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A panel presentation for Waterloo staff, faculty, and students featuring:
SPEAKER: Dr. Ya-Hsiang Tai of National Chiao Tung University
Dr. Kalaichelvi (Kalai) Saravanamuttu
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
McMaster University
Stress reduction hour includes, gentle yoga, guided meditations, and mindful breathing. Facilitated by Fiona Dhanapala, Engineering Counselling.
Join GAMIC at the University of Waterloo for the Regional Quarter-finals.
Stress reduction hour includes, gentle yoga, guided meditations, and mindful breathing. Facilitated by Fiona Dhanapala, Engineering Counselling.
- 10:30 Welcome by Dr. Catherine Burns
- 10:40 Presentations by Dr. Burns and the CBB Team
- 11:00 Guest Presentation and guided coffee tasting by a local coffee roaster
- 11:20 Networking Reception
- 12:00 Closing
The purpose of the ConradGames in Engineering is to simply engage and encourage Undergraduate Engineering Students in Entrepreneurship and Innovation mindsets.
Invited teams of Engineering students will be competing:
As part of the Water Institute's WaterTalks lecture series, Professor John Hartig, Fulbright Scholar serving as the Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Global Governance at Balsillie School of International Affairs in Waterloo, presents, "Bringing Conservation to Cities: Lessons From Building the Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge."
Light refreshments will be provided.
Stress reduction hour includes, gentle yoga, guided meditations, and mindful breathing. Facilitated by Fiona Dhanapala, Engineering Counselling.
You Talked. We Listened.
After extensive consultation with WIN members, we are calling a Town Hall meeting to reflect on what we’ve heard and to further discuss and confirm what you’d like to see from WIN over the next 3 to 5 years
We look forward to hearing from you.
SPEAKER: Professor Qiang (Steven) Wang, Carleton University
ABSTRACT:
The first-ever Biotechnology and Bioengineering Conference (BioTEC 2017) is taking place here at the University of Waterloo! Attendees will get a chance to hear from researchers and industry professionals from leading companies like Baylis Medical and top schools like MIT.
The Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology (WIN) presents a seminar by Dr. Bruno Ehrler, from the Hybrid Solar Cells Group, AMOLF, Science Park, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Stress reduction hour includes, gentle yoga, guided meditations, and mindful breathing. Facilitated by Fiona Dhanapala, Engineering Counselling.
The Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology (WIN) presents a seminar by Professor Catherine Murphy, from the Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, United States
This presentation will provide insight into Ontario’s electric grid, including its history to present day and where it’s headed in the future. Growing challenges include system capacity and weather events while technology that provides for two way power transfer and grid independence has the ability to address these and other future issues. The potential impact of greenhouse gas reduction will also be discussed. Finally, an overview of the various funding programs for renewable energy and GHG reduction projects will be provided.
The Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology (WIN) presents a seminar by Dr. Amit Goyal & Dr. Thomas Thundat, from the institute for Research and Education in eNergy, Environment and Water (RENEW), University at Buffalo, New York, United States
Yigal Gerchak
Professor of Industrial Engineering
Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv, Israel
ygerchak@eng.tau.ac.il
WNC is a student-organized conference that provides an opportunity for students, employers, and entrepreneurs to learn from one another, strengthening our mutual understanding about how nanotechnology is taught and how it is used in industry, in innovative research, and how it is powering new ventures.
Registration has now closed.
SPEAKER: Professor Omar M. Ramahi, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo
ABSTRACT:
Dr. Todd Hoare
Associate Professor and University Scholar, Department of Chemical Engineering, McMaster University
Canada Research Chair in Engineered Smart Materials (Tier 2)
Andrew Brown
Data Scientist, New Hippo Health
Vancouver, BC
andrew.brown@newhippo.com
Abstract
Stress reduction hour includes, gentle yoga, guided meditations, and mindful breathing. Facilitated by Fiona Dhanapala, Engineering Counselling.

Distinguished Alumni Seminar:
“From Waterloo to Etsy via Brazil and how PHP happened along the way” by Rasmus Lerdorf (BASc 1993, Systems Design Engineering), Distinguished Engineer at Etsy