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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All Topics (August 3 through October 8)
Monday, August 19
- 2:00 PM
SHIELD Webinars
The Human Spirit Can Make The ‘Impossible’ Possible: What space exploration can learn about passion, persistence, and resilience from a groundbreaking athlete.
A conversation between Diana Nyad
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Monday, August 26
- All Day
2nd Neuroscience of the Everyday World Conference
Hosted by Boston University and Chen Institute, This event is an excellent platform for researchers, academics and students in the fields of computer science, biomedical engineering, cognitive science, neurology,
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Tuesday, August 27
- All Day
2nd Neuroscience of the Everyday World Conference
Hosted by Boston University and Chen Institute, This event is an excellent platform for researchers, academics and students in the fields of computer science, biomedical engineering, cognitive science, neurology,
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Thursday, September 5
- 12:00 PM
BU Health Data Science Poster Session
The goal of this event is to bring together health data science scholars, trainees, and industry leaders from various disciplines across BU and beyond. We will feature a diverse range
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Friday, September 13
- 3:00 PM
CISE/Hariri Distinguished Speaker Marc Raibert, Executive Director, AI Institute; Founder, Boston Dynamics
Making Robots Smarter in Body in Mind
Robot hardware is getting better and better, robot perception improves on almost a daily basis, and their athletic skills are advancing
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Wednesday, September 18
- 1:00 PM
AI Seminar: In-N-Out: Robustness to In-Domain Noise and Out-of-Domain Generalization
Speaker: Siqi Wang Title: In-N-Out: Robustness to In-Domain Noise and Out-of-Domain Generalization Abstract: The complexities of real-world data, often noisy and diverse, pose significant challenges for model training. […]
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AI Seminar: In-N-Out: Robustness to In-Domain Noise and Out-of-Domain Generalization
Speaker: Siqi Wang
Title: In-N-Out: Robustness to In-Domain Noise and Out-of-Domain Generalization
Abstract: The complexities of real-world data, often noisy and diverse, pose
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Friday, September 20
- 11:00 AM
HET Seminar - Cosmological tests of the nature of dark matter
It is fifty years since the pioneering observations of Vera Rubin and collaborators that helped to shape a consensus that there is vastly more matter in the Universe than we […]
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Ultrafast Control of Quantum Materials: Floquet Band Engineering and Beyond
A major goal of condensed matter physicists is to control the properties of materials. Permanent changes are made by shaping the material into nanoribbons or by embedding defects and impurities, […]
Wednesday, September 25
- 12:00 PM
BU Computer Systems Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Bhupendra Acharya, Postdoctoral Researcher, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security
Talk Title: “Empirical Study on Scams and Attacks on Social Media
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- 1:00 PM
Chen Sun, Assistant Professor, Brown University
Talk Title : Rethinking Video Representation Learning for Perception and Reasoning in the Era of LLMs
Abstract: What makes good representations for video understanding, such as inferring the
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Thursday, September 26
- 3:30 PM
KCrocker: Cosmological Coupling in the Era of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument
Recent advances in General Relativity point toward unanticipated, and dynamic, relations between ultracompact objects and the universe they inhabit. The possibility for strongly gravitating systems, like astrophysical […]
Friday, September 27
- 11:00 AM
HET Seminar - Graviton Loops and Negativity
Causality and unitary lead to sharp constraints on weakly-coupled gravitational effective field theories. They imply dispersion relations that can be used to derive sharp bounds on higher derivative couplings. We […]
- 1:00 PM
CLASSES SUSPENDED - Dr. Melissa Gilliam Inauguration
On Friday, September 27, at 2 pm, Dr. Melissa Gilliam will be inaugurated as Boston University’s 11th president at Agganis Arena. Recognizing the historic nature of this occasion and to […]
Wednesday, October 2
- 12:00 PM
Meet the McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience
The McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience supports innovative research with the promise to bring society closer to preventing, treating, and curing many devastating diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease,
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- 1:00 PM
AIR Distinguished Speaker Dr. Huaizu Jiang
Speaker: Dr. Huaizu Jiang
Talk Title: “Generating and Populating 3D Indoor Scenes”
Abstract: Our lab’s research aims to advance immersive 3D experiences by
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- 5:30 PM
MSDS PhD Fireside Chat
Current PhD students in Computer and Data Science will share their personal experiences with the PhD application process. Learn valuable tips, insights, and strategies on crafting a successful application, from […]
Thursday, October 3
- 12:00 PM
Health Data Science Distinguished Speaker Series: Dr. Anita Raj, Tulane University
Speaker: Dr. Anita Raj, Tulane University
Talk Title: “Application of machine learning with a novel qualitative variable coding technique to understand predictors of gender equity
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- 3:30 PM
A Measurement of Neutrino Oscillations Using 10 Years of Data from the NOvA Experiment
NOvA is a long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment with an 810 km baseline, using the NuMI beam at Fermilab, and a functionally identical near and far detector operating at an […]
Friday, October 4
- All Day
Harvard Data Science Initiative Agri Datathon
This 3-day event offers undergraduate and graduate students the opportunity to work with real-world agricultural data from the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) and apply data science skills to […]
- 12:00 PM
BME Distinguished Seminar / Shana O. Kelley, Northwestern University
Title:"Is the cure for cancer already inside us?"
Shana O. Kelley, Ph.D. President, Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Chicago Neena B. Schwartz Professor of Chemistry and Biomedical
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Exploring Itinerant Ferromagnetism: From Puzzle Games to Correlated Quantum Phenomena
Itinerant ferromagnetism in materials, characterized by the complex interplay of electron correlations, represents a fundamental quantum phenomenon in condensed matter physics. Despite the prevalence of ferromagnetic […]
- 2:00 PM
Instability dynamics and decay of the pi-mode in coupled quantum wires
We study the dynamics of quantum phase coherence for Bose-Einstein condensates in tunnel-coupled quantum wires. The two elongated Bose-Einstein condensates exhibit a wide variety of dynamic phenomena where quantum […]
Tuesday, October 8
- 1:00 PM
ARC Prize @ Boston University
Speakers: Mike Knoop (Co-Founder, Zapier) François Chollet (Founder, Keras)
Title: ARC Prize @ Boston University
Event Overview: Join Mike Knoop (Co-Founder, Zapier) and
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- 4:00 PM
AI & Sustainable Development Goals - Perspectives from Experts of MIKTA Countries
Join us for this free event featuring experts from MIKTA countries—Mexico, Indonesia, Korea, Turkey, and Australia—who will discuss the role of AI in fostering a sustainable future. The panel will […]