Graduate Students /smerg/taxonomy/term/1207/all en Cristian Popescu (University of California) /smerg/channels/event/cristian-popescu-university-california-370728 <p><strong>Title</strong>: Equivariant Iwasawa theory for Artin motives and applications<br /> <br /></p> Mon, 02 Feb 2026 19:10:50 +0000 admin 12200 at /smerg Guilherme Oliveira (Թ) /smerg/channels/event/guilherme-oliveira-mcgill-university-370724 <b>Title: </b>A Zero-Inflated Spatiotemporal Model for Underreported Infectious Diseases Counts <p> </p> Mon, 02 Feb 2026 18:56:27 +0000 admin 12196 at /smerg Felix Parraud (Queen's University) /smerg/channels/event/felix-parraud-queens-university-370725 <p>Title: The Eigenvalues of Brownian Motions on GL(N,C)</p> Mon, 02 Feb 2026 19:01:06 +0000 admin 12197 at /smerg Catherine Haeck (UQAM) /smerg/channels/event/catherine-haeck-uqam-370726 <p>Title: Age at Immigration and the Intergenerational Income Mobility of the 1.5 Generation.</p> Mon, 02 Feb 2026 19:03:23 +0000 admin 12198 at /smerg Thierry Giordano (University of Ottawa) /smerg/channels/event/thierry-giordano-university-ottawa-370723 <p>Title: The first cohomology group of a free minimal -action on the Cantor set</p> Mon, 02 Feb 2026 18:50:53 +0000 admin 12195 at /smerg Andrew Granville (Université de Montréal) /smerg/channels/event/andrew-granville-universite-de-montreal-370721 <p><strong>TITLE / TITRE </strong>Can AI develop true reasoning skills? (A pure mathematician's perspective.)</p> <p><strong>ABSTRACT / RÉSUMÉ</strong></p> Mon, 02 Feb 2026 18:34:01 +0000 admin 12193 at /smerg Dr. Bridget Andersen awarded the Dr. Allie Vibert Douglas Astrophysics PhD Thesis Prize /smerg/channels/news/dr-bridget-andersen-awarded-dr-allie-vibert-douglas-astrophysics-phd-thesis-prize-370650 <p>Congratulations to Dr. Bridget Andersen, who has received the Dr. Allie Vibert Douglas Astrophysics PhD Thesis Prize! </p> Wed, 28 Jan 2026 18:25:05 +0000 admin 12192 at /smerg La géographie à Թ.. en français! /smerg/channels/event/la-geographie-mcgill-en-francais-370645 <p>Premier événement francophone du Département de géographie à Թ!</p> Wed, 28 Jan 2026 15:35:48 +0000 admin 12191 at /smerg Two funding opportunities available for students participating in a Field Study Semester /smerg/channels/news/two-funding-opportunities-available-students-participating-field-study-semester-370528 <p>The Faculty of Science is pleased to share two awards available for students participating in a <a href="/science/undergraduate/internships-field/field">Field Study Semester (FSS)</a> in the 2026-2027 or 2027-2028 academic year.</p> Thu, 22 Jan 2026 15:40:35 +0000 admin 12187 at /smerg Loop Lab Winter Edition /smerg/channels/event/loop-lab-winter-edition-370525 <p>(Scroll down for registration links.)</p> Thu, 22 Jan 2026 15:16:02 +0000 admin 12186 at /smerg Daniel and Monica Gold Centre for Early Childhood Development Award-Winners /smerg/channels/news/daniel-and-monica-gold-centre-early-childhood-development-award-winners-370446 <p>The Daniel and Monica Gold Centre for Early Childhood Development provides funding for graduate students and researchers in the Faculty of Education to support their research in Early Childhood Development (e.g. social-emotional, cognitive or physical development, neurodiverse learning, clinical assessment, innovative educational approaches). Through their work, award winners will generate and share evidence-based knowledge to support young children and their families, advancing the Centre’s objective to help all children get the best start in life.<br />  </p> Tue, 20 Jan 2026 17:04:06 +0000 admin 12183 at /smerg Թ team awarded CIFAR AI Safety Catalyst Grant to advance developer oversight in AI-assisted coding /smerg/channels/news/mcgill-team-awarded-cifar-ai-safety-catalyst-grant-advance-developer-oversight-ai-assisted-coding-370356 <em>Թ team aims to develop guidelines, tools, and policy insights that help software engineers work safely and effectively with AI-assisted coding systems.</em><br />   <p>A Թ research team is tackling one of AI’s fastest-moving challenges: how software developers can steer and safeguard code as AI systems become capable of writing large portions of software on their own. </p> Mon, 19 Jan 2026 16:02:25 +0000 admin 12181 at /smerg KPE PhD Candidate Cyrille Mvomo Honored with IEEE-EMBS BHI 2025 Best Paper Award and NSF-EMBS-Google NextGen Scholar Recognition /smerg/channels/news/kpe-phd-candidate-cyrille-mvomo-honored-ieee-embs-bhi-2025-best-paper-award-and-nsf-embs-google-369513 <p>Cyrille Mvomo achieved an outstanding double recognition at the IEEE-EMBS Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI) Conference held October 26-29 in Atlanta, GA, USA.  BHI is one of the world’s leading venues in digital health research.</p> <ul> <li> <p><strong>Best Paper Award (Third Place)</strong> — for his paper <em>“Monitoring Parkinson’s Disease In-the-Wild”</em>.</p></li></ul> Wed, 07 Jan 2026 03:14:48 +0000 admin 12177 at /smerg Steven Shaw Comments to the CBC on the Rise in School Absenteeism /smerg/channels/news/steven-shaw-comments-cbc-rise-school-absenteeism-370360 <p>In an article titled "School absenteeism is growing across Canada and skyrocketing in these Quebec districts", <a href="/education/steven-shaw">Professor Steven Shaw</a> talks with journalist, Paula Dayan-Perez, on the lack of resources in the education system that makes youth susceptible to absenteeism. He says it’s important for kids to feel safe at school, but there aren’t enough people who can help create safe environments —  like school nurses, counselors and psychologists. Shaw says the system is especially letting down kids who need more support, including kids w</p> Fri, 16 Jan 2026 13:35:49 +0000 admin 12176 at /smerg Joseph Levitan Receives SSHRC Partnership Engage Grants /smerg/channels/news/joseph-levitan-receives-sshrc-partnership-engage-grants-370355 <p>The Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) announced recipients of the latest Partnership Engage Grants competition, including a total of $73,782 awarded to three Թ researchers, one of whom is the Department of Integrated Studies in Education's Joseph Levitan. Partnership Engage Grants provide short-term and timely support for partnered research activities between researchers and single partner organizations from the public, private or non-profit sector.  </p> <p><strong>Co-constructing pedagogical transformation in India </strong></p> Thu, 15 Jan 2026 18:26:41 +0000 admin 12173 at /smerg