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This calendar is a round-up of events related to research from around BU. Browse all upcoming events by date, or select an event topic to narrow your search.
All Topics (June 1 through July 8)
Sunday, June 2
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2024 Electronic Structure WorkshopThe 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
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ClimaTechThe 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…
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Dissertation Writing GroupAre 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…
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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
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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
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Career Development Learning CommunityJoin 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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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
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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
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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…
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NSF Graduate Student Mentoring Plans: Resources for PIsThe 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…
Friday, June 7
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IS&T RCS Tutorial - Advanced Topics in R: Code Optimization and Parallelization (Lecture)Join our R Optimization and Parallelization Tutorial to learn essential techniques to speed up your analysis with R. We will learn how to identify the bottlenecks in your code and review the main pitfalls that hinder R performance. We will also explore various packages and functions that can significantly shorten the time it takes to…
Monday, June 10
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Workshop: Rethinking the Media-Gentrification NexusWhere: 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.
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Dissertation Writing GroupAre 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…
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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
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Career Development Learning CommunityJoin 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…
Friday, June 14
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IS&T RCS Tutorial - Python with Dask (Hands-on)Dask is an open source Python library for parallel computing. This helps to scale Python code to large scale problems, including ones where the quantity of data is much greater than the amount of computer memory on hand. It provides a convenient way to adapt existing programs based around libraries such as Pandas and Numpy…
Monday, June 17
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Dissertation Writing GroupAre 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…
Tuesday, June 18
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IS&T RCS Tutorial - Python Optimization (Hands‐on)This tutorial is for those with intermediate Python experience who are interested in optimizing their code to maximize performance. The topics covered are profiling and timing Python code, selecting data structures, avoiding common pitfalls, using external libraries, and tuning Python code.
Wednesday, June 19
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Career Development Learning CommunityJoin 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…
Monday, June 24
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Dissertation Writing GroupAre 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…
Tuesday, June 25
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Bretton Woods Revisited: A Monetary and Financial Order for the 21st CenturyJuly 2024 marks the 80th anniversary of the Bretton Woods Agreement, a pivotal moment in history that established the global financial and monetary order post-World War II, leading to the creation of institutions like the IMF and World Bank. While some elements have changed over the decades, the core structure remains largely intact. However, in…
Wednesday, June 26
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Career Development Learning CommunityJoin 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…
Monday, July 1
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Dissertation Writing GroupAre 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…
Tuesday, July 2
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Workshop: Rethinking the Media-Gentrification NexusWhere: 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 Second day of workshop; learn more through the provided link.
Monday, July 8
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Dissertation Writing GroupAre 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…