Schedule

Below is the official schedule for the event. All times are in EDT.

Opening Remarks

Time: 9:45-10:00

Speaker: Luis Sierra Muntané (SGSU President)

Block 1: Data Science Theory

Chair: (UofT DoSS)

Time	Title	Speaker
10:00–10:30	Convergence and Optimality of the EM Algorithm Under Multi-Component Gaussian Mixture Models (abstract)	Bingqing Li (UofT DoSS)
10:30–11:00	Sparsity Meets Low-Rank: A Stein-Based Framework for Unbiased Risk Estimation in Matrix Denoising (abstract)	Luis Sierra Muntané (UofT DoSS)

Block 2: Applied Statistics

Chair: Bernard Miškić (UofT DoSS)

Time	Title	Speaker
11:15–11:45	Scalable Gaussian Process Inference via Deep Generative Models: A New Framework for High-Cadence Time Series (abstract)	Rodrigo Herrera (UofT DoSS)
11:45–12:15	Hierarchical Bayesian Copula Model for Probabilistic Population Projection (abstract)	Yichen Ji (UofT DoSS)
12:15–12:45	A Spatiotemporal Analysis of Extreme Fire Weather in British Columbia: Identifying a Structural Change Point from 1981 to 2023 (abstract)	Zoya Zaman (UGuelph)

Lunch

Time: 12:45–13:30

Block 3: Mathematical Finance and Actuarial Science

Chair: Elijah French (UofT DoSS)

Time	Title	Speaker
13:30–14:00	Adaptive Window Selection for Financial Risk Forecasting (abstract)	Chenxin Lyu (UWaterloo Stats)
14:00–14:30	Dynamic Pareto Optima in Multi-Period Pure-Exchange Economies (abstract)	Brandon Tam (UofT DoSS)

Poster Session

Time: 14:30–15:45

Abstracts for the poster session are also available here.

Block 4: Machine Learning

Chair: KC Tsiolis (UofT DoSS)

Time	Title	Speaker
15:45–16:15	A Pragmatic Method for Comparing Clusterings with Overlaps and Outliers (abstract)	Ryan DeWolfe (TMU Mathematics)
16:15–16:45	Sequential Probability Assignment against Smoothed Adversaries with Unknown Base Measure (abstract)	Ziyi Liu (UofT DoSS)

Closing Remarks

Time: 16:45-17:00

Speaker: Luis Sierra Muntané (SGSU President)