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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 (September 23 through November 30)
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…
