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
Charles Clark, Fellow, Joint Quantum Institute
Much of what we understand about the world comes from our eyes, which sense the colors from red to violet that are expressed in the rainbow.
Dr. Melanie Campbell, Physics and Astronomy, University of Waterloo
Explore the interconnectedness of our world at UW's official TEDx event
TEDxUW is a key 
player 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.
New insights into nanomaterials with applications from high temperature superconductivity to insulators
SPEAKER
Professor Judith L. Macmanus -Driscoll
Department of Materials Science
University of Cambridge, U.K.
Reception to follow in QNC 2501
Experimental and Computational Optimization of a Wind Turbine Blade De-Icing System
On December 15th, WISE is pleased to host Sankaran Ramalingam, President, Energy and Fuel Users Association of India (ENFUSE) for a public lecture entitled, 'Energy Economics - Towards Sustainable Development & A Green GDP'. Current methods of calculating economic growth fail to account for environmental depletion, degradation and loss of biodiversity. In turn, industrial development and economic growth are reflective of the creation of material wealth but fail to cultivate environmental and social gains.
Christian Stamm, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag)
How combining real-world data with experimental manipulations can provide powerful tools for understanding the drivers for ecological change.
Part of the Water Institute's WaterTalks lecture series.
Coffee and refreshments will be provided.
Richard Luthy, from Stanford University, California
Description
California is entering its sixth year of drought. It’s clear that the old ways of coping with drought — overdraft of groundwater, stream depletion, and greater imports — will no longer meet the needs of the 21st Century. The solution to our challenge of urban water security will likely consist of a combination of demand management and the development of a portfolio of new water supplies.