It might not rival the scale of Taylor Swift’s concert tour, but the Atlantic Canada Data Science Tour will bring excitement and an exceptional lineup of speakers to statistical sciences students in Canada’s eastern provinces during the 2024–2025 academic year.
The tour is being organized by CANSSI Atlantic and will include a talk each month at a university in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, or Newfoundland and Labrador. Each talk will be presented by a faculty member or graduate student from the host university and will be geared toward upper-level undergraduates in statistics or computer science programs. The hybrid (in person and online) format will make the series accessible to students throughout Atlantic Canada and beyond.
The series will begin on September 27, 2024, with “What I’m Doing As a Grad Student,” a collection of short presentations by four master’s and PhD students in statistics at Dalhousie University.
Join us on the tour!
Tour Schedule
We’ll add more details and event links as they become available.
September 27, 2024 | Dalhousie University
What I’m Doing As a Grad Student | Joseph Barss, Raphael McDonald, Ethan O’Connell, and Fatma Sarhan
October 25, 2024 | St. Francis Xavier University
Incorporating Data-driven Models towards Actuarial Problems | Kyran Cupido, Assistant Professor
November 2024 | University of Prince Edward Island
Using Machine Learning to Forecast Changes in Canada’s Food Prices: Canada’s Food Price Report 2025 | Kristina Kupferschmidt, Assistant Professor
January 2025 | University of New Brunswick (Saint John)
Title to be confirmed | Dylan Spicker, Assistant Professor
February 2025 | Memorial University of Newfoundland
Title to be confirmed | Shenita Pramij, PhD Student
March 2025 | Acadia University
Title to be confirmed | Danielle Quinn, Instructor
