Seminar

Charting a Career in Quant Finance: A Fireside Chat with Heath Windcliff

Kristine McGlynn — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 19:58:33 +0000

Charting a Career in Quant Finance: A Fireside Chat with Heath Windcliff Kristine McGlynn Wed, 06/11/2025 - 15:58

Join us on Monday, June 16 for an inspiring talk with Heath Windcliff (BMath ’98, MMath ’00, PhD ’03) as he shares his journey—from his academic path, to his work at Morgan Stanley, his transition to Quadrature and what drives his passion for quantitative finance.

Pizza and drinks will be provided!

Math Teaching Colloquium 2025

Nicola Ablett — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 19:09:05 +0000

Math Teaching Colloquium 2025 Nicola Ablett Mon, 03/03/2025 - 14:09

Welcome to the fourth annual Math Teaching Colloquium!

Many of your Math Faculty colleagues have attended teaching conferences throughout the 2024-2025 academic year, and this is your chance to hear the highlights of what they learned. There will be several short presentations focused on the most practical, actionable advice that you can use in your own teaching.

Date and Location

The Colloquium will take place on Thursday, April 17 from 9:00 am - 12:00 pm in MC 5501.

The sessions will be filmed and live-streamed for those who are unable to attend in person, and recordings will be available afterwards to anyone who registers.

Schedule

9:00 Refreshments and Introduction
9:05 Katy Howell Escobar – High school math experience
9:30 Nicola Ablett – Assessment and syllabus data
9:55 Jordan Hamilton and Zack Cramer – Learning and the Brain
10:20 Break
10:35 Judith Koeller – CMS Winter meeting 2024
11:00 Burcu Karabina – OLC Accelerate 2025
11:25 Roundtable Discussion

Registration

Registration is required and FREE for all UW Math faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students. Participants from outside the Faculty of Math are also welcome to join us online.

Please complete the registration form.

If you have any questions, please contact Diana Skrzydlo at dkchisho@uwaterloo.ca.

Seminar from African Institute for Mathematical Sciences

Fatimah Rathore — Fri, 17 May 2024 14:34:16 +0000

Seminar from African Institute for Mathematical Sciences Fatimah Rathore Fri, 05/17/2024 - 10:34

The Faculty of Math and the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) are hosting a seminar to talk about our shared relationship, joint work, and teaching opportunities for faculty members at AIMS centres in Ghana, Senegal, Cameroon, South Africa and Rwanda.

The seminar includes a presentation from Dr. Prince Osei (President of AIMS Ghana), opening remarks from Dr. Neil Turok (founder of AIMS, and former Director of the Perimeter Institute), and a panel discussion including past AIMS instructors and graduates.

If you're unable to attend this seminar in-person, please click the link below to stream it on Zoom.

Math Teaching Colloquium 2024

Marshall Cowie — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 20:44:53 +0000

Math Teaching Colloquium 2024 Marshall Cowie Fri, 02/02/2024 - 15:44

Welcome to the third annual Math Teaching Colloquium!

Many of your Math Faculty colleagues have attended teaching conferences throughout the 2023-2024 academic year, and this is your chance to hear the highlights of what they learned. There will be several short presentations focused on the most practical, actionable advice that you can use in your own teaching.

Date and Location

The Colloquium will take place on Friday April 19 from 9:00 am - 1:00 pm in MC 5501.

The sessions will be filmed and live-streamed for those who are unable to attend in person, and recordings will be available afterwards to anyone who registers.

Schedule

9:00 Refreshments and welcome
9:20 Dan Wolczuk - Cognitive Load Theory
9:40 Sachin Kotecha - Takeaways on Mindsets from Learning & the Brain
10:00 Emily Kozlowski - Some insights on the science of attention, motivation, and metacognition
10:30 Anton Mosunov - Accessible Digital Materials
10:50 Marshall Cowie - Insights from Math Course Syllabi
11:10 Roundtable discussion - ChatGPT in Math teaching/assessments
12:00 Lunch

Registration

Registration is required and FREE for all UW Math faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students. Participants from outside the Faculty of Math are also welcome to join us online.

Please complete the registration form. Registration to attend in person has now closed, but the form continues to be open for online attendance. You can also register to receive the recordings after the event.

If you have any questions, please contact Diana Skrzydlo at dkchisho@uwaterloo.ca.

Using AI to advance health care in Canada

Nick Di Benedetto — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 18:46:55 +0000

Using AI to advance health care in Canada Nick Di Benedetto Mon, 03/13/2023 - 14:46

Learn about opportunities for engagement and collaboration at T-CAIREM, a national network that engages 23 universities and 90 organizations across Canada in advancing AI in medicine.

This event is open to all University of ��ݮ��Ƶ students, faculty, staff, external partners and community members, and will feature a presentation by Dr. Muhammad Mamdani, PharmD, MA, MPH.

About the presentation

Artificial intelligence (AI) is expected to transform health care. Canada is a global leader in AI research and health care, however its research and education talent is spread across many prestigious academic institutions across Canada with limited collaboration. The Temerty Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research and Education in Medicine (T-CAIREM) has recently been established at the University of Toronto with a major goal to establish a national network focused on the advancement of AI in medicine. This presentation will review the activities of T-CAIREM and provide an overview of the national network that engages 23 universities and over 90 organizations across Canada, making this the largest network for its kind in the world. Efforts are currently focused on: 1) Education activities such as speaker series, curriculum development, trainee rounds and funded studentships, 2) Research activities such as funding opportunities for innovative and applied research in health care, 3) Infrastructure such as the creation of a ‘made for AI’ cloud-based data and analytics platform, and 4) Community engagement activities such as a collaboration forum to bridge clinicians with data scientists. Opportunities for engagement and collaboration will be presented and feedback will be requested on how to improve the reach and activity of the network.

About the speaker

Dr. Muhammad Mamdani is vice-president of Data Science and Advanced Analytics at Unity Health Toronto and director of the University of Toronto Temerty Faculty of Medicine Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research and Education in Medicine (T-CAIREM). Dr. Mamdani’s team bridges advanced analytics including machine learning with clinical and management decision making to improve patient outcomes and hospital efficiency. Dr. Mamdani is also Professor in the Department of Medicine of the Temerty Faculty of Medicine, the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, and the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation of the Dalla Lana Faculty of Public Health. He is also adjunct senior scientist at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) and a faculty affiliate of the Vector Institute. In 2010, Dr. Mamdani was named among Canada’s Top 40 under 40. He has published more than 500 studies in peer-reviewed medical journals. Dr. Mamdani obtained a Doctor of Pharmacy degree (PharmD) from the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) and completed a fellowship in pharmacoeconomics and outcomes research at the Detroit Medical Center. During his fellowship, Dr. Mamdani obtained a Master of Arts degree in Economics from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan with a concentration in econometric theory. He then completed a Master of Public Health degree from Harvard University with a concentration in quantitative methods.

Session 4 - Euclid 2023 Preparation

Isabella Deak — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 14:21:26 +0000

Session 4 - Euclid 2023 Preparation Isabella Deak Thu, 02/02/2023 - 09:21

Join The Centre for Education in Mathematics and Computing at the Faculty of Mathematics, University of ��ݮ��Ƶ for a series of four 90-minute sessions to help you prepare to succeed in the Euclid Contest.

These sessions are aimed at students of grades 11 – 12 from all over the world who are interested in participating Euclid 2023 math contest scheduled to be held in April 2023 with a focus on problem-solving strategies and questions related to this content. We will have fun solving problems together and discussing possible approaches while providing recommendations for problems for you to work on after the sessions. Members of the Math Admissions team will be in attendance to answer your questions about scholarships and admissions.

These sessions are based on the eight modules given in the Preparation Materials for the CSMC and Euclid Contest including:

Session Details	Rest of the World Professor Shane Bauman	North America Professor Comfort Mintah
Session 4: Counting and Probability Properties of Numbers	Thursday, March 16, 2023 8:30 AM to 10:00 AM EST* Register here	Thursday, March 16, 2023 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM EST* Register here

Session Details

Rest of the World

Professor Shane Bauman

North America

Professor Comfort Mintah

Session 4:

Counting and Probability
Properties of Numbers

Thursday, March 16, 2023
8:30 AM to 10:00 AM EST*

Thursday, March 16, 2023
7:00 PM to 8:30 PM EST*

*Find session time in your city here.

If you have any issues with registration or further questions about the sessions, email our admissions team for help at mathinfo@uwaterloo.ca.

Session Hosts

Professor Shane Bauman:

Shane Bauman is a mathematics professor at the University of ��ݮ��Ƶ and is a part of the Centre for Education in Mathematics and Computing (CEMC). One of his favourite activities to do with students is problem-solving. His favourite course to teach at the University of ��ݮ��Ƶ is a course in reading, writing and discovering proofs.

In addition to teaching courses at the university, he runs problem-solving workshops with students and participates in the creation of mathematics contests which are written by more than 200 000 students all over the world. In the past few years, he has had the opportunity to run problem-solving workshops in Canada, China, India, Malaysia and Singapore.

Professor Bauman holds a Bachelor of Mathematics from the University of ��ݮ��Ƶ and a Bachelor of Education at Queen’s University. He then returned to ��ݮ��Ƶ to complete a graduate degree in Combinatorics.

Professor Comfort Mintah:

Dr. Comfort Mintah is currently a lecturer with the Centre of Education in Mathematics and Computing (CEMC)at the University of ��ݮ��Ƶ, Canada, co-director of the Auckland workshop, and is also co-director of Helping Teacher Teach Mathematics Conference "HTTMC" targeted to Pan African Teachers. Comfort is also involved in Girls in Mathematical Science programs (GMSP) and the Masters of Mathematical Science for Teachers Program at the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS), Ghana.

She holds the distinction of being the first female who graduated from the University of Ghana with a specialty in Mathematical Physics after 65 years and is one of the first Ghanaian females to be working in the field of quantum computing.

Comfort holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Guelph, Canada, an MSc in Mathematical Sciences from the African Institute for MathematicalSciences(AIMS), and an MSc in Applied Mathematics from the University of Guelph, Canada. Comfort obtained her BSc at the University of Ghana and graduated with a single major in Mathematics.

Session 3 - Euclid 2023 Preparation

Isabella Deak — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 14:18:41 +0000

Session 3 - Euclid 2023 Preparation Isabella Deak Thu, 02/02/2023 - 09:18

oin The Centre for Education in Mathematics and Computing at the Faculty of Mathematics, University of ��ݮ��Ƶ for a series of four 90-minute sessions to help you prepare to succeed in the Euclid Contest.

These sessions are based on the eight modules given in the Preparation Materials for the CSMC and Euclid Contest including:

Session Details	Rest of the World Professor Shane Bauman	North America Professor Comfort Mintah
Session 3: Sequences and Series Euclidean Geometry	Thursday, March 2, 2023 8:30 AM to 10:00 AM EST* Register here	Thursday, March 2, 2023 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM EST* Register here

Session Details

Rest of the World

Professor Shane Bauman

North America

Professor Comfort Mintah

Session 3:

Sequences and Series
Euclidean Geometry

Thursday, March 2, 2023
8:30 AM to 10:00 AM EST*

Thursday, March 2, 2023
7:00 PM to 8:30 PM EST*

*Find session time in your city here.

If you have any issues with registration or further questions about the sessions, email our admissions team for help at mathinfo@uwaterloo.ca.

Session Hosts

Professor Shane Bauman:

Professor Comfort Mintah:

Session 2 - Euclid 2023 Preparation

Isabella Deak — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 14:14:34 +0000

Session 2 - Euclid 2023 Preparation Isabella Deak Thu, 02/02/2023 - 09:14

These sessions are based on the eight modules given in the Preparation Materials for the CSMC and Euclid Contest including:

Session Details	Rest of the World Professor Shane Bauman	North America Professor Comfort Mintah
Session 2: Functions, Equations and Polynomials Analytical Geometry	Thursday, February 16, 2023 8:30 AM to 10:00 AM EST* Register here	Thursday, February 16, 2023 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM EST* Register here

Session Details

Rest of the World

Professor Shane Bauman

North America

Professor Comfort Mintah

Session 2:

Functions, Equations and Polynomials
Analytical Geometry

Thursday, February 16, 2023
8:30 AM to 10:00 AM EST*

Thursday, February 16, 2023
7:00 PM to 8:30 PM EST*

*Find session time in your city here.

If you have any issues with registration or further questions about the sessions, email our admissions team for help at mathinfo@uwaterloo.ca.

Session Hosts

Professor Shane Bauman:

Professor Comfort Mintah:

Session 1 - Euclid 2023 Preparation

Isabella Deak — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 21:04:20 +0000

Session 1 - Euclid 2023 Preparation Isabella Deak Wed, 02/01/2023 - 16:04

These sessions are based on the eight modules given in the Preparation Materials for the CSMC and Euclid Contest including:

Session Details	Rest of the World Professor Shane Bauman	North America Professor Comfort Mintah
Session 1: Exponents and Logarithms Trigonometry	Thursday, February 2, 2023 8:30 AM to 10:00 AM EST* Register here	Thursday, February 2, 2023 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM EST* Register here

Session Details

Rest of the World

Professor Shane Bauman

North America

Professor Comfort Mintah

Session 1:

Exponents and Logarithms
Trigonometry

Thursday, February 2, 2023
8:30 AM to 10:00 AM EST*

Thursday, February 2, 2023
7:00 PM to 8:30 PM EST*

*Find session time in your city here.

If you have any issues with registration or further questions about the sessions, email our admissions team for help at mathinfo@uwaterloo.ca.

Session Hosts

Professor Shane Bauman:

Professor Comfort Mintah:

GRADflix 2021-2022

Rebecca Graper — Mon, 08 Nov 2021 21:20:59 +0000

GRADflix 2021-2022 Rebecca Graper Mon, 11/08/2021 - 16:20

View "GRADflix teaser video" on YouTube

GRADflix is a research communication opportunity for graduate students. Participants will create a video, moving slide show, or animation of no longer than 60 seconds (one minute) in length that describes their research. Learn more about GRADflix, register to compete, view the eligibility and rules, etc. on the GRADflix website.

Important dates

The dates for the 2021-2022 competition are as follows:

October 13, 2021: competition launch - GRADflix registration opens
November 1, 2021: GRADflix training session
November 17, 2021: GRADflix drop-in feedback session
November 24, 2021: Deadline to register to participate in GRADflix
December 1, 2021: GRADflix drop-in feedback session
January 10, 2022: (at 4:00 p.m.): GRADflix submission deadline
January 31, 2022: GRADflix virtual showcase event