Faculty

Chair Discrete, Optimization and Logistics Institute of Operations Research at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Karlsruhe, Germany - Dr. Stefan Nickel will be discussing his paper, 'The Day After Optimal: Operations Research for Modern Logistics'.

A Douglas Utting Postdoctoral Fellow at Jewish General Hospital in Montreal, Dr. Maxwell Ramstead will be discussing his paper, 'Active Inference Across Scales: From the Brain to the Body and Culture'. 

From the Department of Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering at Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science at Concordia University - Dr. Daria Terekhov will be discussing her paper 'Inverse Optimization, Machine Learning, and the Operations Research Challenge' (Torch).

Hydrology of the 2014 São Paulo, Brazil Water Crisis

This WaterTalk will be presented at 2:30pm.

As part of the Water Institute's WaterTalks lecture series, Dr. Edson Wendland, a Professor and Dean of the Engineering School of São Carlos, will present “Hydrology of the 2014 São Paulo, Brazil Water Crisis”.

Join Michele Romanow (Dragon on CBC's Dragons' Den and President of Clearbanc) and Andrew D'Souza, BASc '08, SYDE, (CEO of Clearbanc, one of Canada's fastest-growing companies) for a captivating talk on how to accelerate your career after university. This lunchtime talk will have complimentary pizza, and is open to all Waterloo students, faculty, alumni and staff!

Hult Prize is the world’s biggest engine for the launch of for-good, for-profit startups emerging from university with over 2500 staff and volunteers around the world. In nearly a decade, the movement has deployed more than $50M of capital into the sector and mobilized more than one million young people to re-think the future of business as it continues to breed disruptive innovation on college and university campuses across 120 plus countries.

Please join us in celebrating the beautiful life of Phil Everson (BASc 2017) - February 9, 1993 - September 22, 2019.

Sociohydrology: “Imagineering” Not Just Engineering Needed to Solve Water Security Challenges

This WaterTalk will be presented at 2:30pm.

The Water Institute hosts this WaterTalk featuring Dr. Murugesu Sivapalan. Dr. Sivapalan is Chester & Helen Siess Endowed Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois, and a professor of Geography and Geographical Information Science.

Weather gone wild: What can we do to limit home and community-level flood risk?

This WaterTalk will be presented at 10:30am and repeats at 11:30am.

In partnership with Waterloo Region’s Doors Open 2019, the Water Institute hosts this WaterTalk featuring Dr. Blair Feltmate. Dr. Feltmate is the Head of the Intact Centre on Climate Adaptation (Intact Centre), and a professor at University of Waterloo's School of Environment, Enterprise and Development.

Join us for this complimentary opening reception of an exhibition featuring the work and sketches of Architecture alumni and students completed on their terms in Rome to mark this milestone of the Rome Program.