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Thursday, February 27

• 10:00 AM

  IS&T RCS Tutorial - Getting Started with the JMP Student Edition & Data Visualization (Hands-on)

  Getting Started with the JMP Student Edition: Overview of the JMP Student Edition Navigating the interface Basic graphicing and analysis Importing data Saving and reproducting analysises Data Visualization: Drag-and-drop graphing with Graph Builder Creating foundational graph types Visualizing high-dimenional data sets Producing publication-quality graphics
• 1:00 PM

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  • Strategic Communications

  On the Record: Effective Strategies for Elevating Your Expertise Through Successful Media Interviews

  Are you ready to amplify your voice and share your research with the world? Join Mackey Strategies’ Melanie Moran for a dynamic 90-minute workshop where you’ll learn how to confidently navigate media interviews, craft impactful key messages, and engage effectively with journalists to position yourself as a go-to expert in your field. In this interactive…
  
• Public Health Responses in Displacement Crises

  Join BU's Center on Emerging Infectious Diseases and Center on Forced Displacement for a guest lecture with Jeremy Konyndyk. Jeremy Konyndyk is a committed humanitarian advocate and seasoned emergency operator who has served in senior appointments in two U.S. administrations prior to his appointment as President of Refugees International. Between these appointments, he worked as…
• 2:00 PM

  IS&T RCS Tutorial - JMP Linear Modeling & Predictive Modeling and Machine Learning (Hands‐on)

  Linear Modeling: Least squares regression Logistic regression Generalized linear models Mixed models Predictive Modeling and Machine Learning: Common supervised machine learning techniques Automatic model crross-validation Deploying models Deep learning with the Touch add-in

Friday, February 28

• 3:00 PM

  CISE Seminar: Yushan Chen, Cofounder and COO, Artly AI

  Talk Title: Artly AI: Blending Automation with Craftsmanship Abstract:How can AI and robotics transform industries that rely on human skill and craftsmanship? In this talk, I will share the journey behind Artly AI and Artly Coffee, where cutting-edge automation meets artisanal expertise to redefine how we experience handcrafted products. From solving labor shortages to enhancing…

Monday, March 3

• 12:00 PM

  AI and Education Initiative Human and Machine Learning Lunch Series with Naomi Caselli, PhD

  Speaker: Naomi Caselli, PhD, Associate Professor, Deaf Education, Boston University Talk Title: Sign Language Recognition, Generation, and Translation: An Interdisciplinary Perspective Bio: Naomi Caselli is an Associate Professor at the Wheelock College of Education & Human Development at Boston University. She is also the director of the AI & Education Initiative at the Hariri Institute…
• Information Session: 2025 IGS Graduate Student Summer Fellows Program

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Wednesday, March 5

• 8:30 AM

  Green Industrial Policy in the Global South

  As countries struggle to meet existing global and national development goals, and as the costs of climate inaction mount, there is a surge in policy discourse and experimentation with green industrial policy. While investment-led strategies toward just, green structural transformations will vary country to country - dependent on the economy and climate risk exposure -…

Thursday, March 6

• 4:00 PM

  Accelerating Change in the Mobility Sector: Trends, Cutting Edge Technology, and How Cities Can Proactively Engage and Participate

  Join the Boston University Initiative on Cities and the City Planning & Urban Affairs Program for a panel discussion on how innovations and the latest in infrastructure delivery, materials, AI, electrification, data, and autonomy impact our built environment. The panel will examine the differences between private and public sector approaches to technological advances and discuss…
• World Statistics Day Seminar

  Speaker:Youssef Marzouk, Professor in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT and co-director of the MIT Center for Computational Science and Engineering Talk Title: “Scaling up the black box: simulation-based inference, transport, and dimension reduction” Abstract: Many practical Bayesian inference problems fall into the simulation-based or “likelihood-free” setting, where evaluations of the likelihood function…