Monday, September 16, 2019 — 9:30 AM to 12:00 PM EDT
The University of Waterloo is the first stop on the Canadian University Get Free Tour hosted by UN Women. The programming will begin at 9:30 a.m. with a campus rally to welcome the HeForShe tour bus and special guests. Join us for music, refreshments and HeForShe giveaways.
Friday, September 20, 2019 — 10:00 AM to 4:30 PM EDT
The David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science will be hosting the annual Cheriton Research Symposium in the Davis Centre.
This year’s symposium consists of presentations by Cheriton Faculty Fellows, Dan Brown and Urs Hengartner. The full schedule is available online.
Posters by David R. Cheriton Graduate Scholarship recipients will be on display in Davis Centre atrium from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Thursday, September 26, 2019 — 4:15 PM EDT
Optimal Transport, Entropy, and Risk Measures on Wiener space
We discuss the interplay between entropy, large deviations, and optimal couplings on Wiener space.
In particular we prove a new rescaled version of Talagrand’s transport inequality. As an application, we consider rescaled versions of the entropic risk measure which are sensitive to risks in the fine structure of Brownian paths.
Friday, September 27, 2019 (all day) to Sunday, September 29, 2019 (all day)
Applications were due by June 30, 2019.
Meet leaders in mathematical, computer and statistical sciences at a two-day, all-expenses-paid conference hosted by the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Waterloo.
Friday, September 27, 2019 — 3:30 PM EDT
Carsten Thomassen from the Technical University of Denmark will be presenting "Countable weighted graphs with no unfriendly partitions".
Wednesday, October 2, 2019 (all day)
On October 2, the Waterloo Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute annual conference will highlight innovative cybsersecurity research and collaborations with keynote speakers, panel discussions, and industry talks. This conference is open to undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, entrepreneurs, start ups, government, sponsors, and local businesses. Additional details will be posted in the near future.
Saturday, October 5, 2019 — 8:00 AM to Sunday, October 6, 2019 — 5:00 PM EDT
Blockchain technologies will greatly impact all aspects of business, government, and society. Before blockchains can be widely adopted and accepted however, academia and industry need to consider and address the security challenges associated with blockchain technologies.
Monday, October 7, 2019 — 5:30 PM EDT
Would you like to spend a school term in Europe, and take University of Waterloo mathematics courses taught by Waterloo mathematics professors?
Five weeks in Rome, Italy at the University of Waterloo campus, followed by eight weeks at the University of Paul Valéry in Montpellier, France. How great does that sound?
Friday, October 25, 2019 — 7:03 PM EDT
Changing and Challenging Material Definitions
Despite thousands of years of history, glass still challenges our perceptions and definitions.
In this lecture, Drs. Charbonneau and Larson tackle “the glass problem”, to explore and understand the mutable properties of a material which is, by definition, disorderly.
Friday, November 8, 2019 — 7:30 PM EST
What is it that makes us so scared of, and yet so attracted to, the living dead? Why is it that shambling or sprinting corpses still retain such relentless power?
Dr. Arnold T. Blumberg presents a whirlwind look back at 100 years of cinematic zombies and their evolution into a modern pop culture icon, with special attention to the ways in which Night of the Living Dead permanently impacted the media landscape.
