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All Topics (August 16 through June 13)
Friday, April 25
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CISE Seminar: Nalini Ratha, IBM"Security and Privacy Enhancement in Biometrics"
Tuesday, April 29
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GMS Professional Development Seminar: Personal Qualities and CareerGMS doctoral students and fellows are invited to participate in a workshop sponsored by Foundations in Biomedical Sciences that will focus on the impact of temperament and personality on graduate education and career goals. Dr. Stephen Brady has led this workshop for the past several years for emerging leaders of the medical school faculty, and…
Wednesday, April 30
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CISE Seminar: Eduardo Montijano, Centro Universitario de la Defensa"Vision-Based Formation Control without a Global Reference Frame"
Thursday, May 1
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Last Day of Classes for Spring 2014Last Day of Classes for Spring 2014
Friday, May 2
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Study Period for Spring 2014Study Period for Spring 2014 May 2nd thru May 5th
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CISE Seminar: Narayana Prasad Santhanam, University of Hawaii at Manoa"Estimation in Slow Mixing Markov Setups: How Can We Tell How Polarized Opinions Are on the Internet?"
Monday, May 5
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SE PhD Prospectus Defense of Wei SiTITLE: Intra-car Wireless Data Collection Protocols ABSTRACT: Traditionally, in-vehicle sensors have been communicating with a central receiver through wires. With the increasing number of sensors inside cars, the large amount of wires brings about issues such as fuel inefficiency and difficulty of car design and maintenance. These limitations have created impetus to replace wired links…
Tuesday, May 6
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Final Exams Begin for Spring 2014Final Exams Begin for Spring 2014
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GMS OPDPA Career Development Seminar: Looking Your Best on Paper: Building a Resume and Cover Letter for IndustryIn this seminar, Lauren Celano, CEO of Propel Careers and GMS Career Advisor will discuss how to highlight your experiences and skills on a resume and cover letter. The importance of tailoring these documents will be emphasized. Lauren will provide tips for industry focused format, content, and structure so that your knowledge and expertise is…
Saturday, May 10
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Final Exams End for Spring 2014Final Exams End for Spring 2014
Tuesday, May 13
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GMS OPDPA Professional Development Seminar: Conversation with Sarah Cardozo Duncan, Career Strategist on MentoringSharing experiences as a mentor and as a mentee a conversation on lessons learned. Which tools helped me to be a better mentor an interactive discussion on the tools and skills that will help you to have the best mentoring experience. The conversation will include: Shared vision Setting expectations Follow up Commitment
Friday, May 16
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GMS 2014 COMMENCEMENTGraduate Medical Sciences 2014 COMMENCEMENT. Please go to our website www.bumc.bu.edu/gms for the most updated information
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GMS 2014 CommencementGeorge Sherman Union, Second Floor Metcalf Hall.
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CISE Seminar: Remi Munos, INRIA"Exploration-Exploitation Tradeoff for Large Scale Function Optimization"
Saturday, May 17
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BUSM 2014 CommencementCelebrate with family and friends at Agganis Arena, Charles River Campus!
Sunday, May 18
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ALL UNIVERSITY COMMENCEMENTTime and Location TBA
Monday, May 19
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SE PhD Prospectus Defense of Austin JonesTITLE: Formal Methods Approaches for Estimation and Learning ABSTRACT:Formal methods are widely used in engineering to determine whether a system exhibits a certain property (verification) or to design controllers that are guaranteed to drive the system to achieve a certain property (synthesis). Most existing techniques require a large amount of accurate information about the system…
Wednesday, May 21
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SE PhD Prospectus Defense of Julia Lima FleckTITLE: Perturbation Analysis in Stochastic Hybrid Systems: Applications to Transportation Systems and Systems Biology ABSTRACT: The first part of this work addresses the Traffic Light Control (TLC) problem for a single intersection modeled as a Stochastic Hybrid System (SHS). A quasi-dynamic control policy is proposed based on partial state information defined by detecting whether vehicle…
Friday, May 23
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CISE Seminar: Maria Chudnovsky, Columbia University"Perfection and Beyond"
Tuesday, May 27
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SE PhD Final Oral Defense of Xuchao LinTITLE: OPTIMAL CONTROL APPROACHES FOR PERSISTENT MONITORING PROBLEMS ABSTRACT: Persistent monitoring tasks arise when agents must monitor a dynamically changing environment which cannot be fully covered by a stationary team of available agents. It differs from traditional coverage tasks due to the perpetual need to cover a changing environment, i.e., all areas of the mission…
Friday, June 6
Tuesday, June 10
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GMS OPDPA Career Development Seminar: Looking Your Best on Paper: Industry Salary NegotiationsIn this seminar, Lauren Celano, CEO of Propel Careers will provide information about different components that make up a job offer including base salary, bonus, stock options, and benefits. Guidance for how to negotiate an offer will be provided along with strategies to discuss the various components of the offer. She will also provide advice…
Wednesday, June 11
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CISE Seminar: Oded Maler, CNRS-VERIMAG, University of Grenoble"Dynamical Systems Biology"
Thursday, June 12
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CISE Seminar: Tim Faltemier, Director of Biometric & Computer Vision SystemsObject Detection, Tracking, and Classification
Friday, June 13
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1st Thesis Draft due for Sept. 2014 GradsSuggested Date for Thesis draft to be submitted to Readers