Seminar

The Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute along with the Waterloo Institute for Sustainable Energy is pleased to announce the inaugural CPI Student Seminar, featuring Prof. Pirathayini Srikantha, Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at York University.

As part of the Water Institute's WaterTalks lecture series, Dr. Cayelan Carey, Professor of Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech, will present: Advancing our understanding and management of freshwaters with near-term forecasting. This event is in person in DC 1302 with a lunch reception to follow in DC 1301 (The Fishbowl).

As part of the Water Institute's Webinar Series: The Value of Water in Canada, Ann-Helen Jean-Baptiste, Research analyst – water accounts, Environment, Statistics Canada, and Mark Henry, Unit head – land, water and ecosystem accounts, Environment, Statistics Canada, present: Building Statistics Canada’s water accounts with considerations for valuation.

We invite you to join us on Wednesday, April 3, 2024 for our annual Desmarais Family Summit. The Summit is an interactive exhibition that gives our Global Engagement students the unique opportunity to share their research projects on this year’s theme, “Me and my Robot.”

Alison Wylie will discuss three examples of field-engaged philosophy of science that address the legacies of settler-colonialism in archaeology in Canada and ask what philosophy can contribute to decolonizing efforts. Alison Wylie holds a Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of the Social and Historical Sciences at the University of British Columbia where she is a Professor of Philosophy. She has a long-standing interest in philosophical questions raised by archaeology: How do we know what (we think) we know about the cultural past?

As part of the Water Institute's webinar series: The Value of Water in Canada, Merrell-Ann Phare, Commissioner, International Joint Commission, Founding Executive Director of the Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources (CIER), will present: Safeguarding water values through collaborative water governance.

As part of the Water Institute's WaterTalks lecture series, Dr. Patricia Chow-Fraser, Professor, Department of Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, will present: Déjà vu or Jamais vu? Using a 20-y record to discern how coastal wetlands of eastern and northern Georgian Bay responds to climate-induced water-level disturbances.

Join the Water Institute in person for World Water Day 2024 celebrations! More information, including speaker profiles, can be seen on the World Water Day event website. 

As part of the Water Institute's WaterTalks lecture series, Dr. Sathya Gopalakrishnan, Professor, Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics, Ohio State University, will present: Economics of valuing water resources.

In this talk, Dr. David Fortin offers an overview of the challenges facing Indigenous design within a mostly commodified built environment.