Research Events
Explore some of our upcoming and recent conferences, events, seminars, and workshops.
Upcoming Events
Teaching and Research Excellence Awards
- Friday, May 29, 2026
- 1:00 PM EDT
- Recital Hall, Isabel Bader Centre
Please save the date for an afternoon dedicated to celebrating excellence in teaching, research, and graduate mentorship across our community.
Learn More about Teaching and Research Excellence AwardsCanadian Healthcare Optimization Workshop (CHOW)
- Sunday, June 7, 2026
- 8:30 AM EDT
- Goodes 151
CHOW is a one-day, in-person event designed to bring together leading researchers, healthcare executives, and analytics practitioners to advance the science and practice of healthcare optimization. CHOW offers a focused forum for exchanging ideas, sharing cutting-edge research, and exploring real-world applications aimed at improving health system performance.
67th Annual Canadian Operational Research Society Conference
- Monday, June 8, 2026
- 8:30 AM EDT
- Queen's University
CORS 2026 will bring together researchers, practitioners, and industry leaders for insightful talks, networking opportunities, and cutting-edge discussions in operations research and analytics. Registration closes May 24.
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Stewards of Sacrifice: Recreating Meaning Through Death
- Friday, May 15, 2026
- 10:00 AM EDT
- Goodes 100
Speaker: Tonya Williams Bradford, University of California, Irvine
In this seminar, Tonya Williams Bradford explores how bereaved families navigate deceased organ donation, showing how the sacrifice of death can transform loss into renewed meaning through stewardship, relational identity, and the re-creation of “good” from tragedy.
The Two-System View of Cognition and Investor Choice
- Friday, May 1, 2026
- 10:00 AM EDT
- Goodes 101
Speaker: Kai Li, University of British Columbia
Kai Li explores how intuitive impressions and analytical reasoning interact to shape investor decisions, using livestream mutual fund promotions to reveal when emotion drives behaviour and when it is overridden by deeper scrutiny.
Assessing Consumer Visual Interest and Its Association with Brand Premium: An Empirical Approach Using Image and Text Search Data
- Friday, May 1, 2026
- 10:00 AM EDT
- Goodes 100
Speaker: Abhishek Borah, INSEAD
Abhishek Borah introduces a novel data-driven measure of consumer visual interest to show how attention captured through images and design translates into stronger brand premium and pricing power.
From Exploration to Application: Using AI in Your Research (Part 2)
- Monday, April 27, 2026
- 11:00 AM EDT
- Goodes 141
Speaker: Mark Kashef, MMAI'20
Following the strong interest in Part 1 of our AI workshop series, we are pleased to invite you to Part 2: From Exploration to Application, a more in-depth, hands-on session with Smith alumnus Mark Kashef, MMAI’20.
Workshop Understanding Generative AI and Language Models: Opportunities and Challenges
- Friday, April 24, 2026
- 1:30 PM EDT
- Goodes 101
Speaker: Raghava Rao Mukkamala, Copenhagen Business School
This workshop introduces generative AI and large language models (LLMs), covering essential concepts such as how LLMs are constructed and operate, including embeddings, attention mechanisms, and prompting strategies.
AI Adoption, Incentives, and Firm Value in General Equilibrium
- Friday, April 24, 2026
- 10:00 AM EDT
- Goodes 102
Speaker: Gilles Chemla, Imperial College London
Gilles Chemla’s research analyzes how AI adoption reshapes incentive structures, labour market dynamics, and firm value, highlighting trade-offs between productivity gains and worker outcomes.
Profiling Stakeholder Trade-Offs in Product Design with a Demand-Side Measure
- Friday, April 24, 2026
- 10:00 AM EDT
- Goodes 103
Speaker: Michael Luchs, William and Mary
Michael presents research introducing a new five-dimensional, demand-side framework that helps firms understand how consumers perceive product design trade-offs across performance, repairability, innovation, sustainability, and aesthetics and how these perceptions influence purchasing decisions and willingness to pay.
Open-Source and Small Language Models for Education and Research
- Friday, April 24, 2026
- 9:30 AM EDT
- Goodes 101
Speaker: Raghava Rao Mukkamala, Copenhagen Business School
Raghava Rao Mukkamala’s research explores how open-source and small language models enable more accessible, transparent, and ethically grounded applications of AI in education and research.
How Do Households Suppress The Price of Tail Risk?
- Monday, April 20, 2026
- 10:00 AM EDT
- Goodes 100
Speaker: Laurent Calvet, SKEMA Business School
Laurent Calvet’s research examines how household demand for structured financial products shapes volatility pricing and reduces the cost of insuring against extreme market risks.
Surgeon-in-the-Loop Decision-Aware Learning for Operating Room Planning
- Friday, April 17, 2026
- 1:00 PM EDT
- Goodes 304
Speaker: Borzou Rostami, University of Alberta
Borzou Rostami’s research explores decision-aware AI models that integrate surgeon input to improve operating room scheduling and reduce healthcare system inefficiencies.
Erewhon, Erewhevery, and AI-migraines: Toward a Conceptualization of Imaginary Governance
- Friday, April 17, 2026
- 11:00 AM EDT
- Goodes 100
Speaker: Matt Bamber, York University
Matt Bamber’s research explores the concept of “imaginary governance” to better understand how emerging technologies and narratives shape financial reporting and oversight.
Finance Seminar
- Friday, April 17, 2026
- 10:00 AM EDT
- Goodes 102
Speaker: Laurent Calvet, Skema Business School