The Inequity Speaker Series with Professor Margot Jackson, from the Department of Sociology, Brown University. Registration required Talk Title: Local Welfare State Spending and Educational Gaps in Maternal Time with Children Persistent socioeconomic divides in the amount and nature of parental time with children have prompted consideration of the factors that mitigate inequalities within the […]

Across U of T, we have a highly impactful research community across a broad range of disciplines. DiscoverResearch  (https://discover.research.utoronto.ca/)is the institutional online tool that allows internal and external users to search for and find University researchers based on their research expertise, allow our community to showcase their varied research accomplishments and potentially facilitate collaboration opportunities. Grab your lunch, […]

“Whatquantum computing can do for quantum chemistry” with Professor Artur Izmaylov Quantum computing is a new emerging technology that isdeemed to revolutionize many computational fields. In this talk, I will mainlyfocus on quantum chemistry. Quantum chemistry poses a challenging mathematicalproblem whose computational cost scales exponentially with the size of theconsidered system unless some heuristic approximations […]

Over the past 50 years, higher education (HE) in Ireland has been seen as the primary route to personal and career success while further education and training (FET) is seen as second best. This has created a situation where 91% of students complete secondary school, of which ~70% participate in HE. In contrast, only about […]

How is climate change shifting and accelerating the spread of infectious diseases around the world? What are some of the impacts on societies, economics, and human and ecological health? Together with the Emerging and Pandemic Infections Consortium (EPIC) and Institute for Pandemics (IfP), Climate Positive Energy (CPE) is pleased to co-host this public speaker series […]