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All Topics (January 29 through February 9)

Thursday, January 29

Friday, January 30

  • 9:00 AM
    CISE Graduate Student Workshop
    CGSW 12.0: CISE Graduate Student Workshop CGSW is an annual forum that provides students the opportunity to share their original research and hone their communication skills in an engaging, collaborative environment. Organized by students, for students, the day-long event encourages interdisciplinary sharing among affiliated students, faculty, and invited guest speakers across diverse application areas. The…
  • 12:00 PM
    Breaking Free from the Burden of More
    Are you done carrying the weight of "more"—more expectations, more pressure, more self-doubt? Join Boston University for an opportunity to hear from leaders who are ready to help silence imposter syndrome, lead with unshakable authenticity, and reframe their relationship with achieving success. This immersive experience is designed for women in various stages of their life…
  • 3:00 PM
    MSE Talk: Todd Emrick, UMass Amherst
    Speaker: Todd Emrick, UMass Amherst Title: Connecting Biological Functionality with Polymer Architecture: Nanoscale and Mesoscale Materials Opportunities Abstract: This lecture will apply concepts and methods of organic and polymer chemistry to targets in materials science, with the objective of producing fundamentally new and useful structures. Topics to be presented hinge on translating synthetic advances to…

Monday, February 2

  • 12:00 PM
    Getting to School: School Choices, Journeys to School, and the Complexities in Family Decision Making in Boston, Massachusetts
    Presented by Dr. Samantha Teixeira (Boston College). RSVP to Andrew Ward at amward@bu.edu to attend.
  • Urban Inequalities Workshop: Dr. Samantha Teixeira
    "Getting to school: School choice and the complexities of family decision-making in Boston" with Dr. Samantha Teixeira, Boston College. Each semester, the Initiative on Cities hosts a recurring workshop led by Professor Japonica Brown-Saracino, an Urban Faculty Fellow at the IOC, which invites faculty, graduate students, and postdoctoral scholars to explore issues of urban inequality.…
  • 2:30 PM
    IS&T RCS Tutorial - Introduction to Python, Part One (Hands-on)
    This is an introduction to the essential features of Python. This first part of the tutorial includes an introduction to basic types, if-statements, functions, lists, dictionaries, loops, and modules. The tutorial includes the use of a popular Python development environment and covers setting up Python on your own computer in addition to using Python on…
  • 6:00 PM
    Fasting and Spirituality: A Conversation with BU Chaplains
    Fasting as a spiritual practice is deeply rooted in ancient Judaism. The Israelites fasted during times of mourning or calamity as a way for individuals and the community to express sorrow or repentance as well as to plead with God for favor or forgiveness. Christians and then Muslims developed their own fasting traditions, and the…

Tuesday, February 3

  • 10:00 AM
    IS&T RCS Tutorial - Intermediate Usage of the SCC (Hands‐on)
    This tutorial will provide some more advanced techniques and common strategies used for interacting with the Shared Computing Cluster and its resources. The topics discussed during the tutorial include: Customizing your environment Parallel computing on the SCC Jobs monitoring and profiling: CPU and GPU utilization, memory usage Profiling programs for performance optimization General optimization strategies…

Wednesday, February 4

  • 12:00 PM
    MPI Seminar Series -STUDENT INVITED SPEAKER: Christina Stallings, PhD
    Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology Seminar SeriesSTUDENT INVITED SPEAKER Christina Stallings, PhD, Molecular Microbiology, Washington University"Inflammation as a Driver of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Pathogenesis"
  • 1:30 PM
    Cambodia and Thailand: Conflict, Diplomacy, and Regional Power
    With Sophal Ear (Arizona State University) and Joseph Harris (Boston University) as Discussant This talk examines the recent escalation in tensions between Cambodia and Thailand, situating the conflict within longer histories of border disputes, domestic politics, and regional diplomacy. It explores how military signaling, public narratives, and international forums shape bargaining power between the two…
  • 2:30 PM
    IS&T RCS Tutorial - Introduction to Python, Part Two (Hands-on)
    This tutorial is a continuation of "Introduction to Python, Part One" and introduces more features of the language, common libraries such as numpy and matplotlib, and the basics of debugging Python programs. Please make sure you sign up for part one as well.
  • 3:00 PM
    Gentrification: Ideas to Action ft. The Death & Life of Gentrification
    Join the Boston University Initiative on Cities for the launch of the Gentrification & Urban Displacement Lab (GUDL) – a new hub bringing together faculty, students, practitioners, and community partners committed to understanding urban change, culture, and inequality. At the center of the launch is a discussion of Professor Japonica Brown-Saracino’s important new book, The…
  • 4:00 PM
    The AI Free Classroom
    Discover new strategies and discuss ideas with faculty who have elected to keep artificial intelligence tools out of their classroom. Refreshments will be served.

Thursday, February 5

  • 10:00 AM
    IS&T RCS Tutorial - GIS Using R: sf package (Hands‐on)
    In this tutorial we will go over the basic usage of the package “sf”, which provides tools for working with vector spatial data (points, lines, and polygons). We will go over how to read/write GIS vector files, how to work with the attribute table, and introduce some basic GIS spatial functions. Prerequisites: We expect those…

Friday, February 6

  • 10:00 AM
    BU Statistical Genetics and Genomics Seminar
    ”Heterogeneous Mediation Analysis with High-dimensional Omics Data” Ningyuan Wang, Boston University
  • IS&T RCS Tutorial - Using and Building Containers on the SCC (Hands-on)
    Container technologies such as Docker and Singularity are becoming a common way of developing and sharing applications and workflows. In this tutorial we will cover high level concepts and options for adopting container technologies. This tutorial will provide hands-on examples for working with containers on the SCC. The first hour will cover running Singularity containers…
  • 12:00 PM
    Desiring Sex, Desiring Piety: Sexual Moralities, Islam, and the Good (Gay) Muslim in Amman, Jordan
    CURA announces the spring 2026 colloquium schedule. This year-long conversation brings together an interdisciplinary community of scholars of culture, religion, and world affairs. Please register below for the session(s) you plan to attend. The February 6 workshop will feature a paper by Johnathan Norris, PhD Candidate, Anthropology, Boston University Please note that reading the paper…

Monday, February 9

  • 12:45 PM
    Barbara Jordan Lecture featuring Atinuke Adediran, J.D., Ph.D., Fordham University School of Law
    In 2020, when it was economically beneficial to do so, companies proclaimed the importance of equity and diversity. But as Fordham Law Professor Atinuke Adediran shows in her book DISCLOSURELAND: How Corporate Words Constrain Racial Progress (Cambridge University Press, January 2026), five years later and with Trump back in office, those recent promises have significantly softened or…
  • 2:30 PM
    IS&T RCS Tutorial - Numerical Computing in Python (Hands-on)
    Python is now widely used for numerical calculations and data analysis. This tutorial is an introduction primarily to the Numpy library which provides data structures and algorithms that are optimized for numeric data. The Numpy library is the basis for a wide variety of numeric and graphics libraries in Python. The usage of the numpy…
  • 4:30 PM
    Andrew R. Randall Chair Investiture Ceremony and Lecture
    Please join us on Monday, February 9th for Woodrow Hartzog's inaugural lecture as the Andrew R. Randall Professor of Law.
  • 5:00 PM
    China and the Philippines: A Connected History for our Untangling World
    With Phillip Guingona (Nazareth University) This talk is based on the speaker’s 2024 book, China and the Philippines: A Connected History, c. 1900-1950, which brings to life an array of understudied, but influential characters, such as Filipino jazz musicians, magnetic Chinese swimmers, expert Filipino marksmen, leading Chinese educators, Philippine-Chinese bankers, Filipina Carnival Queens, and many…

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