Events

Join Us for a Reading and Conversation with Madhur Anand

Celebrate the launch of To Place a Rabbit, the debut novel by acclaimed author and former WICI Director Madhur Anand.

📅 October 28, 2025
📍STC 2002
🕑1:30 -3:30PM

Enjoy a live reading, an intimate conversation with the author, and an opportunity to purchase signed copies.

This event is free and open to the public. Presented by the Waterloo Institute for Complexity and Innovation (WICI), with support from Penguin Random House.

Join us in welcoming Woi Oh to WICI.  He will present his talk,

"Understanding dynamics of forced migration and conflict through the lens of complex systems".

📅 November 3,2025

📍DC 1301 for refreshments; DC 1302 for the talk

🕑1:00-3:00PM

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.

Join us for a talk with Peter Lewis, Ontario Technical University.

"Aspects of Social Intelligence and What We Can Learn from Modelling Them"

Mathematics 3 (M3) - 3127

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.