Lecture

Tuesday, October 18, 2016 5:30 pm - 5:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

TD Walter Bean Lecture in Environment - Dr. Ben Schwegler

Dr. Ben Schwegler, PhD, MASCE, Senior Vice President and Chief Scientist
of Walt Disney Imagineering Research and Development

Creating Sustainable Cities from the Ground Up – Lessons from Disney Research

Thursday, September 15, 2016 2:30 pm - 2:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

WaterTalks series: Pieter van der Zaag

RBC visiting fellow, Pieter van der Zaag, presents “Water Storage: Nature-based Solutions for Resilient Communities."

A professor of integrated water resources management at the UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education in Delft, The Netherlands and professor at Delft University of Technology, we welcome van der Zaag as part of our ongoing WaterTalks lecture series.

Saturday, November 26, 2016 8:00 am - 6:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

TEDxUW

Explore the interconnectedness of our world at UW's official TEDx event

TEDxUW is a key TEDxUW logoplayer in the global TED movement, which aims to share ‘ideas worth spreading’, for free, across the world.

TEDxUW has brought many brilliant minds together in order to network, share ideas, and change and challenge perspectives on our ever-changing world.

The Waterloo Institute of Sustainable Energy (WISE) is pleased to host Professor Madjid Soltani, who completed his PhD in Chemical Engineering at the University of Waterloo, to discuss his work with a new wind-catcher design and the study in which it has been implemented. 

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Thursday, July 21, 2016 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

WIN Distinguished Lecture - Professor Jacob Israelachvili

The Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology (WIN) and the Department of Chemical Engineering present a Distinguished Lecture by Professor Jacob Israelachvili, in the Chemical Engineering Department of the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB), United States.

Adhesion, friction & lubrication of surfaces & liquid films and their relation to diverse phenomena such as how geckos climb on walls and ceilings, surface damage, and sensing

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Thursday, April 28, 2016 4:00 pm - 4:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Water Institute RBC Distinguished Lecture 2016

The 2016 Water Institute RBC Distinguished Lecturer is Dr. Jay Famiglietti, University of California, Irvine and California Institute of Technology. His lecture will be on the topic of Water and sustainability: 21st Century realities and the global groundwater crisis.

This is a free public lecture.

For those unable to attend in person, the lecture will also be available via livestream after the lecture.

The Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology (WIN) presents a Distinguished Lecture by Professor Lynden A. Archer, William C. Hooey Director and James A. Friend Family Distinguished Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Cornell University, United States.

Lecture: 3:00-4:00pm

Reception: 4:00-5:00pm

​Electrolyte Design Principles for Lithium Metal Batteries

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