Calendar
Other Events (February 25 through February 28)
Monday, February 25
- 12:00 PM Free falafel at the GSU
- New Employee Orientation
- 2:00 PM IS&T SCV Tutorial - Tuning MATLAB Codes For Better Performance
- 4:00 PM John Hull: Discount Rates and Funding Value Adjustments in the Valuation of Derivatives
- ECE Seminar with Ameet Talwalkar
- 6:00 PM Model Auditions
- 7:00 PM Bystander Training
- 8:00 PM TED Talks Night
Tuesday, February 26
- 10:00 AM IS&T SCV Tutorial - Diagrams, Graphs, and PowerPoint: How to Create an Effective Presentation
- 12:30 PM The Economics of the Eurozone Crisis: A luncheon discussion with Stefan Collignon
- 2:00 PM IC Virtual Career Fair
- IS&T SCV Tutorial - Introduction to Research Data Management
- 4:00 PM Cambridge Public Schools Education Job Fair
- 5:00 PM Ta-Nehisi Coates, Senior Editor, The Atlantic and author, “The Beautiful Struggle”
- 6:00 PM Senior Design: Critical Design Reviews - Night 1
- 7:30 PM Krav Maga
Wednesday, February 27
- All Day Bender Virtual Career Fair: Employment for People with Disabilities
- 10:00 AM IS&T SCV Tutorial - MATLAB Parallel Computing Toolbox
- 12:00 PM HEM Open House
- 2:00 PM IS&T SCV Tutorial - Introduction to MPI, Part One
- 4:00 PM ECE Colloquium with Michael Mahoney
- 5:30 PM Coulter Centennial Celebration
- 6:00 PM Nights at the PRC
- 7:00 PM Sex in the Dark: A Glow in the Dark Sexpert Panel
Thursday, February 28
BU Today: Latest Headlines
- Are Computer-Aided Decisions Actually Fair? December 14, 2018Algorithmic fairness is increasingly important, because as more decisions of greater importance are made by computer programs, the potential for harm grows. Today, algorithms are already widely used to determine credit scores, which can mean the difference between owning a home and renting one. And they are used in predictive policing, which suggests a likelihood […]
- Eat and Run December 14, 2018ack when he was an undergraduate at Johnson & Wales University, Adam Korzun worked in Boston’s elegant Four Seasons Hotel, preparing meals in the kitchen of its five-star restaurant. These days, as a sports dietitian, Korzun (Sargent’05) creates menus aimed at providing food that’s more high-test than haute cuisine. Korzun is director of performance nutrition […]
- A First Grader’s Murder Spurs a Mother’s Crusade to Teach Love December 14, 2018The last photo taken of Jesse Lewis shows the six-year-old squinting into the mid-December sun as he’s dropped off at school. On the nearby family car, he had finger-scrawled “I LOVE YOU” in the frosty coating. Less than an hour later, the first grader was dead. Jesse, along with 19 other children and 6 adults […]
- BU Hult Prize Winners Aim to Bring Learning to Refugee Camps December 13, 2018It’s a long way from Comm Ave to Bekaa Valley, but an idea pitched by three BU students to a select audience at the BUildLab Monday night could have a profound impact in refugee camps in Lebanon and beyond. The start-up created by Jessica Thai (CAS’20), Sheila Phillips (CAS’20), and Misty Ouyang (Sargent’20), which could […]
- Winter People Shines a Light on a Different Side of the Hamptons December 13, 2018Laura Neill grew up in Southampton, on eastern Long Island, but no, she doesn’t know the Kardashians or any of the other fabulously rich and famous people who descend on the Hamptons each summer. Neill’s family—her father is a Stony Brook University psychology professor, her mother a fiction writer—lives in the Southampton hamlet of North […]
