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Eugenia Cheng: How to Bake Pi
Mathematics can be tasty! It’s a way of thinking, and not just about numbers. Through unexpectedly connected examples from music, juggling, and baking, Dr. Eugenia Cheng will demonstrate that math...
Apr 05, 2017
Janna Levin: Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space
More than a billion years ago, two black holes collided. In the final second of their long life together, the black holes banged out a rhythm like mallets on a...
May 03, 2017
Amber Straughn: A New Era in Astronomy: NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope
The Hubble Space Telescope has completely revolutionized our understanding of the universe, and has become a beloved icon of popular culture. As revolutionary as Hubble has been, we have pushed...
Mar 01, 2017
James Weatherall: The Physics of Wall Street
Twenty-first century finance is built on complex mathematical tools developed by “quants,” a different breed of investor with expertise in fields such as physics, mathematics, and computer science. These models...
Feb 01, 2017
Ingrid Waldron, Dalhousie University
This lecture is being presented as part of Waterloo Global Science Initiative's Generation SDG Summit It is not lost on many Canadians that Nova Scotia has had a long and...
Apr 24, 2018
Roger Melko: Perimeter Institute and University of Waterloo
Can computers think? They can certainly calculate - with staggering speed and ever-increasing power - and they have driven scientific and technological advances that would have been impossible without them...
May 02, 2018
Emily Levesque: The Weirdest Stars in the Universe
How big can a star get? Why would a star only pretend to explode? Can you hide one star inside another? Take a tour of some of the strangest stellar...
Mar 07, 2018
THE TRUTH IS IN THE STARS, a Star Trek Documentary
Join the original Captain Kirk, William Shatner, as he interviews renowned scientists and celebrities about the enduring influence of Star Trek on popular culture, innovation, and creativity. THE TRUTH IS...
Jun 14, 2017
Tim Palmer: Climate Change, Chaos and Inexact Computing
How well can we predict our future climate? If the flap of a butterfly’s wings can change the course of weather a week or so from now, what hope trying...
May 04, 2016
Mario Livio: Brilliant Blunders
Even the greatest scientists have made some serious blunders. "Brilliant Blunders" concerns the evolution of life on Earth, of the Earth itself, of stars, and of the universe as a...
Jun 01, 2016