Op-Ed Media Training from The Conversation Canada
McGill researchers and PhD students interested in contributing written pieces to The Conversation Canada—in English or in French—are invited to participate in an in-person workshop on Thursday, March 30, from 11:00 to 12:30.
5 à 7: French as a Second Language Teaching and Learning Forum, Organized by DISE
An opportunity for teachers, students, teaching and learning professionals, professors and instructors in French as a second language, francization and ILSS to come and meet other members of their professional community.
Thursday, March 30, from 5:30 to 7:30 PM
Invention to Impact Training Program Information Session - Spring 2023
Learn about Engine's Invention to Impact Training Program and the application process.
Register for the event today!
An Introduction to Natural Language Processing, session 1
[This is session 1 in the series Introduction to Natural Language Processing]
Overview:
Indigenous Peoples within Canada: A Conversation with International Students featuring Dr. Dennis Wendt
The ECP International Student Group (ECP-ISG) invites you to join our special guest Dr. Dennis Wendt in this free in-person talk. Date: Friday March 31, 2023 Time: 14:30 – 16:00 Where: Education Building (Details will be sent closer to the event)
April Deadline: McCall MacBain Graduate Scholarship at Wadham College, University of Oxford
The John McCall MacBain Scholarship is a scholarship for McGill graduates to undertake a degree at the master’s or doctoral level offered by Wadham College at the University of Oxford.
Shalaka Shah: Oral Defence ECP
The Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology
Dr. Steven Shaw and Dr. Ashley Daniel Wazana are proud to announce that Shalaka Shah, a doctoral candidate in Educational and Counselling Psychology, will be defending their dissertation on April 3, 2023 at 1:00 PM in room EDUC 233.
The topic of the dissertation is:
“Prenatal and postnatal genetic and environmental predictors of attachment.”
Dan Petrescu Speaker Series featuring Prof. Sara Brownell on Faculty Identity in the Science Classroom
Title: Faculty identity in the science classroom: Who is represented, what factors influence revealing concealable identities, and how does revealing affect students?
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 with our librarian April Colosimo using the DERWENT worldwide patent database.
Weekly Coffee, Tea and Chat about Innovation
McGill professors, bring your mug and chat with one of McGill Engine’s Technological Entrepreneurs-in-Residence (TechEiRs) and other members of the Engine team.
Pre-Startup Skills: Workshop #6 - Customer Discovery
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.
Introduction to Git using R
Overview:
In this 2h-workshop, participants will obtain a basic introduction to version control using git and GitHub. Using a sample project, participants will perform some basic git operations in both RStudio and the command line. Emphasis is on sharing code to further reproducible research. Advanced operations, such as those used in software development, will not be demonstrated.
Weekly Coffee, Tea and Chat about Innovation
McGill professors, bring your mug and chat with one of McGill Engine’s Technological Entrepreneurs-in-Residence (TechEiRs) and other members of the Engine team.
An Introduction to Natural Language Processing, session 2
[This is session 2 in the series Introduction to Natural Language Processing]
Overview:
This 3-part workshop provides an overview of the natural language processing (NLP) domain and its applications. In this session, you will learn about the main steps in an NLP lifecycle and go through some of these steps with a real-world example using the Python programming language.
