Lecture

Are you interested in quantum mechanics or cryptography?

Then check out CPI's next event on Feb 28th from 6:30pm to 8:00 pm. Learn how quantum computers can create security risks and how we can mitigate them!

Register at: https://bit.ly/3s8X2fE

CPI's Michele Mosca and Sara Zafar Jafarzadeh discuss why it is important to act now, even though cryptographically-relevant quantum computers are not available.

As part of the Water Institute's WaterTalks lecture series, David Sedlak, Plato Malozemoff Professor, Director, Berkeley Water Center, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, USA will present: The Next Water Revolutions.

Black History is World History: From Moment to Global Movement

Join us for a special edition of Research Talks featuring Michaëlle Jean, University of Waterloo Chancellor, St. Paul’s University College and former Governor General and Commander-in-Chief of Canada.

Please register to receive a link to this virtual event.

Everyone is welcome to join the University of Waterloo’s Ujima Black History Month research and learning event focused on Black experience in Canada.

Everyone is welcome to join the opening event for the University of Waterloo’s Ujima Black History Month, 2022 — and beyond.

Hosted by Dr. Christopher Stuart Taylor, associate vice-president, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Anti-racism, and featuring guests Dwayne Morgan, poet and social entrepreneur, Teneile Warren, writer and community advocate, David Delisca, spoken word poet, writer, actor and comedian, and a drumming performance by Bring on the Sunshine.

Join us for our Networked Feminisms: Activist Assemblies and Digital Practices book launch and speaker series. This session approaches to exploring networking feminisms, featuring speakers Melissa Brown, Tara L. Conley and Helena Suárez Val.

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.

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.

How do we prevent, detect, or stop a data breach?

Join us on Dec 1st to find out!

Our guest speaker Daphne Yao discusses data breaches, government regulations, and cybersecurity risks in our newest CPI Talk!

CPI Talks are open to everyone regardless of age! High school students and even non-Waterloo students/staff are welcome to join.

Join us for a special WaterTalk co-hosted by the University of Waterloo’s Water Institute and The Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology (WIN), where Juliette Legler, Chair of Toxicology, Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences, Utrecht University, The Netherlands, presents, “Microplastics and Human
Health: Moving the Field Forward.”