Mentorship 101
The number of mentor/mentee pairings we made this year?
What is 74?
This U of T building looks like a turkey.
What is Robarts Library?
The most popular Python library used for data manipulation and analysis that is especially good with tabular data.
What is Pandas?
This simple machine consists of a wheel and a rope and helps lift heavy loads.
What is a pulley?
This is the medical term for high blood pressure.
What is hypertension?
This short speech summarizes who you are, what you do, and what you’re looking for—ideally in under 60 seconds.
What is an elevator pitch?
Recently named the University of Toronto's 17th president.
Who is Melanie Woodin?
This concept in computer science defines a function that calls itself to solve smaller subproblems.
What is recursion?
This sample preparation technique is widely used in environmental toxicology to extract organic contaminants from water using a solid sorbent phase.
What solid-phase extraction (SPE)?
The process of converting DNA to RNA.
What is transcription?
This acronym is your best friend when answering questions like “Tell me about a time you handled conflict at work.
What is the STAR method?
Founded in 1827, U of T was originally called this.
What is King's College?
A machine learning paradigm with 2 distinguishing features: Trial-and-error search and delayed reward.
What is reinforcement learning?
Electrical engineers often use this instrument to visualize voltage signals and waveforms over time.
What is an oscilloscope?
This brain structure plays a key role in long-term memory formation and spatial navigation and is one of the first regions affected in Alzheimer's disease.
What is the hippocampus?
The name of our IMP networking event.
What is Building Bridges?
U of T was featured in flashbacks and academic scenes in this twisted serial killer drama starring Mads Mikkelsen.
What is Hannibal?
Very very popular neural architecture that eliminates recurrence and convolutions, makes for great scalability in training large-scale language models! (You have to say the architecture name, not an example of a company.)
What is the Transformer?
This type of filter allows frequencies below a cutoff frequency to pass through while attenuating higher frequencies.
What is a low-pass filter?
This enzyme, active in the stomach, breaks down proteins into peptides and is secreted as an inactive zymogen.
What is pepsin?
This is the IMP March Newsletter theme.
What is Overcoming Career Challenges & Building Confidence?
This U of T department made headlines for producing the world’s first successful neural network used for digit recognition in the 1980s.
What is The Department of Computer Science?
This fundamental result in computability theory proves that there is no general algorithm that can determine whether an arbitrary program halts on a given input.
What is the Halting Problem?
This probabilistic technique is widely used in autonomous navigation to estimate a vehicle’s position by recursively updating beliefs based on motion models and sensor observations, effectively handling noise and uncertainty in dynamic environments.
What is a Kalman filter?
This effect describes how hemoglobin's affinity for oxygen decreases as CO₂ and H⁺ concentration increase.
What is the Bohr effect?