Events

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".

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.

Joint Seminar presented by WatRISQ, University of Waterloo and Industrial Engineering & Operations Research (IEOR), Columbia University:New Ideas for Credit Portfolio Management by Dr. David Li, Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance and Columbia University

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!

Panelists

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.

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!
 

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.

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