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Tuesday, April 30, 2019 (all day)
The deadline for faculty members to disclose Intellectual Property (IP) and commercialization information using the Electronic IP Disclosure Form has been extended to April 30, 2019.
Wednesday, April 24, 2019 — 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM EDT
The Waterloo Institute for Sustainable Energy is pleased to host Umar Waqas, Director of Engineering Services for Energy+ Inc. on April 24.
Tuesday, April 23, 2019 — 11:45 AM to 1:00 PM EDT
A panel presentation and discussion for Waterloo faculty, staff, and students examining virtual reality applications.
Tuesday, April 16, 2019 — 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM EDT
In the first symposium of the Waterloo Symposium on Technology & Society series, Martin Ford explores the ways in which AI and automation (aka, “robots”) are outpacing humans in a range of sectors, from education to law, agriculture to healthcare, management and beyond. He offers a realistic view of what the future of work—and your place in it—will look like.
Tuesday, April 16, 2019 — 1:00 PM EDT
PhD Comprehensive Examination for Peter Duggins
This is Your Brain on Trust: A Biologically-Detailed Neural Model of Social Decision Making
Supervisor: Chris Eliasmith
April 16 at 1:00 pm in E5-6127
Wednesday, April 10, 2019 — 1:00 PM EDT
PhD Comprehensive Examination for Muna Alateibi
Newfoundland and Labrador Transition Toward Green Economy: Agent-Based Modelling
Supervisor: Kumaraswamy Ponnambalam
April 10 at 1:00 pm, E5-6111
Tuesday, April 9, 2019 (all day)
Tuesday April 9th From 9:00AM to 4:00PM
Location E7-7303 & E7-7363
Systems Design Engineering MASc and PhD students will be presenting their grad seminars at the first Annual SYDE Graduate Colloquium. See timetable for more details and Book of abstracts
Tuesday, April 2, 2019 — 1:00 PM EDT
PhD Defense for Ahmed El-Awady
Probabilistic Failure Analysis of Complex Systems with Case Studies in Nuclear and Hydropower Industries
Supervisor: Kumaraswamy Ponnambalam
April 2 at 1:00 pm, E5-6111
Tuesday, April 2, 2019 — 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM EDT
As part of the Water Institute's WaterTalks lecture series Slobodan Simonovic, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Western University, will present "Use of quantitative resilience in managing urban infrastructure response to natural hazards."
Monday, April 1, 2019 — 10:00 AM EDT
PhD Comprehensive Examination for Amir Safarpoor Kordbacheh
Narrowing Semantic Gap in Digital Pathology Image Retrieval by Utilizing Domain-Inspired Image Descriptors within a Learning/Optimization Framework
Supervisor: Hamid Tizhoosh
April 1 at 10:00 am, E5-6111