This workshop will introduce the fundamental tool of Industry Analysis which companies use for strategy development. For startups, understanding the industry is a critical step in determining market entry and market positioning. The Five Forces Framework will be presented and applied to during an exercise.
Date: Sep. 25th, 2024
Time: 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Location: in-person @ Engine Seminar Room - FDA 3 (Accessibility Map)
Come and meet our TechAccel teams! Student startup teams funded and supported by The 鶹Լ Enginewill be present to demo their projects and businesses! There will also be pitches from 9 teams who participated in the Fall 2023, Winter 2024 and Summer 2024 cohorts.
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Location: 鶹Լ Engine Centre,Frank Dawson Adams Building, room 5 - 3450 University Street, Montreal, QC H3A 0E8
Join 鶹Լ Science Outreach outdoors for ourFamily Science Dayand discover the secret stories of trees’ lives!
Are you interested in the mysteries of our planet and beyond? 鶹Լ Physics Outreach and TSI Outreach present “From Planets to Particles: An Exploration Mini-Fair”. Join us on Sat., September 28 between 10 pm to 4 pm in the Rutherford Physics Building on the 鶹Լ campus for hands-on activities and demos about everything from gravity, life on other planets, building telescopes, coding, and craters to volcanoes, identifying earth and space rocks, and minerals! If you have a cool rock you'd like us to identify, bring it with you. We'll also set up telescopes for some solar observing.
This workshop will provide an overview of the different types of market research, how to analyze the competition, and the resources available at 鶹Լ to perform market research. Our market research librarian Emily Jaeger-McEnroe will walk us through some of those resources using a market research canvas tool.
Date: Oct. 2nd, 2024
Time: 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Location: in-person @ Engine Seminar Room FDA 3 (Accessibility Map)
This workshop will demystify and explain the various form of intellectual property (IP), namely, patents, industrial designs, copyright, trademarks, and trade secrets. We will then do some actual patent searching with our librarian April Colosimo using the DERWENT worldwide patent database.
Date: Oct. 9th, 2024
Time: 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Location: in-person @ Engine Seminar Room FDA 3 (Accessibility Map)
鶹ԼDEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS
PhD Oral DefenceofMr. Gilberto Chavez Martinez
DATE: Friday, October 11, 2024
TIME / PLACE:1:30 p.m. (BURN 1025)
TITLE: Estimation and Forecasting in Sparse Markov-Regime Switching Vector Autoregression Models
CHAIR: Prof. Rustum Choksi
CO-SUPERVISOR: Prof. Abbas Khalili
CO-SUPERVISOR: Prof. Syed Ejaz Ahmed, Brock University
This workshop will provide an overview of the customer discovery process and then delve deeper into how to conduct customer interviews and how to iterate on your business model or lean canvas.
Date: Oct. 23rd, 2024
Time: 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Location: in-person @ Engine Seminar Room -FDA 3 (Accessibility Map)
PhD Oral Defence of Mr. Peng Tang
DATE: Monday, October 28, 2024
TIME / PLACE:Defence 1:30 p.m. (BURN 1025)
TITLE: New Regularization Methods for OrderEstimation in Finite Mixture Models
CHAIR: Prof. Rustum Choksi
SUPERVISOR: Prof. Abbas Khalili
INTERNAL MEMBER: Prof. Archer Yang
INTERNALEXAMINER: Prof. Russell Steele