Lecture

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.

Thursday, April 26, 2018 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Alumni event: Where UWaterloo Meets AI - Ethics

Join President and vice-chancellor Feridun Hamdullahpur and fellow alumni in Mississauga for a thought provoking alumni event - Where UWaterloo meets AI - Ethics. This event features a panel of expert speakers sharing their knowledge and understanding in the field of ethics in artificial intelligence, followed by a Q&A discussion with the audience.
Speakers confirmed to date:

$Graphcial representation of recursion$

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?

$Enigma machine$

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!

$Reserach team on snowmobiles near Labrador$

Wednesday, January 31, 2018 7:30 pm - 7:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Bridges Lecture: Polar Projects - Conceptualizing and rendering arctic spaces

Ruxandra Moraru and P. Whitney Lackenbauer

$Reserach team on snowmobiles near Labrador$

The first Bridges lecture in 2018 will explore how humans have sought to make the Arctic legible (to borrow the phrase of James C.

$Edward B. Burger$

Friday, December 8, 2017 5:00 pm - 5:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Public lecture: How Always to Win at Limbo

CMS Public Lecture by Edward B. Burger

or "You can sum some of the series some of the time, and some of the series none of the time...but can you sum some of the series all of the time?"

$Richard Hoshino$

Saturday, December 9, 2017 7:00 pm - 7:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Public lecture: Adrien Pouliot Lecture

$Richard Hoshino$

In this informal and interactive presentation, winner Richard Hoshino will present four of his favourite math problems, and share stories of how these problems have led to authentic mathematical experiences for both high school students and undergraduates. He will share his story through these four problems, which will simultaneously be accessible to high school students and challenge the math professors in the audience.

$Shelves of perfume bottles$

Wednesday, November 22, 2017 7:30 pm - 7:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

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".

$Platonic solids$

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

$Wooden shipping pallet$

Wednesday, October 26, 2016 7:30 pm - 7:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Bridges lecture: Pattern Finding - popular expression of transcendent ideas

$Etched wooden shipping pallet$

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

Pattern finding- popular expression of transcendent ideas.

With Matthew Scott and Soheila Esfahani