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  • Summer Workshop Schedule 2019

    Cryptoworks21 Summer Workshop Schedule 2019

    To register, or for any questions, please email Kaitlyn McDonell at kmcdonel@uwaterloo.ca

    Professional Skills

    • Management and Communications
      • Date & time: May 30, June 6, 13, 20, & 27, 9 am - 5 pm
      • Location: E7 2317

    • Intellectual property protection and management workshop
      • Date & time: July 10-11, 9 am - 5 pm
      • Location: E7 2317

    • Commercialization and entrepreneurship workshop
      • Date & time: July 16-17, 9 am - 5 pm
      • Location: E7 2317

    • Advanced workshop to integrate professional skills
      • Date & time: July 19, 9 am - 5 pm
      • Location: QNC 1201

    • Standards and certification workshop
      • Date & time: July 23-24 9 am - 5 pm
      • Location: QNC 4104

    Technical Skills

    • Post-quantum cryptography
      • Date & time: July 30-31 & August 1-2, 3-4:30 pm
      • Location: QNC 1201

    • Information and network security
      • Date & time: August 6-7, 10:30 am - 12 pm & 1-2:30 pm
      • Location: QNC 1201

    • Quantum cryptography tools part 1
      • Date & time: August 7-8, 3-4:30 pm
      • Location: QNC 1201

    • Quantum cryptography tools part 2
      • Date & time: August 19-23, 9 am - 5 pm
      • Location: QNC 0101

    • Fundamentals of cryptography
      • Date & time: August 19, 9 am - 12 pm
      • Location: QNC 0101

    • Quantum communication devices
      • Date & time: August 19-23, 9 am - 5 pm
      • Location: QNC 0101

    Tutorial

    • Quantum computing for cryptography students
      • Date & time: July 31 & August 1, 10:30 am - 12 pm & 1-2:30 pm
      • Location: QNC 1201

  • Angela presentation picture
    Crossing the chasm - still a relevant challenge

    Angela Mondou, author, entrepreneur and founder of ICE Leadership Inc., shared her insight into technology commercialization at the CryptoWorks21 Distinguished Lecture March 12.

    In an entrepreneurial environment always focused on turning the newest technology into a viable startup company, it’s easy to lose sight ...

  • Elena Bakos Lang Receiving Award from Douglas Stebila
    Math student awarded scholarship for cybersecurity research

    CryptoWorks21 alumni and graduate student in the Department of Combinatorics and Optimization Elena Bakos Lang has been awarded the RBC Graduate Scholarship valued at $20,000 over three terms.

    The scholarship is awarded to a graduate student conducting research in topics aligned with quantum-safe cryptography ...

  • CryptoWorks21 alumnus recognized for outstanding thesis

    CryptoWorks21 alumnus Anqi Huang has been awarded the first RBC Outstanding Thesis Award in Cybersecurity in the Quantum Era for her PhD thesis.

    The award is given annually to recognize an outstanding thesis on quantum-resistant cybersecurity from graduates of the CryptoWorks21 program. Huang completed her ...

  • Picture of Marc Morin
    The "blood, sweat, tears, toil and triumphs" of commercializing technology

    In his own words, Marc Morin is “addicted to the game.”

    Morin is the CEO and co-founder at Auvik Networks, pronounced awe-vik, as in awesome. “It’s like having a child who does way better than you and it’s awesome,” Morin explained at the ...