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 (December 31 through February 24)
Wednesday, January 8
- 2:00 PM
AIR Distinguished Speaker Seminar
Speaker: Ulas Bagci, Ph.D., Associate Professor at Northwestern University's Radiology, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering Departments at Chicago.
Talk Title:
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Sunday, January 12
- All Day
Neurophotonics Center Call for Posters
Posters due January 12th! If you are a BU student who is interested in presenting at the 8th Annual Neurophotonics Center Symposium on January 15th, we encourage you to submit
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Wednesday, January 15
- 8:00 AM
8th Annual Neurophotonics Center Symposium: Neurophotonics Across the Animal Kingdom
Event Description:This symposium will present neuroimaging approaches used in a diverse assortment of species. This includes model organisms, which set the standards for what is possible, as well as
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Wednesday, January 22
- 2:30 PM
Performance Engineering for Scalable AI and Big Data - Xuhao Chen
Title: Performance Engineering for Scalable AI and Big-data; Abstract: AI applications are computationally expensive and hard to scale, which poses great challenges in computer system design. In this talk, Xuhao […]
Friday, January 24
- 9:00 AM
CISE Graduate Student Workshop
CGSW 11.0: CISE Graduate Student Workshop
CGSW is an annual forum that provides students the opportunity to share their original research and hone their communication skills in an engaging,
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Monday, January 27
- 12:00 PM
AI and Education Initiative Human and Machine Learning Lunch Series with Ola Ozernov-Palchik, PhD
Speaker: Ola Ozernov-Palchik, PhD, Research Faculty at Wheelock College and AI and Education Initiative at Boston University; McGovern Institute at MIT
Talk Title: Neurocognitive mechanisms in
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Thursday, January 30
- 12:00 PM
Health Data Science Focused Research Program Workshop
Event Description: Join us to learn about funding opportunities and meet potential collaborators working in various areas of Health Data Science. This Focused Research Program Workshop will provide
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Friday, January 31
- 3:00 PM
CISE/Hariri Institute Distinguished Speaker Seminar: Naomi Ehrich Leonard, Princeton University
Speaker: Naomi Ehrich Leonard, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University
Talk Title: “Spiking Nonlinear Opinion Dynamics (S-NOD) for Agile Decision-Making and
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Wednesday, February 5
- 1:00 PM
Weekly AIR Seminar 02/05
Chau's Talk: Title: Enhancing Feature Diversity Boosts Channel-Adaptive Vision Transformers Abstract: Multi-Channel Imaging (MCI) contains an array of challenges for encoding useful feature representations not present in […]
Thursday, February 6
- 2:30 PM
Faculty Candidate Symposium on Quantum Condensed Matter Physics and Chemistry
2:30pm: Dr. Hope Bretscher (Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellow, Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter) 3:30pm: Dr. Samantha Harvey (ORISE Intelligence Community Postdoctoral Research Fellow, […]
- 5:30 PM
High speed, High precision, and High reward: Solving Reticle Handler Dynamics with Tuned Mass Damper
RASTIC is excited to welcome ASML to our space for a seminar series over the course of the semester. First up is Min Hyong Koh, Senior Mechatronic Designer at ASML. […]
Friday, February 7
- 11:00 AM
Broadening direct searches for dark matter
The WIMP may not be dead, but its decline has opened a number of new frontiers in the search for dark matter, spanning a vast range of scales. This is […]
Monday, February 10
- 10:00 AM
Modern Foundations of Social Prediction - Juan Carlos Perdomo
Abstract: Machine learning excels at pattern recognition. Yet, when we deploy learning algorithms in social settings, we do not just aim to detect patterns; we use predictions to shape outcomes. […]
Wednesday, February 12
- 9:00 AM
BU Faculty and Staff Event: Federal Outlook for Research Under the New Administration and Congress
BU faculty and staff are invited to participate in a webinar with federal policy experts to learn about the research priorities of the new White House administration and strategies for
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- 1:00 PM
Weekly AIR Seminar 02/12
Speaker: Keanu Nichols, PhD Student at Boston University (CAS)
Talk Title: Multi-domain Analysis and Generalization of Image manipulation loCalization
Abstract: Advanced image
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Thursday, February 13
- 12:00 PM BU Computer Systems Seminar
- 12:30 PM
IMAP Lunch Seminar - Geospatial Finance: Foundations for Sustainable Investment and Environmental Insight
Monthly lunch seminars to foster collaboration.
Friday, February 14
- All Day Focused Research Program Pre-Proposals Due
- 2:00 PM
NECST Lab Visit: Heterogeneous Systems, Hardware Acceleration, and More; Politecnico di Milano
The NECSTLab is a laboratory inside DEIB department of Politecnico di Milano (Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria). It is a place where research meets teaching, and teaching meets research,
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Tuesday, February 18
- 10:00 AM
Training Precise Language Models for Imprecise Humans - Valentina Pyatkin
Abstract: This talk examines methods for enhancing language model capabilities through post-training. While large language models have led to major breakthroughs in natural language processing, significant challenges […]
Wednesday, February 19
- 2:00 PM
Center for Computational Science (CCS) and Physical Chemistry Seminar
Speaker: Xiang Sun, Assistant Professor of Chemistry at NYU Shanghai and a Global Network Assistant Professor at New York University (NYU)
Talk Title: “Theoretical Approaches to Photoinduced
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- 3:30 PM
Cyber Alliance Seminar Series: Ignacio Cofone, Professor of Law and Regulation of AI, University of Oxford
Bio: Ignacio Cofone is the Professor of Law and Regulation of AI at the University of Oxford, working jointly at the Faculty of Law and the Institute for Ethics in
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Thursday, February 20
- 12:00 PM BU Computer Systems Seminar
Friday, February 21
- 11:00 AM
Murat Kologlu: Detector operators in quantum gravity
What is the full set of observables in quantum gravity? I will introduce and discuss asymptotic detector operators and their measurements in perturbative quantum gravity in asymptotically-flat spacetimes. The simplest […]
Monday, February 24
- 10:00 AM
Understanding Language Models by Understanding Training - Naomi Saphra
Abstract: LMs work better than anyone could have predicted just five years ago. But when do they work—and when don’t they? How do they work—and how do they fail? Why […]