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All Topics (January 19 through March 31)

Friday, January 24

  • 9:00 AM
    CISE Graduate Student Workshop
    CGSW 11.0: CISE Graduate Student Workshop CGSW is an annual forum that provides students the opportunity to share their original research and hone their communication skills in an engaging, collaborative environment. Organized by students, for students, the day-long event encourages interdisciplinary sharing among affiliated students, faculty, and invited guest speakers across diverse application areas. The…

Monday, January 27

  • 12:00 PM
    AI and Education Initiative Human and Machine Learning Lunch Series with Ola Ozernov-Palchik, PhD
    Speaker: Ola Ozernov-Palchik, PhD, Research Faculty at Wheelock College and AI and Education Initiative at Boston University; McGovern Institute at MIT Talk Title: Neurocognitive mechanisms in reading development and the promise of AI Abstract: Reading is a complex cognitive process that requires extracting meaning from often noisy and ambiguous text signals. Individual variability in reading…

Wednesday, January 29

  • 12:00 PM
    IS&T RCS Tutorial - Introduction to BU's Shared Computing Cluster (Hands-on)
    This tutorial will introduce Boston University's Shared Computing Cluster (SCC) in Holyoke, MA. This Linux cluster has more than 28000 processors and over 14 petabytes of storage available for Research Computing by students and faculty on the Charles River and BUMC campuses. A very large number of software packages for programming, mathematics, data analysis, plotting,…
  • 2:30 PM
    IS&T RCS Tutorial - Introduction to Linux (Hands-on)
    This tutorial will give attendees a hands-on introduction to Linux. Topics covered will include a short history of Linux, logging in with ssh, the Bash shell and shell scripts, I/O redirection (pipes), file system navigation, and job control. Time permitting, attendees will edit, compile, and run a simple C program. If you have not connected…
  • 4:00 PM
    Research on Tap: How Social Policies Shape Our Lives from Birth to Old Age
    Across the globe, governments are grappling with how to design policies that meet the needs of diverse and aging populations, address widening inequalities, and promote overall societal well-being. In the United States, debates over health care, economic safety nets, and education underscore the critical importance of evidence-based policy decisions. In this Research on Tap, we…

Thursday, January 30

  • 10:00 AM
    IS&T RCS Tutorial - Natural Language Processing Basics (Hands-on)
    Human language/communication can be studied computationally through Natural Language Processing (NLP). We'll explore the basics of NLP using Python and PyTorch; no prior machine learning experience necessary, basic Python knowledge is helpful but not necessary. We will look at the bigram character model and build statistical and neural network implementations. The core concepts we will…
  • 12:00 PM
    Health Data Science Focused Research Program Workshop
    Event Description: Join us to learn about funding opportunities and meet potential collaborators working in various areas of Health Data Science. This Focused Research Program Workshop will provide information about the current call for proposals and offer a unique networking opportunity. Lunch will follow the presentation. For questions, please contact Robin MacDonald at remac@bu.edu.
  • 12:30 PM
    IMAP Lunch Seminar Energy Investment Tax Credits & Environmental Outcomes: Evidence from Electric Utilities
    The Investment Tax Credit (“ITC”) is an essential part of U.S. policymakers’ strategy to encourage investment in clean energy. We investigate the effect of Investment Tax Credits on firms’ electricity generation and emissions with a sample of electric utilities from 2001-2022. Using a stacked cohort difference-in-differences design, we find that firms generate less electricity from…
  • 12:45 PM
    BU Law Annual Distinguished Lecture "Fixing the Supreme Court Through Its Docket"
    Please Join us on January 30th for the BU Law Annual Distinguished Lecture featuring Stephen Vladeck, Georgetown Law.
  • 3:00 PM
    IS&T RCS Tutorial - Intermediate Usage of the SCC (Lecture)
    This tutorial will provide some more advanced techniques and common strategies used for interacting with the Shared Computing Cluster and its resources. The topics discussed during the tutorial include: Customizing your environment Parallel computing on the SCC Jobs monitoring and profiling: CPU and GPU utilization, memory usage Profiling programs for performance optimization General optimization strategies…

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