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All Topics (December 28 through February 3)

Monday, January 6

  • 12:00 AM
    Career Development Award Writing Workshop Series
    Training for Bench, Clinical, Biomedical, Translational and Population Health Researchers Are you planning to submit a Career Development Award? Have you assembled mentors and developed a Specific Aims page, but want to ensure that you submit the most competitive application possible?
  • Program for Early Career Research Development (PERC)
    The Program for Early Research Career Development will provide a roadmap and targeted guidance for senior post-doctoral fellows, post-doctoral associates, and early career faculty (both MD and PhD) committed to launching an independent research career.
  • R01 Proposal Writing Workshop
    raining for Bench, Clinical, Biomedical, Translationaland Population Health Researchers Are you planning on submitting your first R01 proposal to the NIH for the June 5th, 2025 deadline? Would you benefit from a structured program where you write the Research Strategy component in sections and get feedback along the way? Are you interested in getting and…

Wednesday, January 8

  • 9:30 AM
    Public Webinar on Climate and Development: New Research from the Journal of Globalization and Development
    The biggest developmental challenge facing the world today is climate change. Keeping the world below the 1.5C threshold of global warming requires an end to rising emissions - and an unprecedented mobilization of resources and investment, particularly for countries that rely on fossil fuels as a major source of revenue. How can countries pursue an…
  • 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: “Eyes Don't Lie: A Human in the Loop Approach for Medical AI Applications” Abstract: In this talk, I will focus on the human-in-the-loop machine learning system for medical AI applications. This approach is…

Thursday, January 9

  • 1:00 PM
    Meet the LUNGevity Foundation
    Are you looking for funding to study lung cancer? The LUNGevity Foundation supports research with the potential to improve lung cancer outcomes. In this virtual workshop for the BU research community, LUNGevity Executive Director of Research Upal Basu Roy, PhD, MPH, will present on the foundation’s five grant programs: The Brown/LUNGevity Award to Understand Mechanisms…

Sunday, January 12

  • 12:00 AM
    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 your interest by filling out the form on the provided link. This is a great opportunity for those in neuroscience and/or interested in attending the…

Tuesday, January 14

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 non-traditional model species, which allow for new insights into the function of unique nervous systems. We aim to explore similarities and differences in imaging approaches used…

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, collaborative environment. Organized by students, for students, the day-long event encourages interdisciplinary sharing among affiliated students, faculty, and invited guest speakers across diverse application areas. The…

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 reading development and the promise of AI Abstract: Reading is a complex cognitive process that requires extracting meaning from often noisy and ambiguous text signals. Individual variability in reading…

Wednesday, January 29

  • 12:00 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 28000 processors and over 14 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,…
  • 2:30 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. If you have not connected…
  • 4:00 PM
    Research on Tap: How Social Policies Shape Our Lives from Birth to Old Age
    Across the globe, governments are grappling with how to design policies that meet the needs of diverse and aging populations, address widening inequalities, and promote overall societal well-being. In the United States, debates over health care, economic safety nets, and education underscore the critical importance of evidence-based policy decisions. In this Research on Tap, we…

Thursday, January 30

  • 10:00 AM
    IS&T RCS Tutorial - Natural Language Processing Basics (Hands-on)
    Human language/communication can be studied computationally through Natural Language Processing (NLP). We'll explore the basics of NLP using Python and PyTorch; no prior machine learning experience necessary, basic Python knowledge is helpful but not necessary. We will look at the bigram character model and build statistical and neural network implementations. The core concepts we will…
  • 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 information about the current call for proposals and offer a unique networking opportunity. Lunch will follow the presentation. For questions, please contact Robin MacDonald at remac@bu.edu.
  • 12:30 PM
    IMAP Lunch Seminar Energy Investment Tax Credits & Environmental Outcomes: Evidence from Electric Utilities
    The Investment Tax Credit (“ITC”) is an essential part of U.S. policymakers’ strategy to encourage investment in clean energy. We investigate the effect of Investment Tax Credits on firms’ electricity generation and emissions with a sample of electric utilities from 2001-2022. Using a stacked cohort difference-in-differences design, we find that firms generate less electricity from…
  • 12:45 PM
    BU Law Annual Distinguished Lecture "Fixing the Supreme Court Through Its Docket"
    Please Join us on January 30th for the BU Law Annual Distinguished Lecture featuring Stephen Vladeck, Georgetown Law.
  • 1:00 PM
    IS&T RCS Tutorial - Python GIS: Geopandas Library (Hands-on)
    GeoPandas is a Python library that extends the functionality of the Pandas DataFrame object. This allows one to import vector data (points, polylines, and polygons) into a DataFrame object but the python library enables additional functions and spatial attributes used for spatial operations on the DataFrame and enables one to generate maps showing the spatial…
  • 3:00 PM
    IS&T RCS Tutorial - Intermediate Usage of the SCC (Lecture)
    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 and profiling: CPU and GPU utilization, memory usage Profiling programs for performance optimization General optimization strategies…

Friday, January 31

  • 8:00 AM
    Engineering for Women's Health Symposium
    Please join us on January 31st, 2025 for the Engineering for Women's Health Symposium! Discover the latest breakthroughs across engineering, biology, and medicine in women's health, and the path forward for advancing the field. The symposium will feature distinguished speakers, industry professionals, and policy advocates. Attendees will also have the opportunity to network with professionals…
  • 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 Control” Abstract: Leonard will introduce Spiking Nonlinear Opinion Dynamics (S-NOD), which enables decision–making and control with superior agility in responding to and adapting to fast and unpredictable changes in context, environment, or…

Monday, February 3

  • 9:30 AM
    IS&T RCS Tutorial - Intermediate Usage of the SCC (Lecture)
    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 and profiling: CPU and GPU utilization, memory usage Profiling programs for performance optimization General optimization strategies…

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