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All Topics (April 27 through June 30)

Monday, April 28

Tuesday, April 29

  • 12:00 PM
    Find Funding for Evaluating Social Programs and Policies: Meet Arnold Ventures
    Arnold Ventures (AV) is a philanthropy dedicated to improving the lives of all Americans through evidence-based policy solutions that maximize opportunity and minimize injustice. AV focuses on improving systems where outcomes are falling short, incentives are misaligned, and the time is right for change in areas including Criminal Justice, Higher Education, Health, Infrastructure, and Public…
  • 1:00 PM
    What Everyone Should Know About Bird Flu (H5N1)
    the National Academies' Health and Medicine Division and Division on Earth and Life Studies are holding a special edition “Healthy Exchange” webinar series addressing the topic. The first webinar in the series, “What Everyone Should Know About Bird Flu (H5N1),” will take place on April 29, 2025. Subject matter experts will provide general information about…

Wednesday, April 30

  • 2:00 PM
    AIR Weekly Seminar
    Speaker: Baifeng Shi (https://bfshi.github.io/), Fourth-year PhD student from Berkeley AI Research (BAIR) at UC Berkeley Talk Title: “Scaling Vision Pre-Training to 4K Resolution” Abstract: Modern vision models such as SigLIP and DINOv2 are all pre-trained at low resolutions (e.g., 384x384 pixels). Compared to human vision which can easily achieve an effective resolution of 10,000×10,000, such…

Wednesday, May 7

Thursday, May 8

  • 10:00 AM
    FRP Symposium: AI for Understanding Earthquakes
    AI techniques are increasingly important in the study of seismic events and changes in the structure of the earth over time. For the last year, we have been undergoing a focused research project through the Hariri Institute at Boston University to develop novel approaches of using AI for understanding earthquakes. The goal of this symposium…
  • 6:30 PM
    Outbreak: Epidemics in a Connected World
    Try your hand at being an outbreak responder in this interactive forum, part of the Museum of Science’s 2025 Being Human spotlight. This interactive forum will engage participants to walk through the decision-making process of responding to infectious disease threats such as avian influenza and Ebola. Participants will work together to consider the many factors…

Monday, May 19

  • 9:30 AM
    FRP Symposium: Data Center and Power Grid Interactions: Challenges and Opportunities
    The goal of the Privacy Preserving Energy Analytics for Data Centers FRP is to demonstrate, for the first time, that large-scale computer systems will achieve cost reduction and energy efficiency improvements via a novel privacy-preserving, collaborative, and scalable analytics and optimization framework. The researchers aim to achieve this goal through a specific high-impact application of…

Tuesday, June 17

  • 12:00 AM
    2025 Summer Workshop on Chemical Imaging
    This workshop, hosted by Professor Ji-Xin Cheng, aims to provide a platform for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and junior faculty to learn chemical imaging technologies through lectures and lab practice. Invited speakers will present the most recent advances in the development and applications of chemical imaging platforms and probes. The newest laser and chemical microscope…
  • 2025 Summer Workshop on Chemical Imaging
    This workshop aims to provide a platform for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and junior faculty to learn chemical imaging technologies through lectures and lab practice. Invited speakers will present the most recent advances in the development and applications of chemical imaging platforms and probes. The newest laser and chemical microscope products will be introduced. Hands-on…

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