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Monday, September 19, 2022

The future of weather forecasts

The effects of climate change are becoming more and more apparent, increasingly in the unpredictability of the weather, thus raising the stakes for weather forecasters. A major concern involves the scale that the weather models run, representing wind, temperature, and other quantities on a grid of points. Professor Michael Waite explains that the spacing of the points and low photo resolution makes it consistently difficult to see the small details.  

At the Cheriton School of Computer Science, researchers are using unsupervised machine learning to determine taxonomic relationships between organisms. 

Lila Kari, a professor of computer science, along with her PhD students Pablo Millán Arias and Fatemeh Alipour and her colleague Professor Kathleen Hill at Western University’s Department of Biology pioneered this new method, titled Deep Learning for Unsupervised Clustering of DNA Sequences, or DeLUCS for short. 

Tuesday, April 18, 2023 9:00 am - 5:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Math and Computing Research Discovery Days

The Math & Computing Research Discovery Days is a new multi-day showcase featuring research from the University of Waterloo Faculty of Mathematics. The inaugural iteration of this annual event will bring together current and prospective industry partners to engage in discussion about leading research topics and the impacts this research will have. Fostering and supporting student engagement in mathematical innovation and entrepreneurship will be at the forefront of this initiative. 

This in-person event will feature an impressive lineup of keynote speakers, research demonstrations,  lighting rounds, panel discussions, networking opportunities, and more.