Events

It's time to de-compress and have some fun! On November 28, enjoy a variety of FREE food and fun activities. Throughout the evening different activities and food stations will take place.

• Chili Bar (with a vegan soup option available)
• Math Trivia
• Hot Chocolate Break
• Open Mic (contact Ian Payne (ipayne@uwaterloo.ca with any questions)

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.

On Wednesday, January 29 let’s talk about mental health.
Bell Let’s Talk aims to reduce stigma and encourage people to start conversations about mental health.   

Join us at 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. outside Math C&D / Comfy Lounge for:

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?

Want to learn about the career journey of alumni who graduated from the Faculty of Math?

Want to hear some advice from our alumni who have been successful in their professional careers since graduation?

If you answered yes to either of these questions, or you are just curious, please join us at our Math Career Panel on Saturday, February 8th for a networking opportunity.

Media, government, and industry commonly frame Security and Privacy as diametrically opposed: protecting one requires sacrificing the other.

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.