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All Topics (February 6 through February 26)
Thursday, February 6
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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
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The 2025 ILJ Symposium: The Normalized Tragedy: Addressing Legal Responses to Gun Violence in the United States and Abroad.For decades, the United States has faced an epidemic of gun violence, with guns altering the way American citizens go about their lives. However, gun violence in the United States has reached a point where nowhere is safe, and places that should be safe spaces such as local schools, places of worship, and university campuses…
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ENERGIZE Graduate Student Training Program Information SessionThe ENERGIZE program is recruiting its first cohort of graduate trainees.
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IS&T RCS Tutorial - Introduction to Python, Part Two (Hands-on)This tutorial is a continuation of "Introduction to Python, Part One" and introduces more features of the language, common libraries such as numpy and matplotlib, and the basics of debugging Python programs. Please make sure you sign up for part one as well.
Monday, February 10
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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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IS&T RCS Tutorial - GIS Using R: arcgis (Hands-on)The R arcgis library is part of ESRI's R-ArcGIS Bridge toolbox that allows one to interact with ArcGIS Online services within an R environment. This enables one to load data hosted on ArcGIS Online into an sf object within your R environment. Create GIS data using sf in your R environment and then publishing that…
Tuesday, February 11
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IS&T RCS Tutorial - Introduction to GRASS GIS Processing Engine (Hands-on)This tutorial will introduce participants into the fundamentals of processing geospatial data using the GRASS GIS engine. We will cover the basics of GRASS GIS, ingesting data into a new project, and visualizing spatial data in a Jupyter Notebook. We will work through a focused example—a viewshed analysis case study—where we will compute and evaluate…
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IS&T RCS Tutorial - Deep Learning with PyTorch, Part One (Hands-on)This is the first part of a two-part tutorial on PyTorch. Be sure to also register for Part Two on Thursday, February 13, from 1 PM to 3 PM to continue building your knowledge. What to Expect: This session introduces PyTorch, a popular and versatile Python library for deep learning, optimized for acceleration processing using…
Wednesday, February 12
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BU Faculty and Staff Event: Federal Outlook for Research Under the New Administration and CongressBU faculty and staff are invited to participate in a webinar with federal policy experts to learn about the research priorities of the new White House administration and strategies for positioning your research in this new environment. The session will feature Vice President for Federal Relations Jennifer Grodsky and Naomi Webber and Eve Granatosky from…
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Weekly AIR Seminar 02/12Speaker: Keanu Nichols, PhD Student at Boston University (CAS) Talk Title: Multi-domain Analysis and Generalization of Image manipulation loCalization Abstract: Advanced image editing software enables easy creation of highly convincing image manipulations, which has been made even more accessible in recent years due to advances in generative AI. Manipulated images, while often harmless, could spread…
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IS&T RCS Tutorial - Data Preparation for Neuroimagers: BIDS, mriqc, and fmriprep (Hands-on)This tutorial will introduce Boston University’s Shared Computing Cluster (SCC) for use with Magnetic Resonance (MR) neuroimaging methods focusing on data preparation. We will work hands-on with the SCC to highlight the neuroimaging tools available on the SCC for importing, organizing, assessing the quality of, and preprocessing neuroimaging data. Software covered will include dcm2bids, MRIQC,…
Thursday, February 13
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IS&T RCS Tutorial - Matlab Performance Optimization (Hands-on)For many programs speed is the main research productivity factor, meaning the difference between hours versus months in getting results. For many applications it is possible to write MATLAB programs that are as fast or only a factor of 2-3 times slower than a compiled C++ or Fortran version, while requiring dramatically fewer lines of…
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IMAP Lunch Seminar - Geospatial Finance: Foundations for Sustainable Investment and Environmental InsightMonthly lunch seminars to foster collaboration.
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IS&T RCS Tutorial - Deep Learning with PyTorch, Part Two (Hands-on)This is the second part of a two-part tutorial on PyTorch. Be sure to also register for Part One on Tuesday, February 11, from 1 PM to 3 PM. What to Expect: This session introduces PyTorch, a popular and versatile Python library for deep learning, optimized for acceleration processing using GPUs. You’ll gain hands-on experience…
Friday, February 14
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NECST Lab Visit: Heterogeneous Systems, Hardware Acceleration, and More; Politecnico di MilanoThe NECSTLab is a laboratory inside DEIB department of Politecnico di Milano (Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria). It is a place where research meets teaching, and teaching meets research, also through academics and industrial events. At NECSTLab, we perceive that a close connection between research and education must be pursued to prepare our students…
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IS&T RCS Tutorial - Python for Data Analysis (Hands-on)This tutorial will introduce the basics of Data Analysis with Python and its powerful libraries such as Pandas and Matplotlib. What you will learn: Importing and Exporting the data Basic data processing, cleaning, and manipulation Basic inferential statistical analysis Data Visualization techniques
Tuesday, February 18
Wednesday, February 19
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Center for Computational Science (CCS) and Physical Chemistry SeminarSpeaker: Xiang Sun, Assistant Professor of Chemistry at NYU Shanghai and a Global Network Assistant Professor at New York University (NYU) Talk Title: “Theoretical Approaches to Photoinduced Charge Transfer in the Condensed Phase” Abstract: Photoinduced charge and energy transfer in condensed-phase systems plays a crucial role in solar energy conversion, particularly in organic photovoltaic (OPV)…
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IS&T RCS Tutorial - NASA Earthdata's Application for Extracting and Exploring Analysis Ready Samples (AppEEARS): A Tool for Accessing, Processing, and Visualizing Geospatial Data (Lecture)AppEEARS is an easy-to-use web interface and API for accessing, processing, and visualizing geospatial data products. This tutorial will introduce AppEEARS and provide end-to-end walkthroughs demonstrating how to subset geospatial data spatially, temporally, and by band/layer from missions such as Harmonized Landsat Sentinel-2 (HLS), ECOSTRESS, EMIT, MODIS, Daymet, VIIRS and others. The demo will show…
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Cyber Alliance Seminar Series: Ignacio Cofone, Professor of Law and Regulation of AI, University of OxfordBio: Ignacio Cofone is the Professor of Law and Regulation of AI at the University of Oxford, working jointly at the Faculty of Law and the Institute for Ethics in AI. He is also a governing body fellow of Reuben College and an affiliated fellow at the Yale Information Society Project. Cofone is interested in…
Thursday, February 20
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IS&T RCS Tutorial - Machine Learning with Python scikit-learn, Part Two (Hands-on)This session was rescheduled from Feb 6 due to technical issues. 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: Data preprocessing Model fitting Model selection Evaluation And much more Through hands-on exercises with real datasets, you'll learn to develop…
Friday, February 21
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Center for Systems Neuroscience - Test EventThis is only a test.
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Can Institutional Reforms be Made Meaningful?In June, Kenyan president William Ruto published a piece in the International Monetary Fund (IMF)’s flagship magazine headlined “A Consensus is Forming for IMF Reform.” At the time of its publication, Nairobi was engulfed in protest against an IMF-approved tax increase, with tens of thousands of Kenyans refusing the imposition of austerity programs. One could…
Monday, February 24
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Urban Inequalities WorkshopPresented by Dr. Raquel L. Jimenez, Harvard University: “A Storied City”
Wednesday, February 26
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IS&T RCS Tutorial - Introduction to Data and Code Reproducibility for Researchers (Lecture)This tutorial will introduce the idea of reproducibility for scientific analysis, including motivation and practical tips for getting started. While some examples may be given in R with environmental applications, concepts should be applicable to any analysis that depends on data and code. This tutorial will have useful reminders to all skill levels but will…