Events

From bench to business: Why having a multi-billion dollar idea is only 5% of becoming a successful business.

Speaking at this talk is Miron Derchansky, an accomplished entrepreneur and strategist who will provide insight into his experience developing a neuro-software startup and successfully raising $5M from Canadian investors. Pizza and water provided.

Register: http://velocity.uwaterloo.ca/event/velocity-start-speaking-startup-with-miron-derchansky/

Nanoscience and Nanotechnology in China: From Fundamental Research to Applications

The Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology (WIN), Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Systems Design Engineering present a Distinguished Lecture by Professor Chunli Bai, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.

Lecture: 3:00-4:00pm
Reception to follow.

Printed MEMS: sensors, actuators or energy harvesters processing with standard or modified screen-printing 

Hélène Debéda

Location: DC 1302

Physics on the frontier of quantum: Experimenting at the nanoscale

Professor Philip Kim

Harvard University, United States

​Location: QNC 0101

Philip Kim is an experimental condensed matter physicist. The focus of Kim’s group’s research is the mesoscopic investigation of various physical phenomena in low dimensional and nanostructured materials. Current research topics are: quantum transport in graphene and its heterostructures; developing heterostructured van der Waals material interfaces and mesoscale investigation.

Innovation at CGT

Alan Luke

Vice President – Product Development & Innovation,
CGT, Cambridge, ON, Canada

Location: QNC 2502

Greenhouse Gas Reduction Technologies in Energy Intensive Sectors of Ontario

Martin Vroegh

​Location: CPH 4333

Biomedical Applications of Metal-chelating Polymers and Lanthanide Nanoparticles

Mitchell A. Winnik
University Professor
Department of Chemistry
University of Toronto

Tuesday, February 5, 2019
10:30 a.m.
QNC 0101

Precise Chemical, Physical, and Electronic Nanoscale Contacts

The Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology (WIN), Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Systems Design Engineering present a Distinguished Lecture by Dr. Paul Weiss, UC Presidential Chair and a distinguished professor of chemistry & biochemistry, bioengineering, and materials science & engineering at UCLA.

Lecture: 2:00-3:00pm
Reception to follow.

Abstract

Welcome to the 15th Anniversary of the Nanotechnology Engineering Program celebration!

Join us in September, when the University of Waterloo celebrates the 15^th anniversary of the Nanotechnology Engineering program – and ten years of graduating classes!