Public Lectures

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Date

Title

Speaker

Supplementary Information

2022
Aug 17	Saw Swee Hock Public Lecture Deriving Transportable Knowledge with Multi-institutional Electronic Health Records Data	Professor Tianxi CAI
Jul 27	Saw Swee Hock Public Lecture Autoregressive Networks	Professor Qiwei YAO
Jul 6	Saw Swee Hock Public Lecture Bayesian Pyramids: Identifying Interpretable Structure Underlying High-dimensional Data	Professor David B. Dunson
Jun 20	Saw Swee Hock Public Lecture Empirical likelihood based inference for functional means with application to wearable device data	Professor Ian McKeague

2021
Aug 26	Saw Swee Hock Public Lecture From Learning, to Meta-Learning, to "Lego-Learning" - theory, system, and applications	Professor Eric P. XING
Aug 2-6	Saw Swee Hock Short Course (5 lectures) Learning Interventions That Work	Professor Donald Rubin

2020
Oct 7	AI-Driven Diagnosis with COVID-19	Professor Guosheng YIN	Poster
Jun 24	Hung Hing-Ying Distinguished Visiting Professorship in Science & Technology A Guided Walk through Mathematical Wonderland	Professor Dr. Paul Embrechts

2018
Nov 29	Saw Swee Hock Public Lecture in Statistics Moving beyond the comfort zone in practicing translational statistics for clinical studies	Professor L.J. WEI
Oct 29	Flood Risk Modelling: Methodology and Challenges	Professor Dr. Hansjörg Albrecher

2017
Nov 29	Hung Hing-Ying Distinguished Visiting Professorship in Science & Technology Risk and Randomness	Professor Dr. Paul Embrechts
Aug 4	Patrick Poon Lecture Series in Actuarial Science Monte Carlo Simulation & Conditional Monte Carlo	Professor Soren ASMUSSEN	Photo
Jun 29	Saw Swee Hock Public Lecture in Statistics Analysis of Massive Genome, Exposome & Phenome Data	Professor Xihong LIN	Photo
May 25	50th Anniversary Public Lecture The Poisson Paradigm	Professor Sheldon Mark ROSS
May 18	Saw Swee Hock Public Lecture in Statistics Statistical models for complex extreme events	Professor Anthony Davison
Mar 9	50th Anniversary Public Lecture The Power of Statistics	Professor Howell Tong	Photo

2016
Oct 20	Basel III, Solvency II and Beyond: a Critical Appraisal	Professor Dr. Paul Embrechts
Jun 30	Public Lecture co-sponsored by Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science under the Kin Lam Development Fund for Data Analytics and the School of Business National Statistics in the Era of Big Data	Professor Lawrence D. BROWN

2015
Dec 14	Saw Swee Hock Public Lecture in Statistics Who committed the Black Death crime in 1347-1353? -A case from UCOS (Unsolved Crime & Open Case Squad)	Professor Howell TONG	Photo
Dec 9	HKU Centennial Distinguished Chinese Scholars Public Lecture Probability and Statistics in Big Data Analysis	Professor Zhi-Ming MA	Photo Link
Nov 2	Patrick Poon Lecture Series in Actuarial Science Insurance risk and the cost of capital	Professor Hansjoerg ALBRECHER

2014
Dec 18	Saw Swee Hock Public Lecture in Statistics Statistics for Big Data	Professor Dennis K.J. LIN

2013
Aug 22	Saw Swee Hock Public Lecture in Statistics Contemporary Statistics: Glamour Risk & Aftermath	Professor D.A.S. FRASER
Jun 5	Saw Swee Hock Public Lecture in Statistics Statistics, Risk & Regulation	Professor Dr. Paul EMBRECHTS	Photo