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All Topics (March 6 through April 9)
Thursday, March 6
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Accelerating Change in the Mobility Sector: Trends, Cutting Edge Technology, and How Cities Can Proactively Engage and ParticipateJoin 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…
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World Statistics Day SeminarSpeaker: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…
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RASTIC X ASML: The TalksTitle: New Methodology for Robot Trajectory Volume Conflict Analysis using NX
Tuesday, March 11
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Health Data Science Distinguished Speaker Series with Dr. Bhramar Mukherjee, Yale SPHCosponsors: Center for Health Data Science at BU SPH and the Hariri Institute for Computing Speaker: Bhramar Mukherjee, PhD, Anna M.R. Lauder Professor of Biostatistics, Professor of Chronic Disease Epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health (YSPH) Talk Title: Unveiling Bias: A Statistician’s Quest for Data Representation in Health Research Abstract: Despite several proposed…
Friday, March 14
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RASTIC Certified Seminar: UAV TEAMTitle: FPGA For Fun and Profit
Monday, March 17
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AI and Education Initiative Human and Machine Learning Lunch Series with Zhongkai ShangguanSpeaker: Zhongkai Shangguan, BU PhD candidate, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering Talk Title: Scalability and Accessibility: How AI Shapes the Future of Intelligent Tutoring Systems Bio: Zhongkai Shangguan, Ph.D. candidate, specializes in computer vision, natural language processing, data mining, and reinforcement learning. His research interests are generally in machine learning for assistive technology, focusing…
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Urban Inequalities WorkshopPresented by Yasemin Girgin, Ph.D. Student, Boston University: “Politics of Gentrification: Desecularization of Culture in Istanbul”
Wednesday, March 19
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BU CTSI Symposium: Advancing Translational Science Through Cutting-Edge TechnologyThis year’s event will highlight innovations and intersections between artificial intelligence and regenerative medicine. Featuring key-note speaker Roy Perlis, MD, Associate Editor at JAMA Network – Open and Associate Chief for Research in the Department of Psychiatry and Director of the Center for Quantitative Health at Massachusetts General Hospital.
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Center for Systems Neuroscience Seminar (Prof. Mark Churchland, Columbia University)Hosted by Prof. Michael Economo and Brian DePasquale
Wednesday, December 31
Wednesday, March 19
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AI Seminar: High-Resolution Frame Interpolation with Patch-based Cascaded DiffusionWe introduce HiFI, a patch-based cascaded pixel diffusion approach for High resolution Frame Interpolation, that generalizes across diverse resolutions up to 8K, a wide range of scene motions, and a broad spectrum of challenging scenes. HiFI helps significantly with high resolution and complex repeated textures that require global context. HiFI demonstrates comparable or beyond state-of-the-art…
Tuesday, March 25
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IGS Visiting Researcher Presentationspresentations and discussions featuring new Visiting Researchers.
Wednesday, March 26
Friday, March 28
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CISE Seminar: Anand D. Sarwate, The University of New Jersey, RutgersFlexible Tensor Decompositions for Learning and Optimization Many measurements or signals are multidimensional, or tensor-valued. To fit this data in existing machine learning pipelines, this data is vectorized, causing a blowup in the dimensionality. An alternative approach is to use tensor decompositions to create more structured models that respect the multidimensional structure. In this work…
Monday, March 31
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Why population heterogeneity matters for modelling infectious diseases11am-12pm: Guest lecture by Sara Del Valle, PhD, Chief Scientist, Associate Laboratory Directorate for Global Security at Los Alamos National Laboratory Open to the public.
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AIR Distinguished Speaker SeriesSpeaker: Charlie Wang, Professor of Smart Manufacturing at the University of Manchester Faculty Host: Emily Whiting, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Boston University Talk Title: “Field Based Computation for Vector 3D Printing: Slicing, Toolpath Generation & Motion Planning” Abstract: Although additive manufacturing is called 3D printing, the fabrication in most cases is still in a…
Tuesday, April 1
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Geoeconomic Fragmentation and the World EconomyA trend toward geoeconomic fragmentation (GEF) has emerged as a significant challenge with far-reaching economic implications for countries across the world. Through which channels is GEF expected to impact the world economy? What are potential global and regional output losses of GEF? And how does the measurement of geopolitical distance between country pairs affect international…
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CISE Seminar: Tobias Fischer, Associate Professor, Queensland University of TechnologyVisual Place Recognition: Navigating Without GPS Using Bio-Inspired Approaches Knowing your location is fundamental to navigation – for humans, animals, and autonomous systems alike. But how can robots determine their position with confidence and precision in environments where satellite systems are unavailable or unreliable? The central theme of this talk explores Visual Place Recognition (VPR),…
Thursday, April 3
Friday, April 4
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CISE Best Paper AwardsThe Center for Information & Systems Engineering established the CISE Best Student Paper Award competition to promote student research and recognize the scientific quality of research being conducted by CISE students. The opportunity is open to all students currently enrolled at Boston University and advised by a CISE faculty affiliate. Paper submissions will be evaluated…
Tuesday, April 8
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BTEC Entrepreneurship Seminars: Beta Bionics and the Development of the Bionic Pancreas – Featuring Ed DamianoEver since Ed Damiano's 25-year-old son, David, was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at 11 months old, he set his sights on building and integrating autonomous, intelligent systems into a purpose-built, wearable medical device that he referred to as a bionic pancreas. In 2021, a 13-week pivotal clinical trial was conducted that tested the iLet…
Wednesday, April 9
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The Inclusion Trap: Evidence from the Elite Civil ServiceEarly-career geographic mobility plays a critical role in shaping the long-run careers of elite civil servants by providing exposure, networks and administrative experience. In a new study using personnel data from Pakistan’s elite civil service from 1986 to 2020, Shaheen Naseer examines a 2003 gender-sensitive policy that relaxed mobility requirements for female officers. She finds…