Calendar
View the calendar below to explore all upcoming events sponsored by the Institute and its affiliate centers and initiatives. Browse events by date, or select an event topic to narrow your search.
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View past events on our Youtube channel here.All Topics (April 1 through May 3)
Monday, April 1
- 10:00 AM
Praveen Venkatesh - CDS Colloquium Series
Title: Information-theoretic Approaches to Neuroscience and Neuroengineering: Inferring Information Representation and Communication in the Brain Abstract: Advances in neurotechnology are enabling us to […]
Wednesday, April 3
- 11:00 AM
AIR Distinguished Speaker Series: Svetlana Lazebnik, Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Speaker: Svetlana Lazebnik, Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois
Talk title: Generative image models for virtual try-on and stylization
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Thursday, April 4
- 12:00 PM
BU Computer Systems Seminar
Speaker: Denis Hoornaert, Ph.D. Candidate, Technical University of Munich
Talk Title: “On-the-fly Reorganization of High-Order Data Objects to Achieve Effortless Locality”
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- 5:00 PM
BU SPH Students in Health Data Science: Meet & Greet
Are you a public health grad student at BU? Do you work with data? Come meet, greet, and eat pizza (VG/GF options available!) with the new Students in Health Data […]
Friday, April 5
- 11:00 AM
Condensed Matter Seminar
Speaker: Yizhi You, Professor, Department of Physics, Northeastern University Talk Title: Long-range order and symmetry breaking in mixed states triggered by local quantum channels Abstract: Any pure […]
- 2:00 PM
Machine Learning in Medicine (MLxMed) Seminar: Saeed Hassanpour, Professor, Dartmouth
Speaker: Saeed Hassanpour, PhD, Professor, Departments of Biomedical Data Science, Computer Science, and Epidemiology, Dartmouth University
Talk title: Advancing Precision Medicine
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- 3:00 PM
CISE Best Student Paper Award
The Center for Information & Systems Engineering established the CISE Best Student Paper Award competition to promote student research and recognize the scientific quality of research being conducted by CISE
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Saturday, April 6
- 3:00 PM
BU Spark! Create-a-thon
BU Spark! Create-a-thon Come join us at the Boston University College of Fine Arts for a day filled with creativity and innovation! The Create-a-thon is a fun, in-person event for […]
Monday, April 8
- 11:00 AM
CEID and Hariri Institute Event: Building Resilience: The Transformative Role of AI in Global Public Health Communication
Speaker: Melissa Fleming, UN Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications
Talk Title: "Building Resilience: The Transformative Role of AI, Science, and Data in Global Public Health
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Tuesday, April 9
- 12:30 PM
Faculty Forum 2024: InnovateEDU: Exploring the Future of Learning at BU
Keynote Speaker: Lilach Mollick, Ed.D.
Keynote Address: “Practical AI for Educators”
Abstract: Stemming from her work with Wharton Interactive to develop a wide range
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Wednesday, April 10
- 10:00 AM
David Schwab - CDS Colloquium Series
Title: Learning Optimal Supervised Representations with The Decodable Information Bottleneck Abstract: David Schwab will discuss the question of characterizing and learning optimal representations for […]
- 11:00 AM
AIR Distinguished Speaker Series: Deva Ramanan, Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
Talk title: Perceiving and Understanding a Dynamic 3D World
Talk abstract: Massively-trained data-driven models have produced remarkable progress in computer vision and natural language
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Thursday, April 11
- 12:00 PM
BU Computer Systems Seminar
Speaker: Shinan Liu, PhD Candidate, University of Chicago
Talk Title: “Operational ML in Networks for Digital Well-being”
Abstract: The landscape of computer
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- 3:00 PM
Amplify Your Expertise: How to Elevate Your Research with The Conversation Editor Howard Manly
Join Howard Manly, Race and Equity Editor from The Conversation, for an engaging virtual workshop for BU faculty members, researchers, and PhD students. In this one-hour session, Howard will provide
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Amplify Your Expertise: How to Elevate Your Research with The Conversation Editor Howard Manly
Join Howard Manly, Race and Equity Editor from The Conversation, for an engaging virtual workshop for BU faculty members, researchers, and PhD students. In this one-hour session, Howard will provide
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Friday, April 12
- 3:00 PM
Joint Seminar BME/CISE/Hariri: Jeremias Sulam, Johns Hopkins University
Imaging, Data, and Learning: Modern challenges in Biomedical Data Science
Modern machine learning methods are revolutionizing biomedical imaging and data science. We can now image and reconstruct,
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Thursday, April 18
- 12:00 PM
BU Computer Systems Seminar
Speaker: Saad Ullah, Ph.D. Candidate, Boston University
Talk Title: “LLMs Cannot Reliably Identify and Reason About Security Vulnerabilities (Yet?): A Comprehensive Evaluation,
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Friday, April 19
- 2:00 PM
Machine Learning in Medicine (MLxMed) Seminar: Yifan Peng, Assistant Professor, Cornell University
Speaker: Yifan Peng, Assistant Professor of Population Health Sciences, Population Health Sciences , Weill Cornell Medical College
Talk title: LLMs and Evidence Summarization
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- 3:00 PM
CISE Seminar: Rui Gao, University of Texas at Austin
Learning Mixture Models with Neural Networks
Mixture models are fundamental tools for modeling complex phenomena in statistics, econometrics, and machine learning. However, estimating these
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Thursday, April 25
- 12:00 PM
BU Computer Systems Seminar
Speaker: Shahin Roozkhosh, Ph.D Candidate, Boston University
Talk Title: “The Devil in the FPGA”
Abstract: Given the demands of the modern technological landscape,
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- 4:00 PM
FRP Industry Panel: What can Digital Diagnosis and Digital Therapeutics tell us about the Brain
About: This panel with digital-health industry partners in the Boston area will facilitate a discussion of advances in commercial digital diagnoses and digital therapeutic solutions in the neurological
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Friday, April 26
- 3:00 PM
Distinguished Hariri Institute/CISE Seminar: Asu Ozdaglar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Independent Learning Dynamics for Stochastic Games: Convergence and Finite-Time Analysis
Reinforcement learning (RL) has had tremendous successes in many artificial intelligence applications.
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Thursday, May 2
- 3:00 PM
Distinguished Hariri Institute/CISE Seminar: Andrew A. Chien, University of Chicago
How Can We Decarbonize the Power Grid and Meet AI’s Exploding Power Demands?
AI and Cloud computing is growing rapidly and projected to increase US electric power consumption
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- 4:00 PM
BU Spark! Demo Day at the Experiential Learning Expo
BU Spark! is an innovation and experiential learning lab for computing, data science, and engineering projects housed at the Boston University Faculty for Computing & Data Sciences. Spark! supports student […]
Friday, May 3
- 2:00 PM
Machine Learning in Medicine (MLxMed) Seminar: Jiang Bian, Professor, University of Florida
Speaker: Jiang Bian, Professor And Division Director Of Biomedical Informatics, UF; Chief Data Scientist & Chief Research Information Officer, UF Health
Talk title: TBA
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