mamadou Diallo

Successfully defended. Congratulations Mamadou and his supervisor Dr. J.N.K. Rao. Candidate: Mamadou Diallo Title: Small Area Estimation: Skew-Normal Distributions and Time Series When: October 23, 2014 Time: 2:00 PM Location: Herzberg Building Room: 4325 CANDIDATE: Mamadou Diallo, Master of Science, University of Laval, 2006 EXAMINATION... More

Thursday, September 4, 2014

MSc Thesis Examination

Successfully defended.  Congratulations Abdulaziz and his supervisor Dr. Mohamedou Ould Haye. Candidate: Abdulaziz Dahir Title: Conditional Density Estimation and Density Forecast with Applications When: September 10, 2014 Time: 2:00 p.m. Location: Herzberg Building Room: 4351 CANDIDATE: Abdulaziz Dahir, Bachelor or Mathematics, Carleton... More

Wednesday, August 27, 2014

MSc Thesis Examination

Successfully defended.  Congratulations Xin and his supervisor Dr. Natalia Stepanova. Candidate: Xin Cui Title: Optimal Component Selection in High Dimensions When: September 5, 2014 Time: 10:00 a.m. Location: Herzberg Building Room: 4325 CANDIDATE: Xin Cui, Bachelor of Science, University of Manitoba, 2012 EXAMINATION NOTICE... More

Wednesday, August 20, 2014

MSc Thesis Examination

Successfully defended.  Congratulations to Mona and her co-supervisors, Drs. Mehrdad Kalantar and Matthias Neufang. Candidate: Mona Meghdari Miardan Title: Error Correction of Quantum Channels When: September 5, 2014 Time: 2:00 p.m. Location: Herzberg Building Room: 5345 CANDIDATE: Mona Meghdari Miardan, Bachelor of Science, Tehran University,... More

Tuesday, July 22, 2014

PhD Thesis Examination – Malgorzata Winiszewska

Successfully defended. Congratulations Malgorzata and her co-supervisors, Drs. J.N.K. Rao and Sanjoy Sinha! Candidate: Malgorzata Winiszewska Title: Statistical Inference in the Presence of Missing Data When: August 21, 2014 Time: 10:00 AM Location: Herzberg Building Room: 5345 CANDIDATE: Malgorzata Winiszewska, Master of Science, Carleton... More

Thursday, July 10, 2014

MSc Thesis Examination

Successfully defended.  Congratulations to Stephanie and her supervisor Dr. Shirley Mills. Candidate: Stephanie Nahmias Title: Empirical study of performance of classification and clustering algorithms on binary data with real-world applications When: July 15, 2014 Time: 10:00 a.m. Location: Herzberg Building Room: 4351 CANDIDATE: Stephanie... More

Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Medals at Convocation – 2014

On Tuesday, June 10th at convocation, four students in Mathematics and Statistics received medals for outstanding academic achievement: ARTHUR MEHTA (B. Math, Fast Track) received the President's Medal, awarded annually to the student with the highest standing in a general or major degree program of studies. JIE XU (Statistics, Honours) earned... More

Thursday, May 29, 2014

May 29, 2014: Kevin Cheung and Wayne Horn Receive Awards for Teaching Excellence

In the past seven days, two members of the School have been acknowledged with awards for their teaching excellence.  Kevin Cheung was among eighteen winners out of sixty-five finalists of a 2014 Capital Educators Award who were honoured at the 2014 EduGala ceremony on Thursday, May 22, 2014 at Algonquin College. His use of... More

Sunday, February 9, 2014

Project Oral Presentation

Candidate: Jilal Jemal Date/time/place: Thursday, May 15, 2014, 1:00 pm, 4351HP Project Title: Testing and Modelling Non-linear time series:  Financial Case Studies Co-Supervisor: Dr. Mohamedou Ould Haye, Carleton University Co-Supervisor: Dr. Yiqiang Zhao, Carleton University Second reader: Dr. Sanjoy Sinha, Carleton University PRESENTATION... More

Sunday, February 9, 2014

MSc Thesis Examination

Successfully defended.  Congratulations to Hebah and supervisor Dr. Emmanuel Lorin. Candidate:  Hebah Rizq Title:  Time Independent and Dependent Dirac Equation Using Atomically Balanced and B-spline Basis When:  May 8, 2014 Time:  2:00 P.M. Location:  Herzberg Building Room:  4351 CANDIDATE: Hebah Rizq, Bachelor of Science, King Abdul Aziz... More

Sunday, February 9, 2014

MSc Thesis Examination

Successfully defended. Congratulations Jonathan and his supervisor Dr. Jason Nielsen! Candidate:  Jonathan Boudreau Title:  Flexible spline based models for the analysis of panel data under a Markov assumption When:  April, 29, 2014 Time:  10:00 AM Location:  Herzberg Building Room:  4351 CANDIDATE: Jonathan Boudreau, Bachelor of Social... More

Sunday, February 9, 2014

Fields-Carleton Distinguished Lecture Series

This year's speaker is Professor Uffe Haagerup from the University of Copenhagen. Short Bio. Professor Haagerup is among the world's leading mathematicians, having made ground-breaking contributions in a variety of areas ranging from operator algebras and operator theory to free probability, random matrices and applications in mathematical... More

Sunday, February 9, 2014

Probability and Statistics Seminar

Speaker:  Arusharka Sen (Concordia) Title:  Eigenfunction approach to multivariate censoring and truncation Date:  Friday, April 25, 2014 Time:  2:30 pm Room:  585 King Edward Avenue room B015 ABSTRACT:  Recently, an estimator of multivariate survivor function under multivariate random censoring was constructed by Sen and Stute (2013). It... More

Sunday, February 9, 2014

MSc Thesis Examination

Successfully defended. Congratulations Shintaro and his co-supervisor's Dr. Patrick Farrell & Daniel Krewski! Candidate:  Shintaro Hagiwara Title:  Theoretical Considerations in the Estimation of the Signal to Noise Crossover Dose When:  April, 29, 2014 Time:  1:00 P.M. Location:  Herzberg Building Room:  4351 CANDIDATE: Shintaro... More

Sunday, February 9, 2014

MSc Thesis Examination

Successfully defended. Congratulations Brent and his supervisor Dr. Paul Mezo! Candidate:  Brent Fraser Title:  Component Groups of Centralizers corresponding to Unramified L-packets When:  April, 29, 2014 Time:  2:00 P.M. Location:  Herzberg Building Room:  4369 CANDIDATE: Brent Fraser, Bachelor of Mathematics (Honours), Carleton... More

Saturday, February 8, 2014

MSc Thesis Examination

Successfully defended. Congratulations Yiqun and her supervisor Gennady Shaikhet! Candidate:  Yiqun Song Title: Numerical Methods in Optimization and Performance Analysis of Queueing Networks When:  March 21, 2014 Time:  10:00 AM Location:  Herzberg Laboratories Room:  4325 HP CANDIDATE: Yiqun Song, Bachelor of Science, Xiamen University 2012... More

Saturday, February 8, 2014

PhD Thesis Examination – Victor Nijimbere

Successfully defended.  Congratulations Victor and his supervisor Lucy Campbell! Candidate:  Victor Nijimbere Title:  Ionospheric Gravity Wave Interactions and their Representation in terms of Stochastic Partial Differential Equations When:  April, 10, 2014 Time:  9:00 AM Location:  Herzberg Building Room:  4351 CANDIDATE: Victor... More

Saturday, February 8, 2014

PhD Thesis Examination – Amir Sayed

Successfully defended.  Congratulations Amir and his supervisor Lucy Campbell! Candidate:  Amir Sayed Title: Internal Gravity Waves and Convection Generated by a Thermal Forcing in the Atmosphere When:  April, 24, 2014 Time:  10:00 AM Location:  Tory Building Room:  502 CANDIDATE: Amir Sayed, Bachelor of Science, Helwan University 2008,... More

Saturday, February 8, 2014

PhD Thesis Examination – Babak Moazzez

Successfully defended.  Congratulations to Babak and his supervisor Dr. Kevin Cheung. Candidate:  Babak Moazzez Title:  Subadditive Approaches to Mixed Integer Programming When:  May 9, 2014 Time:  10:00 AM Location:  Tory Building Room:  502 CANDIDATE:  Babak Moazzez, Master of Mathematics, Sharif University of Technology, 2008, Bachelor... More

Saturday, February 8, 2014

CQADS – Challenges of Pre- and Post- Analytics and Panel Discussion on Big Data Workshop

Date: Friday, February 21, 2014 Time: 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Place: Macphail Seminar Room, Room 4351 Herzberg Laboratories The Faculty of Science and the Centre for Quantitative Analysis and Decision Support (CQADS) invite you to attend the first workshop of the  CQADS Workshop Series. For more information . .... More

Saturday, February 8, 2014

MSc Thesis Examination

Successfully defended.  Congratulations Andrew and his supervisor Daniel Panario! Candidate:  Andrew MacFie Title:  Software for Combinatorial Power Series When:  April, 23, 2014 Time:  10:00 AM Location:  Herzberg Building Room:  4351 CANDIDATE: Andrew MacFie, Bachelor of Mathematics, Carleton University 2013 EXAMINATION... More

Saturday, February 8, 2014

Probability and Statistics Seminar

Speaker: Tatjana Pavlenko (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) Title: Supervised classification of high-dimensional data with sparsity patterns Date: Friday, March 14, 2014 Time: 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm Place: HP 5345 (Computer Science seminar room) ABSTRACT: The analysis of high-dimensional data with complex dependence structure is a topic of interest... More

Saturday, February 8, 2014

Probability and Statistics Seminar

Speaker:  Gennady Shaikhet Title:  Throughput sub-optimality and null-controllability in queueing networks Date:  Friday, February 28, 2014 Time:  1:30 pm - 2:30 pm Room:  4351 HP (Macphail Room) ABSTRACT:  Throughput sub-optimality (TSO), introduced in [2] for static fluid models of parallel queueing networks, corresponds to existence of a... More

Friday, February 7, 2014

Combinatorics and Optimization Seminar

Speaker: Antoine Poirier (University of Ottawa) Title: Graph Reconstruction Date: Friday, Feb. 28, 2014 Time: 1:30 pm Room: KED B015 ABSTRACT: We will talk about the reconstruction conjecture, which asserts that every simple graphs on 3 or more vertices can be determined by its collection of vertex-deleted subgraphs. We will go over some basic... More

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