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All Topics (October 18 through November 14)
Monday, October 21
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AI and Education Initiative Human and Machine Learning Lunch Series with John GabrieliSpeaker: John Gabrieli, Professor, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT Talk Title: “Predicting Risk and Resilience in Mental Well-Being” Abstract: Mental well-being has declined by many measures over the past decade, especially in youth. Brain mechanisms underlie mental well-being, mental illness, and the treatment of mental illness, but elucidation of those mechanisms has had,…
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The Price is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won't Save the PlanetGreen electricity is key to curbing climate change, but while prices of solar and wind power have tumbled, the golden era of renewables has yet to materialize. What if the problem is not that transitioning to renewables is too expensive, but that saving the planet is not sufficiently profitable? In “The Price is Wrong: Why…
Tuesday, October 22
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National Academies of Medicine: Potential Research Priorities to Inform Readiness and Response to Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A (H5N1): A WorkshopNASEM is holding an online workshop consisting of two full-day sessions that will explore research priorities to inform readiness and response to the ongoing Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) A (H5N1) outbreak in the United States.
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Climate, Development and International Financial Institutions: Perspectives from the Global SouthPrecisely at a time when a rapid mobilization of resources is required to achieve development and climate change goals, the cost of capital has soared, economic growth has remained sluggish, climate impacts have intensified, sovereign debt is dampening investments, and geopolitical tensions are straining an already fraught international financial system. Achieving shared climate and development…
Wednesday, October 23
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Center for Systems Neuroscience Seminar (Prof. Betty Hong, California Institute of Technology)Hosted by Prof. Meg Younger and Prof. Brian DePasquale
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Reducing Emissions and Air Pollution from the Informal Sector: Evidence from BangladeshIn the eighth most populated country in the world, millions of Bangladeshis are vulnerable to the effects of climate change. The low-lying nation is susceptible to sea level rise and has some of the worst ranked air quality in the world. This is largely due to insufficiently operated coal-burning brick kilns in Bangladesh’s informal economic…
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AIR Distinguished Speaker: Dr. Sung Ju Hwang, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)Talk Title: Efficient and Long-Context GenAI Models Abstract: Generative AI models have demonstrated remarkable performance across various tasks in recent years. However, their deployment in real-world production-grade AI systems is hindered by significant computational costs. Additionally, these models are constrained by their limited context window size, which restricts their ability to handle more complex tasks…
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The Last Breath of Sam Yan Film Screening & DiscussionJoin the Boston University Initiative on Cities, the Center for the Study of Asia, and the Department of Anthropology for a featured screening of The Last Breath of Sam Yan. This documentary captures the efforts of residents and students trying to save the century-old Thai-Chinese Chao Mae Thapthim Shrine from destruction by the development wing of Bangkok's…
Friday, October 25
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BU Campus Climate Lab Spring Funding Information SessionInfo session for students and faculty interested in sustainability research and climate action.
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CISE Seminar: Prashast Srivastava, Columbia UniversityFOX: Coverage-guided Fuzzing as Online Stochastic Control Fuzzing is an effective technique for discovering software vulnerabilities by generating random test inputs and executing them against the target program. However, fuzzing large and complex programs remains challenging due to the difficulty in uncovering deeply hidden vulnerabilities. The challenges stem from the design limitations of the scheduler…
Monday, October 28
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Urban Inequalities WorkshopPresentation by Dr. Jonathan Wynn, UMass Amherst (in person) and Dr Andrew Deener, UC Santa Barbara (via zoom) on “The Urban Way: Divisions”
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Find Funding in Biomedical Innovation: Working with ARPA-HFounded in 2022, the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) is a federal funding agency that supports high-potential, high-impact biomedical and health research that cannot be readily accomplished through traditional research or commercial activity. Like other Advanced Research Projects Agencies, ARPA-H provides research funding to create new opportunities and solve important problems through ambitious,…
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Neurophotonics in Medicine, SymposiumPlease save the date for the annual MED/NPC symposium. Come and catch up with colleagues, meet new ones, and perhaps form new collaborations. We will have four labs presenting their work followed by general discussion.
Wednesday, October 30
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AI for Drug Discovery Open Innovation ForumOverview: Safe and responsible AI needs to be developed in the open. The objective of this forum is to establish a world-class open research community to drive the development, evaluation, and large-scale adoption of AI foundation models for accelerated scientific advancements for drug discovery. The one-day event will consist of an opening session with keynotes…
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Careers in Transportation Information SessionJoin the Boston University Initiative on Cities and City Planning & Urban Affairs Program for our annual Careers in Transportation Information Session! This session provides a direct venue for students and aspiring entrants interested in transportation and transportation-adjacent work to connect directly with senior leaders in the transportation field. The session is designed for students…
Thursday, October 31
Friday, November 1
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Gentrification Book SymposiumThis symposium will feature three new books by leaders in the field of gentrification: Tanya Golash-Boza’s Before Gentrification: The Creation of DC’s Racial Wealth Gap, Richard Ocejo’s Sixty Miles Upriver: Gentrification and Race in a Small American City, and Derek Hyra’s Slow and Sudden Violence: Why and When Uprisings Occur. Critically, all three books dig…
Thursday, November 7
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Feminism in Public Debt: A Human Rights ApproachAs many developing countries are facing increasingly higher levels of debt and economic instability, "Feminism in Public Debt: A Human Rights Approach” is an interdisciplinary volume that explores the intersection of sovereign debt and women's human rights. Through contributions from leading voices in academia, civil society, international organizations and national governments, it shows how debt-related…
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Global Equity in Access to Pandemic Response ToolsThe latest installment of CEID’s fall symposium series will kick off with opening remarks by President Melissa L. Gilliam, followed by a panel discussion moderated by Dr. Nahid Bhadelia, CEID Founding Director. The panel will feature Dr. Hillary Carter, Senior Strategist for Global Health Security at the U.S. Department of State; Dr. Joia Mukherjee, Chief…
Friday, November 8
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Center for Systems Neuroscience and Brain, Behavior, & Cognition Seminar (Prof. Anne Collins, University of California, Berkeley)Hosted by Prof. Joe McGuire **NOTE: This is on a different day and time than our usual time on Wednesdays at 12:15 pm**
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Working Towards a Zero Waste World: PlasticsTargeted virtual series to address the next big questions in waste, recycling, and manufacturing.
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CISE Seminar: Chao Tian, Texas A&M UniversityChao Tian obtained his B.E degree from Tsinghua University, Beijing China, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Cornell University, Ithaca NY. He worked at AT&T Labs-Research (previously known as the Shannon Labs) as a researcher on communication and signal processing for seven years, before returning to academia. He was with the University of Tennessee…
Wednesday, November 13
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Center for Systems Neuroscience Seminar (Josh Jacobs, Columbia University)Hosted by Prof. Matthias Stangl
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Urban Salon: "Urban Power: Democracy and Inequality in São Paulo and Johannesburg Book Talk"Join us for a book discussion featuring Benjamin Bradlow, Assistant Professor of Sociology and International Affairs at Princeton University. His new book, Urban Power: Democracy & Inequality in São Paulo & Johannesburg, explores why some cities are more effective than others at reducing inequalities in the built environment. Bradlow examines the effectiveness of urban governance…
Thursday, November 14
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The Brookline Adult & Community Education (BA&CE) hosts "Brookline AI Lecture Series"Speaker: :Dr. Ioannis Paschalidis, Distinguished Professor of Engineering at Boston University Join us for an engaging and informative one-hour lecture designed to demystify Artificial Intelligence (AI), explain its fundamental concepts, history, and practical applications in our everyday lives. We will delve into the basics of how AI works, covering essential topics like machine learning, neural…