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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View past events on our Youtube channel here.All Topics (March 2 through April 30)
Wednesday, March 3
- 3:30 PM
Cyber Alliance Seminar: AI Malpractice
Should AI developers be held to a professional standard of care? Recent scholarship has argued that those who build AI systems owe special duties to the public to promote values […]
Thursday, March 4
- 11:00 AM
"Did You Know You Could…?" Series: Use RStudio to Create Simple Visualizations of News and Social Media Data
Speaker: Chris Wells, Associate Professor, Emerging Media Studies, Boston University Hosted by Graduate Student Fellow, Si Wu Abstract: We will talk about using topic modeling techniques and visualization to study […]
Friday, March 5
- 12:00 PM
Distinguished Speaker Series Panel: AI and Inequalities - Creating Change
Hosted by Hariri Institute Junior Faculty Fellows Jennifer Balakrishnan and Elaine Nsoesie.
Monday, March 8
- 11:00 AM
BU Knowledge Transfer Series: Computing and Technology in Support of Sustainability
Presenters: Manos Athanassoulis, Assistant Professor, Computer Science, Boston University Ayse Coskun, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University Mark Crovella, Professor and former […]
Wednesday, March 10
- 1:00 PM
BU Sec Seminar: Function Secret Sharing for PSI-CA: With Applications to Private Contact Tracing
Speaker: Steve Lu, CEO, Stealth Software Technologies Abstract: We present a new privacy-preserving framework for proximity/risk aware contact tracing based on new cryptographic constructions. In this work, we describe a […]
Monday, March 15
- 11:00 AM
AIR Weekly Seminar: Compositional Models for Few Shot Sequence Learning
Speaker: Ekin Akyürek, PhD Student, Computer Science, MIT Abstract: Flexible neural sequence models outperform grammar- and automaton-based counterparts on a variety of tasks. However, neural models perform poorly […]
Wednesday, March 17
- 1:00 PM
BU Sec Seminar: Non-interactive Zero Knowledge for Disjunctions
Speaker: Gabe Kaptchuk, Research Assistant Professor, BU Abstract: Recent work by Heath and Kolesnikov has shown that it is possible to reduce the communication complexity of zero knowledge proofs and […]
Monday, March 22
- 11:00 AM
AIR Weekly Seminar: Linguistically Aware Learning for Scene Text Recognition & Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Segmentation
Speakers: Yi Zheng "Linguistically Aware Learning for Scene Text Recognition" and Kaihong Wang "Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Segmentation" Yi Zheng's Abstract: Scene text recognition is the task […]
Wednesday, March 24
- 1:00 PM
BU Sec Seminar: Correlated Pseudorandom Functions from Variable-Density LPN
Speaker: Geoffroy Couteau, Dr, 'CNRS, IRIF, Université de Paris' Geoffroy Couteau is a CNRS junior researcher at IRIF in Paris. He received his PhD from ENS Paris in 2017. His […]
Friday, March 26
- 1:00 PM
“Did You Know You Could…?” Series: Use Social Media to Amplify Your Research
Speaker: Gina Mantica, Marketing Communications Specialist, Hariri Institute for Computing Hosted by Graduate Student Fellow Li Zhang How do you promote your work and attract more people to read and […]
Monday, March 29
- 11:00 AM
AIR Weekly Seminar: Differentiable Simulation Methods for Robotic Agent Design
Speaker: Tao Du, Ph.D Student, Computer Science, MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)
Wednesday, March 31
- 2:30 PM
BU Knowledge Transfer Series: Coupled Human-Natural Systems and Behavior
Presenters: Suchi Gopal, Professor, Earth & Environment, Les Kaufman, Professor, Biology, Cutler Cleveland, Associate Director, ISE & Professor, Earth & Environment, and Dan Li, Assistant Professor, Earth and […]
Monday, April 5
- 11:00 AM
AIR Weekly Seminar
Taha is a PhD student at the University of Maryland, College Park, under the supervision of Larry S. Davis and Abhinav Shrivastava. Kuniaki is a PhD student at BU advised
Wednesday, April 7
- 1:00 PM
BU Sec Seminar: You Only Speak Once, Secure MPC with Stateless Ephemeral Roles
Speaker: Tal Rabin, Head of Research, Algorand Foundation
Monday, April 12
- 11:00 AM
Sights, Sounds, and Space: Audio-visual Learning in 3D Environments
Moving around in the world is naturally a multisensory experience, but today’s embodied agents are deaf. This talk explores audio-visual learning in complex, acoustically and visually realistic 3D environments.
Wednesday, April 14
- 1:00 PM
BU Sec Seminar: Limits on the Efficiency of (Ring) LWE based Non-Interactive Key Exchange
Our results show possibilities and challenges in designing simple (ring) LWE-based non-interactive key exchange protocols.
Friday, April 16
- 11:00 AM
Designing Molecular Models by Machine Learning and Experimental Data
Experimental observations provide only a partial view of macromolecular processes. This talk shows that it is possible to define simplified molecular models to reproduce the information in microscopic simulation and […]
Wednesday, April 21
- 1:00 PM
BU Sec Seminar: Generic Delay Functions: Equivalence to Factoring in RSA Groups and an Impossibility Result in Known-Order Groups
In this talk, I will present both upper bounds, connecting the sequentiality of iterated squaring in RSA groups to the factoring assumption, and a lower bound, ruling out the existence […]
Thursday, April 22
- 11:00 AM
Machine Learning Advances in Mechanics of Materials
There is a large rift separating ML developments in Computer Science from applications in Solid Mechanics. This talk addresses the novel data-driven methods that lead to structures with unprecedented properties […]
Monday, April 26
- 11:00 AM
(Machine) Learning to Live Near a Temperamental Star
We are currently more vulnerable to “space weather” than ever before. In this talk, we review some of the essentials of space weather, and discuss ways in which machine learning […]
- 12:00 PM
AIR Weekly Seminar
Speakers: Samarth Mishra, Kuniaki Saito
Wednesday, April 28
- 1:00 PM
BU Sec Seminar
Speaker: Shaanan Cohney, Assistant Professor, University of Melbourne
- 3:30 PM
Cyber Alliance Seminar: Intuition, Reason, and Social Media
Abstract: This Cyber Alliance talk, featuring University of Regina’s Hill/Levene Schools of Business Assistant Prof. Gordon Pennycook, will discuss how, contrary to the narrative that social media algorithms impact […]
Thursday, April 29
- 2:00 PM
Pause for Democracy: Leaving Open Source Storage to Help Americans Vote in 2020
This event is part of the Red Hat Colloquium Series. Sage Weil, Ceph Project Lead and Sr Distinguished Engineer at Red Hat will be presenting.
Friday, April 30
- 11:00 AM
Machine Learning Approaches to Targeting Emergency Humanitarian Assistance
To offset COVID-19’s effects, policymakers and organizations try to provide emergency assistance to those who need it most. This talk shows the work that uses advances in machine learning to […]