Calendar

Saturday, April 5

• 9:30 AM Art + Computing Mini-Hack

  Boston University students, get ready for an exciting day of collaboration at the Art + Computing Mini-Hack! This in-person event brings together students from CFA, Computer Science, Data Science, and […]

Tuesday, April 8

• 3:30 PM C. Dukes - Probing the Structures of Pyramids using Cosmic Ray Muon Tomography

  The pyramids of ancient Egypt and of pre-Hispanic Mesoamerica have fascinated people since the cultures that built them vanished into the annals of history. How were they built? What were […]

• 4:00 PM Industry Connections: How Wayfair is Transforming Customer Experiences with Data-Centric AI with Vinny DeGenova

  About the Talk: Wayfair is transforming how customers discover home products through cutting-edge machine learning and data-driven automation. In this talk, we’ll dive into how AI— and partnering with Snorkel […]

Wednesday, April 9

• 3:30 PM Nik Gjonbalaj: Shortcuts to Analog Preparation of Non-Equilibrium Quantum Lakes

  The dynamical preparation of exotic many-body quantum states is a persistent goal of analog quantum simulation, often limited by experimental coherence times. Recently, it was shown that fast, non-adiabatic Hamiltonian […]

Thursday, April 10

• 12:00 PM BU Computer Systems Seminar
• 1:30 PM Powering Massachusetts Forward Interactive Workshop

  Interactive workshop on leveraging data for clean energy transitions in municipalities across Massachusetts

Friday, April 11

• 9:00 AM BARI Conference 2025: Greater Boston's Annual Insight-to-Impact Summit

  The Boston Area Research Initiative (BARI) will be hosting its annual conference on the latest research connecting community leaders, practitioners, researchers, and policymakers to advance data-driven civic research. […]

• 11:00 AM MechE Seminar Series | Month of Energy and Sustainability: Challenges and Opportunities on Tap
• 3:00 PM CISE Seminar: Ali Jadbabaie, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  The Pitfalls of Imitation Learning when Actions are Continuous

  This talk will present our recent study of the problem of imitating an expert demonstrator in a discrete-time, continuous

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Monday, April 14

• 12:00 PM Urban Inequalities Workshop

  Presented by Dr. Sarah Mayorga, Brandeis University: “Owners, renters, and the social relations of private property”

• • AI and Education Initiative
  AI and Education Initiative Human and Machine Learning Lunch Series with Marc Maffei, PhD

  Speaker: Marc Maffei, PhD, Postdoctoral Associate, Sargent College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences

  Talk Title: Speech, Language, and Motor Skills in Late Talkers

  Bio:

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• 4:00 PM
  • Seminars
  • Neuroscience
  Center for Brain Recovery Brain and Behavior Seminar Series: Preeti Sunderaraman, PhD Assistant Professor of Neurology; Hariri Institute Junior Faculty Fellow

  Areas of Expertise: Alzheimer’s disease, Brain Health, Dementia, Digital technology, Cognition, Cross-cultural/Diversity, Functional ability/iADLs, Research

  Dr. Sunderaraman is a licensed clinical

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Tuesday, April 15

• 2:00 PM SE PhD Final Defense: Saeed Mohammadzadeh

  SE PhD Final Defense: Saeed Mohammadzadeh

  TITLE: Advances in Data-Driven Modeling for Computational Mechanics and Biomechanics

  ADVISOR: Emma Lejeune ME

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Wednesday, April 16

• 10:30 AM CISE Seminar: Luca Benini, Università di Bologna

  Toward End-to-End Open Platforms and Chips for Embodied AI

  AI is accelerating into the generative era, and it is poised to disrupt multiple businesses, especially as AI capabilities are being

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• 12:00 PM CHASS Lecture - An Introduction to ArcGIS

  ArcGIS is a comprehensive geospatial platform for professionals and organizations. It is the leading geographic information system (GIS) technology. Built by Esri, ArcGIS integrates and connects data through the context […]

• 4:00 PM Research on Tap: AI and the Humanities

  Artificial intelligence is transforming every aspect of our lives, raising urgent questions about its implications for ethics, identity, and the health of our political and economic systems. At the same […]

• Research on Tap: AI and the Humanities

  Artificial intelligence is transforming every aspect of our lives, raising urgent questions about its impact on ethics, identity, well-being, and the health of our political and economic systems. At

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Thursday, April 17

• 5:30 PM
  • Seminars
  • Robotics and Multi-agent Systems
  RASTIC X ASML: The Talks

  Title: New Methodology for Robot Trajectory Volume Conflict Analysis Using NX

Friday, April 18

• 11:00 AM MechE Seminar Series | Month of Energy and Sustainability: Fikile Brushett

  Speaker: Fikile Brushett

  Title: Towards electrochemical carbon dioxide capture using soluble, redox-active carriers

  Abstract: Carbon dioxide (CO2) capture coupled with storage or

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• 2:00 PM Industry Connections: Meeting the Challenge of Cracking Open Large-Scale AI with David Bau

  About the Talk: What can humanity learn when we crack open black-box AI systems and look inside? In this talk David will examine some recent insights from interpretable machine learning, […]

• 3:00 PM CISE Seminar: Sairaj Dhople, Professor, University of Minnesota

  Circuit Solutions to Control, Optimization, Modeling, and Analysis Challenges for Power Electronics

  Power grids the world over are transforming in form and function with the integration of power

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Tuesday, April 22

• 11:00 AM ECE Seminar: Zeinab Jahed

  ECE Seminar: Zeinab Jahed

  Title: Interfacing Nano-Electronics with Biology for Sensing and Delivery

  Abstract: Overcoming biological barriers is essential for precisely

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• 3:00 PM P. Coyle: The World’s Fastest Neutrino: Physics From an Active Galactic Nucleus into the Abyss?

  In the Mediterranean Sea, two kilometer cube neutrino observatories comprising Km3Net, at 2 and 4 km deep, are searching for astrophysical sources of high energy cosmic neutrinos and are observing […]

Wednesday, April 23

• 3:30 PM
  • Seminars
  • Security & Privacy
  Cyber Alliance Seminar: Dan Roche, Professor, Computer Science, U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis

  Talk Title: What FTC cases tell us about developing and managing secure software systems

  Abstract: In the absence of nationwide data privacy legislation, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission

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Thursday, April 24

• 12:00 PM BU Computer Systems Seminar