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This calendar is a round-up of events related to research from around BU. Browse all upcoming events by date, or select an event topic to narrow your search.
All Topics (April 7 through April 24)
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.…
Monday, April 14
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AI and Education Initiative Human and Machine Learning Lunch Series with Marc Maffei, PhDSpeaker: Marc Maffei, PhD, Postdoctoral Associate, Sargent College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences Talk Title: Speech, Language, and Motor Skills in Late Talkers Bio: Marc Maffei is speech-language pathologist and postdoctoral researcher at the BU Infant Communication Lab. He received both his M.S. in Communication Sciences and Disorders and Ph.D. in Rehabilitation Sciences from the…
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Urban Inequalities WorkshopPresented by Dr. Sarah Mayorga, Brandeis University: “Owners, renters, and the social relations of private property”
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Center for Brain Recovery Brain and Behavior Seminar Series: Preeti Sunderaraman, PhD Assistant Professor of Neurology; Hariri Institute Junior Faculty FellowAreas of Expertise: Alzheimer’s disease, Brain Health, Dementia, Digital technology, Cognition, Cross-cultural/Diversity, Functional ability/iADLs, Research Dr. Sunderaraman is a licensed clinical neuropsychologist who received her PhD from Drexel University and completed her neuropsychology internship at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. Before joining the faculty at the Boston University School of Medicine in July…
Tuesday, April 15
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Technology, Artificial Intelligence and Digitalization: Reconstructing Fiscal Institutions Beyond Colonial LegaciesHow can technology, artificial intelligence (AI) and digitalization help reform fiscal institutions that are still rooted in colonial-era paradigms? A new paper from Dr. Lyla Latif, Lecturer at the University of Nairobi, argues that the traditional tax frameworks that have been designed to support resource extraction and control, are ill-equipped to capture the intangible value…
Wednesday, April 16
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CISE Seminar: Luca Benini, Università di BolognaToward End-to-End Open Platforms and Chips for Embodied AI AI is accelerating into the generative era, and it is poised to disrupt multiple businesses, especially as AI capabilities are being “embodied” everywhere, from earbuds to cars. Embodied AI needs to tackle major challenges in energy efficiency, safety, security, and real-time predictability, while curtailing computational complexity.…
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Center for Systems Neuroscience and Neurophotonics Center Seminar (Prof. Brian Bacskai, Harvard University)Hosted by Prof. Anna Devor
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Research on Tap: AI and the HumanitiesArtificial intelligence is transforming every aspect of our lives, raising urgent questions about its impact on ethics, identity, well-being, and the health of our political and economic systems. At the same time, AI is opening new frontiers in humanities research—reshaping how we analyze complex texts, uncover historical insights, and approach anthropology. This Research on Tap…
Thursday, April 17
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IMAP Lunch Seminar: The Puzzle of Sustainable InvestmentMany investors want to use their financial portfolios to change how firms are run. Unfortunately, there is much muddled thinking here and plenty of unreasonable expectations. This IMAP lunch seminar will discuss the channels through which investors have impact and use data and case studies to assess its magnitude. The featured speaker will be Lukasz…
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RASTIC X ASML: The TalksTitle: New Methodology for Robot Trajectory Volume Conflict Analysis Using NX
Friday, April 18
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Global Governance Reform from the Global SouthCalls for institutions like the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) to democratize decision-making, increase transparency, and rebalance governance toward interests of Global South countries began almost as soon as these institutions came into being. However, over 80 years on since the Bretton Woods Conference that laid the foundation for much of the global…
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CISE Seminar: Sairaj Dhople, Professor, University of MinnesotaCircuit Solutions to Control, Optimization, Modeling, and Analysis Challenges for Power Electronics Power grids the world over are transforming in form and function with the integration of power electronics converters across scales. Challenges precipitated by this transition are several and they call for new paradigms for modeling, analysis, control, and optimization. We adopt a circuit-theoretic…
Monday, April 21
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Debt Paper Series Launch with the Institute for Economic JusticeThe debt crisis disproportionately impacts Global South countries, with recent debt restructuring attempts occurring on a case-by-case basis - and ultimately failing to achieve sustainable outcomes, perpetuating cycles of unsustainable debt. The absence of a coherent international legal framework further complicates these issues, leaving negotiations inequitable and opaque. On Monday, April 21 from 3:00-5:00PM alongside…
Wednesday, April 23
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Cyber Alliance Seminar: Dan Roche, Professor, Computer Science, U.S. Naval Academy, AnnapolisTalk Title: What FTC cases tell us about developing and managing secure software systems Abstract: In the absence of nationwide data privacy legislation, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has played a significant role in holding firms accountable in the wake of compromises to sensitive personal data which they hold. Two significant court cases in…
Thursday, April 24
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Advances in Global Disease Surveillance: An Introduction to BEACONJoin us for the highly anticipated launch of a new program at Boston University which merges emerging infectious diseases surveillance, a global network of moderators who are subject matter experts and the power of artificial intelligence and large language models, called Biothreats Emergence, Analysis and Communications Network (BEACON). BEACON is informal outbreak surveillance program dedicated…