Faculty of Education Yoga & Meditation Sessions
Join Mark and Mindy* for yoga and meditation in the Creative Arts Lab (EDUC-115) to bring some calm and balance into your day! Sessions are free (donations welcome to support local charities) and are open to the whole Faculty of Education community. mark_silverberg [at] cbu.ca (subject: Yoga) (Contact Mark) if you have any questions.
George Lusztig (MIT)
Title: Total positivity in the space of maximal tori
Abstract: I will review the definition of the totally positive part of a reductive connected group G over the complex numbers and of the corresponding flag manifold. I will also define the totally positive part of the space of maximal tori of G.
Location: UQAM PK-5675
The talk will be available on zoom at the usual link
Pre-Startup Skills: Workshop #5 - Foundations of IP and Patent Searching
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.
Jérémy Perazzelli (Université de Montréal)
Title: The length spectrum of triangular surfaces.
Deadline: Student Engagement Fund
Graduate students in the Schulich School of Music, Faculties of Arts, Law, or Education are eligible for up to $1500 in funding for student led initiatives at McGill that address one or both of the following:
Lukas Bundrock (University of Alabama)
Title: Behavior of Absorbing and Generating p-Robin Eigenvalues in Bounded and Exterior Domains
Abstract: The spectrum of the Laplace operator with Robin boundary conditions has been studied extensively, with deep connections to physical models including heat flow, fluid dynamics, and wave propagation. Its nonlinear counterpart, the p-Laplacian, also plays a central role in modeling complex media, particularly non-Newtonian fluids.
Alex Maloney (McGill University)
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Amanda M. Cook (McGill)
Title: K-contact Distance for Noisy Nonhomogeneous Spatial Point Data and Application to Repeating Fast Radio Burst Sources.
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Pre-Startup Skills: Workshop #6 - Customer Discovery
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: Oct. 22nd, 2025 Time: 12:00 - 1:00 pm Location: in-person @ Engine Seminar Room - FDA 3 (Accessibility Map)
How Students Learn Workshop
Wednesday, October 22, 2025, 12:00–1:00pm, on Zoom
McGill Homecoming
Reconnect with classmates and rediscover McGill at Homecoming Celebration Weekend taking place October 23-25, 2025! Choose from an exceptional lineup of guest speakers and events, including masterclasses from McGill experts, the 50th Anniversary Golden Jubilee, the Beatty Lecture, the Sports Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, Macdonald Campus day and other Faculty activities, reunions, and more. It’s a weekend you won’t want to miss!
McGill Open House
Meet members of the McGill Education Community, join in activities, and get a feel for campus at Open House!
The Faculty of Education will be offering:
Pre-Startup Skills: Workshop #1 - Technological Innovation and Entrepreneurship 101
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: Oct. 28th, 2025 Time: 1:00 - 2:00 pm Location: in-person @ Engine Seminar Room - FDA 3 (Accessibility Map)
TAs Spill the Tea Discussion Group: Helping Students Remember What You Teach
Thursday, October 30, 2025, 11:00am–12:00pm, 2001 McGill College, room 650
Pre-Startup Skills: Workshop #2 - Design Thinking Methodology
The learning objective of this workshop is to understand the fundamentals of the Design Thinking Methodology and how it promotes innovation.
Date: Nov. 4th, 2025 Time: 1:00 - 2:00 pm Location: in-person @ Engine Seminar Room - FDA 3 (Accessibility Map)
