Current students

Housing in too many of Canada's remote communities is in deplorable condition. Peter Russell, president of RESTCo seeks to make this fact a mere memory. Join us April 19 for an in-depth discussion of approaches that can be taken to boost the production of low-energy housing through innovations in structure, fabrication, delivery, and associated infrastructure.

Speaker biography:

Zhanfeng Cui
PhD, DSc, FIChemE, FREng
Donald Pollock Professor of Chemical Engineering
Director, CRMI Technology Centre, Institute of Biomedical Engineering
Department of Engineering Science
University of Oxford

Abstract:

SPEAKER: Xihua Wang, Assistant Professor at the University of Alberta

ABSTRACT: In this talk, I will show my group’s recent efforts in the design and fabrication of engineered micro/nanostructures on plastic and nanofibril paper substrates for solar energy harvesting and sensing applications.

PROFESSOR SHUIT-TONG LEE
Chair Professor and Founding Director
Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials (FUNSOM)
College of Nano Science and Technology (CNST)
Collaborative Innovation Centre of Suzhou Nano Science and Technology (NANO-CIC)
Institute of Organic Optoelectronics, Jiangsu Industrial Technology Research Institute
Soochow University, China

Reception to follow lecture

As part of the Water Institute's WaterTalks lecture series, Joan B. Rose, the winner of the 2016 Stockholm Water Prize and Homer Nowlin Chair in Water Research at Michigan State University, presents "Monitoring Pathogen Concentrations in Sewage to Inform Treatment Goals and Public Health Risks."

Paid parking is available in several lots. Lot C is recommended, as it should have availability. 

Students will: learn about AquaHacking, have their questions answered, learn about past winners and find out how they can be a part of this innovative movement

Free food and drinks

The WIN Nano Graduate Student Seminar Series provides an opportunity for nanotechnology graduate students of WIN members to present and discuss their research, to help foster knowledge exchange and dialogue between researchers and across disciplines.

Photocatalytic decomposition of estrogens and associated estrogenic activity using immobilized TiO2
Speaker: Maricor Arlos
Supervisor: Professor Mark Servos and Susan Andrews

This seminar is free and everyone is welcome to attend.
 

Dr. S. Eswar Prasad
Chairman, Piemades, Inc & Adjunct Professor
Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto

Find out how your team can go from idea to funding in this "how to" session. Lyon Wong, Spectrum 28, outlines the steps to getting funded. Select teams are interviewed and funding readiness issues examined. It's two hours of "hands-on, how-to" knowledge involving real startups who are looking for funding.  Guest entrepreneur José Daire shares his insight on the importance of relationships in getting funded.

Who should attend: Undergraduates, Graduate students, faculty or staff who are interested in the steps to obtain seed funding.