March 11 WICI Talk
The Waterloo Institute for Complexity and Innovation (WICI) is pleased to share that The Friends of the McGill Libraries and the Stratford Festival are delighted to partner once again to present the 2026 annual Shakespeare Lecture with renowned actress Lucy Peacock; along with Laurette Dubé, Scientific Director of the McGill Centre for the Convergence of Health and Economics; Maiya Geddes, an FRSQ neurologist scientist and an Associate Professor in the Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery at McGill University; and Paul Yachnin, BA'76, Tomlinson Professor of Shakespeare Studies at McGill.
In the face of social, environmental, and political upheaval, the speakers will bring Shakespeare's Macbeth forward as a lens through which to explore the convergence of art, science, technology, and human experience.
Join us for a talk with Peter Lewis, Ontario Technical University.
"Aspects of Social Intelligence and What We Can Learn from Modelling Them"
RELOCATION: RCH 105
Wednesday, February 11
2:30 pm
Register for this event.
ALIFE 2026 will be held jointly with the AMMCS 2026 conference, giving participants the unique opportunity to attend sessions and talks across both events.
Visit the Conference webpage for more details.
Dr. Maryam Mohiuddin Ahmed Appointed Director of the Waterloo Institute for Social Innovation and Resilience (WISIR)
The Waterloo Institute for Social Innovation and Resilience (WISIR) is pleased to announce that Dr. Maryam Mohiuddin Ahmed has been appointed as its new Director.
Join us in welcoming Woi Oh to WICI. He will present his talk,
📅 November 3,2025
📍DC 1301 for refreshments; DC 1302 for the talk
🕑1:00-3:00PM
Join us as we hear WICI external member Madhur Anand read from and discuss her debut novel, "To Place a Rabbit".
📅 October 28, 2025
📍STC 2002
🕑1:30 -3:00PM
Guest speaker, Seanna Davidson joins us for a WICI Talk discussions "Systems Leadership Framework". Learn more and register for this talk.
📅 October 22, 2025
📍EV1 225
🕑2:00-4:00PM
The Waterloo Institute for Complexity (WICI) is pleased to announce that we will cohost the premier International Conference on Artificial Life next year, 17-21 August 2026. The conference theme for ALIFE 2026 is "Living and Lifelike Complex Adaptive Systems".
The ALIFE meeting will be held jointly with the prestigious Applied Mathematics, Modeling and Computational Science (AMMCS) conference at Wilfrid Laurier University, as part of the AMMCS-ALIFE Congress.