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 (October 18 through November 20)
Friday, October 18
- 12:00 PM
Probing and Controlling Quantum Materials with Light
Quantum materials, systems in which quantum effects lead to unique macroscopic phenomena with tremendous technological potential, comprise the forefront of condensed matter physics research. In recent years, developments […]
Monday, October 21
- 12:00 PM
AI and Education Initiative Human and Machine Learning Lunch Series with John Gabrieli
Speaker: John Gabrieli, Professor, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT
Talk Title: “Predicting Risk and Resilience in Mental Well-Being”
Abstract: Mental
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Wednesday, October 23
- 7:00 AM
Rising Stars Workshop Day 1
The 2024 New England Computing & Data Science Rising Stars program at Boston University is aimed at supporting doctoral students and postdocs from particularly underrepresented racial and ethnic backgrounds who […]
- 1:00 PM
AIR Distinguished Speaker: Dr. Sung Ju Hwang, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
Talk Title: Efficient and Long-Context GenAI Models
Abstract: Generative AI models have demonstrated remarkable performance across various tasks in recent years. However, their deployment in real-world
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Thursday, October 24
- 7:00 AM
Rising Stars Workshop Day 2
The 2024 New England Computing & Data Science Rising Stars program at Boston University is aimed at supporting doctoral students and postdocs from particularly underrepresented racial and ethnic backgrounds who […]
Friday, October 25
- 12:00 PM
BME Distinguished Seminar Series: Eduardo Reategui, Ohio State University
Title: " Decoding Vesicular Protein and RNA Signatures from Complex Biofluids for Cancer and Infectious Disease Detection”
Associate Professor and Innovation Scholar Department of
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- 1:00 PM
BU Campus Climate Lab Spring Funding Information Session
Info session for students and faculty interested in sustainability research and climate action.
- 3:00 PM
CISE Seminar: Prashast Srivastava, Columbia University
FOX: Coverage-guided Fuzzing as Online Stochastic Control
Fuzzing is an effective technique for discovering software vulnerabilities by generating random test inputs and executing them against the
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Saturday, October 26
- 10:00 AM
Reinforcement Learning Tournament
AI Society is excited to announce that on October 26th, we will be hosting BU's largest-ever AI hackathon. The event will feature $1000 in prizes, free workshops in machine learning, […]
Monday, October 28
- 2:30 PM
Find Funding in Biomedical Innovation: Working with ARPA-H
Founded in 2022, the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) is a federal funding agency that supports high-potential, high-impact biomedical and health research that cannot be readily accomplished
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Wednesday, October 30
- 8:00 AM
AI for Drug Discovery Open Innovation Forum
Overview: Safe and responsible AI needs to be developed in the open. The objective of this forum is to establish a world-class open research community to drive the development, evaluation,
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Thursday, October 31
- 12:00 PM
BU Computer Systems Seminar
Presentations:
Yann Arif—Phase-Driven Resource Management
Austin Jamias—Integrating D4N with K8s
Ross Mikulskis & Vance Raiti—Unikernal Linux
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- 3:30 PM
HEE Seminar: The precise measurement of the W boson mass with the CMS detector at the CERN LHC (K. Long, MIT)
Particle masses and the coupling strengths of the forces are fundamentally experimental parameters that must be measured and input into the standard model of particle physics (SM). While the SM […]
Friday, November 8
- 11:00 AM
Learning from Strategic Data Sources with Han Shao - Fall 2024 Machine Learning Symposium
The CDS Machine Learning Symposium, developed by Assistant Professors Aldo Pacchiano and Xuezhou Zhang, and hosted by the Faculty of Computing and Data Sciences, brings together leading scholars in machine […]
- 12:00 PM BME Distinguished Seminar Series: Byron Yu, Carnegie Mellon University
- 3:00 PM
CISE Seminar: Chao Tian, Texas A&M University
Chao Tian obtained his B.E degree from Tsinghua University, Beijing China, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Cornell University, Ithaca NY. He worked at AT&T Labs-Research (previously known as
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Thursday, November 14
- 6:00 PM
Low-stake Networking Event
The Low-stake Networking Event aims to offer students a more casual and comfortable setting to begin their networking paths. Students will engage in ice-braking lite programming and ease their ways […]
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The Brookline Adult & Community Education (BA&CE) hosts "Brookline AI Lecture Series"
Speaker: :Dr. Ioannis Paschalidis, Distinguished Professor of Engineering at Boston University
Join us for an engaging and informative one-hour lecture designed to demystify Artificial Intelligence
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Friday, November 15
- 12:00 PM
Fall 2024 Machine Learning Symposium
The CDS Machine Learning Symposium, developed by Assistant Professors Aldo Pacchiano and Xuezhou Zhang, and hosted by the Faculty of Computing and Data Sciences, brings together leading scholars in machine […]
- 2:00 PM
CCS/Hariri Institute Seminar: Pedro Lopes
Speaker: Pedro Lopes, Quantum Advocate
Talk Title: “QuEra – Neutral-Atom Quantum Computing: From Dark-Horse to Workhorse”
Abstract: Since 2019, QuEra has led the charge in
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- 3:00 PM
CISE Seminar: Vladimir Dvorkin, University of Michigan
Data center coordination with power grids under engineering and privacy constraints
Recent AI breakthroughs have led to significant investments in data center infrastructure, which puts a strain on
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Monday, November 18
- 12:00 PM
AI and Education Initiative Human and Machine Learning Lunch Series: Michael Chang
Speaker: Michael Chang, PhD, assistant professor at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development, faculty fellow in the Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences (CDS), and
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CISE Seminar: Robert Kazschmann, ETH Zurich
Building Life-like Robots: From Musculoskeletal Designs to Biohybrid Innovations
Nature’s musculoskeletal design can inspire both artificial and living robots to create systems that can better
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Wednesday, November 20
- 1:00 PM
CISE Seminar: Tuvi Etzion, Israel Institute of Technology
The de Bruijn Graph and Its Sequences – the Graph Who Always Reinvent Itself
The de Bruijn graph was defined in 1946 by Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn to count the
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- 4:30 PM
Muhammad Zaman - Social Justice for Data Science
The Social Justice for Data Science Lecture Series, hosted by the Faculty of Computing and Data Sciences, brings together leading scholars in law, computer science, humanities, and social science to […]