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All Topics (April 5 through June 30)
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…
Thursday, April 10
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A Housing Crisis Spillover: Political Discourse on Housing in Luxembourg and Cross-Border GentrificationUrban Seminar Series for Urban-H Housing Featuring Madalina Mezaros, Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) and her research on Luxembourg's policy inertia, housing unaffordability, and multinational spillover "domino displacement" of its citizens.
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From Insight to Impact: Crafting Op-Eds That Amplify Your ExpertiseOp-eds are a powerful way to translate your expertise into compelling narratives that influence public discourse. Join Mackey Strategies’ Melanie Moran for a 90-minute workshop designed to help you effectively draft and place op-eds that make an impact. In this session, you’ll learn: The essential elements editors seek in op-eds. How to identify timely topics…
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Powering Massachusetts Forward Interactive WorkshopInteractive workshop on leveraging data for clean energy transitions in municipalities across Massachusetts
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A Deadly Secret, a Cover-Up, and the Women Who Forged the Modern Environmental Movement: A Conversation with Bestselling Author Keith O'BrienJoin us to discuss
Friday, April 11
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BARI Conference 2025: Greater Boston's Annual Insight-to-Impact SummitThe Boston Area Research Initiative (BARI) will be hosting its annual conference on the latest research connecting community leaders, practitioners, researchers, and policymakers to advance data-driven civic research. This year, the conference will be held at Roxbury Community College.
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CISE Seminar: Ali Jadbabaie, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyThe Pitfalls of Imitation Learning when Actions are Continuous This talk will present our recent study of the problem of imitating an expert demonstrator in a discrete-time, continuous state-and-action control system. Over the past few years, Imitation Learning (IL) has become a topic of intense focus in the Reinforcement Learning (RL), Robotics and autonomy literature.…