Saturday, January 18, 2020 — 9:45 AM to Sunday, January 19, 2020 — 6:00 PM EST
Canada's first and largest beginner-focused hackathon.
StarterHacks has this year partnered with Waterloo’s Faculty of Mathematics to welcome over 1,000 high school and university students to participate in Canada’s largest beginner-focussed hackathon. The students will have 24 hours to create something amazing to solve a real-world problem, all while learning more about technology.
Wednesday, January 22, 2020 — 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM EST
How to network in academia
Join Anita Layton, Associate Dean of Research and International, in a curated lunch series exclusively for Math postdocs.
Learn tips and tricks from our resident experts at the Centre for Career Action about how to use in-person opportunities, online platforms, and social media to maximize your network.
Wednesday, January 29, 2020 — 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM EST
Join us on January 29th or a seminar hosted by University of Waterloo Financial Technology group @ the Manhattan Institute of Management: FinTech Applications of AI & Machine Learning in B2B Space presented by Rakesh Parameshwar, Senior Director for Strategy & Innovation, Moody’s Analytics Accelerator (MAA).
Friday, February 7, 2020 — 7:30 PM EST
Fifty years after the first lunar landing again we find the exploration of space to be inviting.
Our quest to open new spaces that extend wider and further than ever before promises immense scientific and technological milestones to be met. It is also an occasion to converse about vexing and relatively unexplored socio-political issues which such discoveries entail. Does an expansion into space carve opportunities to improve or, rather, exacerbate our currently polarizing Earth-related physical and social difficulties?
Tuesday, March 10, 2020 — 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM EDT
The Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition challenges research-based graduate students to articulate the impact and breadth of their research in a 3 minute presentation, using just 1 static power point slide.
Friday, March 13, 2020 — 7:30 PM EDT
After rapidly presenting how symmetries play an interesting role in nature, art, and science, François Bergeron and Members of the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony will explain and illustrate how Bach mathematical symmetries in writing the scores for his music. This will partly be done via an interplay between a pictoral description of the symmetries of the scores, and a live rendition by musicians of the result for the audience.
Wednesday, April 22, 2020 — 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM EDT
Academia vs. industry career panel
Join Anita Layton, Associate Dean of Research and International, in a curated lunch series exclusively for Math postdocs.
Anita will moderate the conversation with a panel consisting of PhD educated professionals working in a combination of academic and industry jobs spanning the public and private sectors.
Thursday, April 30, 2020 (all day) to Friday, May 1, 2020 (all day)
The Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science is holding the second annual Waterloo Conference in Statistics, Actuarial Science, and Finance on April 30 & May 1, 2020.
This year's conference will focus on the theme: Biostatistics: Foundations and the Era of Data Science. Other areas of focus will include the use of data from diverse sources, electronic health records, and causal inference and prediction.
Registration details will become available closer to the conference date.
Friday, May 1, 2020 — 3:00 PM to Sunday, May 3, 2020 — 6:00 PM EDT
The American Statistical Association (ASA) DataFest is a celebration of data in which teams of undergraduates work around the clock to find and share meaning in a large, rich, and complex data set. Assisted by consultants who are usually graduate students, faculty, and industry professionals.
Saturday, May 23, 2020 (all day) to Sunday, May 24, 2020 (all day)
