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Saturday, December 9, 2017 7:00 pm - 7:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Public lecture: Adrien Pouliot Lecture

Richard Hoshino
In this informal and interactive presentation, winner Richard Hoshino will present four of his favourite math problems, and share stories of how these problems have led to authentic mathematical experiences for both high school students and undergraduates. He will share his story through these four problems, which will simultaneously be accessible to high school students and challenge the math professors in the audience.

Thursday, January 25, 2018 9:30 am - 3:15 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Secrets of (Successful) UW Math Alumni

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The Faculty of Mathematics is exceptionally proud of our alumni for their outstanding accomplishments, innovation, and achievements within their communities and professions. 

Join us for an afternoon of inspiring and informative discussions presented by the 2017 Alumni Achievement Medal Award recipients: 
 
Morning Discussions:

Wednesday, January 31, 2018 7:30 pm - 7:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Bridges Lecture: Polar Projects - Conceptualizing and rendering arctic spaces

Ruxandra Moraru and P. Whitney Lackenbauer

Reserach team on snowmobiles near Labrador

The first Bridges lecture in 2018 will explore how humans have sought to make the Arctic legible (to borrow the phrase of James C.

Wednesday, February 28, 2018 7:30 pm - 7:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Beyond the Imitation Game - From Dieppe & James Bond to Blackberry & Quantum Encryption

Peter Berg and David O'Keefe

Discover the remarkable story of the Enigma machine, a device invented in 1918 to encrypt the most secret and sensitive communications in Hitler’s Nazi Germany, and  the lengths the Allies would go to in an effort to tap into its Ultra Secret yield!
 

Wednesday, March 21, 2018 7:30 pm - 7:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Recursion: the loops that make the world go round

J. Andrew Deman, Josh Neufeld, and Naomi Nishimura

What are we? By what processes and patterns did we originate and how do these patterns compare to the processes of the world around us, digital and biological, societal and fictional?

Monday, June 4, 2018 4:00 pm - 4:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Public Lecture: Infinite Games

Antonio Montalban, University of California - Berkeley

Infinite two-player games have been a very useful tool to prove many results in logic and other areas. What makes them fascinating to computability theorists is that winning strategies can be extremely complex even for simple games.

Thursday, June 14, 2018 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Recognizing Excellence Series

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The Faculty of Mathematics is exceptionally proud of our alumni for their outstanding accomplishments, innovation, and achievements within their research, communities, and professions.

Join us for an afternoon of discussions presented by Alex Nicolaou, 2018 J.W. Graham Medal recipient and Rob Tibshirani and Anand Pillay, 2018 Honorary Doctorate recipients.

Itinerary:

Thursday, June 21, 2018 9:40 am - 4:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

2018 Wes Graham Research Symposium & Computer Science Awards

The David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science is pleased to announce its inaugural Wes Graham Research Symposium & Computer Science Awards. The ceremony takes its name from James Wesley (Wes) Graham, a humble visionary known as the “father of computing” at the University of Waterloo and an academic who devoted his career to making the magic of computers available to everyone.