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This calendar is a round-up of events related to research from around BU. Browse all upcoming events by date, or select an event topic to narrow your search.

All Topics (October 29 through December 10)

Friday, October 30

Monday, November 2

  • 3:00 PM
    Going Big: Strategies for Securing Large-Scale Federal Awards
    Are you interested in building towards a center-scale research award but unsure how to get started? Lewis-Burke Associates LLC, a federal lobbying and consulting firm in Washington, DC, will discuss strategies for researchers to ramp up from an individual federal grant to a center grant. Center grants support multi-researcher, multi-disciplinary, and sometimes multi-institutional research collaborations.…

Wednesday, November 4

Thursday, November 5

Friday, November 6

Tuesday, November 10

  • 3:00 PM
    Writing Business Proposals, A Seminar for Faculty with Abi Barrow
    Abi Barrow of Cambridge Innovation Partners provides tools and guidance for faculty writing business proposals. As a central focus, the seminar takes a close look at BU’s Ignition Award, which supports research projects with clear commercial potential, and offered tactics for preparing a winning Ignition Award proposal. The seminar also include tips on selling your…

Friday, November 13

  • 12:00 PM
    "Did You Know You Could…?” Series
    Hosted by Hariri Institute Graduate Student Fellow Defne Abur. Learn how to represent languages geometrically as clouds of points with speaker Derry Wijaya, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Boston University. Zoom Details: Meeting ID: 922 4960 3688 Passcode: 163847

Monday, November 16

  • 1:00 PM
    A Deeper Dive into SciVal: Data and Metrics
    Throughout higher education there is a growing impetus to incorporate data into decision making. One focus is the growing availability of bibliometrics, or the collection and analysis of data about books, articles, and other publications. SciVal, one of the leading sources of bibliometric data for academic institutions⁠, is available for free to all BU faculty…

Wednesday, November 18

  • 12:00 PM
    Mining Microbes to Engineer Novel Biosensors
    A lack of biosensors fundamentally limits the application of engineering to biology, and impacts society across a range of sectors including healthcare, biotechnology, drug development, environmental management, agriculture, consumer technology, and the military. We have developed a novel platform for developing inexpensive, real-time, and portable biosensors for a vast array of analytes. Our unique platform…
  • 12:15 PM
    Center for Systems Neuroscience Virtual Seminar Series
    Center for Systems Neuroscience Virtual Seminar Series wit Professor Nic Tritsch, New York University, Department of Neuroscience and Physiology Hosted by Prof. Mark Howe
  • 2:00 PM
    2020 MGA and OMS Transmission Summit | Big Grid vs. Little Grid
    The Midwestern Governors Association (MGA) and the Organization of MISO States (OMS) are again teaming up for the Tenth Annual MGA Transmission Summit. This event will focus on how advanced technology is providing new pathways to optimize and unleash the potential of the Midwestern electric grid. Speakers and panelists will discuss how this technology will…
  • 4:00 PM
    Research on Tap: Diverse Approaches to Understanding and Controlling COVID-19
    The COVID-19 pandemic erupted with unprecedented speed. There remains much we do not understand about COVID-19 and the pathogen responsible for causing it, the novel coronavirus now known as SARS-CoV-2. Although this virus was initially thought to be solely respiratory, we now know it is capable of causing a more widespread disease. Given the urgency…

Thursday, November 19

  • 12:00 PM
    "Did You Know You Could…?” Series
    Hosted by Hariri Institute Graduate Student Fellow Defne Abur. Learn how to organize your software workflow on GitHub with speaker Katia Bulekova, Manager of Scientific Programming and Applications, Information Services & Technology, Boston University. Zoom Details: Meeting ID: 964 8470 8964 Passcode: 740006

Friday, November 20

  • 11:00 AM
    Energy of the Future: Integrating Advanced Manufacturing and Climate Change Policies
    The one-two punch of climate change and COVID-19 has rattled the world, derailing life as we know it and magnifying environmental injustices. As we collectively grapple with what the future holds, what will the pandemic mean for this “climate decade” and beyond: How will it influence climate action urgency? Will the pandemic-induced shakeup in global…

Monday, November 30

  • 11:00 AM
    Reasoning About Complex Media From Weak Multi-Modal Supervision
    Join featured speaker, Adriana Kovashka, Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh, as she examines the relationship between multiple channels in complex media in two domains, advertisements and political articles.
  • 12:00 PM
    Research Seminar Series: Vivien Schmidt
    The Pardee School Research Seminar Series is a forum for faculty and students to discuss and receive feedback on ongoing research. The series is a mix of presentations, works-in-progress sessions, and research workshops. Faculty and students based at BU and elsewhere are invited to present and attend the Research Seminar Series. This presentation will focus…

Wednesday, December 2

  • 12:15 PM
    Center for Systems Neuroscience Virtual Seminar Series
    Center for Systems Neuroscience Virtual Seminar Series with Professor Noam Shemesh Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Lisbon, Portugal Hosted by Prof. Anna Devor
  • 4:00 PM
    Research on Tap: Wearables and Biosensors for Environmental and Human Health
    Sensitive and more portable sensing platforms will allow us to quantify and predict how the world around us impacts human health and the environment. Monitoring the various chemicals and biomolecules around us and in our bodies is important in a wide range of disciplines including human development and disease, epidemiology, climate change, food safety, water…

Friday, December 4

Monday, December 7

  • 12:30 PM
    Adjusting Non-COVID-19 Clinical Trials in the Era of the Pandemic: Statistical Design and Analysis
    Hosted by the Hariri Institute for Computing and co-organized with the Boston University Department of Biostatistics (SPH) and the Statistics Program, Department of Mathematics and Statistics (CAS). The course of clinical trials research has been impacted to varying extents by the COVID-19 pandemic. BU statistics faculty will comment on various implications of the pandemic on…
  • 2:00 PM
    Photonics Center Distinguished Lecture: Dr. Nimmi Ramanujam, Duke University
    In this talk, Dr. Nimmi Ramanujam, Robert W. Carr Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Professor of Cancer Pharmacology and Global Health at Duke University, will provide examples of specific technologies that her team is developing to address global cancer inequities, a challenging task given the limited resources available to adopt models that are currently in…

Wednesday, December 9

  • 11:00 AM
    COVID-19: Community Conversations
    Join Dean Sandro Galea online for a Boston University School of Public Health community discussion about COVID-19. Students, faculty and staff are invited to participate. Please click the link below for Zoom details
  • 12:15 PM
    Center for Systems Neuroscience Virtual Seminar Series
    Center for Systems Neuroscience Virtual Seminar Series with Professor Athena Akrami University College London, Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, London, U.K. Hosted by Prof. Ben Scott

Thursday, December 10

  • 12:15 PM
    Accelerating Breakthroughs in the Life Sciences
    The Massachusetts Life Sciences Center (MLSC) – vital to the state’s life sciences ecosystem – has strategically deployed more than $700 million to support innovation, research and development, commercialization, and manufacturing activities in the fields of biopharma, medical device, diagnostics, and digital health. Through also offers programs that fund innovation-driven economic and workforce development initiatives…

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