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All Topics (January 22 through February 10)

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…

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.
  • 1:00 PM
    IS&T RCS Tutorial - Python GIS: Geopandas Library (Hands-on)
    GeoPandas is a Python library that extends the functionality of the Pandas DataFrame object. This allows one to import vector data (points, polylines, and polygons) into a DataFrame object but the python library enables additional functions and spatial attributes used for spatial operations on the DataFrame and enables one to generate maps showing the spatial…
  • 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…

Friday, January 31

  • 8:00 AM
    Engineering for Women's Health Symposium
    Please join us on January 31st, 2025 for the Engineering for Women's Health Symposium! Discover the latest breakthroughs across engineering, biology, and medicine in women's health, and the path forward for advancing the field. The symposium will feature distinguished speakers, industry professionals, and policy advocates. Attendees will also have the opportunity to network with professionals…
  • 3:00 PM
    CISE/Hariri Institute Distinguished Speaker Seminar: Naomi Ehrich Leonard, Princeton University
    Speaker: Naomi Ehrich Leonard, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University Talk Title: “Spiking Nonlinear Opinion Dynamics (S-NOD) for Agile Decision-Making and Control” Abstract: Leonard will introduce Spiking Nonlinear Opinion Dynamics (S-NOD), which enables decision–making and control with superior agility in responding to and adapting to fast and unpredictable changes in context, environment, or…

Monday, February 3

  • 9:30 AM
    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…
  • 1:00 PM
    IS&T RCS Tutorial - GIS Using Python: xarray (Hands-on)
    Xarray is a Python library that has a goal "working with labelled multi-dimensional arrays simple, efficient, and fun!". This tool is often used in the fields like climate science, oceanography, and remote sensing. In these fields one will often work with raster type data that have dimensions representing coordinates (e.g. latitude and longitude) and time…

Tuesday, February 4

  • 1:00 PM
    IS&T RCS Tutorial - Machine Learning with Python scikit-learn, Part One (Hands-on)
    This is the first part of a two-part tutorial series. Be sure to also register for Part Two on Thursday, Feb 6 from 1:00pm to 3:00pm to continue building your knowledge. What to Expect: This session introduces Scikit-Learn, a powerful Python library for machine learning. Scikit-Learn supports supervised and unsupervised learning and offers tools for:…
  • 3:00 PM
    IS&T RCS Tutorial - Using GitHub Copilot in RStudio for Code Development (Hands-on)
    Discover how GitHub Copilot, an AI-powered coding assistant, can revolutionize your coding workflow in RStudio. This tutorial session will guide participants through integrating and effectively using GitHub Copilot within the RStudio environment. Attendees will learn how to: Set up and enable GitHub Copilot in RStudio. Leverage its capabilities to streamline code development in R. Generate,…
  • 4:00 PM
    The Hidden Globe: How Wealth Hacks the World
    In collaboration with the BU Global Development Policy Center, Center on Latin American Studies, Political Science, Initiative on Cities, Ravi K. Mehrotra Institute, Pardee Center for the Longer-Range Future, Journalism (COM), and Economics, the Center for the Humanities will host Atossa Abrahamian, independent journalist and author of The Hidden Globe: How Wealth Hacks the World,…

Wednesday, February 5

  • 1:00 PM
    Weekly AIR Seminar 02/05
    Chau's Talk: Title: Enhancing Feature Diversity Boosts Channel-Adaptive Vision Transformers Abstract: Multi-Channel Imaging (MCI) contains an array of challenges for encoding useful feature representations not present in traditional images. For example, images from two different satellites may both contain RGB channels, but the remaining channels can be different for each imaging source. Thus, MCI models…
  • 2:30 PM
    IS&T RCS Tutorial - Introduction to Python, Part One (Hands-on)
    This is an introduction to the essential features of Python. This first part of the tutorial includes an introduction to basic types, if-statements, functions, lists, dictionaries, loops, and modules. The tutorial includes the use of a popular Python development environment and covers setting up Python on your own computer in addition to using Python on…

Thursday, February 6

  • 3:00 PM
    IS&T RCS Tutorial - Creating Pretty Documents using R Markdown and Quarto (Hands-on)
    R Markdown is a powerful tool that helps produce elegantly formatted documents. In this tutorial, we will learn how to use the rmarkdown, ggplot2, and kable packages, as well as their extensions to develop reports that include code, graphics, and tables. We will cover various options to customize code chunks, figures, and tables and go…

Friday, February 7

Monday, February 10

  • 10:00 AM
    IS&T RCS Tutorial - Introduction to Julia (Hands-on)
    Julia is a high-performance programming language, but with many features more common to lower performance interpreted languages. Many of its features are well suited for numerical analysis and computational science, with functions and syntax that are built around supporting this. This tutorial presents an introduction via solving hands-on example problems; this motivates the syntax/tools in…

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