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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 11 through June 30)
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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RASTIC X ASML: The TalksTitle: New Methodology for Robot Trajectory Volume Conflict Analysis Using NX