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All Topics (February 23 through March 2)
Monday, February 23
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Biochemistry & Cell Biology Seminar Series: Angeline M. Lyon, PhD“Structural Insight into Phospholipase C Regulation” Angeline M. Lyon, PhD, associate professor, James Tarpo Jr. and Margaret Tarpo Department of Chemistry, department of biological sciences, Purdue University Host: Mikel Garcia-Marcos
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Can China’s New Venture Capitalists Solve the Local Government Debt Problem?Update (2/23): Owing to a blizzard, Boston University's campuses are closed today, and this event is regretfully cancelled. Join us for a lecture by Jean Oi, William Haas Professor of Chinese Politics and Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. Oi’s work focuses on comparative politics, with special expertise…
Tuesday, February 24
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ME-ARC Seminar on Improving Healthcare Using AI (Virtual)"Improving healthcare access, efficiency and quality using Machine Learning and NLP" John D. Piette, PhD, MPH, professor, director of the Center for Managing Chronic Disease, University of Michigan, senior research career scientist, VA Ann Arbor Center Zoom Meeting ID: 943 3331 3971 - Passcode: 643791
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[HMCRS] Regulatory Science Forum - Innovator in TherapeuticsDr. Bob Tepper will be discussing his experience in the field of drug discovery and development. He is a co-founder and Partner of Third Rock Ventures and a distinguished physician-scientist with more than 30 years of experience building and operating leading research and development organizations in the biotech industry. Dr. Tepper focuses on the formation,…
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IS&T RCS Tutorial - Deep Learning with PyTorch, Part One (Hands‐on)This is the first part of a two-part tutorial on PyTorch. Be sure to also register for Part Two to continue building your knowledge. What to Expect: This session introduces PyTorch, a popular and versatile Python library for deep learning, optimized for acceleration processing using GPUs. You’ll gain hands-on experience building and training neural networks…
Wednesday, February 25
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Don’t Ghost Your Study: Proper Closeout for IRB and IT (Virtual)Join this seminar for a practical, engaging session on closing research studies the right way. We’ll walk study teams through the essential steps to achieve a compliant and ethical closeout. We’ll cover expectations to communicate general study results to participants, how to meet IRB expectations when completing closure forms and discuss procedures for secure data…
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Sociology Seminar Series: Annie HikidoPostcolonial Placemaking: Race, Gender, and Township Tourism in South Africa. Since South Africa’s democratization in 1994, Cape Town has become an international tourism hotspot while its peripheral townships remain burdened by poverty and crime. Township tourism promises to bring tourists across the divide of racial segregation. Black South African women, insulted by notions of “slum…
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Public Health Conversation: The Future of Public Health in BostonThis event is part of our SPH50 programming, in celebration of 50 years of public health research, education, and practice at BUSPH. This year we’re hosting a series of bespoke programs that will ask local, national, and global leaders to share their goals for the future of public health. For this event, we are asking…
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Pharmacology, Physiology & Biophysics Seminar SeriesLauren Walker, PhD, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth Topic: TBA
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Research on Tap: The Well-Being of Children in Immigrant Families: Research on Policy and PracticeThis Research on Tap event will discuss the deep inequities children in immigrant families face, and highlight the policies and practices that support their healthy development.
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The Diplomacy of Gift Exchange: During the 1853-1854 Perry Expedition to JapanWith Matthew C. Perry Formal relations between the United States and Japan began with Commodore Matthew C. Perry's expedition to Japan in 1853-1854. Rhode Island native Perry, America's greatest naval diplomat as well as father of the American steam navy, brought significant technology, arts, food and spirit gifts to Japan and received gifts in return…
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Greater Boston Area TheoChem Seminar: Dr. Connor Coley, MITOverview: Co-sponsored by the Hariri Institute's Center for Computational Science, this Greater Boston TheoChem Seminar welcomes Connor Coley to speak on "Computer-aided synthesis planning: the basics & beyond." Speaker: Connor Coley, Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. Abstract: Much progress has been made in recent years toward the development…
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Dr. Elettra Bietti, Law and Computer Science, Northeastern UniversitySpeaker: Elettra Bietti, Assistant Professor of Law and Computer Science, Northeastern University Talk Title: “The Data-Attention Imperative” Abstract: The ability to direct and receive attention is constitutive of human life. Humans have an inborn need for attention, and an inborn ability to direct attention for survival. Yet attention is not just a creature of an…
Thursday, February 26
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GSDM Science DayGSDM Science Day showcases student research across all departments and programs with poster sessions in the morning and oral presentations in the afternoon. A keynote presentation by Venetia Zachariou, PhD, "Signals of Pain: Understanding G Protein and Epigenetic Pathways" will be given from Noon-1 p.m.
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BU Law Annual Distinguished Lecture Featuring Lina M. KhanBU Law is excited to announce its Annual Distinguished Lecturer will be Lina M. Khan.
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IS&T RCS Tutorial - Deep Learning with PyTorch, Part Two (Hands‐on)This is the second part of a two-part tutorial on PyTorch. Be sure to also register for Part One. What to Expect: This session introduces PyTorch, a popular and versatile Python library for deep learning, optimized for acceleration processing using GPUs. You’ll gain hands-on experience building and training neural networks for binary classification. Key Topics…
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The Doom Loop: Why the World Economic Order Is Spiraling into DisorderGlobal economic power is shifting, liberal market-oriented democracies face growing domestic turmoil and international trade and financial integration is increasingly uncertain. How did we get here? On Thursday, February 26 from 2:00-4:00 PM, join us for an in-person book talk featuring economist Eswar Prasad, Tolani Senior Professor of Trade Policy and Professor of Economics at…
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Informed Consent: Being the Participant Advocate (Virtual)This workshop will equip research staff with practical skills to design and conduct informed consent that protects participant rights and supports voluntary decision-making. Participants will learn to apply ethical and regulatory principles to consent design, identify and practice communication strategies that clearly convey study details, and tailor consent approaches to accommodate participants’ functional needs and…
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Territorializing Manchuria: The Transnational Frontier and Literatures of East AsiaTerritorializing Manchuria: The Transnational Frontier and Literatures of East Asia with Mia Qiong Xie In person and via Zoom
Friday, February 27
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Startup Essentials: Legal Issues for Entrepreneurs and Emerging Growth CompaniesDean Pasalis, Esq. from Feinberg Hanson LLP will walk entrepreneurs through the essential legal building blocks of launching a startup, including choosing the right entity, structuring founders’ agreements, protecting IP, and preparing for financing.
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[BU Entrepreneurship] Startup Essentials: Legal Issues for Entrepreneurs and Emerging Growth CompaniesDean Pasalis, Esq. from Feinberg Hanson LLP will walk entrepreneurs through the essential legal building blocks of launching a startup, including choosing the right entity, structuring founders’ agreements, protecting IP, and preparing for financing. Open to the BU community. After the event, we'll be hosting a small group lunch with Dean from 12 - 1pm…
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CISE Seminar: Wei Xiao, Professor in Robotics Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic InstituteWei Xiao is an asssistant professor leading the Safe Autonomy and Intellience Lab (SAIL) in the robotics engineering department at WPI, and a research affiliate with MIT CSAIL. Xiao was a Postdoc Associate at the MIT CSAIL (2021-2025) advised by Prof. Daniela Rus. He recieved his Ph.D. degree in Systems Engineering in 2021 at Boston…
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MSE Talk: Ashwin RamasubramaniamSpeaker: Ashwin Ramasubramaniam, University of Massachusetts Amherst Title: Predictive modeling of optoelectronic properties of layered materials via non-empirical hybrid density functionals Abstract: Van der Waals layered materials and their 2D derivatives are of significant interest across a range of fields such as nanoscale electronics, quantum computing, energy storage, and catalysis, to name a few. Such…
Monday, March 2
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Martyrs and Migrants: Coptic Christians and the Persecution Politics of US EmpireJoin us for a lecture by 2024-25 CURA Fellow Candace Lukasik. The subject of conversation with be Lukasik's new book, Martyrs and Migrants: Coptic Christians and the Persecution Politics of US Empire (NYU Press, 2025), examining how American theopolitical imaginaries of global Christian persecution have remapped Coptic collective memory of martyrdom in migration. Candace Lukasik is…