Calendar

Wednesday, November 11

• 9:45 AM BU Sec Seminar “Local Proofs Approaching the Witness Length”

  by Noga Ron-Zewi, Professor, University of Haifa

Friday, November 13

• 12:00 PM “Did You Know You Could…?” Series: Represent languages geometrically as clouds of points

  Speaker: Derry Wijaya, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Boston University Hosted by Hariri Institute Graduate Student Fellow Defne Abur

Tuesday, November 17

• All Day Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center's (MGHPCC) virtual booth at the SC20 International's Conference

  Hosted at Boston University and housed at the Hariri Institute for Computing, the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC) is a unique collaborative effort between higher education, government, […]

• 2:30 PM Red Hat Collaboratory: Open Technology and Unlock Human Potential

  Abstract:

  Throughout human history, a conflict between closed innovation and open sharing has tugged at the progress made possible by technological advancement. When I create something new, do I control

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Wednesday, November 18

• 3:30 PM Cyber Alliance Seminar: Three Challenges in Contemporary Intelligence Oversight

  Speaker: Julissa Milligan, U.S. Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board Description: Intelligence oversight draws on a complex and interlocking set of laws, regulations, policies, and institutions. One such […]

Thursday, November 19

• 12:00 PM “Did You Know You Could…?” Series: Organize your software workflow with GitHub

  Speaker: Katia Bulekova, Manager of Scientific Programming and Applications, Information Services & Technology, Boston University Hosted by Hariri Institute Graduate Student Fellow Beverly Setzer

Monday, November 23

• 11:00 AM AIR Weekly Seminar: Supervised Contrastive Learning

  Contract learning applied to self-supervised representation learning has seen a resurgence in recent years, leading to a state of the art performance in the unsupervised training of deep image models. […]

Monday, November 30

• 11:00 AM AIR Weekly Seminar: "Reasoning about Complex Media from Weak Multi-modal Supervision"

  Speaker: Adriana Kovashka, Professor in Computer Science, University of Pittsburgh

  Abstract: In a world of abundant information targeting multiple senses, and increasingly powerful media, we need new

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Wednesday, December 2

• 9:45 AM BU Sec Seminar “High-Threshold AVSS with Optimal Communication Complexity”

  by Nicolas Alhaddad, PhD student, Boston University

• 3:30 PM Cyber Alliance Seminar: Is Tricking a Robot Hacking?

  By Ryan Calo, Professor of Law, University of Washington

Thursday, December 3

• 9:00 AM Sixth Annual Boston Women Workforce Council Effective Practices Conference

  To register and to learn more about this event, visit here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/6th-annual-effective-practices-conference-tickets-124571487673

• 11:00 AM “Atypical PhD journeys in computing and data science”

  Hosted by Hariri Institute Graduate Student Fellow’s Quang-Thinh Ha and Shrabastee Banerjee

  Panelists:

  Michael Parks, Manager, Computational Mathematics, Computer Science Research Institute at

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Monday, December 7

• 11:00 AM AIR Weekly Seminar: "Biomedical Computer Vision"

  Speaker: Vijaya B. Kolachalama, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine

  Abstract: One of the most promising applications of AI is in medicine, which can impact every individual

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• 12:30 PM Adjusting Non-COVID-19 Clinical Trials in the era of the Pandemic: Statistical Design and Analysis

  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 non-COVID19 trials.

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Wednesday, December 9

• 9:45 AM BU Sec Seminar: “Cryptography from Information Loss”

  by Prashant Vasudevan, PhD student, UC Berkeley

Friday, December 11

• 5:00 PM BU Spark! Demo Day Fall 2020

  After countless days of hard work, BU Spark! fellows are all set to showcase their innovations to the world on Demo Day this Dec 11th. View fresh and original projects […]

Friday, January 22

• 12:00 PM "Did You Know You Could…?” Series: Conduct behavioral experiments online using Gorilla

  Speaker: Kimberly Dahl, Doctoral Student, Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, Stepp Lab for Sensorimotor Rehabilitation Engineering, Boston University

  Hosted by Hariri Institute Graduate Student Fellow

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Wednesday, January 27

• 1:00 PM BU Sec Seminar: On the Power of an Honest Majority in Three-Party Computation Without Broadcast

  Speaker: Bar Alon, PhD student, Ariel University

• 3:30 PM Cyber Alliance Seminar: "Towards the Construction of Hybrid Legal-Technical Concepts"

  by Kobbi Nissim, Professor of Computer Science, Department of Computer Science, Georgetown University