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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

• 12:30 PM

  Brain, Behavior, & Cognition Seminar (Prof. Matthias Stangl, Boston University)
• 4:00 PM

  • Research on Tap
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  Research on Tap: Climate Change and Clean Energy

  Hosts: Professor Cutler Cleveland, Earth & Environment (CAS); Associate Professor Emily Ryan, Mechanical Engineering (ENG) The fossil fuel energy system produced big gains in well-being but caused equally large impacts on the health of people and the planet; climate change is the most notable example. Ongoing research aims to understand the interconnections among energy, society,…
  
• Research on Tap: Climate Change and Clean Energy

  Fossil fuels have provided major benefits to populations in affordability and well-being but also created large impacts on the health of people and the planet. In the face of climate change, new and ongoing research aims to understand the interconnectedness of energy, society, and the environment and to develop new technologies and policies that drive…