Presentations | Scholar | University of Waterloo

Assessment Design for Learning, at Waterloo ON, Thursday, June 14, 2018

Invited talk at seminar series. Video recording of talk can be accessed here. Read more about Assessment Design for Learning

Coulomb branches and KLR algebras, at Oberwolfach, Thursday, May 31, 2018:

Oberwolfach-2018.pdf

Incorporating Communication Skills into SAS Courses, at Waterloo ON, Tuesday, May 29, 2018

Presentation at SAS Teaching Discussion Group on some ways to incorporate and assess communication skills in SAS courses Read more about Incorporating Communication Skills into SAS Courses

Interactive Games for Probability Models, at Waterloo ON, Tuesday, May 29, 2018

Demonstration for the Active Learning Across Disciplines group of some interactive probability games Read more about Interactive Games for Probability Models

“Another Camp Heard From: Austrian Superheroes vs. the 'Habsburg Dilemma'”, at CAUTG/APAUC Annual Conference, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Saturday, May 26, 2018

Harald Havas’s ASH: Austrian Superheroes (2016- ) is a comic about the Neue Wiener Wächter: the red-and-white-clad Captain Austria, Jr. and his teammates Der Bürokrat, Lady Heumarkt and Das Donauweibchen. Their localized code-names identify them as a form of “nationalist superhero,” who “explicitly identifies himself or herself as representative and defender of a specific nation-...

“Bobby Bär, meet Bobby Bear: The British Origins of an Austrian Comic Strip in the 1920s”, at Canadian Society for the Study of Comics Conference, Toronto, Ontario, Thursday, May 10, 2018

Das Kleine Blatt (1927-1944) was a newspaper published in Vienna by the Austrian Social Democratic Workers’ Party. Aimed at the whole family, it also ran a comic strip for children: Bobby Bär became so popular that by 1933, there were 70 chapters of the Bobby Bär Club in Vienna.

The origins of Bobby Bär are unknown; a...

Building Bridges: Multidisciplinary Research, at University of Waterloo School of Pharmacy, Wednesday, April 25, 2018

Authors: K. Mercer, K Grindrod, C Burns, L Guirguis, J Chin, J Dogba, L Dolovitch, L Guénette, L Jenkins, F Légaré, A McKinnon, J McMurray, K Waked.

Objective: To describe how engaging patients and other disciplines can change conclusions in qualitative health services research.

Approach: A recent qualitative research project included a multi-disciplinary research team of health care professionals, engineers, information specialists, health systems specialists and patients. From this, two papers are...

“The Superhero as 'Border Angel': Crossing Space, Time, and Genres in Graupner and Wüstefeld’s Das UPgrade”, at Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference, Indianapolis, Indiana, Saturday, March 31, 2018

Das UPgrade is a projected ten-volume series—now three volumes in—about the only superhero of the now-defunct German Democratic Republic. Ronny Knäusel is born in Dresden in 1967; thanks to the combination of alien intervention five millennia ago, an experimental GDR fertility pill, and an American surf-rock song playing on the radio, Ronny can teleport himself and others—but only when he hears the Beach Lords’ hit “Palms in Sorrow.” As a young man, he uses this ability to spirit...

Representation theory of symplectic singularities, at AustMS, Macquarie University, Wednesday, December 13, 2017:

austms-2017.pdf

Symplectic duality and KLR algebras, at University of Sydney, Monday, December 4, 2017:

sydney-2017-1-encoding-backup.pdf

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