Calendar
View the calendar below to explore all upcoming events sponsored by the Institute and its affiliate centers and initiatives. Browse events by date, or select an event topic to narrow your search.
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Wednesday, September 17
- 10:00 AM
BU Sec Seminar
30 chairs
Thursday, September 18
- 5:30 PM
First Annual Gitner Lecture
Join us for "Advancing the Human Condition: An Agenda for Research and Education," the First Annual Gerald and Deanne Gitner Family College of Arts & Sciences Lecture. The program will […]
Wednesday, September 24
- 10:00 AM BU Sec Seminar
- 1:00 PM Middle East MOOC Launch
Wednesday, October 1
- 3:00 PM
Wed@Hariri: Clark Freifeld, Research Software Developer, Boston Children's Hospital
Clark Freifeld, a Research Software Developer at the Boston Children's Hospital, will be giving a talk on "HealthMap and MedWatcher: big data and crowdsourcing for better public health"
Thursday, October 2
- 8:30 AM
IS&T PMO Training
9 people
Wednesday, October 8
- 3:00 PM
Wed@Hariri: Wendy Seltzer, Policy Counsel, World Wide Web Consortium
Wendy Seltzer, Policy Counsel to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), will be giving a talked titled "Privacy and the Third Party Doctrine: 'They Never Metadata They Wouldn’t Seize'"
Friday, October 10
- 2:00 PM
Kamalika Chaudhuri: Challenges in Differentially-Private Data Analysis
Machine learning algorithms increasingly work with sensitive information on individuals, and hence the problem of privacy-preserving data analysis -- how to design data analysis algorithms that operate on the sensitive […]
Wednesday, October 15
- 10:00 AM
BUSec Seminar: Merrielle Spain. Lincoln Labs. Deriving Robust Keys from Physical Unclonable Functions
Weak physical unclonable functions (PUFs) can instantiate read-proof hardware tokens (Tuyls et al. 2006, CHES) where benign variation, such as changing temperature, yields a consistent key, but invasive attempts to […]
Wednesday, October 22
Friday, October 24
- 8:00 AM
New England Network and Systems Day
Sponsored and hosted by the Hariri Institute, the New England Network and Systems Day brings together academics and research scientists from local industry, universities and research labs to discuss recent […]
Wednesday, October 29
- 10:00 AM
BUSec Seminar: Haya Shulman. TU Darmstat. (Tentative)
30 chairs
- 3:00 PM
Wed@Hariri: Al Grimes, Chief Information Officer, Massachusetts Office of Campaign and Political Finance; Dr. Paul Clark, Disclosure Business Architect, Federal Election Commission
Al Grimes, Chief Information Officer at the Massachusetts Office of Campaign, will be giving a talk titled "Data + Narrative: Money and Politics Storytelling with Big Data".
Friday, October 31
- 9:00 AM NFS SCOPE Partner Kickoff
Wednesday, November 5
- 3:00 PM
Wed@Hariri/Meet Our Fellows: Pankaj Mehta
Pankaj Mehta, Assistant Professor in the Phsyics Department, will be giving a talk titled "Statistical Inference and Feature Selection in Complex Datasets".
Thursday, November 6
- 4:00 PM
Vladas Pipiras – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Title: Quadratic programming in synthesis of stationary Gaussian fields. Abstract: Circulant matrix embedding is one of the most popular and efficient methods for the exact generation of Gaussian stationary univariate […]
Thursday, November 13
- 4:00 PM
Lizhen Lin - University of Texas at Austin
Title: Robust and scalable inference using median posteriors. Abstract: While theoretically justified and computationally efficient point estimators were developed in robust estimation for many problems, robust Bayesian […]
Friday, November 14
- 9:00 AM
BU/MIT Lincoln Labs Workshop on Moving Target Defense
The BU/MIT LL Cybersecurity Series is a joint effort between Boston University and MIT Lincoln Laboratory to provide a recurring series of one-day workshops open to the public, each of […]
Wednesday, November 19
- 10:00 AM BUSec Seminar: Engin Kirda, NEU.
- 1:00 PM DLI: Instructional Designer Pre-Consort Meeting
- 4:00 PM
Colloquium Series: Professor Anand Raghunathan
Professor Anand Raghunathan Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Purdue University - - Approximate Computing and the Quest for Computing Efficiently - - Abstract: The gap created by diminishing benefits […]