News

2026

• Winter

  • Will AI boost economic growth? - Distinguished Visiting Speaker
  • AI as an Innovation - Distinguished Visiting Speaker

2025

• Fall

  • Reasoning, Data-efficiency and Alignment in VLMs
  • Networks and Social Capital in Determining Patterns of Inequality and Immobility - Distinguished Visiting Speaker
  • Using AI to Categorize Strategic Situations and Study Human Behavior - Distinguished Visiting Speaker
  • Reinforcement Learning for Improved Text and Image Generation
  • Ballot Box or Tinder Box? Examining Online Voting in Ontario Cities

• Winter

  • Classifier Fairness and How to Measure It
  • STEER: Assessing the Economic Rationality of Large Language Models - Distinguished Visiting Speaker
  • Public Lecture (all welcome) Understanding AI - Distinguished Visiting Speaker

2024

• Fall

  • 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
  • Reinforcement Learning for Social Human-Robot Interaction
  • The 5W’s of AI in Insurance and Its Future Potential
  • Cooperative AI

• Spring

  • Improving Safety and Efficiency of Payment Systems using AI and Quantum Computing

• Winter

  • Near Misses in Science and Art
  • Data and Artificial Intelligence for Food
  • Using Maple for Teaching, Learning, Maplesoft

2023

• Fall

  • Page TitleLie-Poisson Neural Networks with C. Eldred (Sandia National Lab), F.Gay-Balmaz (CNRS and ENS, France, and S huraka (U Alberta)
  • Page TitleHigh Intensity Ultrasound Heating of Biological Tissue
  • From Brain Modeling to State-of-the-art AI: The story of the LMU

• Spring

  • THE VI AMMCS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
  • Effect of Institutional Investor Ownership on Financial Stability Evidence from the Index Reconstitution

• Winter

  • Efficient Pricing of Large Panels of Options
  • Pre-Retirement Resources and Post-Retirement Life Satisfaction Change Trajectory: Examining the Mediating Role of Retiree Experience during Retirement Transition Phase
  • Separation of variables and superintegrability on Riemannian coverings
  • Relativistic Positioning System. Exact techniques for geodesy on a spacetime manifolds

2022

• Fall

  • Integrability and Control of Figure Skating
  • Combining Geophysical Models With Machine Learning to Improve our Understanding of Climate Change
  • 12th Annual Nano Ontario Conference and Exhibition
  • Some Problems in Sports Analytics
  • Dr. Kathie Cameron Awarded for Distinguished Professional Achievements

• Spring

  • Fahimeh Ziaei awarded the Springer Best Student Paper at GDN 2022
  • The 2022 Classification Society Annual Meeting
  • Professor Hind Al-Abadleh wins 2022 Gilead Award for Excellence in Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
  • David Soave selected as Laurier Early Career Researcher Award Winner

• Winter

  • Data Science for Social Equality
  • Do we need to adapt to a changing climate, or to the rate at which it is changing?
  • Mathematics and Reconciliation
  • Leveraging the Brilliance and Energy of African Women in Engineering and Math

2021

• Fall

  • Math Matters
  • Data Science and Survey Methodology
  • Al in FinTech: New Paradigms
  • Wisam Mohammed Receives MS2Discovery Student Researcher Award
  • Ahmed Eid Receives MS2Discovery Research and Travel Grant
  • Using complexity science to make sense of and navigate interesting times

• Spring

  • Workshop in Honour of Phelim Boyle
  • Shea Kraemer Receives MS2Discovery Early Student Researcher Award
  • Mohsen Bahremani Receives MS2Discovery Early Student Researcher Award
  • Simulation Studies for Statistical Procedures: Why Can't We Practice What We Preach?
  • Schroedinger’s Equation, Tire Tracks and Rolling Cones in the Minkowski Space

• Winter

  • Climate from the Underground: Long-Term Continental Heat Storage
  • The Development of Spectromicroscopy Methods for the Study of Heterogeneous Materials
  • A Mathematical Model of Reward-Mediated Learning in Drug Addiction
  • Statistical Tools for Better Understanding Marine Life

2020

• Fall

  • Risk of COVID-19 Case Importation and the Effect of Quarantine
  • On the Stability of the 3-Body Problem (in 4D)
  • Atmospheric Ammonia in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region
  • Research in the Environmental, Physical and Interfacial Chemistry (EPIC) Lab
  • Threshold Parameters in Ecology and Epidemiology

• Summer

  • Mohammad Mehdi Jourabchi Receives MS2Discovery Student Researcher Award
  • Tina Arabian Receives MS2Discovery Student Researcher Award
  • Mathematical Models for Prediction and Control of Epidemics
  • Analysis of Inhibitory Interneuronal Networks using Phase Plane and Phase Responses
  • Western Sydney University Abend Seminars
  • Asia-Pacific Analysis and PDE Seminar

• Winter

  • Yaode Sui Receives MS2Discovery Student Award
  • The Future of Energy Storage
  • The Era of Gravitational Wave Astronomy
  • Formulation and solution of stochastic inverse problems for science and engineering models
  • Enrich Data Analysis with Deep Learning
  • When does the Perron Frobenius result hold for correlation matrices?

2019

• Fall

  • Applying Machine Learning in Vehicle Manufacturing
  • Trimodal Deep Learning for Micro and SME Credit Scoring
  • MS2Discovery Seminar: Unstable Interfaces and Plumes
  • Nano Ontario Conference 2019
  • MS2Discovery Seminar: Cybersecurity 2019 and Beyond
  • MS2Discovery Seminar: Hidden Networks: from Trump to Harry Potter to Bitcoin

• Winter

  • MS2Discovery Seminar: Quantum Computing and Cybersecurity: Challenges and Opportunities
  • Mathematical Medicine: From Neurosurgery to Oncology to PK Modelling of Chemotherapeutic Drugs
  • Putting Machine Learning to Work for Digital Forensics
  • MS2Discovery Seminar: Clustering via Hypergraph Modularity

2018

• Fall

  • MS2Discovery Seminar: Three Pillars of Data Science
  • Mohammad Rahman Received MS2Discovery award
  • MS2Discovery Seminar: Data Analytics with Terry Hickey
  • Three Laurier professors awarded prestigious Canada Research Chair positions
  • MS2Discovery Seminar: Honeybees, Varroa destructor, the Acute Bee Paralysis Virus, Neonics …: A Differential Equations Perspective