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Featuring Kaylen Pfisterer, PhD Candidate in Systems Design Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Samantha Biglieri, PhD Candidate in Planning, Faculty of Environment.  Kaylen is passionate about application driven research; she presents her novel nutrition tracking technology for enhancing older adults’ health. Samantha is captivated by how neighborhoods influence quality of life, she examines older adults’ lived experiences in their communities to build more inclusive cities.

Yuqing Ren
Associate Professor, Information and Decision Sciences
Carlson School of Management
Minneapolis, MN
chingren@umn.edu

*Light refreshments will be served at 12pm

Philip Kim is an experimental condensed matter physicist. The focus of Kim’s group’s research is the mesoscopic investigation of various physical phenomena in low dimensional and nanostructured materials. Current research topics are: quantum transport in graphene and its heterostructures; developing heterostructured van der Waals material interfaces and mesoscale investigation.

As part of the Office of Research's Research Talks series, executive director of the Water Institute and professor of Economics, Roy Brouwer, will present, "Global Assessment of Payments for Watershed Services with Roy Brouwer."

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Payments for watershed services (PWS) are a new water policy instrument that aims to ensure that the providers of non-marketed water services are paid for their efforts.

As part of the Water Institute's WaterTalks lecture series, Dr. Antje Witting from the Department of Political and Administrative Sciences at the University of Konstanz, presents, "Policy learning in the context of urban flood mitigation."

Dr. Ying Chau
Associate Professor, Division of Biomedical Engineering and Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)

Associate Director, Bioengineering Graduate Program, HKUST

Vice Chairman, Hong Kong Biotechnology Organization (HK BIO)

"Endocrine regulation of phosphate homeostasis" with Dr. Mohammed S. Razzaque, MBBS, PhD, Department of Oral Health Policy & Epidemiology, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Department of Pathology, Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine, Erie, PA, USA.

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Alumni, alumni investors and alumni start-ups are invited to the third event of the Waterloo Alumni Angels. We're holding our third pitch event and we have some of UWaterloo's best up-and-coming start-ups eager to pitch to a room full of UWaterloo's most successful accredited investor alumni. Vidyard is kindly hosting this event.

Dr. Taewoo Lee
Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering
University of Houston
Houston, TX
tlee6@uh.edu

*Light refreshments will be served at 12pm

You're invited to indulge in a slice of Canada in Boston! Held at Clarke's, the evening features reminiscing about Canada and Waterloo and celebrating Canada's 150th birthday and UWaterloo's 60th birthday! This event is open to all engineering and math alumni and current engineering and math students living/working in the Boston and Cambridge area.