Bridges Lecture – Beyond the Imitation Game – From Dieppe & James Bond to BlackBerry & Quantum Encryption
Peter Berg and David O’Keefe
St. Jerome’s University, Vanstone Lecture Hall
St. Jerome’s University, Vanstone Lecture Hall
Knowledge about email etiquette, voice mail messages, taking meeting minutes, and social media is explored to help you effectively communicate at work. Learn the strategies and techniques to be a boss communicator in the workplace.
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The World’s Challenge Challenge at the University of Waterloo is a competition where teams of three diverse students picked United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (also known as Global Goals), and will propose a solution. Teams will make a 5-7 minute presentation to a panel of judges, with Q&A.
Judges Include:
What are we? By what processes and patterns did we originate and how do these patterns compare to the processes of the world around us, digital and biological, societal and fictional? In Winter 2018, the Bridges Lecture Series will explore the possibility that the concept of recursion, structures built from smaller structures of the same type, may help answer some of these questions and provide an important piece of connective tissue that reaches across a wide variety of fields, disciplines, and lenses through which we perceive the world itself, as well as the place of human beings within that world. Our panel will provide a presentation and interactive discussion on recursion as a building block within mathematics and computer science, within the evolution of life on Earth, and within the very language and literature by which our society has engaged with recursion as a concept.
This training teaches students, staff, and faculty how to recognize and support someone who may be having thoughts of suicide. QPR is an education and awareness program that provides direction as to how to Question a person with thoughts of suicide, how to Persuade them to get help, and how to Refer the person to appropriate professional resources.
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Why practice self-compassion?
Through research, self-compassion has been linked to positive well-being in the reduction of negative mind states, including anxiety, depression, perfectionism and shame. In addition, it has been associated with improved emotional coping and greater resilience.
Having compassion for oneself is really no different than having compassion for others. In this workshop, you will be given the opportunity to explore self-compassion by participating in reflection and writing exercises, meditations, and open discussions.
Prepare for professional school interviews by practicing in small groups. Learn strategies to improve performance and get tips on how to handle admission questions. NOTE: There is a prerequisite for this workshop. Please see chart for details.
Technovation is a 12-week program in which teams of girls go from knowing nothing about programming to identifying a problem, building a business case and mobile app (using the MIT App Inventor), and creating a pitch. The teams generally work though the program themselves with a mentor; all of the materials are online.
Dragons’ Den is calling on all aspiring entrepreneurs to present their business pitches for a chance to be featured next season on CBC. Beginning in Toronto on February 10, the audition tour will be open to the public, as producers hit the road visiting Canadian cities coast-to-coast in search of the country’s best business ideas in need of a Dragon investment.