Faculty of Arts Research
Our vision for energizing arts is to engage, inspire, discover.
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Arts research team
Steig Johnson
The Associate Dean, Research and Infrastructure oversees the Canada Research Chair program, promotes international research collaborations, identifies needs for research infrastructure and manages external review processes.
Kinga Olszewska
The Senior Research Advisor provides research career development support to academic staff.
Neural Netfics
This talk explores the literary significance of the under-recognized contributions that Alan Turing, the progenitor of computer science, made to the field of artificial neural networks, a now pervasive form of AI that deploys simulations of biological neurons.