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Wednesday, September 27, 2023 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Guest Lecture: Resistive Feedback DACs in high-SFDR continuous-time delta-sigma ADCs

Speaker: Dr. Sharvil Patil from Analog Devices, Inc., Toronto

Date: Wednesday, September 27, 2023

Time: 1:30 pm- 2:30pm

This seminar will be offered in-person and online. 

Location (to attend in-person): EIT 3142.

Online: please register for the seminar at: https://uwaterloo.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_EYjZRlCNSzuG-wOiTPuptw  

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.
 

Beyond the Pipeline: Fostering Equity in Our Quantum Future Kim de Laat, Assistant Professor of Organization and Human Behaviour at the Stratford School of Interaction Design and Business, University of Waterloo
Monday, October 2, 2023 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Beyond the Pipeline: Fostering Equity in Our Quantum Future

Beyond the Pipeline: Fostering Equity in Our Quantum Future Kim de Laat, Assistant Professor of Organization and Human Behaviour at the Stratford School of Interaction Design and Business, University of Waterloo

The field of quantum computing has a unique opportunity to pre-empt many of the inequities that have riddled AI and computer science. But radical technologies require new, radical solutions. In this talk, I take issue with the leaky pipeline metaphor as a way of structuring policy interventions concerning inequality in STEM fields. I outline three reasons why overreliance on the leaky pipeline metaphor is problematic: (1) it does not accurately represent the phenomenon it is meant to describe; (2) it is incomplete; and (3) it does not capture the full heterogeneity of experiences with inequality in STEM disciplines. I conclude the talk by sharing feedback from the quantum technology community concerning potential pitfalls in the pursuit of equity in quantum, and what we can do about it.

About Kim de Laat

Kim de Laat is an Assistant Professor of Organization and Human Behaviour at the Stratford School of Interaction Design and Business, University of Waterloo. Along with her colleague Lechin Lu, she has engaged in consultations with the quantum technology community over the past several years on behalf of the National Research Council, to provide guidelines for making their quantum challenge programs more equitable.