Events

The 2020 Fields Medal Symposium will honour Alessio Figalli (ETH Zürich) who was awarded a Fields Medal in 2018 for "contributions to the theory of optimal transport and its applications in partial differential equations, metric geometry and probability". Hosted by the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences, the Fields Medal Symposium is held each year to celebrate a recent medallist.

The READI Project (Risk Management, Economic Sustainability, and Actuarial Science Development in Indonesia) is a project funded by the Government of Canada (Global Affairs Canada), Manulife Indonesia, and Sun Life Financial and implemented by the University of Waterloo in collaboration with the Financial Services Authority (OJK). The main objective of the READI Project is to make Indonesia a regional center of excellence in actuarial science and risk management.

Warrior Reset - Kick off 2021 in style!

Join us for the new WARRIOR RESET program that will run from January 11 - February 4. Deadline to register is January 10.

Whether you start a company or work for one, entrepreneurial skills will be essential in your career as a computer scientist. Steven Woods (MMath '91, PhD '96), Engineering Lead for Google Canada, will be sharing his career learnings and inspire you to take every opportunity you can to develop your entrepreneurial skills. 

Women in Mathematics is excited to host the first lean-in circle event of the semester featuring online board games and a raffle for a chance to win 1 of 3 $20 gift cards! Undergraduate and graduate students of all genders are invited to come and join the fun!

Register today for this online-event!

Students, postdocs, faculty and research staff are all invited to the 2021 WiM Winter Colloquium. Professor Maria Chudnovsky from Princeton University will be holding a 30 minute talk followed by a Q&A session.

Register today!

Title: Recent progress on the Erdos-Hajnal Conjecture

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Join us as we take in a performance, a keynote address and a panel of some of our most formidable thinkers in celebration of Black History in Canada and those trailblazers making history right here at UWaterloo.

Celebrate International Women's Day with students, faculty, alumni and friends at a Virtual Happy Hour hosted by Women in Mathematics! Join in for an hour of fun activities like trivia games, Open Mic, Networking and chances to win book prizes on Women's Empowerment. 

People of all genders are welcome.

Undergraduate students are encourgaed to partipate in the 2021 Datafest hosted by the American Statistical Association (ASA) and the University of Waterloo's department of statistics and actuarial science. 

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.