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This calendar is a round-up of events related to research from around BU. Browse all upcoming events by date, or select an event topic to narrow your search.
All Topics (May 7 through May 28)
Tuesday, May 7
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Power & People Symposium: Mapping Community Exposure to Energy InfrastructureMapping community exposure to energy infrastructure with insights from a first-of-its-kind database for healthy and just energy transitions.
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A Thousand Cuts: Social Protection in the Age of AusterityThe dominant policy response to economic crises over the past four decades has been the introduction of austerity - a mix of budget cuts and reforms to downsize the role of the state. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has been the world's lender of last resort and advocate of austerity, but critics of the IMF…
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The Innovator’s JourneyLightning talks from BU innovators and presentation of the 2023 award for BU Innovator of the Year
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The Innovator’s Journey, ft. Innovator of the Year Dr. Thomas BifanoLightning talks from BU innovators and presentation of the 2023 award for BU Innovator of the Year
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The Innovator’s Journey, ft. Innovator of the Year Dr. Thomas BifanoLightning talks from BU innovators and presentation of the 2023 award for BU Innovator of the Year
Wednesday, May 8
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Meet the American Foundation for Suicide PreventionThe American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) supports research that will increase understanding of suicide or test treatments and other interventions that save lives. Recent focus areas include: diversity, evaluation of technology, and survivors of suicide loss AFSP awards nine types of grants, including Pilot Innovation Grants ($50,000 over two years), Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Innovation…
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Center for Systems Neuroscience and Neurophotonics Center Seminar (Prof. Itamar Kahn, Columbia University)Hosted by Prof. Anna Devor
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Parental Beliefs and Parental Investment: Evidence from ColombiaIn measuring parental investment, the standard practice in economics is to estimate models where parents have background knowledge in skill formation, child development or human capital development. However, because these models assume parents “know” the technology of skill formation, these models are ill-suited to understanding the importance of parental beliefs regarding the technology of skill…
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Condensed Matter SeminarSpeaker: Dominik Kufel, Deprtment of Physics, Harvard University Talk Title: Approximately-symmetric neural networks for quantum spin liquid problems Abstract: We propose a family of approximately-symmetric neural networks for quantum spin liquid problems. These tailored-made architectures are parameter-efficient, scalable, significantly outperform existing symmetry-unaware neural network architectures and are competitive with the state-of-the-art Tensor Network and Quantum…
Thursday, May 9
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Grant Writing Workshop with Dr. Betty LaiLearn how to use grants to gain control over your scholarly career! This workshop covers how to find funding targets, how to develop grant ideas, and the mechanics of fundable grants. All attendees receive access to funded samples and electronic resources. The workshop is geared towards scholars who are new to grant writing—this includes scholars…
Friday, May 10
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FRP Reinforcement Learning SymposiumBU Hosts: BU College of Engineering Professors Alex Olshevsky, Eshed Ohn-Bar Symposium Mission: Reinforcement Learning (RL), a field in AI inspired by learning mechanisms in biological systems, has emerged as a powerful generalized paradigm for a diverse set of applications, particularly those requiring adaptive reasoning, such as large language model training (e.g., chatGPT), education and…
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Reinforcement Learning SymposiumReinforcement Learning (RL), a field in AI inspired by learning mechanisms in biological systems, has emerged as a powerful generalized paradigm for a diverse set of applications, particularly those requiring adaptive reasoning, such as large language model training (e.g., chatGPT), education and rehabilitation technologies, transportation and energy-grid optimization, robotics, and more. However, its impact has…
Monday, May 13
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Summer Dissertation Writing RetreatOur 2024 Summer Dissertation Writing Retreats offer doctoral candidates significant, focused writing time in a community of like-minded peers. These four-day programs provide a high level of structure and accountability, and participants should expect to write for four hours each day. Lunch and coffee/tea will be provided, and space is limited.
Tuesday, May 14
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Investing for the Future: How Debt Relief Can Help Make Space for Climate and Development GoalsWith only six years left to achieve the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and Paris Agreement targets, bold and swift policymaking is necessary to stave off severe impacts for both present and future generations. Yet, emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs) are facing historic levels of external debt, higher interest rates and low…
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Summer Dissertation Writing RetreatOur 2024 Summer Dissertation Writing Retreats offer doctoral candidates significant, focused writing time in a community of like-minded peers. These four-day programs provide a high level of structure and accountability, and participants should expect to write for four hours each day. Lunch and coffee/tea will be provided, and space is limited.
Wednesday, May 15
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Summer Dissertation Writing RetreatOur 2024 Summer Dissertation Writing Retreats offer doctoral candidates significant, focused writing time in a community of like-minded peers. These four-day programs provide a high level of structure and accountability, and participants should expect to write for four hours each day. Lunch and coffee/tea will be provided, and space is limited.
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CANCELLED: Health Data Science Distinguished Speaker Series: Dr. David Donoho, Stanford UniversityTalk Title: “Data Science: The Next 50 Years” Abstract: Over the last 10 years, Data Science and Data Engineering have exploded in size and global significance. These are now highly dynamic fields reinventing themselves continually and quietly driving breathtaking practical achievements. They stand behind many of the most impressive stories garnering media attention, under the…
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BU Condensed Matter SeminarSpeaker: Leo Lo, Harvard University Talk Title: S3 topological order for universal computation Abstract: Topological quantum computation is a promising route in realizing fault-tolerant computation in noisy quantum computers. S3 (the smallest nonabelian group) topological order is a minimal example which intrinsically enables universal quantum computation using braiding and measurements alone. We provide a protocol…
Thursday, May 16
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Summer Dissertation Writing RetreatOur 2024 Summer Dissertation Writing Retreats offer doctoral candidates significant, focused writing time in a community of like-minded peers. These four-day programs provide a high level of structure and accountability, and participants should expect to write for four hours each day. Lunch and coffee/tea will be provided, and space is limited.
Friday, May 17
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Machine Learning in Medicine (MLxMed) Seminar: Akshay Chaudhari, Assistant Professor, Stanford UniversitySpeaker: Akshay Chaudhari, Assistant Professor (Research) of Radiology (Integrative Biomedical Imaging Informatics at Stanford) and, by courtesy, of Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University Talk title: Designing and Benchmarking Healthcare Large Language Models Talk abstract: It is perhaps no exaggeration that large language models (LLMs) have taken the world by storm due to their widespread access…
Tuesday, May 21
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IS&T RCS Boot Camp - GPT & Transformers for Natural Language Processing (Hands-on)Human communication is rich and complex, and one of the main ways we encode it computationally is through Natural Language Processing (NLP). We’ll explore recent advances in NLP, building from the ground up over the course of three sections. First, we’ll look at generating random first names of people using a simple character level “bigram”…
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Meet the American Cancer SocietyAs the nation’s largest private, not-for-profit source of funds for scientists studying cancer, the American Cancer Society (ACS) remains committed to funding basic, translational, clinical, and cancer control research now and in the future. ACS supports early-career and established investigators who perform innovative cancer research across a wide range of disciplines, to meet critically important…
Wednesday, May 22
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Center for Systems Neuroscience Symposium: "Neurotransmission is lit!: Monitoring acetylcholine and monoamine dynamics during behavior"“Neurotransmission is lit!: Monitoring acetylcholine and monoamine dynamics during behavior” Speakers include: Nao Uchida (Harvard), Lin Tian (MPI), Lucas Pinto (Northwestern), Yao Chen (WUSTL), Jeff Gavornik (BU), Mark Howe (BU), Michael Hasselmo (BU), Lynne Chantranupong (BU) Kilachand Center, Eichenbaum Colloquium Room, 610 Commonwealth Avenue This is an all-day event, with activities from 9 AM –…
Friday, May 24
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Space Travel with Earth Wisdom FRP SymposiumMission: Human colonisation is about to expand beyond the outskirts of the Earth, with the hope to carry along only the beauty and the wisdom of this planet. Artificial intelligence and machine learning offer powerful new tools that could open new paths for humanity to embrace sustainability and bring life along with this expansion. This…
Tuesday, May 28
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IS&T RCS Tutorial - Introduction to Parallel Programming Concepts (Hands‐on)This “Introduction to Parallel Programming Concepts” tutorial is recommended for anyone interested in learning more about the topic or who plans on taking our language-specific tutorials on parallel programming. This tutorial is not oriented towards any program language in particular and is intended for anyone with programming experience. This tutorial covers basic topics such as…