Greg Mayer

Volunteering in Hungary

From July 25 to August 8, 2009, I will be volunteering in Hajdúböszörmény, Hungary, for Habitat for Humanity. Habitat for Humanity (HFH) is a non-profit organization that works with low-income families. The families that HFH assists often live in substandard, unhealthy conditions, and need a decent place to live. As part of the partnership agreementContinue reading “Volunteering in Hungary”

My Grade Inflation Interview on Science Matters

Science Matters is a bi-weekly science-for-the-public radio show produced by University of Waterloo student, Aletheia Chiang. I was interviewed by Aletheia last Friday. My thoughts on Grade Inflation and what it means to the University of Waterloo can be found in audio form here: http://aletheia.podbean.com/ The interview ended at 28:11 in an unexpected way! ManyContinue reading “My Grade Inflation Interview on Science Matters”

I Made a Fractal Website

I recently finished working on another website: http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/WatFract Let me know what you think, and if you find any problems viewing the site. The site is for a group of researchers that work on fractals and other related areas of mathematics. One of the members, Edward Vrscay, was my PhD supervisor.

Canadian Association for Food Studies

I recently finished building a simple website for the Canadian Association for Food Studies at: http://www.foodstudies.ca The site has a lot of content that took me a long time to format properly. The french content isn’t ready, so only some of the English content on the site is in both languages. I built the websiteContinue reading “Canadian Association for Food Studies”

Grade Inflation

Last week, an article I wrote for the Centre for Teaching Excellence (CTE) Blog was posted here: http://cte-blog.uwaterloo.ca/?p=223 My article is on grade inflation at the University of Waterloo and how it might impact course enrollment. For the interested reader, this memo provides more information on the policies Princeton introduced to address grade inflation inContinue reading “Grade Inflation”

PhD Thesis Defence Passed

So on Wednesday October 29, I passed my PhD thesis defence. People are asking me what happens next. Here’s the next few steps that I have in my life: 1. My examiners gave me revisions to make to the thesis. Every grad student gets to make revisions after they defend (provided that they pass theirContinue reading “PhD Thesis Defence Passed”

Defending the PhD Thesis

Last Wednesday I submitted my thesis to my examining committee. On Wednesay, October 29th, 1:30, MC 5158, Greg defends his thesis. Oh yes. Here’s how the defense works in my department: it’s open to the public and will probably be 2 to 3 hours long. I have a presentation at the beginning that’ll run forContinue reading “Defending the PhD Thesis”

How to Run a BBQ at the University of Waterloo

Back in the days when I was volunteering for half a dozen clubs and services at UW, I ran many a BBQ to raise money for different charitable causes. I eventually wrote a seven page handbook to increase my own efficiency, and help others run efficient fundraisers. I posted the handbook on my UW webspaceContinue reading “How to Run a BBQ at the University of Waterloo”