“Did You Know You Could…?” Series

A Meet and Learn Series led by the Graduate Student Fellows

The “Did you know you could…?” series provides a venue in which people can quickly get exposed to practical topics either enabling or enabled by computing and data science.  Topics they might not even have realized they wanted to know!  And they can meet other similarly inquisitive people while doing so.  Intended to be an informal, low-barrier mechanism that combines brief, accessible overviews on various topics with opportunities for networking, this series welcomes a broad audience of students, faculty, and staff from across the landscape of disciplines at Boston University to participate.

Offered in the spirit of a brown-bag lunch series (60 minutes in length, with a focused 20-minute lightning presentation, followed by Q&A and an opportunity for networking before and after the seminar), the series events take place monthly.

See below upcoming events. Fall 2020 events will be virtual. For administrative questions, please contact Katherine D’Angelo, Program & Events Manager, at ktd@bu.edu.

Topic: Manage your bibliographic data and research materials with Zortero
Speaker: Mahesh Karra, Assistant Professor of Global Development Policy, Boston University 
When: Friday, November 6th, 2020
Time: 12:00-1:30pm
Hosted by Hariri Institute Graduate Student Fellow Kexin Zhang
Zoom Details: https://bostonu.zoom.us/j/97060072509?pwd=VlFlSGgzamtVeFJmV3pWdDIybjdvdz09
Meeting ID: 970 6007 2509
Passcode: 768355

Topic: Represent languages geometrically as clouds of points
Speaker: Derry Wijaya, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Boston University
When: Friday, November 13th, 2020
Time: 12:00pm – 1:30pm
Hosted by Hariri Institute Graduate Student Fellow Defne Abur
Zoom Details: https://bostonu.zoom.us/j/92249603688?pwd=QWEvM1l3SVFiSk1ZTGZsN0NzRjl4dz09
Meeting ID: 922 4960 3688
Passcode: 163847

Topic: Organize your software workflow with GitHub
Speaker: Katia Bulekova, Manager of Scientific Programming and Applications, Information Services & Technology, Boston University
When: Thursday, November 19th, 2020
Time: 12:00pm – 1:30pm
Hosted by Hariri Institute Graduate Student Fellow Beverly Setzer
Zoom Details: https://bostonu.zoom.us/j/96484708964?pwd=VXBHL1AyWXRZTy9kZ1UraFVyUE1JUT09
Meeting ID: 964 8470 8964
Passcode: 740006

Speaker: Kimberly Dahl, MS, CCC-SLP, Doctoral Student, Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, Stepp Lab for Sensorimotor Rehabilitation Engineering, Boston University 
Topic: Conduct behavioral experiments online using Gorilla
When: Friday, January 22nd, 2021
Time: 12:00pm – 1:30pm
Hosted by Hariri Institute Graduate Student Fellow Hasini Weerathunge
Zoom Details: https://bostonu.zoom.us/j/93479384194?pwd=b1F2eGNLWXVNdGoxZFY2citGRDR1UT09
Meeting ID: 934 7938 4194
Passcode: 615393