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All Topics (May 27 through June 23)
Thursday, May 28
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21st Annual John McCahan Medical Campus Education ConferenceThe mission of the McCahan Medical Campus Education Conference is to foster a vibrant educational community that supports, develops and disseminates the best teaching practices and research within a dynamic, collaborative and inclusive learning environment. This year’s theme is AI in Health Sciences Education and features workshops, interactive sessions, a poster session, exhibits and a…
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IS&T RCS Tutorial - Intermediate Usage of the SCC (Lecture)This tutorial will provide some more advanced techniques and common strategies used for interacting with the Shared Computing Cluster and its resources. The topics discussed during the tutorial include: Customizing your environment Parallel computing on the SCC Jobs monitoring and profiling: CPU and GPU utilization, memory usage Profiling programs for performance optimization General optimization strategies…
Monday, June 1
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IS&T RCS Tutorial - Introduction to Parallel Programming (Hands-on)This “Introduction to Parallel Programming” tutorial is recommended for anyone interested in learning more about the topic or who plans on taking our language-specific tutorials on parallel programming. This tutorial is not oriented towards any program language in particular and is intended for anyone with programming experience. This tutorial covers basic topics such as the…
Tuesday, June 2
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Library Skills Summer Series: The Right Review (Virtual)Interested in learning what review type is right for your research project? Join librarians at the Alumni Medical Library to explore a variety of review methodologies and learn tips and tricks for identifying the review type that is right for you.
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IS&T RCS Tutorial - Natural Language Processing Basics (LLMs Part 1) (Hands-on)This is part one of a three part series but those wanting a brief introduction to Natural Language Processing (NLP) should feel free to attend just this session. Human language/communication can be studied computationally through NLP. We'll explore the basics of NLP using Python and PyTorch; no prior machine learning experience is necessary, basic Python…
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[Torrey Pines] Fellowship Recipient Panel: A Funding Fest 2026 EventJoin us to hear from fellowship recipients as they discuss their experience applying for and receiving their awards and share their tips for navigating the process. Panelists will discuss how they found and applied for their fellowships and their experience writing and submitting their applications. Don’t miss your chance to get your questions answered and…
Wednesday, June 3
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IS&T RCS Tutorial - Python Parallelization (Hands-on)This tutorial is an introduction to the variety of ways that parallel computations can be performed in Python. Ways of identifying code that can benefit from parallelization will be discussed. Several parallelization methods using the Python language and external libraries will be covered with examples. This tutorial assumes an intermediate understanding of the Python language…
Thursday, June 4
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IS&T RCS Tutorial - Intermediate Language Models (LLMs Part 2) (Hands-on)Large Language Models (LLMs) first require successful "non-large" language models. We'll look at word embeddings, a technique for encoding words as vectors that capture their semantic meaning. We’ll examine the popular word2vec method and build/train a model to generate our own word embeddings. Finally we’ll explore how to perform linguistic operations using vector arithmetic with…
Monday, June 8
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IS&T RCS Tutorial - Intermediate Usage of the SCC (Lecture)This tutorial will provide some more advanced techniques and common strategies used for interacting with the Shared Computing Cluster and its resources. The topics discussed during the tutorial include: Customizing your environment Parallel computing on the SCC Jobs monitoring and profiling: CPU and GPU utilization, memory usage Profiling programs for performance optimization General optimization strategies…
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IS&T RCS Tutorial - Python Optimization (Hands-on)This tutorial is for those with intermediate Python experience who are interested in optimizing their code to maximize performance. The topics covered are profiling and timing Python code, selecting data structures, avoiding common pitfalls, using external libraries, and tuning Python code. If you do not have Python installed on your home machine, please read and…
Tuesday, June 9
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IS&T RCS Tutorial - Version Control and Collaboration with Git and GitHub, Part One (Hands-on)In this interactive, hands-on two-day Git workshop, attendees will learn how to use Git for version control and collaboration with other code developers. We will go over the fundamentals of version control using Git and GitHub and practice the essential git commands. Participants will learn how to systematically store different versions of their code, recover…
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[AML Summer Skills] Maintaining Research ProfilesAttention all researchers! Have you ever wondered how you can beef up your online presence as a scientist and scholarly author? To learn how to do just that, join the library for our virtual workshop, Maintaining Research Profiles, on Tuesday, June 9th from 10-11 AM. We will cover tools such as ORCID, NCBI My Bibliography,…
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Right to the City Gallery ExhibitionClosed Sundays, Mondays, and major holidays. The gallery will be closed Tuesday, June 30, through Monday, July 6, in observance of Independence Day. Stone Gallery will reopen on Tuesday, July 7. Right to the City is an international movement combating the political, cultural, and environmental repercussions of inequitable land and property (re)development. Over the last…
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ARC Program on Thrombosis and Hemostasis and the CVI Mini-SymposiumThe Thrombosis and Hemostasis ARC in collaboration with the CVI is holding a mini-symposium on Cardio-Oncology. "Role of Platelets in Tumor Immunity" - Elisabeth M. Battinelli, MD, PhD, chief, Division of MassGeneralBrigham Classical Hematology, associate professor & clinical director MGB Special Coagulation Integrated Laboratory Service This talk will be followed by presentations by Thrombosis and…
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IS&T RCS Tutorial - GPT & Transformers (LLMs Part 3) (Hands-on)Training Large Language Models (LLMs) requires a large neural network, large data, and large compute. We will discuss these difficulties. We’ll look at the Transformer architecture in detail to develop a quantitative understanding of how it works and how specifically tools like ChatGPT, DeepSeek, Llama, etc. work. We will then use a pre-trained SentenceTransformer model…
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[BWiB] Take Up Space: Building Presence and Confidence in High Stakes MomentsThe Boston Women in Bioinformatics is excited to reunite with Joanna Ghayad, executive career coach to STEM scientists, on Take Up Space | Building Presence and Confidence in High-Stakes Moments. You’ve been in this situation before... You already have the expertise. But in the moments that matter most—a tough Q&A, a room full of senior…
Wednesday, June 10
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IS&T RCS Tutorial - Python with Dask (Hands-on)Dask is an open source Python library for parallel computing. This helps to scale Python code to large scale problems, including ones where the quantity of data is much greater than the amount of computer memory on hand. It provides a convenient way to adapt existing programs based around libraries such as Pandas and Numpy…
Thursday, June 11
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IS&T RCS Tutorial - Version Control and Collaboration with Git and GitHub, Part Two (Hands-on)This session is a continuation of "Version Control and Collaboration with Git and Git Hub, Part One". Please register for both parts.
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IS&T RCS Tutorial - Intro to MPI - Scaling your code to run on multiple nodes (Hands-on)Many programs can be sped up by using additional CPU cores. To do this the execution needs to be parallelized and distributed across multiple cores. While “shared-memory” approaches like OpenMP allow you to use many cores on a single machine, if the program can still benefit from additional cores then a “distributed-memory” approach like MPI…
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Right to the City Opening ReceptionJoin the Boston University Initiative on Cities for the opening reception of Right to the City, a new exhibition featuring the work of photographer and advocate Dominic Moulden. Right to the City is an international movement combating the political, cultural, and environmental repercussions of inequitable land and property (re)development. Over the last decade, advocate and…
Friday, June 12
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IS&T RCS Tutorial - Adv. Topics in R: Code Optimization and Parallelization (Hands-on)This tutorial is primarily aimed at those who have some experience working in a Linux environment and programming in R. The topics covered in this tutorial: debugging and profiling R code choosing the right functions to speed-up your code parallelization techniques tuning your code for faster performance on the SCC cluster
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The Right to the City: Visualizing Home, Resistance, and BelongingJoin the Boston University Initiative on Cities for a discussion highlighting work from our upcoming exhibition, Right to the City. Henri Lefebvre coined the “Right to the City” in 1968 to assert that urban life should be shaped by the people who inhabit it, not just by the wealthy or market forces. Through community-rooted photography,…
Tuesday, June 16
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[AML Summer Skills] Unravel the Mystery: How to Select the Best Database for Your Research TopicJoin us for this fun workshop, which will investigate the basics of databases and how they are helpful to your research work. We will examine a variety of databases used in the health sciences, and explore which ones might be most beneficial to you. Bring your questions to solve the riddle of the BEST database…
Tuesday, June 23
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[AML Summer Skills] Finding Policy DocumentsLearn how to find high-quality policy documents to support health sciences research in this practical online workshop. We’ll explore Policy Commons, Overton, and Google, focusing on effective search strategies for locating government reports, think tank publications, and other policy-relevant sources. Learn more about the AML's Summer Series here: https://medlib-bu.libguides.com/library-skills-summer-series/bingo Book a one-on-one appointment with a…
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IS&T RCS Tutorial - Special/Advanced Topics in ML (Hands-on)We will cover several topics, demonstrating how they are useful for applying ML techniques/tools to broader research. We will examine: "Whisper" for speech recognition and transcription Model Context Protocol (MCP) for expanding capabilities of AI models to use external data and tools Topics covered by this tutorial in future semesters will change based on community…