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Water challenges are complex and require innovative solutions. The application of nanotechnology in the water sector offers real opportunity for breakthrough innovations that will contribute to the more sustainable use and management of water.

Whether from COVID or climate change, we’ve all got a lot of anxiety these days. The Netflix hit film "Don’t Look Up," with its astronomical analogy for climate change, strikes some as cathartic and others as anxiety-inducing. But now what? Can a fictional film, and the associated anxieties, actually create change? What do we do with these feelings that persist beyond the screen and what other ways might fiction aid navigation of our climate realities?

Dr. Gerard Yun, shakuhachi (Japanese Zen Buddhist Vertical flute)

Nathan Stretch, acoustic and electric guitars

Music of living plants in real time (plant sonification by PlantChoir, Kingston, Ontario)

As part of the Water Institute's WaterTalks lecture series, Amy Pruden, W. Thomas Rice Professor, University Distinguished Professor, Via Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Virginia Tech, USA will present: Harnessing 'Omics to Inform Strategies to Mitigate the Spread of Antimicrobial Resistance as a One Water Challenge.

The Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology (WIN) has four main thematic research areas; Smart and Function Materials, Connected Devices, Next Generation Energy Systems and Therapeutics and Theranostics. To showcase the work going on within these areas, we will be holding monthly WIN Thematic Seminars featuring our members and their research group members.

The Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology (WIN) has launched a new seminar series, Quantum Nano Collision (QNC) Seminar Series, to deepen the engagement of the Waterloo researchers who work at the interface of quantum and nanotechnologies. This seminar series will also provide opportunities for senior graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and research associates to present their innovative work along with the faculty members to bring together the excitement around these cutting-edge technologies that would shape our future.

Programme:
Oh Lady Be Good - George Gershwin

Just Friends - John Klenner

Round Midnight - Thelonious Monk/ Cootie Williams

Queen Bee - Sammy Nestico

Hark! The Herald Angels Sing - Traditional

The End of Term concert for this term is being recorded,
and will be released on Monday, December 13 at 7pm.   Please join us for the Premiere.  We are pleased to present a wide range of pieces, from an Mendelssohn octet to a Koechlin Trio, performed by eight different groups.
For details, see the program list below.  The highlighted movements are the ones included in this video.

Wendy Chun, Canada 150 Research Chair in New Media, will have an in-person discussion with Waterloo faculty and students about her new book, Discriminating Data: Correlation, Neighborhoods, and the New Politics of Recognition (MIT Press, 2021). This event is the second installation of Critical Tech Talk (CTT), a series designed to promote responsible innovation on campus and beyond. CTT is sponsored by every faculty on campus, in addition to the Office of Research and Communitech. The event will also be live-streamed.

As part of the Water Institute's WaterTalks lecture series, Taher Kahil, Group Leader of the Water Security Research Group at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Laxenburg, Austria, presents "Global water security under changing socio-economic and climate conditions."