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Mike Stonebraker
MIT and Turing Award Winner

Monday, September 14
Humanities Theatre
2:00 p.m.

Abstract:

This Turing Award talk intermixes a bicycle ride across America during the summer of 1988 with the design, construction and commercialization of Postgres during the late 80’s and early ‘90’s.  Striking parallels are observed, leading to a discussion of what it takes to build a new DBMS.  Also, indicated are the roles that perseverance and serendipity played in both endeavours.

Biography:

Tuesday, March 1, 2016 3:00 pm - 3:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition Math Faculty Heat 2016

Three-Minute Thesis logo
Join us for the Faculty of Mathematics heats of the Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition. Everyone welcome!

The winner will go on to compete in the University of Waterloo 3MT final competition, held on March 31. Come out and cheer on the graduate students.

Wednesday, May 11, 2016 7:00 pm - 7:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Ocean turbulence and global climate variability in the ice-age

The Centre for Computational Mathematics is hosting a public lecture and reception to celebrate the 10th anniversary.

Everyone welcome! Please register to attend.


Public lecture: Ocean turbulence and global climate variability in the ice-age

Speaker: Professor Dick Peltier, University of Toronto

Platonic solids
The Bridges lecture series are public lectures connecting Arts, Science and Mathematics.

The Platonic solids as Tiffany lamps, art objects and stepping-stones to higher dimensions.

With Hans Schepker and Carlo Sequin