Past Events

Public lecture: “Navigating the choices that shape your career.”

Mentorship seminar: “Why success is more likely when you’re willing to fail.”

Research Seminar: “A chemical biology toolbox for probing A-to-I RNA editing.”

We hope that you can join us for the College of Engineering and Physical Sciences National Truth and Reconciliation Day Presentation and Discussion with Genievieve Borg, Ph.D Candidate, Department of Chemistry. The event will be held in the Summerlee Science Complex, Room 1511, on September 29, 2023, between 2:00 pm and 4:00 pm. Light refreshments will be provided.

This event promises to provide attendees a day filled with professional development opportunities to learn, gain confidence, and acquire new skills to RISE through their engineering careers. Tickets are $20 per person and include a full day of learning (lunch is included). Itinerary for the day is as follows: 8:30 am – Registration, Coffee break (Adams Atrium, Thornbrough)

Abstract: Recently, text-to-image generation models have gained tremendous popularity due to their capabilities to produce accurate, diverse and even creative images from text prompts. However, text prompts are highly ambiguous in terms of conveying visual control. For example, if we want to generate an image with "my own backpack" or generate an image with "my backyard" as the background. These control signals cannot be well represented as text. Therefore, we need diverse types of control signals to complement the text-to-image generation process.

The largest conference for high school chemistry teachers in North America!

CNL is actively working toward the development of a nuclear industrial control cyber intrusion detection and mitigation system for protection of critical state-of-the-art infrastructure. Join one of CNL's Cyber Security Research Scientist, Alex Amos, and a guest interviewer from the University of Guelph, Keerthana Madhavan as we discuss some of the cutting-edge work we are undertaking to protect global nuclear infrastructure.

Water activity is all about energy.  It is a thermodynamic principle that can provide valuable information on the stability of a food product; from microbial spoilage, lipid oxidation, and caking and clumping to shelf life and packaging determination. But water activity also has uses beyond food. Please join us in discovering why and how to measure water activity, discuss specific food applications, and then go beyond the world of food to investigate novel applications like hydrate formation, building materials, and metal-organic frameworks.

Artificial Intelligence, or AI, is already part of our lives. It’s built into the operating systems in our phones, it’s the algorithms that define our social media and search feeds, and it detects fraudulent withdrawals from our bank accounts. But the possibilities of rapid technological expansion are causing many discussions.