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All Topics (November 14 through January 31)

Thursday, November 14

  • 1:00 AM
    From Ideas to Impact: Identifying and Effectively Conveying Your Core Messages
    Looking to elevate your research communication skills and make a lasting impact? Join Throughline Group’s Christina Mozaffari and Joel Schwartzberg for a dynamic 90-minute workshop designed to help you sharpen your key messages and deliver them with confidence. Throughout this webinar, you'll learn how to identify, sharpen, and convey your key messages with precision. You'll…
  • 9:00 AM
    China’s Global Energy Finance Database – Data Update, 2000-2023
    At the recent Ninth Forum on China-Africa Cooperation, China committed an estimated $50 billion for Africa from 2024-2027, including $30 billion in credit lines. While specific allocation details were not provided, the funding is aimed at supporting 30 clean energy projects across the continent. A new update to the China’s Global Energy Finance (CGEF) Database,…
  • 6:00 PM
    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…

Friday, November 15

  • 2:00 PM
    CCS/Hariri Institute Seminar: Pedro Lopes
    Speaker: Pedro Lopes, Quantum Advocate Talk Title: “QuEra – Neutral-Atom Quantum Computing: From Dark-Horse to Workhorse” Abstract: Since 2019, QuEra has led the charge in advancing neutral-atom quantum computing from an emerging technology to a frontrunner in scalable quantum solutions. Together with academic and industry partners, we’ve driven this transformation by translating university tech into…
  • 3:00 PM
    CISE Seminar: Vladimir Dvorkin, University of Michigan
    Data center coordination with power grids under engineering and privacy constraints Recent AI breakthroughs have led to significant investments in data center infrastructure, which puts a strain on power grids. As a fundamentally new type of load, AI presents new challenges (e.g., disruptive electricity consumption patterns) and opportunities (e.g., the ability to instantaneously shift computing…

Saturday, November 16

  • 6:00 AM
    Scaling Up Zero-Carbon, Climate-Resilient Financing Between China, Central Asia, and Beyond
    At the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, countries agreed on a historic pact to triple renewable energy capacity by 2030 to accelerate progress on climate action. Scaling up renewable energy investment is key to combat climate change and build resilience, contributing to the goal of tripling renewable energy…

Monday, November 18

  • 12:00 PM
    AI and Education Initiative Human and Machine Learning Lunch Series: Michael Chang
    Speaker: Michael Chang, PhD, assistant professor at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development, faculty fellow in the Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences (CDS), and assistant director at the Earl Center for Learning & Innovation Talk Title: “Co-Designing Expansive Educational Futures: Envisioning Equitable AI-Ed Possibilities” Abstract: As AI has been envisioned to…
  • CISE Seminar: Robert Kazschmann, ETH Zurich
    Building Life-like Robots: From Musculoskeletal Designs to Biohybrid Innovations Nature’s musculoskeletal design can inspire both artificial and living robots to create systems that can better interact within our unstructured world. There is value in rethinking how we design and control robots by replacing traditional designs centred around electromagnetic motors and gearboxes with a bio-inspired approach…

Wednesday, November 20

  • 1:00 PM
    AIR Seminar Series: Qixing Huang, Associate Professor
    Speaker: Qixing Huang, Associate Professor Talk Title: “Geometric Regularizations for 3D Shape Generation” Abstract: Generative models, which map a latent parameter space to instances in an ambient space, enjoy various applications in 3D Vision and related domains. A standard scheme of these models is probabilistic, which aligns the induced ambient distribution of a generative model…
  • CISE Seminar: Tuvi Etzion, Israel Institute of Technology
    The de Bruijn Graph and Its Sequences – the Graph Who Always Reinvent Itself The de Bruijn graph was defined in 1946 by Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn to count the number of closed sequences in which each binary n-tuple is contained exactly once in a window of length n. The graph and its sequences have…

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