News

2006

2012

• Distinguished Visiting Speaker: North-South Convergence In The Presence Of Global Warming
• Kantian Equilibrium, Externalities and Social Ethos | Public Lecture

2016

• The Price of Religion: Experiments in Willingness to Bear Risks For Others in Islamic Community | Public Lecture
• Distinguished Visiting Speaker: The Dark Side of the Vote: Biased Voters, Social Information, and Information Aggregation Through Majority Voting

2026

• Distinguished Visiting Speaker: Pension Security and Capital Market Solutions
• Distinguished Visiting Speaker: AI and Quantitative Investing
• Academic Seminar: Heuristics and optimization-based methods for the detection of generalized Nash games solution sets
• Distinguished Visiting Speaker: Will AI boost economic growth?
• An Introduction to Modern AI: Neural Networks, Generative Models, and Practical Limits
• Distinguished Visiting Speaker: AI as an Innovation

2025

• Distinguished Visiting Speaker: STEER: Assessing the Economic Rationality of Large Language Models
• Distinguished Visiting Speaker: Understanding AI Public Lecture (All Welcome)
• Classifier Fairness and How to Measure It
• Distinguished Visiting Speaker: Using AI to Categorize Strategic Situations and Study Human Behavior
• Reinforcement Learning for Improved Text and Image Generation
• Reasoning, Data-efficiency and Alignment in VLMs
• Distinguished Visiting Speaker: Networks and Social Capital in Determining Patterns of Inequality and Immobility
• Ballot Box or Tinder Box? Examining Online Voting in Ontario Cities

2024

• Data and Artificial Intelligence for Food
• Near Misses in Science and Art
• Using Maple for Teaching, Learning, Maplesoft
• Improving Safety and Efficiency of Payment Systems using AI and Quantum Computing
• The 5 W’s of AI in Insurance and Its Future Potential
• Reinforcement Learning for Social Human-Robot Interaction
• Math, Data and Medical Imaging
• Is Dollar-Cost Averaging as effective as we think it is? and Uncertainty and Strategy in Fair Allocation of Indivisible Items
• Cooperative AI

2023

• Separation of variables and superintegrability on Riemannian coverings
• Relativistic Positioning System: Exact techniques for geodesy on a spacetime manifolds
• Pre-Retirement Resources and Post-Retirement Life Satisfaction Change Trajectory: Examining the Mediating Role of Retiree Experience during Retirement Transition Phase
• Efficient Pricing of Large Panels of Options
• Effect of Institutional Investor Ownership on Financial Stability Evidence from the Index Reconstitution
• The VI AMMCS International Conference
• Lie-Poisson Neural Networks with C. Eldred (Sandia National Lab), F.Gay-Balmaz (CNRS and ENS, France, and S huraka (U Alberta)
• High Intensity Ultrasound Heating of Biological Tissue
• From Brain Modeling to State-of-the-art AI: The story of the LMU

2022

• Mathematics and Reconciliation
• Leveraging the Brilliance and Energy of African Women in Engineering and Math
• Do we need to adapt to a changing climate, or to the rate at which it is changing?
• Data Science for Social Equality
• The 2022 Classification Society Annual Meeting
• Professor Hind Al-Abadleh wins 2022 Gilead Award for Excellence in Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
• Fahimeh Ziaei awarded the Springer Best Student Paper at GDN 2022
• David Soave selected as Laurier Early Career Researcher Award Winner
• Some Problems in Sports Analytics
• Integrability and Control of Figure Skating
• Dr. Kathie Cameron Awarded for Distinguished Professional Achievements
• Combining Geophysical Models With Machine Learning to Improve our Understanding of Climate Change
• 12th Annual Nano Ontario Conference and Exhibition

2021

• The Development of Spectromicroscopy Methods for the Study of Heterogeneous Materials
• Statistical Tools for Better Understanding Marine Life
• Climate from the Underground: Long-Term Continental Heat Storage
• A Mathematical Model of Reward-Mediated Learning in Drug Addiction
• Workshop in Honour of Phelim Boyle
• Simulation Studies for Statistical Procedures: Why Can't We Practice What We Preach?
• Shea Kraemer Receives MS2Discovery Early Student Researcher Award
• Schroedinger’s Equation, Tire Tracks and Rolling Cones in the Minkowski Space
• Mohsen Bahremani Receives MS2Discovery Early Student Researcher Award
• Wisam Mohammed Receives MS2Discovery Student Researcher Award
• Using complexity science to make sense of and navigate interesting times
• Math Matters
• Data Science and Survey Methodology
• Al in FinTech: New Paradigms
• Ahmed Eid Receives MS2Discovery Research and Travel Grant

2020

• Yaode Sui Receives MS2Discovery Student Award
• The Future of Energy Storage The Future of Energy Storage
• The Era of Gravitational Wave Astronomy
• When does the Perron Frobenius result hold for correlation matrices?
• Enrich Data Analysis with Deep Learning
• Formulation and solution of stochastic inverse problems for science and engineering models
• Western Sydney University Abend Seminars
• Tina Arabian Receives MS2Discovery Student Researcher Award
• Mohammad Mehdi Jourabchi Receives MS2Discovery Student Researcher Award
• Mathematical Models for Prediction and Control of Epidemics
• Asia-Pacific Analysis and PDE Seminar
• Analysis of Inhibitory Interneuronal Networks using Phase Plane and Phase Responses
• Threshold Parameters in Ecology and Epidemiology
• Risk of COVID-19 Case Importation and the Effect of Quarantine
• Research in the Environmental, Physical and Interfacial Chemistry (EPIC) Lab
• On the Stability of the 3-Body Problem (in 4D)
• Atmospheric Ammonia in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region

2019

• Distinguished Visiting Speaker: Demagogues and the Fragility of Democracy | Academic Seminar: Economics
• Distinguished Visiting Speaker: Following the Pied Piper of Pensioners | Academic Seminar
• MS2Discovery Seminar: Quantum Computing and Cybersecurity: Challenges and Opportunities
• Putting Machine Learning to Work for Digital Forensics
• Mathematical Medicine: From Neurosurgery to Oncology to PK Modelling of Chemotherapeutic Drugs
• MS2Discovery Seminar: Clustering via Hypergraph Modularity

2018