Thursday, February 2

• 10:00 AM IS&T RCS Tutorial - Creating Pretty Documents using R Markdown and Quarto

  R Markdown is a powerful tool that helps produce elegantly formatted documents. In this tutorial, we will learn how to use the rmarkdown, ggplot2, and kable packages, as well as […]

• IS&T RCS Tutorial - Data Wrangling in R

  “Tidy data” is a term that describes a standardized approach to structuring datasets to make statistical analyses and visualizations easier. In this tutorial you will learn how to modify, filter, […]

• 11:00 AM Professional Outreach: Emails and More

  Writing email is more complicated than it appears, and often causes miscommunication. To write effective emails, writers need to consider the target audience and purpose of the email, among other […]

• 11:30 AM
  • Featured Events
  Swayer Seminar Series: EU and US Boarder Regimes: historical perspectives and current trends and policies of externalization

  Join us for the first installment of the Sawyer Seminar Series: EU and US Border Regimes: historical perspectives and current trends and policies of externalization.

• 1:00 PM IS&T RCS Student Demonstration: From Spatial Data to Time-Lapse: Creating Videos with ArcGIS and Premiere

  In this training session, you will learn how to use ArcGIS and Adobe Premiere to create a time-lapse video that visualizes medium-high resolution spatial-temporal data over a large area. Time-lapse […]

• 3:00 PM Campus Climate Lab Spring Proposal Development Session #2

  Get help refining your Campus Climate Lab proposal.

Friday, February 3

• 9:30 AM IS&T RCS Tutorial - Research Computing Office Hours - Machine Learning

  During Research Computing Office Hours, our staff will be happy to answer any question you might have related to using Machine Learning on the Shared Computing Cluster. If you are […]

• 10:30 AM IS&T RCS Tutorial - Research Computing Office Hours - R, SAS, and Stata

  During Research Computing Office Hours, our staff will be happy to answer any question you might have related to using R, SAS, and/or Stata on the Shared Computing Cluster. If […]

• 11:00 AM AIR Distinguished Speaker Series: Octavia Camps

  Speaker: Octavia Camps, Northeastern University

• 3:00 PM CISE Seminar: Fei Chen, Systems Engineering Visiting Scholar

  Funnel Control for Leader-Follower Multi-Agent Systems and Its Application to STL Tasks

  Significant research has been devoted to the problem of distributed formation control of multi-agent systems.

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Monday, February 6

• 9:30 AM IS&T RCS Tutorial - Introduction to Julia

  Julia is a high-performance programming language, but with many features more common to lower performance interpreted languages. Many of its features are well suited for numerical analysis and computational science, […]

• 11:00 AM Fast & Furious & Fair: Accurate, Equitable, and Nimble Grading

  Do you dread the pile of blue books that you have to read through for midterms and exams? Do you know how to grade, but would like to find a […]

• 12:00 PM IS&T RCS Tutorial - Introduction to ImageJ

  ImageJ is a popular open source tool for image analysis and processing. In this tutorial we will cover the basics of digital images, the ImageJ interface, image manipulation, and performing […]

Tuesday, February 7

• 10:00 AM IS&T RCS Tutorial - Graphics in R: ggplot2

  The R package ggplot2 is a reliable and powerful tool for graphics and plotting scientific data. This tutorial will cover the theory behind ggplot2’s approach to visualization. We will cover […]

• 3:00 PM Career Exploration

  Considering a career outside of academia? Wondering if there are academic roles beyond a traditional faculty role that may fit your interests and skills? Join us for an interactive workshop […]

• Developing Plans to Promote Equitable and Inclusive Research

  In this workshop, we will review strategies for writing a comprehensive plan for diversity, equity, and inclusion, and also share examples across disciplines of how research groups at BU are […]

• 4:30 PM Tax Workshop for Domestic Doctoral Students and Postdocs

  PDPA is holding two workshops on filing your taxes by Robert Underwood, CPA. Those receiving fellowships can also attend.  Click the link to complete a form to select the webinar you […]

Wednesday, February 8

• 12:00 PM Buddhas, Emperors, and Apocalyptic Saviors in Medieval China with April Hughes

  The Pardee School Center for the Study of Asia Director’s Lunch Series is pleased to invite you to attend April D. Hughes' (Department of Religion, Boston University) lecture titled "Buddhas, […]

• 1:00 PM IS&T RCS Vendor Presentation: Deep Learning with Images using MATLAB

  Deep learning is quickly becoming embedded in everyday applications. It’s becoming essential for students and educators to adopt this technology to solve complex real-world problems. MATLAB and Simulink provide a […]

• PhD Virtual Office Hours

  Drop-in virtual office hours provide students with a space to ask Professional Development & Postdoctoral Affairs staff questions, receive professional development advice, and learn about available resources.

• 2:00 PM 21 Days Community Conversation

  Throughout the 21 Days of Unlearning Racism and Learning Anti-Racism this month, we are hosting a series of Community Conversations where we will be holding space for you to come […]

• 4:00 PM
  • Research on Tap
  • Featured Events
  • Postdocs & PhDs
  Research on Tap: Robotics and Autonomous Systems

  Faculty from across BU will discuss recent research in robotics and autonomy research. Talks will cover new developments in robotic devices and locomotion, including “soft robotics,” namely devices […]

• 4:30 PM Tax Workshop for International Doctoral Students and Postdocs

  PDPA is holding two workshops on filing your taxes by Robert Underwood, CPA. Those receiving fellowships can also attend. Click the link to complete a form to select the webinar you […]

Thursday, February 9

• 10:00 AM IS&T RCS Tutorial - Creating Pretty Documents using R Markdown and Quarto

  R Markdown is a powerful tool that helps produce elegantly formatted documents. In this tutorial, we will learn how to use the rmarkdown, ggplot2, and kable packages, as well as […]

• 11:00 AM Navigating Networking

  You know that you should be "networking," but what does that mean? And how can you navigate networking when conferences, lectures, and other events are virtual? During this interactive workshop, […]