Biostatistics

Seminars - Fall 2025/Winter 2026

Some of the purposes of these sessions are: to promote biostatistics and biostatistical methodology; serve as a learning opportunity for both students and faculty; foster communication, collaboration, professionalism, career development. The format will be varied: seminar presentations, journal club, discussions of work in progress, interact with guest speakers, etc.

Who is invited: biostatisticians and biostatisticians in training; all other hyphenated-, unhyphenated- and soon-to-be-statisticians with interests in applied statistics.

PLEASE NOTE: The Fall 2025/Winter 2026 Seminar Series will be held in hybrid format (in-person/Zoom) on Wednesdays from 3:30 to 4:30 PM, at the SPGH, 2001 McGill College, Room 1140. Please refer to announcement titles below for details.

 

Date Speaker Title Recording

FALL 2025

   
Aug 27, 2025
IN-PERSON
Leonardo Grilli (U of Florence) Combining Multiple Imputation and the Knockoff Filter for Variable Selection, with an Application to Large-Scale Assessment Data  
Sept 3, 2025      
Sept 10, 2025      
Sept 17, 2025       
Sept 24, 2025
VIRTUAL
James Zou (Stanford)    
Oct 1, 2025
IN-PERSON
Valentine Laizet (Amaris Consulting) Healthcare Economics and Outcomes Research Consulting  
Oct 8, 2025
IN-PERSON
Justin Weltz (Duke)    
Oct 15, 2025 
IN-PERSON
NO SEMINAR - Reading Week - Oct 15-17, 2025  
Oct 22, 2025
VIRTUAL
Nima Hejazi (Harvard)    
Oct 29, 2025
IN-PERSON
Magali Richard (U Grenoble Alpes)    
Nov 5, 2025
IN-PERSON
Camila de Souza (Western)    
Nov 12, 2025      
*Friday, Nov 21, 2025
CSMQ Seminar Series
IN-PERSON
Sudipto Banerjee (UCLA)    

WINTER 2026

   
Jan 7, 2026      
Jan 14, 2026      

Jan 21, 2026
VIRTUAL

Chixiang Cheng (Maryland)    
Jan 28, 2026      
Feb 4, 2026
IN-PERSON
Guilherme de Oliveira (McGill)    
Feb 11, 2026      
Feb 18, 2026      
Feb 25, 2026
IN-PERSON
Alex Levis (Carnegie Mellon)    
Mar 5, 2026 NO SEMINAR - Spring Break March 2-6, 2026  
Mar 11, 2026 Oscar Competition - tbc    
Mar 18, 2026  
 
 
Mar 25, 2026      
Apr 1, 2026      

 

 

 

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