Events

We’re celebrating WEW 2019 with stories from women entrepreneurs and their allies.

The Conrad School of Entrepreneurship and Business is hosting a lunch hour Speakers' Series as part of the annual Women Entrepreneurship Week 2019 global awareness and celebration. Please join us to network and hear 20-minute presentations covering entrepreneurship topics. Lunch will be provided.

We’re celebrating WEW 2019 with stories from women entrepreneurs and their allies.

The Conrad School of Entrepreneurship and Business is hosting a lunch hour Speakers' Series as part of the annual Women Entrepreneurship Week 2019 global awareness and celebration. Please join us to network and hear 20-minute presentations covering entrepreneurship topics. Lunch will be provided.

Changing and Challenging Material Definitions

Despite thousands of years of history, glass still challenges our perceptions and definitions.

In this lecture, Drs. Charbonneau and Larson tackle “the glass problem”, to explore and understand the mutable properties of a material which is, by definition, disorderly.

Would you like to meet fellow female Math faculty?

Please join us on Monday, November 4, 2019 for a luncheon and networking. The Women in Mathematics Committee will provide drinks and lunch.

If you are planning to attend, please register online.

WiM is excited to host the first lean-in circle event of the semester on Tuesday, November 5. Undergraduate and graduate students are invited to come and join the conversation!

The lean-in circle events are an opportunity for female students to share experiences and get advice on how to navigate the school and workplace from other women.

Pizza and refreshments will be provided. If you are planning to attend, please register online. 

What is it that makes us so scared of, and yet so attracted to, the living dead? Why is it that shambling or sprinting corpses still retain such relentless power?

Dr. Arnold T. Blumberg presents a whirlwind look back at 100 years of cinematic zombies and their evolution into a modern pop culture icon, with special attention to the ways in which Night of the Living Dead permanently impacted the media landscape.

Are you considering grad school?

On November 11, we're hosting a graduate information session for upper-year students!

You will have the chance to speak with department representatives and ask questions about programs in:

Women in Mathematics presents Nobel Laureate, Professor Donna Strickland

Talk Title: Generating High-Intensity, Ultrashort Optical Pulses 

Elevator Pitches: Overview, advantages and framework

Join Anita Layton, Associate Dean of Research and International, in a curated lunch series exclusively for Math postdocs.

For the first lunch series on Wednesday, November 13, 2019, join Anita Layton as she explores why every postdoc needs to be ready with a 2-minute research synopsis.

Join us on Nov 13^th for a seminar hosted by University of Waterloo Financial Technology group @ the Manhattan Institute of Management: Modern Portfolio Analysis with Factors presented by Bob Bass, Managing Director at BlackRock Inc.

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