Events

Please note: This DLS presentation will be given in person in DC 1302 and livestreamed over MS Teams.

Tony Chan
President, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science

In its modern incarnation, computational mathematics is a discipline that blossomed only after WWII. But even in its relatively brief history, there have been some major shifts in its methodology, emphasis, and applications.

Please note: This seminar will take place in DC 1302 and online.

Kin Huat Low, School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Nanyang Technological University

Unmanned aerial vehicles (or known as drones) are becoming popular for servicing, inspection, surveillance, and commercial activities in recent years. Such activities, however, are hindered by some challenges that are inherent in urban flight operations.

Please note: This distinguished lecture will take place in DC 1302 as well as livestreamed over Zoom.

Sheila McIlraith
Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
Canada CIFAR AI Chair, Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence
Associate Director and Research Lead, Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society

Steven Jeromy Carriere
Senior Vice President, Engineering, Datadog

“Scale” is a complex notion that encompasses some easy-ish-to-measure factors such as the resource footprint or transaction rate of a system, but also substantially more subtle considerations such as service dependencies that influence the cost of making changes and team behaviors that affect how long it takes to resolve a production issue.

Please note: Brain Day 2023 will take place in Engineering 7, various rooms.

The University of Waterloo’s Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience supports the development of robust explanatory theories of mind and brain through education and research.

Sponsored by the Faculty of Mathematics Data Science Graduate Programs, please join Cheriton School of Computer Science expert in artificial intelligence, Professor Pascal Poupart, for a public talk in which he will describe the key technological advances in recent years that were behind AlphaGo and ChatGPT and ultimately facilitated these breakthroughs.

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The Waterloo Computer Museum is hosting a hardware day at which a number of older computers will be on display and running.

Please note: This talk will take place in DC 1304 and online.

Alex Zhang, GFW Report

Please note: This CrySP Speaker Series on Privacy talk will take place in DC 1302 and online.

Yibin Yang, PhD candidate
School of Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology

CS/FINE 383 is a third-year studio course where students work in an interdisciplinary environment to combine computer science principles with fine art technical and conceptual skills. Experience novel computational art works and aesthetic experiences using generative agents, advanced computer vision, distributed computing, and more.

Where is the Computational Art Exhibition?