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New York City Math Alumni 50th Celebration
Bridges Lecture: Perfumery: the art and science of smell
Lucia Turin and Saskia Wilson-Brown
What, exactly, is fragrance? How might we discuss and theorize the sense of smell? Luca Turin and Saskia Wilson-Brown confront these surprisingly thorny questions and argue that fragrance is an autonomous art which must be dealt with on its own terms, a message in a bottle. As Igor Stravinsky said of music, fragrance may be "by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all".
Public lecture: Adrien Pouliot Lecture
Man Up! Exploring Healthy Masculinity
Secrets of (Successful) UW Math Alumni
Join us for an afternoon of inspiring and informative discussions presented by the 2017 Alumni Achievement Medal Award recipients:
Morning Discussions:
Bridges Lecture: Polar Projects - Conceptualizing and rendering arctic spaces
Ruxandra Moraru and P. Whitney Lackenbauer
The first Bridges lecture in 2018 will explore how humans have sought to make the Arctic legible (to borrow the phrase of James C.
Math Career Panel
Join a panel of math alumni who have all achieved success after completing either the Computational Math program, or by finishing graduate studies. Find out your options, and get a chance to network with those who have experienced what you might want to go through!
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Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Math Faculty Heat 2018
Join us for the Faculty of Mathematics heat of the Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition.
The winner of the heat will go on to compete in the University of Waterloo 3MT final competition. Come out and support our graduate students as they take on this presentation challenge.
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!