This workshop will provide an overview on the customer discovery process and then delve deeper into how to conduct customer interviews and how to iterate on your business model canvas.
Date: Feb. 18th, 2026
Time: 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Location: in-person @ Engine Seminar Room - FDA 3 (Accessibility Map)
Title: Mixed identities and boundary dynamics in weakly hyperbolic groups.
Title: A Gaussian integral formula for the Hermite polynomials: Theory and Applications
Title: Entire Nodal Solutions with Prescribed Symmetry to Caffarelli-Kohn-Nirenberg Equations
Title: A Gaussian integral formula for the Hermite polynomials: Theory and Applications.
TITLE/TITRE
The unknotting number
RÉSUMÉ / ABSTRACT
The unknotting number of a knot is one of the simplest classical knot invariants to define: it simply counts the minimum times a knot must pass through itself in order to become unknotted. Despite this simple definition, the unknotting number is often fiendishly difficult to compute. Beginning from the definition, I will discuss some of what is known about this invariant and highlight some of the many things that we still do not understand.
Title: Hierarchical Clustering With Confidence
This workshop will provide an overview of what technological innovation is and what entrepreneurship is, as well an overview of the Entrepreneurial Mindset, the Lean Launchpad methodology, the Business Model Canvas and the Lean Canvas.
Date: Feb. 24th, 2026
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 pm
Location: in-person @ Engine Seminar Room - FDA 3 (Accessibility Map)
The learning objective of this workshop is to understand the fundamentals of the Design Thinking Methodology and how it promotes innovation.
Date: Mar. 10th, 2026
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 pm
Location: in-person @ Engine Seminar Room - FDA 3 (Accessibility Map)
This event is part of a series of workshops, see the complete Winter 2026 schedule here!
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: Mar. 17th, 2026
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 pm
Location: in-person @ Engine Seminar Room - FDA 3 (Accessibility Map)
Title: The monopolist's free boundary problem in the plane: an excursion into the economic value of private information
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 using the DERWENT worldwide patent database.
Date: Mar. 24th, 2026
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 pm
Location: in-person @ Engine Seminar Room - FDA 3 (Accessibility Map)
This workshop will provide an overview of the different types of market research, how to analyze the competition, and the resources available at McGill to perform market research. Our market research librarian will walk us through some of those resources using a new market research canvas tool.
Date: Mar. 31st, 2026
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 pm
Location: in-person @ Engine Seminar Room - FDA 3 (Accessibility Map)