1.5 hours
Grand River Chinese School
Free Tickets Available
Sat, 08 Nov, 2025 at 10:00 am to 11:30 am (GMT-05:00)
Grand River Chinese School
455 University Avenue West, Kitchener, Canada
AI isnโt science fiction anymore. Chat GPT5 just dropped, and Google AI just scored Gold on the most competitive math exam in the world. If machines can outcompete the best of humans, what can we do? Better yet, what does the next generation do?In this free seminar, Professor, CEO, and former USA Math Olympiad Coach Po-Shen Loh explains what todayโs young people will need to succeed in a future shaped by AI. Drawing from conversations in over 100 cities, plus years of coaching world champion students, he shares clear insights based on real experience.
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Who Should Attend:
The speaker, Po-Shen Loh, has traveled to over 100 cities in recent years, delivering talks on this topic and gaining insights from diverse audiencesโa tour that was even featured by .
Po-Shen Loh is a social entrepreneur and inventor working across mathematics, education, and healthcare. He is a math professor at Carnegie Mellon University and the national coach of the USA International Mathematical Olympiad team. He has pioneered innovations ranging from a scalable way for people to learn challenging math live online from brilliant people to a new way to control pandemics by leveraging self-interest.
He has earned distinctions ranging from an International Mathematical Olympiad silver medal to the USA Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. He was the coach of Carnegie Mellon Universityโs math team when it achieved its first-ever #1 rank among all North American universities, and the coach of the USA Math Olympiad team when it achieved its first-ever back-to-back #1-rank victories in 2015 and 2016, and then again in 2018 and 2019. He featured in or co-created videos totaling over 21 million YouTube views.
He has earned distinctions ranging from an International Mathematical Olympiad silver medal to the USA Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. He was the coach of Carnegie Mellon Universityโs math team when it achieved its first-ever #1 rank among all North American universities, and the coach of the USA Math Olympiad team when it achieved its first-ever back-to-back #1-rank victories in 2015 and 2016, and then again in 2018 and 2019. He featured in or co-created videos totaling over 21 million YouTube views.
Po-Shen received his undergraduate degree in mathematics from Caltech in 2004, graduating with the highest GPA in his class. He received a masterโs degree in mathematics from the University of Cambridge in 2005, where he was supported by a Winston Churchill Foundation Scholarship. He continued his studies at Princeton, supported by a Hertz Foundation Fellowship and a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, where he completed his Ph.D. in mathematics at the end of 2009, and has been on the faculty at Carnegie Mellon University ever since.
Grand River Chinese School
Main site (Resurrection High School)
455 University Ave W, Kitchener, ON N2N 3B9, Canada
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Most of Prof. Loh's public outreach, including this event, is sponsored by LIVE, by Po-Shen Loh. This talk is proudly supported by the Grand River Chinese School. Grand River Chinese School was established in 2007, it is a non-profit Chinese school serving the greater Kitchener-Waterloo (KW) region, Ontario, Canada.
Info: An open and dynamic Q&A session for parents and students on any topic.
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