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All Topics (July 30 through September 3)

Thursday, July 30

Wednesday, August 5

  • 3:00 PM
    Postdoc Academy Learning Session
    Join PDPA in a Postdoc Academy Learning Session (PALS). This is a small group of postdocs, guided by a facilitator, who will meet weekly to explore the Postdoc Academy online course content and connect with each other.

Thursday, August 6

Tuesday, August 11

  • 11:00 AM
    COVID-19: Community Conversations
    Join Dean Sandro Galea online for a Boston University School of Public Health community discussion about COVID-19. Students, faculty and staff are invited to participate. Please click the link below for Zoom details.

Thursday, August 13

Thursday, August 20

Monday, August 24

  • 12:00 PM
    COVID-19: Community Conversations
    Join Dean Sandro Galea online for a Boston University School of Public Health community discussion about COVID-19. Students, faculty and staff are invited to participate. Please click the link below for Zoom details.

Tuesday, August 25

  • 2:00 PM
    Job Docs Peer Feedback Series
    In this follow up to the PDPA Job Documents Workshops, this series of peer-review sessions will provide participants with the opportunity to work with peers in their discipline to review each others' job documents. After a brief review of the basics of each document, participants will be separated into breakout rooms with other doctoral students…

Wednesday, August 26

  • 1:00 PM
    Applying Teaching Skills Beyond the Classroom
    When we think of teaching skills, we often think of a professor in a classroom. Teaching and learning can happen in all sorts of professional spaces. In this interactive workshop, participants will explore four effective teaching skills and identify how they can be applied beyond the classroom.

Tuesday, September 1

  • 1:00 AM
    IS&T RCS Tutorial - Introduction to Linux
    This tutorial will give attendees a hands-on introduction to Linux. Topics covered will include a short history of Linux, logging in with ssh, the Bash shell and shell scripts, I/O redirection (pipes), file system navigation, and job control. Time permitting, attendees will edit, compile, and run a simple C program. If you have not connected…
  • 10:00 AM
    IS&T RCS Tutorial - Introduction to SAS
    SAS (Statistical Analysis System) is one of the most powerful statistical packages available on any computer platform. This tutorial will introduce you to SAS on the desktop. After completing this tutorial, you will be able to: access SAS on Windows create, edit, and save program files containing SAS commands obtain printed output create, run, and…
  • 11:15 AM
    IS&T RCS Tutorial - Introduction to SPSS
    SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) is a widely used program for analyzing data. SPSS uses windows and dialog boxes to manipulate data and perform statistical analyses. This hands-on tutorial will introduce you to the basics of SPSS and will give you one hours’ practice using SPSS on Microsoft Windows. After completing this tutorial,…
  • 12:00 PM
    Arctic Environmental Humanities Workshop Series: Dolly Jørgensen
    The Pardee Center and the Scott Polar Research Institute at the University of Cambridge are pleased to co-host the Arctic Environmental Humanities Workshop Series, bringing together the diverse expertise of humanistic scholars, artists, and researchers for a series of virtual presentations and conversations about Arctic issues. The first event will take place on September 1…
  • 2:00 PM
    Job Docs Peer Feedback Series
    In this follow up to the PDPA Job Documents Workshops , this series of peer-review sessions will provide participants with the opportunity to work with peers in their discipline to review each others' job documents. After a brief review of the basics of each document, participants will be separated into breakout rooms with other doctoral…
  • 3:30 PM
    IS&T RCS Tutorial - Introduction to R
    R is the most powerful, rapidly developing, highly reliable, open source statistical language. It is widely used among statisticians for the development of statistical software and for data analysis. New features appear every few months. This tutorial introduces the R environment for statistical computing and will cover the following topics: operators and arithmetic operations atomic…

Wednesday, September 2

  • 1:00 PM
    IS&T RCS Tutorial - Introduction to BU's Shared Computing Cluster
    This tutorial will introduce Boston University’s Shared Computing Cluster (SCC) in Holyoke, MA. This Linux cluster has more than 18500 processors and over 6 petabytes of storage available for Research Computing by students and faculty on the Charles River and BUMC campuses. A very large number of software packages for programming, mathematics, data analysis, plotting,…
  • 3:15 PM
    IS&T RCS Tutorial - Using Machine Learning on the SCC
    During this tutorial, we will introduce an appropriate workflow for working with Machine Learning on the Shared Computing Cluster. We will cover both interactive and batch jobs, address unique features of this area and step through the process of effective use of the SCC OnDemand tools. Prerequisite: You should have some familiarity with the SCC,…
  • IS&T RCS Tutorial - Using Python on the SCC
    During this tutorial, we will introduce an appropriate workflow for working with Python on the Shared Computing Cluster. We will cover both interactive and batch jobs, address unique features of this application and step through the process of effective use of the SCC OnDemand tools. Prerequisite: You should have some familiarity with the SCC, such…
  • IS&T RCS Tutorial - Using R on the SCC
    During this tutorial, we will introduce an appropriate workflow for working with R on the Shared Computing Cluster. We will cover both interactive and batch jobs, address unique features of this application and step through the process of effective use of the SCC OnDemand tools. Prerequisite: You should have some familiarity with the SCC, such…
  • IS&T RCS Tutorial - Using SAS on the SCC
    During this tutorial, we will introduce an appropriate workflow for working with SAS on the Shared Computing Cluster. We will cover both interactive and batch jobs, address unique features of this application and step through the process of effective use of the SCC OnDemand tools. Prerequisite: You should have some familiarity with the SCC, such…
  • IS&T RCS Tutorial - Using Stata on the SCC
    During this tutorial, we will introduce an appropriate workflow for working with Stata on the Shared Computing Cluster. We will cover both interactive and batch jobs, address unique features of this application and step through the process of effective use of the SCC OnDemand tools. Prerequisite: You should have some familiarity with the SCC, such…
  • 3:45 PM
    IS&T RCS Tutorial - Using MATLAB on the SCC
    During this tutorial, we will introduce an appropriate workflow for working with MATLAB on the Shared Computing Cluster. We will cover both interactive and batch jobs, address unique features of this application and step through the process of effective use of the SCC OnDemand tools. Prerequisite: You should have some familiarity with the SCC, such…

Thursday, September 3

  • 10:00 AM
    IS&T RCS Tutorial - Introduction to BU's Shared Computing Cluster
    This tutorial will introduce Boston University’s Shared Computing Cluster (SCC) in Holyoke, MA. This Linux cluster has more than 18500 processors and over 6 petabytes of storage available for Research Computing by students and faculty on the Charles River and BUMC campuses. A very large number of software packages for programming, mathematics, data analysis, plotting,…
  • 12:15 PM
    IS&T RCS Tutorial - Using SAS on the SCC
    During this tutorial, we will introduce an appropriate workflow for working with SAS on the Shared Computing Cluster. We will cover both interactive and batch jobs, address unique features of this application and step through the process of effective use of the SCC OnDemand tools. Prerequisite: You should have some familiarity with the SCC, such…
  • IS&T RCS Tutorial - Using Stata on the SCC
    During this tutorial, we will introduce an appropriate workflow for working with Stata on the Shared Computing Cluster. We will cover both interactive and batch jobs, address unique features of this application and step through the process of effective use of the SCC OnDemand tools. Prerequisite: You should have some familiarity with the SCC, such…

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