Over the weekend of June 10 and 11th 2017, the University of Guelph hosted the 24th annual Ontario Combinatorics Workshop (OCW). The OCW is an annual meeting for researchers working in combinatorics from Ontario and surrounding areas to gather and share their latest research developments. The two-day event consisting of three invited talks and several sessions of contributed talks, primarily by graduate students and postdoctoral researchers.
An award-winning engineer, professor and administrator who has spent more than 20 years in academia will become the next dean of the University of Guelph’s newly renamed College of Engineering and Physical Sciences.
Dr. Dan Gillis and his team of undergraduate and graduate students are currently working with the community of Rigolet, Nunatsiavut, Labrador to develop a community-led health and environment monitoring program called eNuk.
Professor Gillis who uses his skills in computer science to support food security is one of the winners of this year’s William Winegard Exemplary Volunteer Awards.
Over the weekend of March 18th and 19th, Roboticon, our robot-building and programming challenge, entered its 16th year at the University of Guelph.
The University of Guelph now has a swath of new ideas for tackling student mental health, thanks to the students and staff who took part in last weekend's "Guelph Hacks for Mental Health."
The School of Computer Science's Ryan Schott and his team came in 2nd place at the recent Ryerson Social xChange. The event brought together students from regional universities to develop solutions that would address broad social issues and have a lasting impact in Canada.
This week School of Computer Science Assistant Professor Dan Gillis is curating the @RealScientists Twitter account.
RealScientists was established in February of 2013 as a way for scientists, academics, and researchers to communicate directly with the public through social media. Every week a new scientist is selected to curate the account. At the time of writing this post, @RealScientists had over 40,000 followers.
Dr. Gillis is curating from the week of Sunday, January 15th to Saturday, January 21st.