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 (March 17 through May 11)
Friday, March 17
- 3:00 PM
CISE Seminar: Carole-Jean Wu, Meta AI
Scaling AI Computing Sustainably
The past 50 years has seen a dramatic increase in the amount of compute per person, in particular, those enabled by AI. Modern natural language processing
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Monday, March 20
- 8:00 AM
2023 MOC Alliance Workshop
The workshop will bring together our unique community of Research IT, researchers, users, and industry to celebrate what has been accomplished and help define the MOC Alliance strategy moving forward.
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Wednesday, March 22
- 3:00 PM
Machine Learning in Medicine (MLxMed) Seminar Series
Speaker: Arjun Krishnan, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics and the Center for Health Artificial Intelligence, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
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- 3:30 PM
"How Many Deaths Has the COVID-19 Pandemic Really Caused in the U.S.? A Look at Current Evidence"
Speakers:
Andrew Stokes, Assistant Professor of Global Health (SPH) and Assistant Professor of Sociology (CAS), and
Yannis Paschalidis, Distinguished Professor of Engineering (ECE, SE,
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Friday, March 24
- 12:00 PM
Bridging AI and Disability. A Focused Research Program (FRP)
The goal of the event is to broadly explore directions for AI and user-driven frameworks for assistive and rehabilitative technologies. Please join us and our speakers.
Event Mission: Assistive AI
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Monday, March 27
- 12:00 PM
Distinguished Speaker Series: Jennifer Hill, Professor of Applied Statistics, New York University
Title: How and why to estimate heterogeneous treatment effects: the BART advantage
Abstract: The ability to estimate heterogeneous treatment effects is crucial for understanding how and for
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Friday, April 7
- 11:00 AM
Director Esteemed Seminar: Fei Wang, Associate Professor of Health Informatics, Weill Cornell Medicine
Talk Title: AI for Digital Health: A Full-Stack Health Data Science Perspective
Abstract: Digital health aims at improving care delivery and making medicine more precise by technologies
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- 3:00 PM
CISE Seminar: Necmiye Ozay, Associate Professor, University of Michigan
Formal methods for Cyber Physical Systems: State of the Art and Future Challenges
Modern cyber-physical systems, like high-end passenger vehicles, aircraft, or robots, are equipped with
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Monday, April 10
- 2:00 PM
Hariri Institute & CISE Seminar: Michael Milford, Professor, Electrical Engineering, Queensland University of Technology
Talk Title: Insights and New Questions for Machine and Natural Learning of Spatial Intelligence in Robots and Animals
Abstract: Our lab has spent the past two decades bridging the
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Wednesday, April 12
- 11:00 AM
Distinguished Speaker: Mark Lurie, Associate Professor of Epidemiology at Brown University and Director of Brown's International Health Institute
Data-Driven Approaches to Prevent the Next Pandemic Distinguished Speaker Series
Talk Title: Using Mobility and Social Mixing Data to Predict and Prevent Future Pandemics
Talk
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Wednesday, April 19
- 3:00 PM
Director Esteemed Seminar: Pallavi Tiwari, Associate Professor, Radiology and Biomedical Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Hariri Institute Director Esteemed Seminar, co-organized by MLxMed Seminar Series
Abstract: In this talk, Dr. Tiwari will focus on her lab’s recent efforts in developing machine learning
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Friday, April 21
- 11:00 AM
AIR Distinguished Speaker: David Jacobs. Professor, Department of Computer Science and UMIACS, University of Maryland
Talk Title: 3D Reconstruction: Leveraging Synthetic Data for Lightweight Reconstruction
Abstract: Reconstruction of 3D structure is an important problem with many applications, but in such
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- 3:00 PM
CISE Seminar: Agni Orfanoudaki, Associate Professor, University of Oxford
When Can Machine Learning Help with Operational Efficiency? Designing Vertical Processing Units in Emergency Departments
Addressing hospital emergency department (ED) overcrowding is a critical
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Wednesday, April 26
- 1:30 PM
Quick Chat: Computational Pragmatics and Cross-linguistic Variation & Computational Methods in History: Network Analytics and Maps
Wired-In CHASS Quick Chats Topics: Computational Pragmatics and Cross-linguistic Variation & Computational Methods in History: Network Analytics and Maps presented by Elizabeth Coppock, Assistant Professor, CAS - […]
- 3:00 PM
Wayne Gilmore, Director of Research Computing Information Services & Technology
Talk Title: “Did you know how … IS&T Research Computing Services can assist you with your computational needs?”
Abstract: Research Computing Services provides computing
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Thursday, April 27
- 4:00 PM
Function-space regularized divergences and optimal transport for enhanced generative modeling (Markos Katsoulakis -- UMass Amherst)
We present recent work on new variational representations for probability divergences and metrics with applications to machine learning and uncertainty quantification (UQ). The newly constructed information-theoretic […]
Friday, April 28
- 3:00 PM
CISE Seminar: Pierre Dupont, Boston Children’s Hospital & Harvard Medical Lab
Concentric Tube Continuum Robots – from Heart Valve Repair to Brain Tumor Surgery
Concentric tube robots are comprised of telescoping precurved superelastic tubes. Their shape is controlled by
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Tuesday, May 2
- 1:00 PM
Distinguished Speaker: John Drake, Professor, University of Georgia
Hybrid
Data-Driven Approaches to Prevent the Next Pandemic Distinguished Speaker Series
Speaker: John Drake, Regents’ Professor, Distinguished Research Professor, and
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Wednesday, May 3
- 1:30 PM
Quick Chat: Computational Methods in Composition & Word Embeddings in Natural Language Processing
Wired-In CHASS Quick Chats Topics: Computational Methods in Composition & Word Embeddings in Natural Language Processing presented by Justin Casinghino, Lecturer in Music, Composition and Theory, CFA, and Wayne […]
- 3:00 PM
Machine Learning in Medicine (MLxMed) Seminar Series
Speaker: Joon Lee, Associate Professor, Cardiac Sciences & Community Health Sciences University of Calgary
Talk Title: Deep learning-based recurrent prediction of delirium in the intensive care unit
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Thursday, May 4
- 3:00 PM
Director Esteemed Seminar Series: Dani S. Bassett, University of Pennsylvania
Hybrid Event
Speaker: Dani S. Bassett is the J. Peter Skirkanich Professor in the Departments of Bioengineering, Electrical & Systems Engineering, Physics & Astronomy, Neurology,
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- 4:00 PM
Manifold-integrated Gaussian process modeling, with applications to surrogate modeling of quark-gluon plasma simulations (Simon Mak -- Duke University)
In an era of costly scientific simulations, surrogate models have emerged as a powerful tool for facilitating scientific progress and engineering breakthroughs, e.g., discoveries on the Big Bang or developing […]
Friday, May 5
- 11:00 AM
Distinguished Speaker: Lauren Meyers, Professor, University of Texas at Austin
Virtual Event
Data-Driven Approaches to Prevent the Next Pandemic Distinguished Speaker Series
Speaker: Lauren Meyers, Cooley Centennial Professor, Director of the Center for
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- 5:00 PM
Experiential Learning Expo | BU Spark! Demo Day
Final presentations from over 200 students enrolled in the BU Cross-College Challenge, BU Spark and the BU Learning Assistant Programs.
Thursday, May 11
- 9:00 AM
Boston-Area Data Privacy
Please join us for a day of talks on the theory and practice of statistical data privacy!
Speakers:
Jelani Nelson, UC Berkeley
Sewoong Oh, University of Washington
Jayshree
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