Tuesday, April 20

• 5:00 PM Future Panel with Medical Students

  Medical School Questions? Come and chat with Medical Students! Application, students life, MCAT, ask to success! AHosted by GMSSO Meeting ID: 929 7422 0217 Passcode: 004220

• 5:30 PM PDPA Trivia Tuesday

Wednesday, April 21

• 12:00 PM Caroline Ritter Book talk: "Imperial Encore: The Cultural Project of the Late British Empire"

  The Research Seminar Series is a forum for faculty and scholars to discuss and receive feedback on ongoing research within the BU community and beyond. The series is a mix

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• 4:00 PM Telling the Untold History of Civil Rights Leaders in Boston

  Boston has played an important role in the Black freedom struggle, with leaders and everyday activists calling the city home during important periods of their lives. Yet, there are often […]

• 4:30 PM Public Health Conversation—The Women’s Health Movement: Celebrating 50 Years of Our Bodies Ourselves

  To learn more and to register, click the link below.

Thursday, April 22

• 11:00 AM Machine Learning Advances in Mechanics of Materials

  There is a large rift separating ML developments in Computer Science from applications in Solid Mechanics. This talk addresses the novel data-driven methods that lead to structures with unprecedented properties […]

Friday, April 23

• 11:00 AM Sustainable African Electricity Sector Expansion: The Critical Role of Social Factors

  ISE Energy of the Future Webinar Series

  Despite decades of efforts from the international development community, energy poverty in Africa remains pervasive: around 900 million people still lack

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• 12:00 PM Summer Priorities: Planning for Productivity

  The unstructured summer months can be excellent for making progress on research, writing, and skill-building. But this time should also be used to catch up on sleep, socializing, and self-care. […]

Saturday, April 24

• 9:00 AM National Antiracist Book Festival

  On Saturday, April 24, 2021, BU's Center for Antiracist Research will host the 2nd Annual National Antiracist Book Festival. This event will be held virtually to protect the safety of […]

Monday, April 26

• 11:00 AM (Machine) Learning to Live Near a Temperamental Star

  We are currently more vulnerable to “space weather” than ever before. In this talk, we review some of the essentials of space weather, and discuss ways in which machine learning […]

Wednesday, April 28

• 4:00 PM Human Capital Initiative Spring Seminar Series: Labor Market Power, Selection and Informality in Peru

  As part of the Human Capital Initiative Speaker Series for Spring 2021, Dr. Francesco Amodio, Assistant Professor at McGill University, will present on labor markets and economics in Peru.

Thursday, April 29

• 11:00 AM Photonics Center Distinguished Lecture: Dr. Vadim Backman, Northwestern University
• 3:00 PM
  • Research How-to
  Finding Funding in the Social Sciences: Meet the William T. Grant Foundation

  The William T. Grant Foundation, in partnership with the Office of Research and Foundation Relations, will present a workshop to help acquaint researchers at BU with the Foundation’s mission, funding […]

Friday, April 30

• 11:00 AM Machine Learning Approaches to Targeting Emergency Humanitarian Assistance

  To offset COVID-19’s effects, policymakers and organizations try to provide emergency assistance to those who need it most. This talk shows the work that uses advances in machine learning to […]

Monday, May 3

• 11:00 AM Distinguished Speaker Series Panel: Machine Learning for Model-Rich Problems

  Series Panel Event and Public Q&A with Cecilia Clementi, Miguel Bessa, Jacob Bortnik, and Joshua Blumenstock.

Monday, May 10

• 12:00 PM Covid-19 and Thrombosis Complications

  Virtual Mini-Symposium hosted by the Thrombosis and Hemostasis in Health and Disease ARC and the Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute Boston University School of Medicine.

• Covid-19 and Thrombosis Complications

  Virtual Mini-Symposium hosted by the Thrombosis and Hemostasis in Health and Disease ARC and the Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute Boston University School of Medicine.

Wednesday, May 12

• 12:00 PM Project Planning for Dissertations

  The 2021 Writing Workshop Series, designed in partnership with the Educational Resource Center, will provide doctoral students with strategies for working on common elements and troubles areas in dissertations, articles, […]

• 1:00 PM Coffee with Colleagues

  Guest panelists: Matt Abrams – Associate Comptroller, Payroll and Payment Services Heather Gillis – Director, Procurement, Sourcing and Procurement Before you attend this session, it is recommended that you […]

Tuesday, May 18

• 5:30 PM PDPA Trivia Tuesday

Wednesday, May 19

• 12:00 PM Concrete Steps for Writing Abstracts

  The 2021 Writing Workshop Series, designed in partnership with the Educational Resource Center, will provide doctoral students with strategies for working on common elements and troubles areas in dissertations, articles, […]

Friday, May 21

• 9:30 AM Statistical Genetics Seminar Series – Virtual

  All sessions will be through zoom only

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Wednesday, May 26

• 12:00 PM Strategies for Literature Reviews

  The 2021 Writing Workshop Series, designed in partnership with the Educational Resource Center, will provide doctoral students with strategies for working on common elements and troubles areas in dissertations, articles, […]

Wednesday, June 2

• 12:00 PM Structural Elements: Sentences, Paragraphs, Transitions

  The 2021 Writing Workshop Series, designed in partnership with the Educational Resource Center, will provide doctoral students with strategies for working on common elements and troubles areas in dissertations, articles, […]

Thursday, June 3

• 4:00 PM Job Documents Workshop Series: from CV to Resume

  Join PDPA for a series of writing workshops focused on crafting effective documents for your job search in academia or otherwise. Each hour-long session will focus on a different document. […]