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All Topics (May 19 through June 12)

Tuesday, May 21

  • 10:00 AM
    IS&T RCS Boot Camp - GPT & Transformers for Natural Language Processing (Hands-on)
    Human communication is rich and complex, and one of the main ways we encode it computationally is through Natural Language Processing (NLP). We’ll explore recent advances in NLP, building from the ground up over the course of three sections. First, we’ll look at generating random first names of people using a simple character level “bigram”…
  • 12:00 PM
    Meet the American Cancer Society
    As the nation’s largest private, not-for-profit source of funds for scientists studying cancer, the American Cancer Society (ACS) remains committed to funding basic, translational, clinical, and cancer control research now and in the future. ACS supports early-career and established investigators who perform innovative cancer research across a wide range of disciplines, to meet critically important…
    Laboratory researcher using a light microscope to examine stem cells in a culture jar.⁠

Wednesday, May 22

Friday, May 24

  • 1:00 PM
    Space Travel with Earth Wisdom FRP Symposium
    Mission: Human colonisation is about to expand beyond the outskirts of the Earth, with the hope to carry along only the beauty and the wisdom of this planet. Artificial intelligence and machine learning offer powerful new tools that could open new paths for humanity to embrace sustainability and bring life along with this expansion. This…

Tuesday, May 28

Wednesday, May 29

  • 12:30 PM
    IS&T RCS Tutorial - Introduction to Linux (Hands-on)
    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.
  • 3:00 PM
    IS&T RCS Tutorial - Introduction to BU's Shared Computing Cluster (Hands-on)
    This tutorial will introduce Boston University’s Shared Computing Cluster (SCC) in Holyoke, MA. This Linux cluster has more than 23000 processors and over 9 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,…

Thursday, May 30

  • 10:00 AM
    IS&T RCS Tutorial - Introduction to MPI (Hands-on)
    Many programs can be sped up by using additional CPU cores. To do this the execution needs to be parallelized and distributed across multiple cores. While “shared-memory” approaches like OpenMP allow you to use many cores on a single machine, if the program can still benefit from additional cores then a “distributed-memory” approach like MPI…
  • 12:30 PM
    IS&T RCS Tutorial - Introduction to BU's Shared Computing Cluster (Hands-on)
    This tutorial will introduce Boston University’s Shared Computing Cluster (SCC) in Holyoke, MA. This Linux cluster has more than 23000 processors and over 9 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,…

Sunday, June 2

  • 12:00 AM
    2024 Electronic Structure Workshop
    The Electronic Structure Workshop series brings together researchers to discuss new methods for computing previously inaccessible properties, breakthroughs in computational efficiency and accuracy, and novel applications of these approaches to the study of molecules, liquids, and solids. Since 1989, the Electronic Structure Workshop has been hosted by more than a dozen universities and institutions. ES24…

Monday, June 3

  • 12:00 AM
    ClimaTech
    The ClimaTech conference brings together expert thinkers, leaders and innovators from around the world, each at the cutting-edge of the climate revolution, to the heart of Boston. Working alongside Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, and the City of Boston, our program will explore an emerging frontier at the intersection of climate action…
  • 10:00 AM
    Dissertation Writing Group
    Are you looking for structured writing time and a community of like-minded peers where you can make significant progress on your prospectus, dissertation, or other related writing projects? The Dissertation Writing Group (DWG) offers both! The beginning of each three-hour session will be devoted to setting achievable writing goals and sharing them with a small…
  • IS&T RCS Tutorial - Intermediate Usage of the SCC (Hands-on)
    This tutorial will provide some more advanced techniques and common strategies used for interacting with the Shared Computing Cluster and its resources. The topics discussed during the tutorial include: Customizing your environment Parallel computing on the SCC Jobs monitoring (CPU and memory usage) Profiling programs for performance optimization General optimization strategies Prerequisites: some prior experience…

Tuesday, June 4

  • 10:00 AM
    IS&T RCS Tutorial - Intermediate Usage of the SCC (Hands-on)
    This tutorial will provide some more advanced techniques and common strategies used for interacting with the Shared Computing Cluster and its resources. The topics discussed during the tutorial include: Customizing your environment Parallel computing on the SCC Jobs monitoring (CPU and memory usage) Profiling programs for performance optimization General optimization strategies Prerequisites: some prior experience…

Wednesday, June 5

  • 12:00 PM
    Career Development Learning Community
    Join your fellow PhD students for a four-week learning community aimed to support your work in the PhD Progression Career Development Pathways. The Career Development Pathway will help you to work through the essential steps in developing your awareness about the resources available to you and the steps to take to find the right career…
  • 12:30 PM
    IS&T RCS Tutorial - Using and Building Containers on the SCC (Hands-on)
    Container technologies such as Docker and Singularity are becoming a common way of developing and sharing applications and workflows. In this tutorial we will cover high level concepts and options for adopting container technologies. This tutorial will provide hands-on examples for working with containers on the SCC. The first hour will cover running Singularity containers…

Thursday, June 6

  • 10:00 AM
    IS&T RCS Tutorial - Using GenAI Tools in RStudio for Code Development and Graphics (Hands-on)
    This tutorial explores how to leverage GenAI within RStudio, a popular integrated development environment (IDE) for R programming. The following topics will be covered: Setting Up Your Environment (enabling GitHub Copilot within RStudio) Review various ChatGPT – like packages Explore GenAI’s suggestions for code completion Go over some tips for effective prompting
  • 12:30 PM
    IS&T RCS Tutorial - Python Parallelization (Hands‐on)
    This tutorial is an introduction to the variety of ways that parallel computations can be performed in Python. Ways of identifying code that can benefit from parallelization will be discussed. Several parallelization methods using the Python language and external libraries will be covered with examples. This tutorial assumes an intermediate understanding of the Python language…
  • 1:00 PM
    NSF Graduate Student Mentoring Plans: Resources for PIs
    The National Science Foundation has begun requiring PIs to describe mentoring plans for graduate students funded on awards, similar to postdoctoral mentoring plans required previously. In this Research How-To, staff from BU's Research Development office will describe the new requirements, their implications for new NSF submissions or renewals, and the resources available to construct plans…
    Group of people in a workshop meeting

Friday, June 7

Monday, June 10

  • 9:00 AM
    Workshop: Rethinking the Media-Gentrification Nexus
    Where: Zoom (Virtual) When: June 10 and July 2, 2024 | 9:00 am–4:30 pm US-EDT / 2:00 pm-9:30 pm UK-BST First day of workshop; learn more through the provided link.
  • 10:00 AM
    Dissertation Writing Group
    Are you looking for structured writing time and a community of like-minded peers where you can make significant progress on your prospectus, dissertation, or other related writing projects? The Dissertation Writing Group (DWG) offers both! The beginning of each three-hour session will be devoted to setting achievable writing goals and sharing them with a small…
  • IS&T RCS Tutorial - Introduction to OpenMP (Hands-on)
    Many programs can be sped up by using additional CPU cores. To do this the execution needs to be parallelized and distributed across multiple cores. OpenMP provides a relatively straightforward way to do this for single machines (desktop/laptop) or a single computational node on a cluster. By adding directives within the code to modify the…

Wednesday, June 12

  • 12:00 PM
    Career Development Learning Community
    Join your fellow PhD students for a four-week learning community aimed to support your work in the PhD Progression Career Development Pathways. The Career Development Pathway will help you to work through the essential steps in developing your awareness about the resources available to you and the steps to take to find the right career…

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