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All Topics (September 12 through November 30)
Thursday, September 12
Friday, September 13
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Campus Climate Lab Info. & Proposal Development Session - Fall 2024Info session for students and faculty interested in research and climate action. Join us to learn more about CCL (in person & virtual)!
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CISE/Hariri Distinguished Speaker Marc Raibert, Executive Director, AI Institute; Founder, Boston DynamicsMaking Robots Smarter in Body in Mind Robot hardware is getting better and better, robot perception improves on almost a daily basis, and their athletic skills are advancing by leaps and bounds. But robots still lack cognitive intelligence that would make them easier to use, safer around people, and more productive. In this talk Raibert…
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CISE/Hariri Institute Distinguished Seminar: Marc Raibert, Boston DynamicsMaking Robots Smarter in Body in Mind Robot hardware is getting better and better, robot perception improves on almost a daily basis, and their athletic skills are advancing by leaps and bounds. But robots still lack cognitive intelligence that would make them easier to use, safer around people, and more productive. In this talk Raibert…
Tuesday, September 17
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PhD Progression OrientationPhD Progression is an online training program designed to support PhD students in their academic and professional development by providing individual training modules (badges) that students can complete to acquire skills in our 7 Core Capacities. This workshop will offer an overview of PhD Progression, an understanding of the badges in each core capacity, and…
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A Vote for Health: LGBTQ+ RightsOur fall election series invites leading thinkers to reflect on key issues for health in the 2024 election. This program will consider the intersection of the 2024 election and LGBTQ+ health. We will explore the sociopolitical forces that shape LGBTQ+ health and reflect on how public health can better engage with these forces to advance…
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CEID Fall Open HouseThe Center on Emerging Infectious Diseases (CEID) welcomes all BU students, faculty, & staff to join our fall open house & learn about the center's work.
Wednesday, September 18
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AI Seminar: In-N-Out: Robustness to In-Domain Noise and Out-of-Domain GeneralizationSpeaker: Siqi Wang Title: In-N-Out: Robustness to In-Domain Noise and Out-of-Domain Generalization Abstract: The complexities of real-world data, often noisy and diverse, pose significant challenges for model training. Learning with noisy labels (LNL) seeks to enhance model robustness to in-distribution noise, while domain generalization (DG) aims to ensure models perform well across varied domains. However,…
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AI Seminar: In-N-Out: Robustness to In-Domain Noise and Out-of-Domain GeneralizationSpeaker: Siqi Wang Title: In-N-Out: Robustness to In-Domain Noise and Out-of-Domain Generalization Abstract: The complexities of real-world data, often noisy and diverse, pose significant challenges for model training. Learning with noisy labels (LNL) seeks to enhance model robustness to in-distribution noise, while domain generalization (DG) aims to ensure models perform well across varied domains. However,…
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Global Development Policy Center – Fall 2024 Open HouseThe Boston University Global Development Policy Center is a policy-oriented research center working to advance financial stability, human well-being and environmental sustainability across the globe. A University-wide research center in partnership with the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies and the Office of Research at Boston University, the GDP Center seeks to foster a…
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The Two Faces of Fear: Violence and Inequality in the Mexican Metropolis Book Talk & DiscussionJoin the Boston University Initiative on Cities, Center for Latin American Studies, and Department of Sociology to discuss Assistant Professor of Sociology Ana Villarreal’s book on the impacts of criminal and state violence on everyday life in Mexico. Drawing from two years of qualitative fieldwork in Monterrey, Mexico during a turf war, Professor Villarreal takes…
Thursday, September 19
Monday, September 23
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National Academies of Medicine: Session on Public Stakeholder Perspectives for Potential Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A (H5N1) Research PrioritiesNASEM is holding an open online public listening session to hear perspectives from stakeholders on potential research priorities for the ongoing Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A (H5N1) outbreak. Members of the public are invited to participate and register to provide a presentation during this listening session.
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Pain Research SymposiumJoin us for an engaging symposium designed to foster collaboration and training opportunities among our leading basic and clinical researchers in pain. Key Presentations by: •Venetia Zachariou, PhD, Edward Avedisian professor and chair of pharmacology, physiology & biophysics •Michael Perloff, MD, PhD, director of pain medicine, assistant professor of neurology •Ezra M. Cohen, MD, associate…
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Pain Research SymposiumJoin us for an engaging BUMC and BMC joint symposium designed to foster collaboration and training opportunities among our leading basic and clinical science pain researchers. Key Presentations by: Venetia Zachariou, PhD, Edward Avedisian Professor and chair of pharmacology, physiology & biophysics Tuhina Neogi, MD, PhD, section chief of rheumatology and professor of medicine/rheumatology and…
Wednesday, September 25
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PhD Career Pivot: Making the Move to Meaningful Non-Academic WorkAre you going on the job market soon or interested in exploring non-academic careers but don't know where to start? Join us for an interactive Zoom workshop hosted by career transition expert Dr. Jen Polk of PhDtoLife, who will guide you to an understanding of what it takes to move towards a career outside academia.
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Center for Systems Neuroscience and Graduate Program in Neuroscience Seminar (Prof. Helen Scharfman, New York University)Hosted by Prof. Shelley Russek
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The Politics of Exit: Emigration, Collective Action and Agrarian Reform in MexicoHow does the presence of individual exit options, like emigration, influence citizen collective action and political change? Emily Sellars explores this question and more in her book “The Politics of Exit: Emigration, Collective Action, and Agrarian Reform in Mexico,” where she examines historical evidence on emigration, agrarian collective action, land redistribution and government repression in…
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Chen Sun, Assistant Professor, Brown UniversityTalk Title : Rethinking Video Representation Learning for Perception and Reasoning in the Era of LLMs Abstract: What makes good representations for video understanding, such as inferring the intents of human actors, answering video-grounded questions based on (physical) commonsense, or solving reasoning tasks that require compositional generalization? In this talk, I will present our recent…
Friday, September 27
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Bagels with BenjaminBU students are invited for free bagels and coffee with IGS Director and Professor of Earth & Environment, Benjamin Sovacool.
Monday, September 30
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Urban Inequalities WorkshopPresentation by Dr. Ekédi Mpondo-Dika, UC Berkeley (hybrid) co-sponsored by BU’s Precarity Lab on The Push and Pull of Poverty: Cyclical Ties in a Truly Disadvantaged Network
Wednesday, October 2
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Meet the McKnight Endowment Fund for NeuroscienceThe McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience supports innovative research with the promise to bring society closer to preventing, treating, and curing many devastating diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis, spinal cord injuries, and many others. Neuroscience Program Manager Joel Krogstad will join us to discuss the Fund’s two signature funding programs: Neurobiology…
