Future graduate students

In this workshop, we’ll focus on researching your ideas. After this session, you’ll be able to: articulate research questions about your problem space, identify key library resources and freely available sources that will help with your market and industry research and articulate remaining gaps in your research.

Cornerstone will take participants through a term-long journey and provide extensive guidance to help with customer discovery and validation. Deadline to apply is May 15.

In this must-see workshop, the legendary Professor Larry Smith will discuss what makes an important problem, why pursuing important problems is advantageous for start-up founders and business owners, and how students can uncover important problems.

Hear from Velocity, Problem Lab, Zero, Conrad School of Entrepreneurship and Business, GreenHouse, St. Paul’s University College, Grebel Peace Incubator, and the University of Waterloo Library.

Plus, stay till the end for your chance at winning a pair of AirPods!

Communication networks are an essential part of our world today, used in transactions from banking to education, global business exchanges to defence. What happens when our private information is no longer private? Powerful quantum computers will have the ability to crack the encryption of public keys that we currently use to secure our data, putting our privacy at risk.

In this panel discussion, we’ll hear from three researchers who are at the forefront of discovery and application of quantum communication research:

• Katanya Kuntz, Research Associate, IQC and QEYSSat Science Team Coordinator
• Sara Zafar Jafarzadeh, Research Fellow, IQC and Cryptographer, Synopsys Inc.
• Dave Touchette, Professor, Institut Quantique, Université de Sherbrook

Measuring Quebecers' preferences for surface water quality
April 13, 2022 - 12:00 p.m. EST.
Jie He, Professor, Department of Economics, Université de Sherbrooke

Join us for a new webinar series highlighting state-of-the-art water valuation practices in Canada and identifying practitioners’ demand for information about the value of water.

The webinar series targets anyone from academia to non-government agencies and practitioners who are interested in better understanding the value of water in Canada from a broad social science perspective, and how this value is captured, acknowledged and integrated in Canadian water policy and decision-making.

Join UWaterloo CPI for their next CPI Talk!

Seny Kamara, Associate Professor of Computer Science at Brown University, discusses how cryptography has failed to address the needs of the disenfranchised and how this can be addressed.

Sign-up: http://bit.ly/3KYomFe

CPI Talks are open and free to the general public. We encourage high school students and non-UWaterloo staff and students to join! No knowledge of cryptography is required.

Quantum sensors allow us to measure with incredible accuracy, precision and selectivity. Future quantum devices that achieve these ultimate sensing qualities by harnessing the complexities of atoms, photons and semiconductors will play a critical role in improving applications such as medical technology, radar, geological exploration, molecular imaging and more.

We need new experimental techniques to build these devices. In this panel discussion, we’ll hear from three leading experts in the Waterloo region who are pushing boundaries to develop new sensing technologies based on quantum mechanics:

Michael Reimer, Assistant Professor at IQC and the University of Waterloo’s Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering who is developing highly efficient photon detectors

Kostadinka Bizheva, Professor at the University of Waterloo’s Department of Physics & Astronomy who is working on new techniques for optical coherence tomography (OCT)

Troy Borneman, Senior Scientist at High Q Technologies who is building sensitive superconducting resonators for medical sensing applications.


Quantum Perspectives: A Panel Series celebrates 20 years of quantum at IQC. Over the past two decades, IQC’s leading quantum research has powered the development of transformative technologies, from ideas to commercialization, through research in theory, experiment and quantum applications. This year, we’re diving in to all aspects of quantum in celebration of IQC’s 20th anniversary with a panel series exploring all perspectives of quantum, including sensing, materials, communication, simulation and computing.

Student teams have practiced and perfected their pitches and are ready to compete at the virtual Concept $5K Finals! Watch these incredible pitches live online and be sure to vote on your favourite team to help crown the People’s Champ. These are ideas that could change the world and not something you want to miss!

Problem Analysis is the most important first step in creating a successful startup. Join @uwproblemlab on March 29th to hear million dollar ideas from student teams competing for a chance at $7,500 in R&D.