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1 slide. 3 Minutes. Outstanding ideas. Three Minute Thesis Competition
Wednesday, February 28, 2018 2:00 pm - 2:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

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.

Enigma machine
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!
 

Graphcial representation of recursion
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.

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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:

Wes Graham in the Red Room
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. 

Friday, June 22, 2018 5:30 pm - Sunday, June 24, 2018 5:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Programming workshop for beginners

Three-day programing workshop

This three-day workshop covers an intense 17-hour curriculum designed to give beginners complete, basic programming skills to use in their studies or workplace. It is intended for everyone who wants to learn basics of programming and does not have an opportunity to do so as a part of their studies. Over the course of the workshop, participants will learn the Python programming language through lectures and hands-on sessions, supported by a team of mentors.