Past Lectures
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Past Lectures
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2019-2020
The Glass Problem:
Changing and Challenging Material Definitions
Patrick Charbonneau (Chemical Physics)
Katherine Larson (Art, History, Archaeology)
Zombies: Monsters with Meaning
Arnold T. Blumberg (Zombie Scholar)
Robert Smith? (Mathematics)
Brenda Frye (Astronomy)
Ofrit Liviatan (Law and Politics)
François Bergeron (Mathematics)
Jurgen Petrenko, Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony
CANCELLED
2018-2019
Minds in Machines: Comparing Biological and Synthetic Intelligence
Chris Eliasmith (Philosophy, Engineering, Computer Science)
Paul Thagard (Philosophy/Cognitive Science)
Movement Within Art and Math and Where It Takes Us
Edward Burger (Mathematics)
Victoria Star Varner (Fine Arts)
Touch: the science and culture of contact in more-than-human worlds
Amelia DeFalco (Medical Humanities)
India Morrison (Neuroscience)
2017-2018
Perfumery: the art and science of smell
Luca Turin (Biophysics)
Saskia Wilson-Brown (Arts)
Polar Projections: Conceptualizing and Rendering Arctic Spaces
Ruxandra Moraru (Mathematics)
P. Whitney Lackenbauer (History)
Beyond the Imitation Game - From Dieppe & James Bond to Blackberry & Quantum Encryption
Peter Berg (Mathematics)
David O'Keefe (History)
Recursion: the loops that make the world go round
J. Andrew Deman (English)
Josh Neufeld (Biology)
Naomi Nishimura (Computer Science)
2016-2017
Pattern finding – popular expression of transcendent ideas
Soheila Esfahan (Visual Art)
Matthew Scott (Mathematics)
George Hart (Mathematics)
Elisabeth Heathfield (Visual Art)
The Platonic solids as Tiffany lamps, art objects, and stepping-stones to higher dimensions
Carlo H. Séquin (Mathematics)
Hans Schepker (Visual Art)
2015-2016
Deep Surfaces: Geometrical Challenges in Digital Design
Benjamin Dillenburger (Architecture)
Daniel Hambleton (Mathematics)
Fiona Coll (English)
Bruce Pitman (Mathematics)
John Baez (Mathematics)
Anita Chowdry (Visual Art)
Mathematics, Music, and Visual Art
Nathan Selikoff (Visual Art)
Dmitri Tymoczko (Music and Mathematics)
2014-2015
Linda Carson (Art)
Craig S. Kaplan (Mathematics)
Helen Bretzke (Drama, Computer Science)
Peter Taylor (Mathematics)
Steven J. Brams (Politics)
Marc Kilgour (Mathematics)
Dancing the Math of Complex Systems
Sarah Tolmie (English)
Dawn Parker (Complex System)
2013-2014
What is Science and Why Should We Care?
James Robert Brown (Philosophy)
Alan Sokal (Science)
Mathematics and What it means to be Human
Michele Osherow (English)
Manil Suri (Mathematics)
Damn Lies, Truths, Statistics and History
Douglas Peers (History)
Don McLeish (Statistics)
2012-2013
In Time & Out of Tune: Some perspectives on consonance and dissonance
Thomas A. Ivey (Mathematics)
Ian Quinn (Music)
Quantum Computation and Phenomenological hermeneutics
Kieran Bonner (Sociology)
Michele Mosca (Mathematics)
2011-2012
Breaking Code(s): The Invasion of Normandy from Bletchley to the Beaches
Carol Acton (English)
Steven Furino (Mathematics)
Paradigm Shifts: Brecht and Galileo
Conrad Hewitt (Mathematics)
Ted McGee (English)
Steven Bednarski (History)
Benoit Charbonneau (Mathematics)
Benoit Charbonneau (Mathematics)
David Seljak (Religious Studies)