Archived Calgary Events
These Calgary events have been archived based on an expiry date set by the originator. Please note that these events are only presented for interest – to give volunteers, nonprofit organizations, and site visitors an opportunity to see the types of events occurring in Calgary, Alberta.
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Software Engineering Career Panel (University of Calgary)
Category: Other EventDates: September 22, 2016 - September 22, 2016
Ever wondered what it's really like to work in software engineering? Hear firsthand from successful engineers from Shaw, Garmin, Hitachi and Beta-Tech as they share stories of their career paths and provide insights into current topics in the industry. Learn valuable insider information and build your professional connections. A panel discussion and open group Q&A will be followed by networking and refreshments. Open to all Engineering students * You are invited to send questions you'd like to ask the panelists in advance to ecc@ucalgary.ca Please register to attend through CareerLink: https://careerlink.ucalgary.ca Presented by Schulich School of Engineering Career Centre
Location:
Energy Environment Experiential Learning EEEL 161
More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/software-engineering-career-panel
"Simple Strategies to Double Your Productivity and Overcome Writer's Block" (University of Calgary)
Category: Other EventDates: September 21, 2016 - September 21, 2016
In this free webinar workshop with the Graduate Students Association (GSA), you will learn how to: Get out of the cycle of burnout and procrastination Make small shifts in your daily habits to double your productivity Overcome writer's block at any stage of writing Motivate yourself to write daily and finish your thesis and manuscripts Interactive Webinar Facilitator: Dora Farkas, PhD About Dora Farkas She received her PhD from MIT and worked in the pharmaceutical industry for several years before becoming a thesis coach. "I understand how difficult it is to stay motivated in graduate school, and I launched the Finish Your Thesis Community to help you become more productive and finish your thesis with less stress. "Over the last five years, I worked with hundreds of students worldwide and I helped them to go from feeling stressed and overwhelmed to confident in productive in just a few weeks." Her free e-book Finish Your Thesis Faster will help you to stay focused so you finish your thesis with less stress. Capacity: 80 registrants Please register online at app.webinarjam.net/register/2059/a517155267 #getinvolvedGSA
Location:
Scurfield Hall 268
Speaker:
Dora Farkas
More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/simple-strategies-double-your-productivity-and-overcome-writers-block
Crohn's and Coliltis Canada Chair in IBD Research Lecture (University of Calgary)
Category: Other EventDates: September 21, 2016 - September 21, 2016
Public lecture open to everyone. Talk on childhood inflammatory bowel disease. These talks are sponsored by Crohn's and Colitis Canada and the Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute.
Location:
Health Science - HSC Theatre One - Foothills Campus
Speaker:
Anne Griffiths, MD, FRCP, Professor, University of Toronto and The Hospital for Sick Children
More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/crohns-and-coliltis-canada-chair-ibd-research-lecture
Archaeological and Genetic Evidence for the Late Pleistocene Peopling of the Americas (University of Calgary)
Category: Other EventDates: September 21, 2016 - September 21, 2016
Archaeological evidence accumulated over the last few decades and new genetic evidence are showing that the 80-year-old Clovis First model no longer explains the exploration and settlement of the Americas by humans at the end of the last Ice Age. Evidence from archaeological sites in North and South America are providing empirical evidence that people occupied the Americas by 15,000 years ago. Studies of modern and ancient genomes confirm this age estimate and tell us who these people were and where they came from. Together the archaeological and genetic evidence is rewriting our understanding of the First Americans. For more information see arkycalgary.com.
Location:
Earth Sciences 162 (Tom Oliver Room)
Speaker:
Dr. Mike Waters (mwaters@tamu.edu)
More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/archaeological-and-genetic-evidence-late-pleistocene-peopling-americas
Tzedakah-Sadaqah (University of Calgary)
Category: Other EventDates: September 20, 2016 - September 20, 2016
Tzedakah-Saqadah: A series of intercultural service projects brought to you by the Faith and Spirituality Centre in partnership with the Leadership and Student Engagement office exploring what “service” means. Students, faculty and staff are invited to collaborate with various religious and spiritual communities within Calgary to be part of a diverse range of educational workshops, organized volunteer opportunities and critical reflections/debriefs. Part 1a) Tuesday September 20th, 12pm-2pm *eat lunch beforehand* The Native Centre invites our female identifying participants to honour our ancestors and then women in our lives through the immersive experience of a traditional Cree Grandmothers’ Tea Ceremony. Registration Required! Register online.
Location:
Red Lodge The Native Centre MacEwan Student Centre 392
Speaker:
Facilitated by Kerrie Moore: song, drumming and prayer
More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/tzedakah-sadaqah
Cosmogony of the Moriche Flower (University of Calgary)
Category: Other EventDates: September 20, 2016 - September 20, 2016
The Latin American Research Cetnre (LARC) and the Venezuela Canadian Association of Calgary will host artist Carlos Betancourt as part of the Venezuela Culture Days. He will share his life experiences with indigenous groups of the Orinoco River, Venezuela, and how his artwork intends to express their vision of the Universe. This presentation is free and open to the public. It will be in Spanish with some English translation. For more info, visit larc.ucalgary.ca.
Location:
Science A 129
Speaker:
Carlos Betancourt
More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/cosmogony-moriche-flower
Tzedakah-Saqadah (University of Calgary)
Category: Other EventDates: September 20, 2016 - September 20, 2016
Tzedakah-Saqadah: A series of intercultural service projects is brought to you by the Faith and Spirituality Centre in partnership with the Leadership and Student Engagement office exploring what “service” means. Join us in collaborating with various religious and spiritual communities within Calgary to be part of a diverse range of educational workshops, organized volunteer opportunities and critical reflections/debriefs. Part 1b) Tuesday September 20th, 2pm-3:30pm A gender inclusive educational introduction to Aboriginal spirituality, the concepts and practices of sanctified kindness and unconditional giving by Cheryle Chagnon-Greyeyes. Located in the Eagle Boardroom MSC 391, The Native Center, University of Calgary. Registration Required! Register online.
Location:
Eagle Boardroom MacEwan Student Center 391
Speaker:
Cheryle Chagnon-Greyeyes
More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/tzedakah-saqadah
Sigma Xi Seminar: Global Warming and Climate Change – the Science of Everything (University of Calgary)
Category: Other EventDates: September 20, 2016 - September 20, 2016
Global warming and associated climate change; and, ocean warming and acidification resulting from the current rate of anthropogenic production of greenhouse gases (GHG) released into the atmosphere will have significant negative impacts on the quality of human life and contribute to the sixth mass extinction of life on planet Earth. The effects are already being observed. The only strategy available to avoid the worst impacts is by reducing the amount of GHG produced; but, there is limited time. This seminar will point out how the science supporting this conclusion is strong and improving and able to identify the complex interacting systems involved and factors that influence them. It will then proceed to how everyone can get involved to avoid the global calamites which would otherwise occur. Presented by Dr. David H. Manz - Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) and Professional Agrologist (P.Ag.) Members and non-members are welcome to attend Sigma Xi Seminars. The seminar is jointly sponsored by the University of Calgary Chapter of Sigma Xi and the Department of Biological Sciences. For more info, visit the website.
Location:
Biological Science Room 211
Speaker:
Dr. David H. Manz - Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) and Professional Agrologist (P.Ag.)
More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/sigma-xi-seminar-global-warming-and-climate-change-science-everything
Where Do We Go From Here? Dying With Dignity Forum (University of Calgary)
Category: Other EventDates: September 19, 2016 - September 19, 2016
The University of Calgary Faculty of Social Work and Dying With Dignity present a special evening with Shanaaz Gokool, CEO of Dying With Dignity Canada. “Where Do We Go From Here” is a discussion of what happens now with the implementation of Bill C14 (Medical Assistance in Dying) and future considerations to implement the spirit of the Supreme Court ruling made in Carter V. Canada. Free Event and all are welcome!
Location:
Professional Faculties 4259
More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/where-do-we-go-here-dying-dignity-forum
Concert: And There A Rose, A Great Wind (University of Calgary)
Category: Other EventDates: September 17, 2016 - September 17, 2016
Part of the 2016-17 Music Faculty Series Filled with a rich and diverse blend of sounds, this woodwind performance takes you on an exciting journey through a series of unique interludes. Listen to Ana Sokolovic’s Chansons a Boire! or explore a dense rain forest, charged with life, Latin dance music, and bravura in Villa-Lobos’ Quintet en forme de choros. Of course, Brahms’ Piano Quintet in F minor has long been a favourite among classical music lovers, but never has it been performed in this arrangement, with winds and piano giving a new take to an old favorite. Tickets Adults: $25 - Students/Seniors: $18 scpa.ucalgary.ca
Location:
Eckhardt Gramatté Hall in the Rozsa Centre
Speaker:
Christopher Sales (bassoon) Sara Hahn (flute) Erin Fung (clarinet) Doug Umana (French horn) June Kim (oboe) Akiko Tominaga (piano)
More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/concert-and-there-rose-great-wind
Philosophy Speakers: "ENCODE and the Parthood Question" (University of Calgary)
Category: Other EventDates: September 16, 2016 - September 16, 2016
Marie Kaiser is a philosopher of science with a strong interest in the philosophy of biology, the metaphysics of science, metaphilosophy, and science education. In 2012, she completed her PhD dissertation, “An Ontic Account of Explanatory Reduction in Biology” at the University of Cologne, Germany where she is currently a postdoctoral fellow of the DFG Research Group Causation and Explanation. In Fall 2016, she will assume a teaching appointment in the Department of Philosophy at Bielefeld University in Germany. She is the author of Reductive Explanation in the Biological Sciences (Springer) and co-author of Explanation in the Special Sciences: The Case of Biology and History (Springer), “The Metaphysics of Constitutive Mechanistic Phenomena” (British Journal for the Philosophy of Science) and “Problems and Prospects of Interdisciplinarity: The Case of Philosophy of Science” (International Studies Review), as well as many other journal articles and book chapters. About the talk Under which conditions is a molecule, such as a particular DNA sequence, a real part of the human genome? Does the human genome have joints of nature that allow for a unique partitioning into parts? In this talk, Kaiser provides an answer to these questions by analyzing the scientific practices of individuating genomic parts and by critically reconstructing the metaphysical assumptions that underlie these practices. My analysis focuses on the ENCODE (ENCyclopedia Of DNA Elements) project which was planned as a follow-up to the Human Genome Project and which aims at interpreting the DNA sequence of the human genome by identifying all of its functional parts. For a metaphysician who tries to understand part-whole relations in the biological realm, the ENCODE Project constitutes an instructive case study because it is among the few cases in which biologists explicitly seek to individuate part-whole relations. Her central claim will be that there are two necessary conditions for a molecule to be a part of the human genome: first, it must have a causal-role function, that is, it must contribute to the capacity of the genome to provide information for the synthesis of proteins, and second, it must be an actual segment of the genome’s DNA sequence. This account of genomic parthood is an example of a metaphysics of biological practice because it analyzes the explanatory and investigative practices of the biological sciences to develop claims about what the world is ultimately like.
Location:
Social Sciences Tower Room 1253
Speaker:
Marie Kaiser
More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/philosophy-speakers-encode-and-parthood-question
Bryan Kolb Lecture in Behavioural Neuroscience (University of Calgary)
Category: Other EventDates: September 16, 2016 - September 16, 2016
The Hotchkiss Brain Institute (HBI) is pleased to present the 7th annual Bryan Kolb Lecture in Behavioural Neuroscience and HBI Welcome Back Wine & Cheese Reception Bryan Kolb Lecture in Behavioural Neuroscience Location: HSC Theatre 4 Time: 3:00 - 4:00 pm Dr. Josselyn investigates how memories are physically stored in the brain and how this process is affected by aging, mental illness, and neurological disorders. Current research suggests that individual memory traces (or ‘engrams’) are encoded on small subsets of neurons in the brain. During memory formation, these neurons ‘compete’ to be included in the memory engram. In this talk, she will discuss the mechanisms involved in this competition, and how scientific manipulations of the memory engram can change behavior expression at the level of the organism. HBI Welcome Back Wine & Cheese Reception Location: HRIC Atrium Time: 4:00 - 6:30 pm We cordially invite all members, trainees, staff and guests to join us for the HBI Welcome Back Wine & Cheese reception. Please RSVP by September 12, 2016 at kolb2016.eventbrite.ca or call 403.220.6887.
Location:
Health Science Centre Theatre 4 Foothills Campus
Speaker:
Dr. Sheena Josselyn, Associate Professor, Physiology, University of Toronto; Senior Scientist, Neuroscience and Mental Health, Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids)
More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/bryan-kolb-lecture-behavioural-neuroscience
Harvest Fair (University of Calgary)
Category: Other EventDates: September 15, 2016 - September 15, 2016
Come one, come all. This year's campus Harvest Fair invites students, faculty and staff to come out, meet and support local farmers and vendors sharing their fruits, vegetables and products, listen to local performers and musicians and chat about about sustainable food options, food security, and food-focused foundations and exhibitors. YYC Food Trucks will be on hand for those looking to pick up a hot and hearty lunch. This event is brought you by the food and event experts at Conference and Event Management and the earth-conscious advocates at the Office of Sustainability.
Location:
Taylor Family Digital Library Quad
More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/harvest-fair
Canadian Space Agency demonstration for Beakerhead (University of Calgary)
Category: Other EventDates: September 15, 2016 - September 15, 2016
The Schulich School of Engineering presents a demonstration of the OSIRIS-REx Laser Altimeter (OLA) by the Canadian Space Agency for Beakerhead. The 3D mapping technology is also aboard NASA’s latest mission, which intends to return a sample of asteroid back to earth. Everyone is welcome.
Location:
Jack Simpson Gymnasium
More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/canadian-space-agency-demonstration-beakerhead
Welcome Back Reception - Latin American Studies (University of Calgary)
Category: Other EventDates: September 15, 2016 - September 15, 2016
Join the Latin American Research Centre and the Latin American Studies Program for food and friends at the Welcome Back Reception. This event will be held at the Hotel Alma Bistro and is free and open to the public. Please RSVP to larc@ucalgary.ca.
Location:
Hotel Alma Bistro
More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/welcome-back-reception-latin-american-studies
Conversatorio on the Colombian Peace Accord (University of Calgary)
Category: Other EventDates: September 15, 2016 - September 15, 2016
The Latin American Research Centre (LARC) will host an information session on the upcoming plebiscite in Colombia. On Oct. 2, Colombians will decide whether to approve or reject the historic peace accord between the Colombian Government and the FARC guerrilla group to end half a century of conflict. In this conversatorio, participants will discuss the terms of the peace and agreement and the arising implications. The event is free and open to the public and audience participation will be highly encouraged. For more info, visit larc.ucalgary.ca.
Location:
Science Theatres 141
More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/conversatorio-colombian-peace-accord
Social Justice Storytelling – Screening of Niigaanibatowaad: FrontRunners Film (University of Calgary)
Category: Other EventDates: September 15, 2016 - September 15, 2016
The Calgary Distinguished Writers Program (CDWP) presents a special screening of the film Niigaanibatowaad: FrontRunners to kick off the CDWP Writers-in-Residence Reunion Festival. This true story of discrimination against four First Nations boys who served as torch runners during the 1967 Pan Am Games in Winnipeg, became a catalyst for reconciliation. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with renowned journalist Laura Robinson and Elder Bill Chippeway, one of the original runners. The screenplay for this film was conceived during Robinson’s time as Canadian Writer-in-Residence (2000-2001), and the film is now cited in the Truth and Reconciliation Report. Watch the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQuUEINCJKs Register for your free ticket: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/social-justice-storytelling-niigaanibatowaad-frontrunners-film-tickets-27094550530 John Dutton Theatre, Calgary Central Library 616 Macleod Tr. S.E. (403)260-2600
Location:
John Dutton Theatre | Calgary Central Library
More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/social-justice-storytelling-screening-niigaanibatowaad-frontrunners-film
Canadian Writer-in-Residence Reunion Festival (University of Calgary)
Category: Other EventDates: September 15, 2016 - September 15, 2016
The university's Distinguished Writers Program (CDWP) is pleased to host the Canadian Writer-in-Residence Reunion Festival from Sept. 15-17. The festival will include celebratory events, readings, workshops, and master classes at the Central Library, and at the University of Calgary, with many of the writers-in-residence who have been served the community over the past 23 years. All Events, Readings, Workshops, and Master Classes are FREE and open to the public, students, and faculty. Check our website regularly for updates. http://ucalgary.ca/cdwp/
Location:
Various locations on campus and in Calgary
More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/canadian-writer-residence-reunion-festival
Campus Collisions / Beakerhead (University of Calgary)
Category: Other EventDates: September 14, 2016 - September 14, 2016
Students, staff and faculty are invited to check out a little bit of Beakerhead at the Taylor Family Digital Library. Campus Collisions features two days of talks, displays and demonstrations. Free and everyone welcome! Complete details at library.ucalgary.ca/beakerhead. September 14, 2016 Blinded by Book Science Maria Zytaruk 11 a.m. - noon, Gallery Hall What can getting down on all fours tells us about the shape of the first books? What does the process of making olive oil have to do with the technology of print? Why was the largest sheet of paper in the Renaissance only as wide as a man's arm span? Come find out the answers to these questions and others during a demonstration with four-hundred-year-old books in Gallery Hall at the Taylor Family Digital Library. Maria Zytaruk is a faculty member at the University of Calgary who specializes in book history and material culture. Omnimedia and the Technologies of the Self:New Approaches to Storytelling in Teaching, Research, and Innovation Patrick Finn and Owen Brierley noon-1pm, Gallery Hall The collaborative research of Colin Barden, Owen Brierley and Patrick Finn explores questions related to the ways in which storytelling, teaching, research, and innovation have been forever altered by digital technology. Their approach developed from the group’s ongoing work in areas such as multimedia, theatre, gaming, performance studies, and transdisciplinary approaches to artistic creation, teaching, and learning. Following the inspiration of Beakerhead, their work is, “a smashup of art, science and engineering.” Join Owen and Patrick for a conversation about their team’s work, and what Omnimedia can do for you. Dr. Patrick Finn, Associate Professor, School of Creative and Performing Arts (SCPA) and Computational Media Design (CMD) Owen Brierley, Executive Director, Edmonton Digital Arts College, Media Artist, and VJ Colin Barden, Head of Sound, University Theatre Services, Media Artist, and DJ Making Time: Animated Art Rob Furr 1-2 p.m., Gallery Hall An interactive workshop examining the creation of art through time and movement, using stop motion animation, your cell phone, and you. Rob Furr is a designer, artist, and sculptor living in Calgary. He is also an Instructor in the Department of Art, focusing on digital media. September 15, 2016 Talented Tech: Combining Engineering, Science, and Fine Arts Engineering Education Students’ Society, Schulich School of Engineering noon – 1 p.m., Gallery Hall Learn how engineering and science can be used to enhance performances and installations in the fine arts, including belly dancing, fashion, and visual art. The Engineering Education Students’ Society (E2S2) is a graduate research network for those pursuing research and development in the field of engineering education. This work is supported by a GSA Quality Money grant. Visualizing Imperceivable Sound Brian Garbet 1-2 p.m., Visualization Studio, 3rd floor, Taylor Family Digital Library Cymatics is the visualization of sound through physical mediums such as water. In this presentation, Brian will focus on visualizing low frequency noise pollution and infrasound (frequencies below the range of human hearing). Brian Garbet is a doctoral student in the School of Creative and Performing Arts. A Tale of Collaboration Between an Artist and a Scientist Lindsay MacDonald and Jo Vermeulen 2-3 p.m., Gallery Hall This is a story of the collusion of different research areas and approaches. The artist and the scientist transform liminal spaces with technology — affecting perceptions and experience in intriguing ways. Lindsay MacDonald is a PhD candidate in the Computational Media Design Program at the University of Calgary Jo Vermeulen is a Post-Doctoral Researcher in the Interactions Lab at the University of Calgary ‘They Should Ask Us!’ Children, Maps, Collaboration and Technology in Designing Public Spaces Angela Rout 3-4 p.m., Gallery Hall, Taylor Family Digital Library How can we make participatory processes a positive experience for everyone? Is there a way to incorporate the perspectives of children, families, and users of public space into a collaborative design process? This talk looks at using mapping and new technologies to uncover how we use public space, and give everyone a chance to voice their ideas. Angela Rout is a PhD student at the University of Calgary in Computational Media Design. Plus there are demonstrations by art and science students and faculty in the TFDL foyer (various times)
Location:
Taylor Family Digital Library
More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/campus-collisions-beakerhead
The Long Trail to Personalized Medicine (University of Calgary)
Category: Other EventDates: September 14, 2016 - September 14, 2016
Dr. Bob Church (CM, AOE, PhD, LLD), is a professor emeritus of medical biochemistry and founding head of biochemistry and molecular biology at the University of Calgary. Dr. Church's presentation will include discussion about the start of epigenetics, through to the start of embryonic manipulation and IVF, to where we are today with mass sequencing of the genome. This event is organized by the University of Calgary Emeritus Association and is sponsored by the Vice-President (University Relations). It is open to the public at no charge. Hotel Alma is located at 169 University Gate N.W. View map for directions.
Location:
Senate Room - 7th Floor (room 721) - Hotel Alma
Speaker:
Dr. Bob Church (CM, AOE, PhD, LLD), Professor Emeritus of Medical Biochemistry, founding head of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Calgary
More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/long-trail-personalized-medicine
Arctic Speaker Series (University of Calgary)
Category: Other EventDates: September 14, 2016 - September 14, 2016
Dr. Tris Irvine-Fynn will give a talk entitled "Water on ice: knowns and unknowns of supraglacial hydrology." He will discuss meltwater transport processes, explore novel data regarding glacier near-surface permeability, consider the effects of micro- and macro-scale topography, and highlight some of the remaining unknowns and their analogues within permafrost science. For more information, please visit Tris Irvine-Fynn Arctic Speaker Series Poster. Afterwards, please join us for refreshments in the Arctic Institute of North America offices, ES-1040. This event is free and open to the public.
Location:
Science A 106
Speaker:
Dr. Tris Irvine-Fynn is a glaciologist at the Centre for Glaciology, Aberystwyth University, Wales. Since 2000, Tris has worked on glacier science in polar regions, both in the Canadian and European High-Arctic, with particular focus on hydrology research topics. In addition to high latitudes, Tris has worked in sub-arctic Scandinavia and Greenland, the European Alps, New Zealand’s Southern Alps, Argentine Patagonia and the Nepali Himalaya.
More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/arctic-speaker-series
Cleaning data with Excel and Open Refine (University of Calgary)
Category: Other EventDates: September 9, 2016 - September 9, 2016
Does your data need light weight or heavy weight help to clean it up for analysis? You may be surprised at how much Excel can do to clean your data, so we’ll start there, but also delve into the more heavy weight (free, cross-platform) tool of Open Refine. Participants will leave with a cheat sheet of useful commands and a good understanding of the importance of “clean” data. Please register for this session at http://workrooms.ucalgary.ca/event/2677269
Location:
Room 466A Taylor Family Digital Library
Speaker:
Paul Pival, Research Librarian - Data Analytics
More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/cleaning-data-excel-and-open-refine
Tableau (University of Calgary)
Category: Other EventDates: September 9, 2016 - September 9, 2016
Data visualization is an important tool for researchers, assisting in both analysis and communication of results. A good visualization casts data into a visual presentation that can be grasped and understood much more quickly and easily than the raw numbers alone, improving the efficiency of communicated information. In this tutorial we present the basics on how to use Tableau, a tool capable of creating a wide variety of visualizations. Developed through PhD research at Stanford, Tableau (http://www.tableausoftware.com) supports of variety of data formats and through simple interactions allows fast exploration to find the visualization most suited to the data. Additionally Tableau offers their desktop software free to post-secondary students. In this tutorial we will explore the fundamentals importing data and then using this software to create visualizations. If possible, please bring a dataset on a USB stick that you wish to visualize. Please register for this session at http://workrooms.ucalgary.ca/event/2677266
Location:
Room 466A Taylor Family Digital Library
More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/tableau
Manage your research identity and track your impact (University of Calgary)
Category: Other EventDates: September 9, 2016 - September 9, 2016
How do you stand out in a crowded field of researchers? How can you present a coherent picture of your research and its impact when applying to postgraduate programs? This session demonstrates the value of using an author ID to ensure that your scholarship is attached to a unique identifier, provides context around different types of impact metrics, and introduces the potential of altmetrics and academic social networking. Please register for this session at: http://workrooms.ucalgary.ca/event/2676527
Location:
Room 466A Taylor Family Digital Library
Speaker:
Heather Ganshorn, Librarian - Head - Science and Engineering; Interim Head - Health SciencesChristie Hurrell, Digital Initiatives and Scholarship Librarian
More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/manage-your-research-identity-and-track-your-impact
The reasons you are losing access to your research, explained: understanding copyright and open access (University of Calgary)
Category: Other EventDates: September 9, 2016 - September 9, 2016
As a researcher you may be excited to get your work published, however you may not be aware of the various publishing models available or what author rights you may want to retain in the publication process. Many researchers are surprised to learn that they may not be able to reuse their own published works in standard publishing contracts, whether it be through self-archiving or sharing with a colleague. It is important to consider these issues and have a plan to negotiate for rights prior to submitting for publication and signing a contract. This session will provide you with general copyright information and how it applies to the publishing process. In addition, we will discuss what to look for in your author contracts and provide you with strategies to negotiate additional author rights. We will define open access publishing and provide information on the benefits and caveats of this model, particularly the how dissemination of your work can increase your impact factor. This session will include a 30 minute presentation with the remainder of the time dedicated to discussion, questions and specific examples. Please register for this session at: http://workrooms.ucalgary.ca/event/2677274
Location:
TFDL 466A Taylor Family Digital Library
Speaker:
Christie Hurrell, Digital Initiatives and Scholarship LibrarianRowena Wake, Copyright Officer
More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/reasons-you-are-losing-access-your-research-explained-understanding-copyright-and-open
Philosophy Speakers: "The Will to a System: Nietzsche on Philosophy as Psychopathology" (University of Calgary)
Category: Other EventDates: September 9, 2016 - September 9, 2016
Jessica Berry is an associate professor of philosophy at Georgia State University. She works on late 18th to early 20th century German philosophy (especially issues in epistemology and value theory in the work of Nietzsche) and in ancient Greek philosophy (especially the pre-Socratic and Hellenistic philosophers). She is giving a public talk entitled The Will to a System: Nietzsche on Philosophy as Psychopathology hosted by the Department of Philosophy as part of its Philosophy Speakers Program. About the Talk Most of us eagerly accept, and even promote, a representation of philosophy as a noble and earnest enterprise — a search for truth guided by wholesome ideals of objectivity and the virtues of the examined life. Friedrich Nietzsche rejects this picture. In this paper, Berry examines Nietzsche’s withering remarks about philosophers and develop them as a diagnosis, arguing that for Nietzsche the activity of philosophy is characterized chiefly by what he calls the psychological “will to a system”; that is, the pathological mutation of a common human desire for understanding, which, qua pathological, is the underlying cause of philosophical “symptoms,” from Platonism and Cartesian rationalism, to German idealism and sophisticated contemporary versions of moral realism, and perhaps even to systematic interpretations of Nietzsche’s own work. In many ways, his view anticipates some of the 20th century’s most pointed critiques of philosophy and the recent, burgeoning interest in metaphilosophy, as well as some of the substantive conclusions of early psychoanalysis.
Location:
Social Sciences Tower Room 1253
Speaker:
Jessica Berry, associate professor of philosophy,Georgia State University
More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/philosophy-speakers-will-system-nietzsche-philosophy-psychopathology
Cultivating a Contemplative Approach to Teaching, Learning and Life: A non-residential mindfulness retreat (University of Calgary)
Category: Other EventDates: September 9, 2016 - September 9, 2016
This 2 1/2 day non-residential retreat is for University of Calgary instructors, faculty and teaching assistants who want to cultivate a more intentional, present-moment approach to living, learning, and teaching. LIFE: Acknowledging the stresses and pressures of academic life, this 2.5 day non-residential retreat is a condensed version of Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction, the 8-week program designed by Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn. You will learn how mindfulness cultivates emotional self-regulation and self-directed neuroplasticity through guided meditation, slow, gentle yoga, mindful inquiry, and group discussion. LEARNING: Discover how being more mindful has the potential to make us and our students more adaptable to difficult situations and conversations, more excepting of difference, better critical thinkers, more creative and willing to try new things. It can help us all be better learners, effective communicators, and compassionate community-builders. Current research on mindfulness-related neuroscience, interpersonal neurobiology, and positive psychology will be presented. TEACHING: Mindfulness and other contemplative approaches invite a teaching and learning relationship that is truly transformative and give us tangible skills like greater concentration, awareness, critical thinking, self compassion, and self-regulation that can be transferred directly to our students. Throughout the retreat we will explore the meaning of contemplative pedagogy and the literature citing its possible uses and benefits for our teaching practice. Schedule Friday September 9 6-9 pm (Incl. light dinner) Sat– Sun. Sept 10-11 9am - 4pm (Incl. Refreshments & lunches) Location Taylor Institute for Teaching and Learning Gallery & Atrium. Dress comfortably - the workshop includes meditation and yoga practice, so bring your yoga mat if you have one; I have extras to share. Registration Your investment: $50 (to defray food costs) Cancellation policy: $25 refunded if cancelled before Sept. 2, 2016. No refunds thereafter. Please register at https://contemplativeteachingandlearning.eventbrite.ca
Location:
Taylor Institute for Teaching and Learning
Speaker:
Rachael Crowder PhD RSW, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Social Work, University of Calgary. Recipient of a Teaching Scholar Award from the Taylor Institute for Teaching and Learning for Presence in the Academy: A Community of Practice in Contemplative Pedagogy. Rachael is a mindfulness teacher and researcher, providing mindfulness-based programs to helping professionals, community groups, and her university students, in-person and online since her first training with Jon Kabat-Zinn in 2006. For more information contact Rachael at rcrowder@ucalgary.ca and see www.presentmoment.ca
More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/cultivating-contemplative-approach-teaching-learning-and-life-non-residential-mindfulness
Visual Variables (University of Calgary)
Category: Other EventDates: September 9, 2016 - September 9, 2016
Data visualization is an important tool for researchers, assisting in both analysis and communication of results. The use of appropriate visualization techniques can greatly increase the ability to gain insight from and ease the communication of data. Creation of effective visual representations relies highly on the use of what are known as visual variables. Visual variables include colour, brightness, position, orientation, shade, and texture. Appropriate use of these properties is a key component of mapping raw data to a visual representation. Through effective use of visual variables a great number of properties can be embedded in a single visualization. This tutorial consists of three parts: a half-hour lecture describing the effective use of visual variables and different types of visualization; a group exercise in applying visual variables through sketching an example dataset; and through the last 30-40 minutes participants are encouraged to experiment with visual variables on their own data. Please register for this session at: http://workrooms.ucalgary.ca/event/2677263
Location:
Room 466A Taylor Family Digital Library
More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/visual-variables
Project management for research projects (University of Calgary)
Category: Other EventDates: September 8, 2016 - September 8, 2016
Whether you're planning a large, collaborative research project or looking to complete your dissertation efficiently, a project management approach can help. This session will help you integrate a project management structure into your research project, and will introduce principles, methods, tools and techniques to effectively manage objectives-oriented work in an academic context. Please register for this session at http://workrooms.ucalgary.ca/event/2677240
Location:
Room 466A Taylor Family Digital Library
Speaker:
Christie Hurrell, Digital Initiatives and Scholarship Librarian
More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/project-management-research-projects
Strategies for reference management (University of Calgary)
Category: Other EventDates: September 8, 2016 - September 8, 2016
This session will provide an overview of the various reference management tools useful for organizing your references and formatting your research works. Please register for this workshop at http://workrooms.ucalgary.ca/event/2677231
Location:
Room 466A Taylor Family Digital Library
Speaker:
TBA
More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/strategies-reference-management
Creating a data management plan (University of Calgary)
Category: Other EventDates: September 8, 2016 - September 8, 2016
Research data, whether made up of spreadsheets, interview transcripts, image collections, digital records, or other material is crucial to your research career. Proper data management will save you time and headaches by: making your data easier to work with ensuring the veracity and reproducibility of your research findings securing against accidental loss. An important element of data management planning is the creation of a data management plan; a short document that describes how you will manage your data through the lifetime of your research project. Data management plans are increasingly being required by granting agencies. SSHRC, NSERC and CIHR recently released a joint statement of principles on data management. This session will focus on how to manage your data before, during, and after your research as well as describe how to use Data Management Plan Assistant – a Canadian online tool for creating data management plans. Please register for this session at: http://workrooms.ucalgary.ca/event/2677239
Location:
Room 466A Taylor Family Digital Library
Speaker:
John Brosz, Coordinator, Research Data & Visualization
More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/creating-data-management-plan
Political Science Speakers Series (University of Calgary)
Category: Other EventDates: September 8, 2016 - September 8, 2016
The Political Science Speakers Series presents the talk Majoritarianism without the Majority: The precarious continuity of the predominant party system in Turkey. About the speaker Dr. Yunus Sözen is an assistant professor at Özyeğin University. He received his Bachelor of Arts from Boğaziçi University, Department of Political Science and International Relations in 2000, his Masters of Arts in Political Science from Syracuse University in 2002, and his PhD in Politics from New York University in 2010. Sözen’s research focuses on the relationship between political ideas/ideologies and political regime dynamics. About the talk As a result of the June 2015 election, the predominant ruling party of Turkey (the AKP), lost its parliamentary majority in a constitutional parliamentary system. This has created challenges for the party to maintain the system characterized by power concentration. However, the AKP managed to overcome those challenges. What were the mechanisms that enabled the ruling party to keep its power intact, free of external checks, and internal fissures? To answer this question, first, Sözen gives an account of the particular ways that concentration of power is developed in Turkey, building on entangled yet separate literatures on the vertical and horizontal divisions of power, political parties, electoral and party systems. Based on this account, Sözen argues that two interrelated factors provided formal and informal instruments to the ruling party, and helped it shape not only the post-election government formation process, but also politics in general: Turkey's political institutional framework, and its mixed political regime (competition combined with increasing authoritarianism and personalization tendencies). Therefore, to understand the persistence of predominant party systems, the Turkish case points out the significance of contextualizing these systems within the larger political institutional framework and the political regime context. For more information, please visit poli.ucalgary.ca
Location:
Social Science Tower 729
Speaker:
Dr. Yunus Sözen, Özyeğin University
More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/political-science-speakers-series
Qualitative data analysis using nVivo (University of Calgary)
Category: Other EventDates: September 8, 2016 - September 8, 2016
NVivo is a qualitative analysis software designed for deep analysis of rich text-based or multimedia information. An hour’s not long enough to get very deep with NVivo, so we’ll spend our time talking about why you’d use it, including some of the theory around Qualitative Methodology. What can you expect to get out of a tool like NVivo, and when would it be appropriate (or not) to consider using it. Please register for this session at: http://workrooms.ucalgary.ca/event/2677247
Location:
Room 466A Taylor Family Digital Library
Speaker:
Paul Pival, Research Librarian – Data Analytics
More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/qualitative-data-analysis-using-nvivo
A gentle introduction to GIS and spatial data (University of Calgary)
Category: Other EventDates: September 8, 2016 - September 8, 2016
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) can be potentially useful in almost any area of research. The availability of more user-friendly GIS software and the proliferation of open spatial data has made it easier for non-GIS experts to spatially visualize and analyze data. Through some simple hands-on exercises, this session will introduce participants to the basics of using GIS software to work with spatial data. No prior experience is required. Please register for this session at: http://workrooms.ucalgary.ca/event/2677253
Location:
Room 466A Taylor Family Digital Library
Speaker:
Peter Peller, Librarian - Head, Spatial and Numeric Data Services
More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/gentle-introduction-gis-and-spatial-data
Effective Research for your Literature Review (University of Calgary)
Category: Other EventDates: September 8, 2016 - September 8, 2016
Literature reviews are important component of most theses and dissertations. By searching for relevant information you build your own knowledge about the subject. Then in your literature review you synthesize, evaluate and compare the significant existing literature about a topic. Your literature review also identifies issues and gaps in the literature, which demonstrates the need for your own research. This session will introduce a systematic approach to literature searching. You will learn how to identify the sources of relevant literature within your discipline. We’ll look at how to find sources that summarize the current state of knowledge about your topic, and how to identify key authors, titles, and journals. We’ll also touch on the importance of “grey” literature such as dissertations, government documents and reports by nonprofits and think tanks, and where to find these types of publications. We’ll introduce ‘citation mining’ as a technique that can help you trace the path of an idea. Then we’ll provide useful advice for searching efficiently to find the literature you need, and introduce tools for exporting your results for future use. The session will run 1 hour, with at least 15 minutes dedicated to questions and hands-on exploration by participants. Register for this event at http://workrooms.ucalgary.ca/event/2676319
Location:
Room 466A Taylor Family Digital Library
Speaker:
Barbara Brydges, Librarian: Head - Doucette Library of Teaching Resources, Doucette Library, EducationHeather Ganshorn, Associate Librarian: Head - Science & Engineering, Head - Gallagher Library and Health Sciences Interim Head, Health Sciences Library - Health Sciences Library
More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/effective-research-your-literature-review
R Wizardry Workshop (University of Calgary)
Category: Other EventDates: September 6, 2016 - September 7, 2016
R is an open source programming language and software environment for statistical computing and graphics that is widely used in many academic disciplines. This intensive two-day workshop will cover basic and advanced skills in computer programming using R. The workshop will combine short lectures with directed learning using example programming. By the end of the workshop participants will be able to: Import data into R and use R’s built-in functionality Mange, select, extract, and transform data objects Perform basic and advanced plotting including high-resolution figures Introductions to summary and intermediate statistics Write customized programming using and advanced flow control and conditional arguments Build customized functions for modelling, analyses, statistics, plotting, and data management Participants are encouraged to bring their own laptops with R and RStudio (or another syntax editor) installed, but this is not required and desktop computers are available. Restricted to University of Calgary Faculty, Staff, and Students – no prior knowledge of R required Restricted to 36 attendees Workshop runs 10:00 am - 4:00 pm both days, but there will be scheduled breaks To register visit the Library website: http://ucalgary.libcal.com/event/2549981 For more information about the session, or to ask questions, contact Christie.hurrell@ucalgary.ca Dates & Times: 10:00am - 4:00pm, Tuesday, September 6, 2016 10:00am - 4:00pm, Wednesday, September 7, 2016 Location: TFDL 440B Categories: Programming, Research Skills, Technology training
Location:
Room 440B on the 4th floor of Taylor Family Digital Library
Speaker:
Workshop instructor: Kyle Wilson
More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/r-wizardry-workshop
NUTV Talent Development Series - Weekend Directing Workshop (University of Calgary)
Category: Other EventDates: August 27, 2016 - August 28, 2016
Everyone is welcome to attend this workshop led by Cowboy Smithx that is designed for new and aspiring directors. As a participant, you will gain insight on the processes of storytelling and directing, learn about the film industry and receive helpful tips and tricks. Each day runs from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. with a lunch break. Instructor: Cowboy Smithx Time: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Dates: Saturday, Aug. 27 and Sunday, Aug. 28, 2016 Location: NUTV Studio (315 MacEwan Hall, 2500 University Dr. NW) Instructor bio: Cowboy Smithx is a filmmaker, storyteller and actor and the curator of REDx Talks. His 2015 film Elder in the Making won the award for Best Documentary Over 30 minutes from Alberta Film & Television Awards and Alberta Media Production Industries Association. Smithx has also produced numerous short films including Cree Code Talker which won first place at the 2015 HotDocs Bravo Factual Short Film Pitching Competition. COST: Community/General: $200 2015/16 University of Calgary student (must provide valid UCID#): $150 2015/16 NUTV Member: $150 NUTV Scholarship Applicant: $10 Visit the registration link at http://events.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=cmqzg7cab&oeidk=a07ecwz68tlc93a286c PAYMENTS: Payment accepted via PayPal or cash at the NUTV office. No refunds will be given for cancellations made less than 72 hours before the workshop begins. Limited spots available so please register early. About NUTV: NUTV is proud to be Alberta’s only non-profit independent community access television station and one of the oldest campus-based television production societies in Canada. Established in 1983 and incorporated in 1991, NUTV welcomes both the University of Calgary community and the larger Calgary community. Visit nutv.ca for more information.
Location:
NUTV Studio (315 MacEwan Hall)
Speaker:
Instructor: Cowboy Smithx
More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/nutv-talent-development-series-weekend-directing-workshop
[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row admin_label="Row" make_fullwidth="on" use_custom_width="on" width_unit="off" use_custom_gutter="off" padding_mobile="off" allow_player_pause="off" parallax="off" parallax_method="off" make_equal="off" parallax_1="off" parallax_method_1="off" parallax_2="off" parallax_method_2="off" column_padding_mobile="on" custom_width_percent="100%" custom_css_main_element="width: 100% !important;"][et_pb_column type="4_4"][et_pb_text admin_label="Text" background_layout="light" text_orientation="left" use_border_color="off" border_color="#ffffff" border_style="solid"]Philosophy Speakers "Truth and Vindication in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada" (University of Calgary)
Category: Other EventDates: August 15, 2016 - August 15, 2016
Cindy Holder is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Victoria. Her research focuses on cultural rights and ethical and theoretical issues in international law, including the human rights of indigenous peoples and transitional mechanisms such as truth commissions and international criminal tribunals. She is giving a public talk on "Truth and Vindication in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada" hosted by the Department of Philosophy as part of their Philosophy Speakers series. About the talk Truth commissions, special criminal tribunals and lustration processes seek to establish collective knowledge of past abuse. This goal of collective knowledge commits such institutions to identification and deployment of arbitral truths: truths that tell between beliefs, assertions and narratives, rendering the cognitive space within which the past is discussed such that actions become intersubjectively defensible and—perhaps more importantly—susceptible to intersubjective criticism. In this paper, I use the example of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada to explore the limitations of non-arbitral conceptions of truth in the context of transitional justice institutions, and the potential value within such a setting of conceptualizing truth as vindication by experience. Decisions about which subjects’ experiences — and which dimensions of those experiences — matter, structure the cognitive space within which collective knowledge projects are pursued. Vindication by experience as a basis for arbitrating between beliefs, assertions and narratives exposes these decisions and makes it possible to ask how the experiences that are taken to be vindicating fit the knowledge projects to which they are harnessed. Vindication by experience further opens a window on transitional knowledge projects themselves as reflection on the relevance of some experiences but not others may reveal features of a project that are otherwise obscured.
Location:
Social Sciences Tower 1253
More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/philosophy-speakers-truth-and-vindication-truth-and-reconciliation-commission-canada
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Category: Other EventDates: August 11, 2016 - August 11, 2016
The following food trucks will be on main campus on Thursday, Aug. 11 from 11am – 2pm in the Rozsa Loop. Perogy Boyz Naaco Truck Waffles & Chix
Location:
Rozsa Loop
More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/food-trucks
[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row admin_label="Row" make_fullwidth="on" use_custom_width="on" width_unit="off" use_custom_gutter="off" padding_mobile="off" allow_player_pause="off" parallax="off" parallax_method="off" make_equal="off" parallax_1="off" parallax_method_1="off" parallax_2="off" parallax_method_2="off" column_padding_mobile="on" custom_width_percent="100%" custom_css_main_element="width: 100% !important;"][et_pb_column type="4_4"][et_pb_text admin_label="Text" background_layout="light" text_orientation="left" use_border_color="off" border_color="#ffffff" border_style="solid"]PyData August Meetup: Interactive! (University of Calgary)
Category: Other EventDates: August 10, 2016 - August 10, 2016
Interactive Session Bring your laptop! Organizer Stephen Childs is preparing an interactive data analysis challenge. Work with others to tackle a dataset and generate some insights and give a quick lightning talk on what you discovered. Please register at: http://www.meetup.com/PyData-Calgary/events/232893422/ Details The meetup will take place on the University of Calgary main campus. Come meet other Data Wranglers and learn more about Jupyter Notebooks, pandas, Numpy, matplotlib, and related data science libraries. If you are currently using open source data tools, we would love to hear about how you use these tools, what data you analyze and what problems you solve. Presenting We are looking for presenters for this meeting and future meetings. If you would like to make a presentation on a particular module, a data analysis you have done or another related topic, please contact the organizer. Projects and Problems If you're working on a sticky data analysis or having a problem using a particular tool or library, bring it along to the meeting. There will be time towards the end of the meetup to ask questions and work on projects. Code of Conduct To ensure the safety and comfort of attendees, we will be strictly following the NumFOCUS Code of Conduct at this event. Questions, Comments, or Concerns If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, please contact the organizer Stephen Childs.
Location:
Taylor Family Digital Library 440A and 440D
More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/pydata-august-meetup-interactive
[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row admin_label="Row" make_fullwidth="on" use_custom_width="on" width_unit="off" use_custom_gutter="off" padding_mobile="off" allow_player_pause="off" parallax="off" parallax_method="off" make_equal="off" parallax_1="off" parallax_method_1="off" parallax_2="off" parallax_method_2="off" column_padding_mobile="on" custom_width_percent="100%" custom_css_main_element="width: 100% !important;"][et_pb_column type="4_4"][et_pb_text admin_label="Text" background_layout="light" text_orientation="left" use_border_color="off" border_color="#ffffff" border_style="solid"]SHAD Calgary Open House (University of Calgary)
Category: Other EventDates: July 28, 2016 - July 28, 2016
As the SHAD experience comes to a close, the students and staff will be hosting an Open House Day. Parents, guardians, relatives and friends are all invited to attend the activities. The open house will include displays about our activities including workshops, lectures, guest speakers and recreation. We also share our prototypes and business models of our design projects. The design challenge for this year, shared by all 12 host SHAD campuses across Canada, is "How might we improve food security for Canadians?" SHADs are expected to plan, organize, construct and present the exhibits to our visitors.
Location:
EEEL Lobby
More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/shad-calgary-open-house
[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row admin_label="Row" make_fullwidth="on" use_custom_width="on" width_unit="off" use_custom_gutter="off" padding_mobile="off" allow_player_pause="off" parallax="off" parallax_method="off" make_equal="off" parallax_1="off" parallax_method_1="off" parallax_2="off" parallax_method_2="off" column_padding_mobile="on" custom_width_percent="100%" custom_css_main_element="width: 100% !important;"][et_pb_column type="4_4"][et_pb_text admin_label="Text" background_layout="light" text_orientation="left" use_border_color="off" border_color="#ffffff" border_style="solid"]A Topical Look at the University of Calgary's History (University of Calgary)
Category: Other EventDates: July 25, 2016 - July 25, 2016
During the 50th anniversary celebrations this year, the history of the university will be viewed through various lenses including books, websites, oral histories and other celebrations. Join Associate Archivist Karen Buckley and discover what the university itself has to say as we explore different aspects of this history, as revealed through the corporate records preserved in the university's archives. Part of Historic Calgary Week, July 22 - August 1 For more information on Historic Calgary Week visit, www.chinookcountry.org
Location:
Gallery Hall - Main Floor - Taylor Family Digital Library
More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/topical-look-university-calgarys-history
[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row admin_label="Row" make_fullwidth="on" use_custom_width="on" width_unit="off" use_custom_gutter="off" padding_mobile="off" allow_player_pause="off" parallax="off" parallax_method="off" make_equal="off" parallax_1="off" parallax_method_1="off" parallax_2="off" parallax_method_2="off" column_padding_mobile="on" custom_width_percent="100%" custom_css_main_element="width: 100% !important;"][et_pb_column type="4_4"][et_pb_text admin_label="Text" background_layout="light" text_orientation="left" use_border_color="off" border_color="#ffffff" border_style="solid"]Conlanging Workshop — learn how to develop your own language (University of Calgary)
Category: Other EventDates: July 23, 2016 - July 23, 2016
Want to learn how to develop your own Conlang? Join us for a full-day workshop on developing your own language. You will get examples from existing conlangs like Klingon and Dothraki, as well as some of the speaker's own conlangs, ljani k'ithzeri and qi͓t͓qsu’iqsik ‘a͓s͓i͓qs that were invented for enhancing Dungeons and Dragons games. The cost for this workshop is $25 and you will receive a digital copy of the speaker's language creation template walking you through the steps of developing a phonology, morphology, syntax, and how to avoid some common pitfalls that conlangers may fall into. By the end of the workshop, you will have the beginnings of a working grammar for your own conlang, and the ability to fully develop it. So bring your laptop, coffee, and an idea of who will be speaking your conlang, and by the end of the day you'll be speaking it too. If you have any questions, or would like to RSVP for the workshop, please visit the Facebook event page HERE or the Conlangers of Western Canada group page. Conlanging Workshop (Hosted by Verbatim: The University of Calgary's Undergraduate Linguistics Club)
Location:
TBA
Speaker:
Joseph Windsor
More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/conlanging-workshop-learn-how-develop-your-own-language
[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row admin_label="Row" make_fullwidth="on" use_custom_width="on" width_unit="off" use_custom_gutter="off" padding_mobile="off" allow_player_pause="off" parallax="off" parallax_method="off" make_equal="off" parallax_1="off" parallax_method_1="off" parallax_2="off" parallax_method_2="off" column_padding_mobile="on" custom_width_percent="100%" custom_css_main_element="width: 100% !important;"][et_pb_column type="4_4"][et_pb_text admin_label="Text" background_layout="light" text_orientation="left" use_border_color="off" border_color="#ffffff" border_style="solid"]Milky Way Nights (University of Calgary)
Category: Other EventDates: July 21, 2016 - July 21, 2016
You are invited to join our researchers to observe the dark night sky and gaze at the Milky Way for three evenings in July. On July 21, 22 and 23rd, the dark sky conditions are perfect for viewing planetary nebula, globular clusters and distant galaxies. Jupiter, Mars and Saturn will be visible in July, and all three planets are always amazing to view through a telescope. Each evening we will offer a sky tour outside on our viewing terrace and point out some of the highlights of the summer sky. Milky Way Nights are special evenings at the observatory dedicated to solely observing the night sky. There will be an array of telescopes operated by University of Calgary astronomers and members of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada - Calgary Centre. You will have the opportunity to look through the telescopes, and astronomers will be on hand to answer questions. The entrance fee is a donation to our educational programming. The event runs three nights and we are open from 10pm to 2am on each evening. This is a drop in event, no requirement to pre-register. The RAO is a dark sky area, please bring a flashlight, red or dimmed preferred. The observatory is located on a windy hill, please dress for the weather. For more details go to: www.ucalgary.ca/rao
Location:
Rothney Astrophysical Observatory
More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/milky-way-nights
[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row admin_label="Row" make_fullwidth="on" use_custom_width="on" width_unit="off" use_custom_gutter="off" padding_mobile="off" allow_player_pause="off" parallax="off" parallax_method="off" make_equal="off" parallax_1="off" parallax_method_1="off" parallax_2="off" parallax_method_2="off" column_padding_mobile="on" custom_width_percent="100%" custom_css_main_element="width: 100% !important;"][et_pb_column type="4_4"][et_pb_text admin_label="Text" background_layout="light" text_orientation="left" use_border_color="off" border_color="#ffffff" border_style="solid"]Optimal reinsurance for an actuarial model with dependent risks (University of Calgary)
Category: Other EventDates: July 14, 2016 - July 14, 2016
In practice, an insurance company usually has several classes of business which are more or less correlated with each other. In view of the complex nature of modern insurance products, research on modeling dependent classes of business has become an important topic in the actuarial literature. This talk discusses the so-called risk model with thinning dependence proposed by Wang and Yuen (2005) [Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, 36(3), 456-468]. A special case of this model is the frequently-used common shock risk model. Based on the thinning dependence, optimal proportional reinsurance is discussed under the criterion of maximizing adjustment coefficient. This research is supported by the CAE 2013 research grant from the Society of Actuaries.
Location:
Math Sciences 431
Speaker:
Professor Kam Chuen Yuen Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science,The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong
More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/optimal-reinsurance-actuarial-model-dependent-risks
[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row admin_label="Row" make_fullwidth="on" use_custom_width="on" width_unit="off" use_custom_gutter="off" padding_mobile="off" allow_player_pause="off" parallax="off" parallax_method="off" make_equal="off" parallax_1="off" parallax_method_1="off" parallax_2="off" parallax_method_2="off" column_padding_mobile="on" custom_width_percent="100%" custom_css_main_element="width: 100% !important;"][et_pb_column type="4_4"][et_pb_text admin_label="Text" background_layout="light" text_orientation="left" use_border_color="off" border_color="#ffffff" border_style="solid"]Energy, Power and Strategy Workshop (University of Calgary)
Category: Other EventDates: July 14, 2016 - July 14, 2016
It is hard to overstate the importance of energy. We rely on it for everything from advanced medical equipment to heating, cooling and irrigation. It influences our economic, political, military and social policies and the possession or non-possession of sufficient energy resources, however defined, is a key factor in a state’s political and economic power. As such, throughout history, it has often been a source of competition and conflict as the danger of disruption of energy supplies and the political vulnerability that often accompanies energy dependency become threats to international stability and security. This workshop will examine the history behind the relationship between energy and security through six presentations.
Location:
Escalus MacEwan Student Conference Centre
Speaker:
Presenters include: Dr. Melanie Schmoll, University of Hamburg; Dr. Christian Jentzsch, Centre for Military History and Social Sciences of the Bundeswehr; Dr. Adam Lajeunesse, St. Jerome’s University; Dr. Paul Chastko, University of Calgary; Lauren Moslow, University of Calgary; and Mr. Kelly Ogle, Grafton Asset Management.
More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/energy-power-and-strategy-workshop
[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row admin_label="Row" make_fullwidth="on" use_custom_width="on" width_unit="off" use_custom_gutter="off" padding_mobile="off" allow_player_pause="off" parallax="off" parallax_method="off" make_equal="off" parallax_1="off" parallax_method_1="off" parallax_2="off" parallax_method_2="off" column_padding_mobile="on" custom_width_percent="100%" custom_css_main_element="width: 100% !important;"][et_pb_column type="4_4"][et_pb_text admin_label="Text" background_layout="light" text_orientation="left" use_border_color="off" border_color="#ffffff" border_style="solid"]UCalgary Day at the Stampede (University of Calgary)
Category: Other EventDates: July 12, 2016 - July 12, 2016
Join us for UCalgary Day at the Calgary Stampede. Students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends are welcome all day and are especially encouraged to attend the evening show to help celebrate UCalgary's 50th Anniversary and our long-standing relationship with the Calgary Stampede. If you already purchased a ticket with the discount code, this gains you entrance on the Stampede grounds all day. Bring your cowboy hat and meet us on the grounds.
Location:
Stampede grounds
More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/ucalgary-day-stampede
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Category: Other EventDates: July 9, 2016 - July 9, 2016
Got Ice? We do. Summertime skating is available at the Olympic Oval. Every weekend this July, come on down to the Olympic Oval and enjoy summertime public skating each Saturday and Sunday from 12:30 - 4:30 pm.
Location:
Olympic Oval
More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/summertime-skating-olympic-oval
[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row admin_label="Row" make_fullwidth="on" use_custom_width="on" width_unit="off" use_custom_gutter="off" padding_mobile="off" allow_player_pause="off" parallax="off" parallax_method="off" make_equal="off" parallax_1="off" parallax_method_1="off" parallax_2="off" parallax_method_2="off" column_padding_mobile="on" custom_width_percent="100%" custom_css_main_element="width: 100% !important;"][et_pb_column type="4_4"][et_pb_text admin_label="Text" background_layout="light" text_orientation="left" use_border_color="off" border_color="#ffffff" border_style="solid"]Join us in the Calgary Stampede Parade (University of Calgary)
Category: Other EventDates: July 8, 2016 - July 8, 2016
Our UCalgary float will be making its way along the parade route flanked by students, faculty, staff and other UCalgary volunteers loudly yee-hawing and ya-hooing during the popular Calgary Stampede Parade from 9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. in the city's downtown core. The float entry celebrates the university's 50th Anniversary and encourages all participants of the community to "dream big" and "unleash your potential." Don't miss this opportunity to cheer loudly and show your university pride. And when you spot Rex during the Parade Prelude, snap a photo and share on social media using the hashtag #RodeoRex and #ucalgary50.
Location:
Calgary's downtown core
More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/join-us-calgary-stampede-parade
[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row admin_label="Row" make_fullwidth="on" use_custom_width="on" width_unit="off" use_custom_gutter="off" padding_mobile="off" allow_player_pause="off" parallax="off" parallax_method="off" make_equal="off" parallax_1="off" parallax_method_1="off" parallax_2="off" parallax_method_2="off" column_padding_mobile="on" custom_width_percent="100%" custom_css_main_element="width: 100% !important;"][et_pb_column type="4_4"][et_pb_text admin_label="Text" background_layout="light" text_orientation="left" use_border_color="off" border_color="#ffffff" border_style="solid"]Parenting: Getting it right (University of Calgary)
Category: Other EventDates: June 30, 2016 - June 30, 2016
Join researcher Sheri Madigan in this webinar as she provides insights into: The importance of adaptive, alert and responsive parenting Developing the knowledge and/or intuition to respond appropriately to cues and signals Register online Learn more www.ucalgary.ca/explore
Location:
Online
More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/parenting-getting-it-right
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