Events - 2019

Thursday, March 14, 2019 — 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM HKT

Dean's Lecture in Hong Kong

$Dean's Lecture - Hong Kong$

Saturday, March 9, 2019 — 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM EST

March Break Open House 2019

$Four volunteers at the Math March Break Open House$

Join us for part of the open house or make a day of it!

Friday, March 8, 2019 — 8:00 PM EST

International Women's Day Movie Screening

We will be celebrating International Women’s Day with a movie screening at Princess Twin Cinema! Come out to watch Suffragette (2015). We're having a live panel before the show, free snacks and a chance to meet some awesome people.

Event Schedule:

Where: Princess Twin Cinema, 46 King St N, Waterloo

7:45 pm – 8:00 pm – registration for the event

7:55 pm - 8:00 pm – doors open to theatre

8:00 pm – Welcome

8:05 pm – 8:40 pm – International Women’s Day Panel

Panelists:

Friday, March 8, 2019 — 11:30 AM to 5:00 PM EST

International Women's Day Pacesetters Forum

$Women with W$

Wednesday, March 6, 2019 — 2:00 PM EST

Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Math Faculty Heat

$Three Minute Thesis promotional graphic$

Wednesday, February 27, 2019 — 3:30 PM to 4:30 PM EST

Ask Me Anything with Brice Nkengsa

$andela$

ASK ME ANYTHING! Fireside chat with global entrepreneur, visionary, and tech leader Brice Nkengsa

Saturday, February 9, 2019 — 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM EST

Waterloo-local ACM-style programming contest

$graphic of figure running to a keyhole in a tunnel of binary code$

The next Waterloo-local ICPC-style programming contest will be held on Saturday, February 9, 2019 in MC 3003. All members of the UW community are invited to try their programming skill in Scheme, C, C++, Java, Pascal, Python, or Scala.

Waterloo students have twice won the worldwide ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest, an annual multi-tiered programming competition among the universities of the world.

Tuesday, January 29, 2019 — 5:00 PM EST

Math students who have not declared a major

The Math Undergrad Office will be hosting plan information sessions on Tuesday, January 29th at 5:00pm, 5:30pm, and 6:00pm. These sessions will allow you to explore the many majors the Faculty has to offer.

Here is a schedule (PDF) of the times of sessions.

Looking forward to seeing you there.

Friday, January 25, 2019 — 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM EST

Barn raising of the omnitruncated dodecaplex

$3D polytope model$

Pop by the Mathematics 3 (M3) Atrium any time throughout the day and watch as the omnitruncated dodecaplex comes together. Piece-by-piece the 3D polytope model will be put together by Professor Benoit Charbonneau and student, staff, and faculty volunteers. At the end of the day it will rise up and be a permanent art installation in M3.

Tuesday, January 22, 2019 — 2:30 PM EST

The Legal, Business, and Moral Duty to Design Hardware, Software, and Human-Computer Interfaces to be Fully Accessible to People with Disabilities — Why and How

$David Lepofsky$

David Lepofsky, LLB, Osgoode Hall Law School, LL.M, Harvard Law School
Chair, Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act Alliance Adjunct Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School

Tuesday, January 15, 2019 — 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM EST

Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Sign Up Party

$Three Minute Thesis promotional graphic$

Sign up to compete in the Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition! Our faculty sign-up event includes light refreshments and a prize draw for students who register on-site.