Mathematics and Statistics

Notice of Graduate Seminar: Generalizing and Examining the Fourier Series Solution to the Heat Equation

UNB

Posted: Nov 26, 2019

Category: Seminars and Colloquia


[Derrick Kirby (UNB) | Thursday, November 28, 2019 at 12:00 PM | Carleton Hall, Room 104]   Using linear algebra and basic knowledge of complex numbers, it is possible to find a Fourier series solution to a certain subclass of differential equations that resemble the heat equation (and transport equation), save for the fact that they may be of arbitrary order, given periodic boundary...

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Notice of Graduate Seminar: Joint Models for Longitudinal and Survival Data

UNB

Posted: Nov 5, 2019

Category: Seminars and Colloquia


[Md. Ashiqul Haque (UNB) | Tuesday, November 19, 2019 at 11:30 AM | Tilley Hall, Room 404]   Survival and longitudinal data arise together, especially from different fields of medical research[...]

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Notice Combinatorics/Geometry Seminar: Scattering Amplitudes and Associahedra

UNB

Posted: Oct 4, 2019

Category: Seminars and Colloquia


[Dr. Hugh Thomas (UQAM) | Monday, October 7, 2019 at 3:00 PM | Tilley Hall, Room 223]   The classic approach to scattering amplitudes sums a contribution from a (potentially very large) number of Feynman diagrams[...]

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Notice of Department Colloquium: Formulation and Solution of Stochastic Inverse Problems For Science and Engineering Models

UNB

Posted: Sep 26, 2019

Category: Seminars and Colloquia


Dr. Don Estep (SFU) | Tuesday, October 1, 2019 at 3:30 PM | Tilley Hall, Room 303 ]  The stochastic inverse problem of determining probability structures on input parameters for a physics model corresponding to a given probability structure on the output of the model forms the core of scientific inference and engineering design[...]

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Notice of Graduate Seminar: Cross Validation

UNB

Posted: Sep 6, 2019

Category: Seminars and Colloquia


Zheng (Frank) Fu (UNB) | Tuesday, September 10, 2019 at 11:30 AM | Tilley Hall, Room 404 ]  When we use a statistical model to do prediction, in most occasions, “no surprise” is one criterion[...]

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Notice of Graduate Seminar: Introduction to Adaptive Boost

UNB

Posted: Aug 15, 2019

Category: Seminars and Colloquia


Tianyi Xia (UNB) | Tuesday, August 27, 2019 at 10:30 AM | Tilley Hall, Room 404 ]  Finding a strong learner with high prediction accuracy is a hard task in machine learning [...] 

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Notice of Graduate Seminar: Bradley-Terry Model for paired preference

UNB

Posted: Aug 12, 2019

Category: Seminars and Colloquia


Md. Ashiqul Haque (UNB) | Tuesday, August 20, 2019 at 10:30 AM | Tilley Hall, Room 404 ]  Prioritizing is a common problem in many situations where the target is to make decision on preferring an item from a set of similar items [...] 

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Notice of Graduate Seminar:The Inviscid Burgers' Equation and Shockwave Solutions Thereof

UNB

Posted: Jul 23, 2019

Category: Seminars and Colloquia


The inviscid Burgers' equation is a seemingly simple nonlinear partial differential equation [...] 

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Notice of Graduate Seminar: Meta Analysis of Observational Studies with Moderators

UNB

Posted: Jun 25, 2019

Category: Seminars and Colloquia


Md. Ashiqul Haque (UNB) | Wednesday, July 3, 2019 at 10:30 AM | Tilley Hall, Room 404 ]  Systematic reviews make attempt to summarise the results from original studies within a given field [...] 

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Notice of Graduate Seminar: Intraguild Predation

UNB

Posted: Jun 11, 2019

Category: Seminars and Colloquia


Sana Jahedi (UNB) | Thursday, June 13, 2019 at 10:30 AM | Tilley Hall, Room 5 ]  Species interactions are important drivers of community structure in eco- logical systems [...] 

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