Friday, February 28, 2020 — 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM EST
Media, government, and industry commonly frame Security and Privacy as diametrically opposed: protecting one requires sacrificing the other.
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.
Tuesday, March 17, 2020 — 3:30 PM EDT
Computer scientists think often of Ender’s Game these days. In this award-winning 1985 science-fiction novel by Orson Scott Card, Ender is being trained at Battle School, an institution designed to make young children into military commanders against an unspecified enemy.
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.
