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Tuesday, October 28, 2025 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

WICI: Reading and Conversation with author Madhur Anand

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.

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Thursday, November 21, 2019 6:30 pm - 6:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Synergies: A Cross-Disciplinary Colloquium on Design

The *new* UWSA branch of the Waterloo Institute for Complexity and Innovation (WICI Design) hosted an event on Thursday, November 21st called SYNERGIES: A Cross-disciplinary Colloquium on Design.

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Wednesday, July 17, 2019 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Research Networking Lunch for New Frontiers and NSERC Alliance

Research Networking Lunch for New Frontiers and NSERC Alliance

Interested in applying to the New Frontiers or NSERC Alliance grant, but still looking for research partners?

The Waterloo Institute for Complexity and Innovation (WICI) and the Faculty of Science are hosting an interdisciplinary research networking lunch in DC 1301 from 12 - 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, July 17th, in conjunction with the information webinar being hosted by the Office of Research from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. in DC 1302. 

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Tuesday, March 26, 2019 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

WICI Talk: Dr. Noelle Eckley Selin : Systems Approaches to Sustainability: Climate, Air Pollution, and Toxic Substances

Managing air pollution, toxic substances, and climate change is a complex, linked sustainability challenge. To better inform efforts to address these issues, we need to understand how policies to address emissions translate into societal benefits. In this talk, Dr. Selin will present work from her research group, using a systems approach to better understand air pollutants such as particulate matter, ozone, and mercury.

Poetry & Complexity Poster
Tuesday, March 27, 2018 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Poetry and Complexity: readings and conversation between Madhur Anand (Director of WICI & poet), Roald Hoffmann (Nobel prize-winning scientist & poet), and Rae Armantrout (Pulitzer prize-winning poet)

Join us for the WICI Poetry & Complexity event on Tuesday, March 27, 2018.

Time:   4:00 - 6:00 p.m.

Venue:  University of Waterloo,  Davis Centre.  Room 1301.