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Thursday, April 15, 2021 — 3:00 PM EDT
Title: Robots Made for People – Social Robots that can Make a Useful Contribution to Society
Thursday, April 15, 2021 — 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM EDT
Join us for an engaging Ask-Me-Anything session with University of Waterloo graduate, Conrad School alumni, and CEO & Founder of Lunaria Solutions, Cassie Myers. Cassie is an inclusion and equity advocate, who was recently recognized as a Top 50 Changemakers by Globe and Mail.
Friday, April 9, 2021 — 2:00 PM EDT
Candidate: Supratik Sarkar
Title: Creating and shaping light at single photon level
Date: April 9, 2021
Time: 2:00 PM
Place: Remote
Supervisor(s): Bajcsy, Michal
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Friday, April 9, 2021 — 10:30 AM EDT
Candidate: Rubaya Absar
Title: Development of Control Circuits for Silicon MOS Quantum Dot Qubit Network
Date: April 9, 2021
Time: 10:30 AM
Place: Remote
Supervisor(s): Wei, Lan - Baugh, Jonathan
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Thursday, April 8, 2021 — 9:30 AM EDT
Candidate: Tristan Walker
Title: Dead Reckoning for Distributed Network Online Games
Date: April 8, 2021
Time: 9:30 AM
Place: Remote
Supervisor(s): Smith, Stephen L.
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Wednesday, April 7, 2021 — 11:00 AM EDT
Candidate: Vinodh Raj Rajagopal Muthu
Title: Controlling Photon Emission from Nitrogen Vacancy Centers in Diamond
Date: April 7, 2021
Time: 11:00 AM
Place: Remote
Supervisor(s): Bajcsy, Michal
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Tuesday, April 6, 2021 — 4:00 PM EDT
Candidate: Lian Sun
Title: An Immutability Type System for Classes and Objects: Improvements, Experiments, and Comparisons
Date: April 6, 2021
Time: 4:00 PM
Place: Remote
Supervisor(s): Dietl, Werner
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Tuesday, March 30, 2021 — 2:00 PM EDT
Candidate: Behkish Nassirzadeh
Title: Security Analysis Methods for Detection and Repair of DoS Vulnerabilities in Smart Contracts
Date: March 30, 2021
Time: 2:00 PM
Place: Remote
Supervisor(s): Ganesh, Vijay
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Friday, March 26, 2021 — 9:00 AM EDT
Candidate: Samira Ghanbarian
Topic: Low Latency Scheduling in Large Shared Resource Systems
Date: March 26, 2021
Time: 9:00 AM
Place: REMOTE ATTENDANCE
Supervisor(s): Mazumdar, Ravi
Tuesday, March 23, 2021 — 1:00 PM to 1:30 PM EDT
Digital twins and augmented reality can be used for simulating physical objects and processes. This can be especially helpful for improving their design to better ensure the dependability of infrastructure and operations where lives might be at stake. With the use of such digital realities, one can also create a competitive edge to improve efficiency and advance capabilities.
Monday, March 22, 2021 — 9:30 AM to 3:00 PM EDT
Join the Water Institute for an interactive event exploring what water means to different people, its true value, and how we can better protect this vital resource together.
Thursday, March 18, 2021 — 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM EDT
"From speech AI to finance AI, and back" by Professor Li Deng
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Thursday, March 18, 2021 — 2:00 PM EDT
Candidate: Yaxin Elizabeth Zheng
Title: Scalable Synthesis of Less-Toxic Quantum Dots and Application to Optoelectronics Device Architectures
Date: March 18, 2021
Time: 2:00 PM
Place: REMOTE ATTENDANCE
Supervisor(s): Sivoththaman, Siva
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Thursday, March 4, 2021 — 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM EST
Future applicants, their family members and guidance counsellors are invited to join Waterloo Engineering on Thursday, March 4 from 6-7 pm ET for a webinar about preparing for an engineering education, our programs, and the process of applying to Engineering at Waterloo!
Thursday, March 4, 2021 — 9:30 AM EST
Candidate: Yaxin Elizabeth Zheng
Title: Scalable Synthesis of Less-Toxic Colloidal CuInS2 Quantum Dots and Application to Optoelectronic Device Architectures
Date: March 4, 2021
Time: 9:30 AM
Place: REMOTE ATTENDANCE
Supervisor(s): Sivoththaman, Siva
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Tuesday, March 2, 2021 — 3:30 PM EST
Candidate: Baheej Alghamdi
Title: Frequency and Voltage Control of a Grid of Microgrids
Date: March 2, 2021
Time: 3:30 PM
Place: REMOTE ATTENDANCE
Supervisor(s): Canizares, Claudio
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Tuesday, March 2, 2021 — 10:00 AM EST
Candidate: Anirudh Mohan Kaushik
Title: Balancing Timing Predictability and High-Performance in Cache Coherence Mechanisms
Date: March 2, 2021
Time: 10:00 AM
Place: REMOTE ATTENDANCE
Supervisor(s): Patel, Hiren
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Monday, March 1, 2021 — 4:00 PM EST
Candidate: Vladimir Joukov
Title: Fast approximate multi-output Gaussian processes for human objective function learning and control
Date: March 1, 2021
Time: 4:00 PM
Place: REMOTE ATTENDANCE
Supervisor(s): Kulic, Dana (Adjunct) - Melek, William W. (Mechanical & Mechatronics Engineering)
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Saturday, February 27, 2021 — 8:00 PM EST
Join the Hack the North Organizer Open House to meet current organizers and Hack the North alumni to learn about their experiences organizing Canada's biggest hackathon!
Friday, February 26, 2021 — 4:00 PM EST
Candidate: Sean Kauffman
Title: Runtime Monitoring for Uncertain Times
Date: February 26, 2021
Time: 4:00 PM
Place: REMOTE ATTENDANCE
Supervisor(s): Fischmeister, Sebastian
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Thursday, February 25, 2021 — 8:00 AM EST
Candidate: Medhat Samaan
Title: Fabrication of High-Performance Probes for Atomic Force Microscope (AFM)
Date: February 25, 2021
Time: 8:00 AM
Place: REMOTE ATTENDANCE
Supervisor(s): Cui, Bo
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Tuesday, February 23, 2021 — 1:00 PM to 1:30 PM EST
WatCO and Evercloak: Commercializing the intellectual wealth at the University of Waterloo. When innovative technology is transferred from research to the marketplace, it can have such a transformative impact on society. From improving the quality of life to enhancing business productivity and job growth.
Monday, February 22, 2021 — 5:00 PM EST to Thursday, July 29, 2021 — 8:00 PM EDT
Friday, February 19, 2021 — 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM EST
Designing and Testing Autonomous Vehicles: What the Engineers and Researchers are Doing and Thinking
Date: Friday, February 19, 2021
Time: 3:00 p.m.
Tuesday, February 16, 2021 — 2:00 PM EST
Candidate: Anurag Anand Devadiga
Title: Analysis of Transformer Insulation Under High-frequency Transients
Date: February 16, 2021
Time: 2:00 PM
Place: REMOTE ATTENDANCE
Supervisor(s): Jayaram, Sheshakamal
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