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Public Events
CIFAR Talks: Women in Research
Feb 28, 2024Public Events
Watch: CIFAR Talks: Nurturing a Resilient Earth
Nov 27, 2023Public Events
Watch: CIFAR Talks: Future Cities
Oct 31, 2023CIFAR Virtual Talks
CIFAR Virtual Talks: Appeals to human dignity: do they make a difference?
May 11, 2023CIFAR Virtual Talks
Watch: CIFAR Virtual Talks: AI agents among us: causality and reinforcement learning
Mar 23, 2023CIFAR Virtual Talks
Watch: CIFAR Virtual Talks: Life in the deep biosphere
Feb 1, 2023CIFAR Virtual Talks
Race & Research
Nov 23, 2022CIFAR Massey Talk
Watch: CIFAR Massey Talks: Disruptive innovation and opportunities in renewable energy and AI
Oct 11, 2022CIFAR Virtual Talks
Watch: Believe the Impossible: CIFAR Celebrates 40 Years
Jun 13, 2022CIFAR Virtual Talks
Watch CIFAR Virtual Talks: Unhackable: The future of quantum computing and cybersecurity
Jun 9, 2022CIFAR Virtual Talks
Watch CIFAR Virtual Talks: CIFAR Virtual Talks: Superconductors: the next tech superstar?
May 17, 2022CIFAR Virtual Talks
Watch CIFAR Virtual Talks: CIFAR Virtual Talks: Do robots help us live better lives?
Apr 27, 2022CIFAR Virtual Talks
Watch CIFAR Virtual Talks: How do we get to net-zero?
Mar 15, 2022CIFAR Virtual Talks
Watch CIFAR Virtual Talks: What actually killed the dinosaurs?
Feb 23, 2022Public Events
Synthetic Data for Health Symposium
Nov 25, 2021CIFAR Massey Talk
CIFAR Massey Talks: The future of vaccines
Oct 27, 2021Public Events
Watch Now: Behind the Headlines: COVID and Our Children
Sep 28, 2021CIFAR Virtual Talks
Watch Now: CIFAR Virtual Talks: Is the future of computing quantum?
Jul 20, 2021Public Events
Global Call The Future of Being Human - Information Webinar
Jun 28, 2021CIFAR Virtual Talks
Watch Now: CIFAR Virtual Talks: Can AI be conscious?
Jun 8, 2021Public Events
Watch Now: The Economist & CIFAR Special Event: How Science Can Save the World
May 18, 2021CIFAR Virtual Talks
Watch Now: CIFAR Virtual Talks: What is the next big threat?
May 11, 2021CIFAR Virtual Talks
Watch Now: CIFAR Virtual Talks: Growth and equity — can we have both?
Apr 14, 2021CIFAR Virtual Talks
Watch Now: Cifar Virtual Talks: What is a “healthy” brain?
Mar 18, 2021CIFAR Virtual Talks
Watch Now: The search for life as we don’t know it
Dec 3, 2020CIFAR Massey Talk
Watch Now: CIFAR Massey Talk: How social relationships get under the skin
Nov 24, 2020CIFAR Virtual Talks
Watch Now: Inheriting emotional trauma
Oct 1, 2020CIFAR Virtual Talks
Watch Now: The hidden costs of COVID-19 on children
Sep 22, 2020CIFAR Virtual Talks
Watch Now: Next Generation Diagnostic Tests
Sep 10, 2020CIFAR Virtual Talks
Watch Now: The sick & the healthy: how can we help each other?
Aug 20, 2020CIFAR Virtual Talks
Watch Now: Building a Learning Health System for Canadians
Aug 6, 2020CIFAR Virtual Talks
Watch Now: Governance, Tech and the Pandemic
Jul 28, 2020Support Us
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