Fall 2023 Featured Events
August
Reflecting on One Year of MPOX Response Panel Discussion
Time: 3:30PM-5:00PM
Speakers: Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, White House MPOX response deputy coordinator; Dr. Nikki Romanik, White House senior policy advisor; Adrianna Boulin, director of community impact and engagement at Fenway Health; Dr. Céline Gounder, editor-at-large for public health at Kaiser Family Foundation Health News and CBS news medical contributor
Opening Remarks will be provided by Dr. Ashish Jha, dean of the Brown School of Public Health, and prior White House COVID-19 coordinator
Panel Moderator: Dr. Nahid Bhadelia, founding director of CEID at Boston University
Co-sponsors: Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases Policy & Research (CEID) and The Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering (HiCCSE)
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September
THUR, September 7, 2023
Population Health Data Science Poster Session and Reception
Time: 3:00PM-5:00PM
Location: BUMC Hiebert Lounge, 72 East Concord Street, Room 1407
Co-sponsors: The SPH Population Health Data Science Program, the Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering, the SPH Department of Biostatistics, and the Providence/Boston Center for AIDS Research (CFAR)
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THUR, September 7, 2023
Red Hat Collaboratory – Maximizing yout Proposal Potential Lunch Info Session and Meet-Ups
Time: 12:00PM-1:00PM
Location: Center for Computing & Data Sciences, 665 Commonwealth Ave., Room 1101
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FRI, September 8, 2023
CISE Seminar
Speaker: Allison Okamura, Professor, Stanford University
Biography
Faculty Host: Sheila Russo
Student Hosts: Andres Chavez Armijos & Arincheyan Gerald
Time: 3:00PM-4:00PM
Location: 8 Saint Mary’s Street, PHO 203
FRI, September 15, 2023
CISE Seminar
Speaker: Ananya Sen Gupta, Associate Professor, University of Iowa
Biography
Faculty Host: Vivek Goyal
Student Host: Ahmad Ahmad
Time: 3:00PM-4:00PM
Location: 665 Commonwealth Avenue, CDS 1101
THUR, September 21, 2023
Boston Women’s Workforce Council Panel Discussion on Pay Transparency Laws
Speakers: Tizana Dearing, Host of WBUR Radio; Evelyn Murphy, Co-Chair, BWWC; Garry Straker, VP Compensation, Salary.com
Time: 12:00PM-1:00PM
Panel Title:Be Prepared: A Conversation on Wage Transparency Trends in the Workplace
Location: Virtual Event
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THUR, September 21, 2023
Health Data Science Distinguished Speaker Series
Speaker: Roger Peng Professor of Statistics and Data Sciences University of Texas, Austin
Time: 12:00PM-1:00PM
Talk Title:Principles for Designing Complex Data Analyses
Location:Hybrid: BUMC Hiebert Lounge, 72 East Concord Street, Room 1407 & Zoom
Co-sponsors: The SPH Population Health Data Science Program, the Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering, the SPH Department of Biostatistics, and the Providence/Boston Center for AIDS Research (CFAR)
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FRI, September 22, 2023
Computational Biophysics and Chemistry Symposium
Time: 8:30am ET
Location:In-Person: Boston University Hillel, 213 Bay State Rd., Boston, MA 02215
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FRI, September 22, 2023
CISE Seminar
Speaker: Junyu Cao, Assistant Professor, The University of Texas at Austin
Biography
Faculty Host: Jinglong Zhao
Time: 3:00PM-4:00PM
Location: 665 Commonwealth Avenue, CDS 1101
MON, September 25, 2023
Hariri Institute Graduate Student Alumni and Networking Event (Virtual)
Time: 10:00AM-11:00AM
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Location: Zoom
FRI, September 27, 2023
Virtual CISE Seminar – Remote-Only
Speaker: Aryeh Kontorovich, Professor, Ben-Gurion University
Biography
Time: 2:15PM-3:15PM
Location:zoom
October
Workshop: The implications of Generative AI (ChatGPT) in Education
Time: 1:00pm – 3:00pm ET
Location: In-Person: Center for Computing & Data Sciences, Boston University, 665 Commonwealth Ave, Room 1750 (17th floor), Boston, MA 02215
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FRI, October 6, 2023
CISE Seminar
Speaker: Andreas Malikopoulos, Professor, Cornell University
Biography
Faculty Host: Christos Cassandras
Student Host: Andres Chavez Armijos
Time: 3:00PM-4:00PM
Location: Center for Computing & Data Sciences, Boston University, 665 Commonwealth Ave, Room 1101 (11th floor), Boston, MA 02215
WED, October 11, 2023
BU Security Seminar: Semi-Quantum Random Number Generation
Speaker: Julia Guskind
Time: 1:00PM-2:00PM
Location: Center for Computing & Data Sciences, Boston University, 665 Commonwealth Ave, Room 1001, Boston, MA 02215
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THURS, October 12, 2023
Red Hat Collaboratory Colloquium: State Machine Replication and the Art of Abstraction
Speaker: Murat Demirbas, Principal Applied Scientist at AWS, Professor, University at Buffalo, SUNY
Time: 12:00PM – 1:00PM
Location: Photonics Building, Boston University, 8 St. Mary’s St., Room PHO 210, Boston, MA 02215
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FRI, October 13, 2023
CISE Seminar
Speaker: Robert Webster, Professor, Vanderbilt University
Biography
Faculty Host: Sheila Russo
Student Host: Ahmad Ahmad
Time: 3:00PM-4:00PM
Location: 8 Saint Mary’s Street, PHO 203
TUES, October 17, 2023
Health Data Science Distinguished Speaker Series
Speaker: Isaac Kohane, MD, PhD, Harvard Medical School
Time: 2:00PM-3:00PM
Talk Title: Al & Population Health
Location: Hybrid: BUMC Hiebert Lounge, 72 East Concord Street, Room 1407 & Zoom
Co-sponsors: The SPH Population Health Data Science Program, the Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering, the SPH Department of Biostatistics, and the Providence/Boston Center for AIDS Research (CFAR)
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WED, October 18, 2023
Red Hat Research Days
Speakers: Ahmed Sanaullah, Research Scientist, Red Hat, and Jason Schlessman, Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat
Time: 10:00 AM -11:30 AM ET
Talk Title: CoDesign in Action: Dynamic Infrastructure Services Layer (DISL)
Location: Virtual
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FRI, October 20, 2023
MLxMED Seminar Series
Speaker: April Khademi
Time: 2:00PM-3:00PM
Talk Title: Machine Learning in Medicine Virtual Seminar
Location: Virtual only: Zoom Webinar
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WED, October 25, 2023
Research on Tap
Featuring: Stacey Dogan (host), Woodrow Hartzog (host), Mark Crovella, Tesary Lin, Christopher Robertson, Andrew Sellars, Adam Smith, Chris Chao Su, Marshall Van Alstyne
Time: 4:00PM-6:00PM
Talk Title: Toward Responsible AI: Privacy, Fairness, and Accountability
Location: Eichenbaum Colloquium Room (Room 101), Rajen Kilachand Center for Integrated Life Sciences & Engineering, 610 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA
Co-sponsor: The Hariri Institute
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November
Health Data Science Distinguished Speaker Series
Speaker: Rumi Chunara, Associate Professor of Biostatistics, Director, Center for Health Data Science, New York University
Time: 12:00PM-1:00PM
Talk Title: Machine Learning in Population Health: Challenges & Opportunities
Location: Hybrid: BMC Hiebert Lounge, 72 East Concord Street, Room 1407 & Zoom
Co-sponsors: The SPH Population Health Data Science Program, the Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering, the SPH Department of Biostatistics, and the Providence/Boston Center for AIDS Research (CFAR)
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FRI, November 3, 2023
Hariri Institute Distinguished Speaker Series
Speaker: Arvind Narayanan, Professor of Computer Science, Director CITP, Princeton University
BU Host: Tesary Lin
Time: 11:00AM-12:00PM
Talk Title: The Reproducibility Crisis in Machine Learning-based Science
Location: Online only, Zoom
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THUR, November 16, 2023
Red Hat Collaboratory Colloquium
Speaker: Sherard Griffin, Director of Engineering, OpenShift AI, Red Hat
Talk Title: AI Product Strategies and Research Topics
Time: 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm ET
Location: Center for Computing & Data Sciences, Room 1101, 11th floor, 665 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA 02215
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FRI, November 17, 2023
Hariri Institute Distinguished Speaker Series
Speaker: Milind Tambe, Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science, Director of Center for Research in Computation and Society, Harvard University; Principal Scientist and Director for “AI for Social Good” at Google Research
Talk Title: Integrating ML+Optimization: Driving Social Impact in public health and conservation
Time: 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EST
Location: Kilachand Center, Eichenbaum Room (Room 101), 610 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA 02215
BU Host: Yannis Paschalidis
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WED, November 29, 2023
Research on Tap: Health Data Science
Time: 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm EST
Location: Kilachand Center, Eichenbaum Room (Room 101), 610 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA 02215
Organizer: Office of Research
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WED, November 29, 2023
Data Science and Surveillance: Reflections and Opportunities in Emerging Infectious Diseases
Time: 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. EST
Location: 72 E. Concord St, L-403, Boston, MA and via Zoom
Organizer: Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases Policy & Research
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THURS, November 30, 2023
AI and Education Symposium
Time: 10:00 am – 1:00 pm ET
Location: Center for Computing & Data Sciences, Boston University, 665 Commonwealth Ave, Room 1750 (17th floor), Boston, MA 02215
Organizer: AI and Education Initiative
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December
Condensed Matter Seminar
Speaker: Nisarga Paul, Physics PhD student, MIT
Talk Title: “Dimensional reduction and other commensurability phenomena in moiré systems”
Time: 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm ET
Location: 590 Commonwealth Ave, SCI Building, Room 352
BU Host: Alexey Khudorozhkov
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FRI, December 8, 2023
Condensed Matter Seminar
Speaker: Nicolas Loizeau, PhD graduate student, Quantum Theory, NYU
Talk Title: TBA
Time: 11:00 am – 12:30 pm ET
Location: 590 Commonwealth Ave, SCI Building, Room 352
BU Host: Anatoli Polkovnikov
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WED, December 13, 2023
AIR Distinguished Speaker Series
Speaker: Sharon Xiaolei Huang, Professor, College of Information Sciences and Technology, Penn State University, University Park, PA.
Talk Title: “Generating synthetic images and videos for data augmentation and sharing in medical applications”
Time: 11:00 am – 12:00 pm ET
Location: Center for Computing & Data Sciences, Boston University, 665 Commonwealth Ave, Room 1750 (17th floor), Boston, MA 02215
Organizer: AI Research Initiative
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FRI, December 15, 2023
Condensed Matter Seminar
Speaker: Thomas Scaffidi, Assistant Professor, Physics & Astronomy, UC Irvine
Time: 11:00 am – 12:30 pm ET
Location: 590 Commonwealth Ave, SCI Building, Room 352
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