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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All Topics (February 25 through April 30)

Wednesday, February 27

2:45 PM
- Seminar
Meet Our Fellows Series: Deep Learning for Alzheimer’s Disease Diagnosis and Assessment – Vijaya Kolachalama, Asst. Professor, BU Medical School
An estimated 5.7 million Americans of all ages were living with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) in 2018. While there is not yet any available drug treatment for the disease, research indicates […]
3:30 PM Cyber Alliance Series: (Talk title forthcoming) – Marshall Van Alstyne, Professor Information Systems, Questrom School of Business

Thursday, February 28

12:30 PM Two Visiting Speakers to Give Talks on Protein Flexibility and Thrombin Allostery–Professor Ryotaro KOIKE, Dr. Ikuo KURISAKI
"Motion Tree, a Computational Tool to Describe Protein Flexibility" Professor Ryotaro KOIKE, Nagoya University In our bodies, a large number of proteins work to maintain various biological activities, e.g. […]

Wednesday, March 6

3:30 PM Cyber Alliance Speaker Series: Software Engineer for Lawyers
James Grimmelmann, Cornell University

Monday, March 11

10:30 AM AlphaStar: Mastering the Real-Time Strategy Game StarCraft II- Oriol Vinyals, Google DeepMind
Games have been used for decades as an important way to test and evaluate the performance of artificial intelligence systems. As capabilities have increased, the research community has sought games […]

Thursday, March 14

9:00 AM DIMACS Workshop with Rutgers University
Please visit the event website for emails and instructions on how to register.
DIMACS/MACS Workshop on Usable, Efficient, and Formally Verified Secure Computation
Groundbreaking results from the 1980s showed the surprising result that any function can be securely computed by a group of participants in a distributed fashion such that each party learns […]

Wednesday, March 20

2:45 PM
- Seminar
Wednesday at Hariri
Christoph Nolte, Assistant Professor, Earth&Environment, Hariri Junior Faculty Fellow
3:30 PM Cyber Alliance Speaker Series
Neil Richards, Washington University

Friday, March 22

5:00 PM Tech Together Boston
Please visit the event website for more details and instructions on how to register.

Monday, April 1

10:30 AM AIR Series: First-Person Perception by Anticipating the Unseen and Unheard
AIR SEMINAR SERIES Kristen Grauman, University of Texas at Austin Computer vision has seen major success in learning to recognize objects from massive “disembodied” Web photo collections labeled by human […]

Wednesday, April 3

1:00 PM 2019 Digital Health Initiative (DHI) Roundtable Event
Please join the Hariri Institute for Computing and the Institute for Health System Innovation & Policy for a discussion about the current Digital Health Initiative (DHI) award call for Spring […]
3:30 PM Cyber Alliance Series: Election Integrity
In this Cyber Alliance talk, MIT Prof. Ron Rivest will review the problem of election security, focusing on the problem of ensuring that the reported outcome is correct for each […]

Friday, April 5

8:00 AM Women in Data Science (WiDS) Boston Conference
Please visit the event website for more details and instructions on how to register.

Monday, April 8

12:30 PM Cyber Alliance Speaker Series: “ Facebook v. Sullivan: Building Constitutional Law for Online Speech”
Speaker: Kate Klonick, St. John’s University

Thursday, April 11

5:00 PM Deadline for Graduate Student Fellow Continuing PhD Student nominations
Junior Faculty Fellow nominations and Spring 2019 Research Incubation Award proposals Please visit www.bu.edu/hic for more details.

Wednesday, April 17

3:30 PM Cyber Alliance Speaker Series: “ Regulating Cyber Insurance”
Speaker: Asaf Lubin, Tufts & Yale University

Monday, April 22

10:30 AM AIR Seminar Series: Talk title coming soon.
Speaker: Yoram Singer, Princeton University & Google

Wednesday, April 24

9:00 AM Massachusetts Open Cloud – IBM Deep Learning Workshop
The IBM PowerAI software, combined with the unprecedented performance of IBM Power9 hardware, makes deep learning easier and faster by bringing together some of the most popular open source frameworks […]