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All Topics (November 18 through January 31)

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

  • 12:30 PM
    Disease, Disparities, and Development: Evidence from Chagas Disease Control in Brazil
    Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) primarily afflict the poorest people in developing economies and often lead to chronic health issues. Therefore, combating them could reduce inequality, the intergenerational transmission of poverty, and burdens on healthcare systems in such countries. Recent research conducted by Jon Denton-Schneider and Eduardo Montero shows that these novel benefits of disease control…
  • 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…

Thursday, November 21

Friday, November 22

  • 8:30 AM
    "Learning to Trust Autonomy" Robotics Workshop
    Overview:This upcoming workshop, sponsored by the BU Center for Information and Systems Engineering (CISE), will explore recent advances in learning-based and data-driven autonomous systems, such as those used in navigation, manipulation, and multi-agent coordination. While these approaches have made remarkable strides, there remains a widespread belief that they cannot yet be trusted for large-scale deployments.…
  • 9:00 AM
    Charles River Privacy Day
    Organizers and Co-Sponsors:: Charles River Privacy Day is organized by the Boston-Area Data Privacy Group, which spans BU, Northeastern and Harvard; Hariri Institute for Computing, Center for Reliable Information Systems & Cyber Security (RISCS)
  • 11:30 AM
    Working Towards a Zero Waste World: Sustainable Materials & Manufacturing
    Targeted virtual series to address the next big questions in waste, recycling, and manufacturing.
  • 12:00 PM
    City Makers: Urban Experiential Learning Open House
    Calling all students! Stop by the BU Initiative on Cities to learn about our urban experiential learning opportunities. From our MetroBridge classroom-based program to our internships and fellowships with Boston City Hall and the National League of Cities, come see how you can get involved and make a real-world impact while at BU.  Plus, take…

Monday, November 25

  • 12:00 PM
    Urban Inequalities Workshop
    Presentation by Dr. Louise Seamster, University of Iowa, on “The Flint Water Coup: Debt at the End of Democracy?”

Monday, December 2

  • 11:30 AM
    Avoiding the Climate-Debt Spiral: The Role of the IMF and FfD4
    Public debt levels and situations of debt distress have significantly increased since the Third International Conference on Financing for Development, with the growing impacts of climate change on debt one cause of this worrying trend. Meeting climate mitigation and adaptation investment needs requires additional investments that debt-constrained countries struggle to make, while failing to make…
  • How to Make Crisis Finance Work for Development: Crafting a Global Financial Safety Net Fit for Purpose
    In recent years, emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs) have faced successive waves of external shocks, including the COVID-19 pandemic, interest rate hikes in developed countries and commodity price fluctuations. These shocks have severely limited their ability to prioritize anti-cyclical spending while maintaining external stability. The Global Financial Safety Net (GFSN)—comprising institutions like the International…
  • 12:00 PM
    RESCHEDULED: AI and Education Initiative Human and Machine Learning Lunch Series with Zhongkai Shangguan, BU PhD candidate ECE
    This talk is being rescheduled for Spring 2025. Speaker: Zhongkai Shangguan, BU PhD candidate, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering Talk Title: “Scalability and Accessibility: How AI Shapes the Future of Intelligent Tutoring Systems” Abstract: Forthcoming Bio: Zhongkai Shangguan, Ph.D. candidate, specializes in computer vision, natural language processing, data mining, and reinforcement learning. His research…
  • 3:00 PM
    A Proposal for a Principled and Pragmatic Approach to Dealing with Market Debt of Low-Income Countries in Debt Distress
    What is the feasibility and desirability of a proposal for dealing with the international bonds of low-income countries in distress? At the Financing for Development Dialogues: From Evidence to Action, a roundtable of diverse experts will discuss the proposal based on the assumption that the Common Framework, which is the current approach for dealing with…
  • Global Tax Reform to Produce Financing for Development
    Global tax reform designed to serve developing states could unlock revenue for Small Island Developing States and others needing investment for climate resilience, health and education. In the 1950s, the United Nations served as the forum for ambitious efforts to tax multinationals to deliver the resources developing states needed, but the rise of the Organisation…

Wednesday, December 4

  • 11:00 AM
    Distinguished CS Colloquium Talk by Prof. Kristen Grauman on Dec 4th
    Speaker: Kristen Grauman Talk Title: “First-person video understanding” Abstract: First-person or “egocentric” perception requires understanding the video that streams to a wearable camera. The egocentric view offers a special window into the camera wearer’s attention, goals, and interactions, making it an exciting avenue for the future of augmented reality and robot learning. This talk will…
  • 11:30 AM
    BWWC Event: 10th Annual Effective Practices Conference
    Speaker: Claudia Goldin, Cathy Minehan Talk Title: “2024 Effective Practices Conference: A Conversation with Nobel Prize Winner Dr. Claudia Goldin” Abstract: Join us for a conversation with Nobel-Prize winning economist Claudia Goldin. During this discussion, we aim to explore: What accounts for these remaining gaps in earnings, now that so many of the determinants of…

Thursday, December 5

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