MS2Discovery Seminars
The MS2Discovery Seminar covers all priority areas of the Institute. It is a forum for academics, students, business and industry professionals to exchange ideas in order to facilitate interdisciplinary collaboration in these areas, and to help train high quality and employable students.
To give a talk at the seminar, please contact the Research Theme Coordinator whose area of research interests is most relevant to the topic of the proposed presentation.
Seminars
“Honeybees, Varroa destructor, the Acute Bee Paralysis Virus, Neonics: A Differential Equations Perspective”
Speaker: Hermann Eberl
Date and Time: December 5th, 2018 | 4pm | LH2066
Title: Three Pillars of Data Science
Speaker: Cameron Davidson-Pilon
Date and Time: November 14, 2018 | 4pm | LH2066
Title: Data Analysis with Terry Hickey
Speaker: Terry Hickey
Date and Time: October 31, 2018 | 4pm | LH2066
Title: Recursive Inspection Games
Speaker: Bernhard von Stengel
Date and Time: July 24, 2018 | 4pm | LH3058
Title: Singular Periodic Brake Orbits in the Planar Pairwise Symmetric Four-Body Problem
Speaker: Lennard Bakker
Date and Time: March 28, 2018 | 4pm | LH3058
Title: Commodity Derivatives
Speaker: Joe DiCesare
Date and Time: March 6, 2018 | 2:30-3:20pm | BA209
Title: Geometric theory of separation of variables, integrability, superintegrability and quantization
Speaker: Giovanni Rastelli | University of Torino
Date and Time: February 14, 2018 | 4pm | LH3058
Title: Simulations of fluid pulses in an artificial artery with active walls
Speaker: Dmitry Strunin | University of Southern Queensland, Australia
Date and Time: November 28, 2017 | 2:30pm | LH3058
Title: Partial Inventory Pooling by Independent Firms
Speaker: Yigal Gerchak | Department of Industrial Engineering, Tel-Aviv University
Date and Time: November 13, 2017 | 4pm | Location: LH3058
Title: Pricing Individual Stock Options using both Stock and Market Index Information
Speaker: Lars Stentoft | University of Western Ontario
Date and Time: October 17, 2017 | 2:30pm | Location: LH3058
Title: Variational discretizations of gauge field theories using group-equivariant interpolation spaces
Speaker: Melvin Leok | University of California, San Diego
Date and Time: September 19, 2017 | 2:30pm | Location: LH3058
Title: Systemic risk and stochastic games with delay
Speaker: Jean-Pierre Fouque, University of California at Santa Barbara
Date and Time: May 11, 2017 | 4pm – 5pm | Location: LH1009
Title: Novel applications of generalized Nash games
Speaker: Monica Cojocaru | University of
Guelph
Date and Time: April 28, 2017 | 2pm |
LH3058
Title: Critical Transitions in Coupled Behaviour-Disease Systems: Applying Dynamical Systems Theory to Data Science Problems
Speaker: Chris Bauch, University of Waterloo
Date and Time: March 27, 2017 | 1:30pm |
LH1009
Title: Data, Science, Computers, and Math as Ingredients of Today’s Business
Speaker: Ivan Sergienko, Scotiabank
Date and Time: March 24, 2017 | 3-4pm | LH1009
Title: Extended Theories of Gravitation
Speaker: Lorenzo Fatibene, University of Turin
Date and Time: February 28, 2017 | 4pm | LH3058
Title: Representation Theory of Finite Groups and the Factorization of Stability Polynomials of Relative Equilibria in Celestial Mechanics
Speaker: Eduardo Leandro, University of Minnesota
Date and Time: January 25, 2017 | 4pm | LH3058
Title: Building Industrial Support for Interdiscplinary Research
Speaker: John Kelly, Chief Executive Officer of
KeliRo Company, Adjunct Professor at University of
Guelph
Date and Time: December 1, 2016 | 4-5pm |
LH3058
Title: The Demand and Supply for Favours in Dynamic Relationships
Speaker: Jean Guillaume Forand, University of
Waterloo
Date and Time: November 18, 2016 | 11:30am |
LH2064
Title: Oil sands operations as a large source of secondary organic aerosols
Speaker: Craig Stroud, Environment and Climate
Change Canada
Date and Time: November 4, 2016 | 3:30-4:30pm |
Location: P2007
Title: Guaranteed Renewable Insurance Under Demand Uncertainty
Speaker: Michael Hoy, University of
Guelph
Date and Time: Oct 28, 2016 | 11:30am |
Location: LH2064
The Dark Side of the Vote: Biased Voters, Social Information, and Information Aggregation Through Majority Voting
Speaker: Rebecca Morton, New York University
Date and Time: October 3, 2016 | 11:30am | Location: P2007
Title: The Price of Religion: Experiments in Willingness to Bear Risks For Others in Islamic Communities
Speaker: Rebecca Morton, New York University
Date and Time: October 4, 2015 | 11:30am | Location: 2C3
Title: Making Math Essential to IBM's past, current, and future strategy
Speaker: Chid Apte, IBM Research, T. J. Watson Research Center
Date and Time: Sept 29, 2016 | 4pm – 5pm | Location: SBE1230
Title: The wrong number to plug into the wrong formula to get the right price of a stock option
Speaker: Roger Lee, University of Chicago
Date and Time: June 23, 2016 | 4pm – 5pm | Location: BA112
Title: Multi-period Portfolio Selection and Bayesian Dynamic Models
Speaker: Petter Kolm, Courant Institute, New York University
Date and Time: May 31, 2016 | 3:30pm – 5:20pm | Location: Bricker Academic 209
Title: “Programmable” Ecosystems: Engineered Environments for the Study of Biosystems Development
Speaker: Ludovico Cademartiri, Iowa State University
Date and Time: April 27, 2016 | 4pm – 5pm | Location: Bricker Academic 208
Title: From Decision Support Systems to Recommender Systems
Speaker: Pascale Zaraté, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse, France
Date and Time: January 14, 2016 | 4pm – 5pm | Location: Peters 1017
Title: Noisy rolling ball: non-holonomic constraints perturbed by the noise, conservation of integrals of motion and rolling friction
Speaker: Vakhtang Putkaradze, University of Alberta
Date and Time: October 28, 2015 | 4pm – 5pm | Location: Arts 1C16
Title: A practical look at counterparty credit risk and xVA
Speaker: Karl Wouterloot, Scotiabank
Date and Time: September 29, 2015 | 4pm – 5pm | Location: SBE 1230
Title: A stock-flow consistent macroeconomic model for asset price bubbles
Speaker: Matheus Grasselli, McMaster University and Fields Institute
Date and Time: March 5, 2015 | 4-5pm | Location: 2C17
Title: Stability for the free multidimensional rigid body and algebraic curves
Speaker: Anton Izosimov, University of Toronto
Date and Time: February 6, 2015 | 2:30pm |
Title: Molecular Modeling in Environmental Chemistry
Speaker: James D. Kubicki, The Pennsylvania State University
Date and Time: January 19, 2015 | 1:30pm |