Important Dates and Events
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| Wednesday, October 7, 2026 | Last Day to Drop Standard Courses (without a “W” grade)
Last Day for Graduate Students to Change Standard Courses from Credit to Audit Status | | Monday, October 12, 2026 | Indigenous People’s Day Holiday, Classes Suspended | | Tuesday, October 13, 2026 | Substitute Monday Schedule of Classes |
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UPCOMING DEPARTMENT EVENTS
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John Hancock Information Session |
Tuesday, October 6, 2026 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM | CDS 701
Open to all CS students, John Hancock is hosting an information session, Q&A session, and networking session. John Hancock is particularly interested in connecting with computer science and computer engineering students.
If you connected with John Hancock at yesterday's Engineering & Applied Sciences Career Fair, this is a great opportunity to follow up and stand out as a candidate.
Please bring copies of your resume.
Register here.
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Wednesday, October 7, 2026 | 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM | CDS 1001
Join us for the inaugural CS & First Gen Reception, a celebration of First Generation students in our CS community. All students welcome to attend! Whether you're First Gen or just want to connect with friends, come a snack, and hear from people in your field.
Register here.
Interested in speaking? Contact csmedia@bu.edu.
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Landing a Job in STEM: Recent Graduate Panel + Networking Round Tables |
Thursday, October 15, 2026 | 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM | Yawkey Center for Student Services, 100 Bay State Road, Rooms 613A and 613B
Wondering how to land a STEM position in this challenging job market? Connect with recent Boston University graduates who are currently working in diverse roles across STEM fields.
Hosted at the Center for Career Development, you’ll gain insights into our panelists' job search, application, and interview processes. After the panel, you will be able to directly engage with panelists in networking roundtable discussions.
Leave with new job search strategies and connections.
Register here.
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FEATURED EVENTS AROUND CAMPUS
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BU Quantum Seminar: "Runtime Lower Bounds for Quantum State Transfer with Imperfect Initialization" |
Today, October 2, 2026 | 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM | CDS 701
Abstract: Quantum state transfer, the primitive of transporting an unknown state from one site of a lattice to another, is a crucial step in many quantum information processing tasks. Recent protocols use the intermediate lattice sites as ancillas to achieve fast state transfer. Understanding state transfer's fundamental limits in the presence of practical imperfections and developing protocols to overcome these imperfections remain pressing open questions. We initiate the study of state transfer's robustness to errors in the initial ancilla state. In the Heisenberg picture, state transfer grows operators supported on the final site such that they no longer commute with all operators on the starting site. We prove that increased robustness necessitates larger Schatten p-norms of the commutators between initial- and final-site operators. This generalizes the previously known cases of infinite p and p=2, which govern complete ancilla-state-dependence and independence; intermediate values of p govern partially ancilla-state-dependent transport. We exhibit saturating protocols establishing the tightness of our bounds. In 1D power-law systems, our commutator bounds combined with existing light cones give exponentially stronger runtime bounds in certain regimes. For thermal ancilla states, we observe a phase transition in state transfer runtimes with temperature. We also introduce new robust state transfer protocols, charting the landscape between complete state-dependence and state-independence.
Today's speaker, Twesh Upadhyaya (University of Maryland) is a physics doctoral student advised by Nicole Yunger Halpern. He was a QuICS Lanczos Graduate Fellow from 2021 to 2023.
View more upcoming talks by BU Quantum.
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Attend an Event at BU Spark! |
BU Spark! is an innovation and experiential learning lab for computing, data science, and engineering projects housed at the Boston University Faculty for Computing & Data Sciences.
Learn more and find an upcoming event here.
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Apply to Attend a Premier Global Technology Conference |
Today is the last day to apply to be selected to attend. Attendance at this conference is fully paid for by the Department of Computer Science (including attendance to the conference, hotel lodging, per diem, and flights).
Held in Anaheim, California on October 27-30, 2026, the Grace Hopper Conference is the largest gathering of its kind designed to help you build real skills, create meaningful connections, and unlock new opportunities in an AI-driven world.
The conference is designed to support and elevate women and non-binary technologists. Applications are only open to juniors and senior undergraduate students and upperclassmen Master's students from the Department of Computer Science. Learn more about the conference here:
https://ghc.anitab.org/
Learn more and apply to be selected to attend the conference.
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Connecting Sophomores with Industry Professionals |
The CAS Experiential Learning Connector, with support from the Department of Computer Science, is piloting a new, fully online, professional development program to support Computer Science undergraduate sophomores seeking interships.
In order to apply, you must:
- Be a sophomore student with a declared major in Computer Science in good academic standing
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Be available to participate in three fully online mandatory sessions with your camera on.
- Monday, October 5th at 7:00pm – 8:30pm
- Monday, October 12th from 7:00pm – 8:30pm
- Monday, October 19th from 7:00pm – 8:30pm
Learn more and apply here.
If you are interested, please apply as soon as possible.
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APPLY TO GIVE A TALK AT TEDxBU 2027
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Share your research with BU |
TEDxBU is an independently organized, officially licensed TEDx event at Boston University, held annually in collaboration with the Howard Thurman Center for Common Ground.
Their mission is to bring together individuals with ideas worth sharing — ideas that challenge assumptions, introduce new perspectives, tell us something we did not know before, or give audiences a new way of understanding the world around them.
TEDxBU is currently looking for speakers for their 2027 Main Event, as well as two new members of our organizing team.
Learn more and apply.
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Are you interested in connecting with graduate students and learning more about navigating STEM? |
Applications for mentees are now open for the Graduate Women in Science and Engineering (GWISE) Mentoring Circles program!
What You’ll Get:
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A space to ask questions about grad school, research, careers, and STEM life
- Monthly small-group meetings with 2–4 other undergrads and a graduate mentor
- Tips, advice, and encouragement as you explore your next steps
Why Join:
- Whether you’re thinking about grad school, exploring research opportunities, or just looking for role models in STEM, Mentoring Circles are a great way to learn and grow.
How to Apply:
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INTERESTED IN INTELLIGENT AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS?
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Participate in Boston's First Anti-drone Swarm Defense Hackathon |
Action Space is a hands-on physical AI hackathon taking place in Boston on October 24–25, bringing together a small group of robotics and AI builders to tackle multi-agent autonomy and Counter-Drone Swarm Systems. There will be more than $1,000 in prizes!
Over the weekend in October, participants will:
- Train autonomous policies in NVIDIA Isaac Lab
- Work with reinforcement learning and multi-agent autonomy
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Deploy their policies onto physical quadrotors
Action Space is looking for students interested in robotics, ML, RL, computer vision, autonomy, or related fields. The event is free and open to everyone.
Learn more about Action Space and apply to participate.
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Join xFoundry and NASA's Nationwide Competition |
Open to all students, teams of two to five pick one of four focus areas and spend the semester finding and validating a problem worth solving in it:
- Predictive User Interfaces: smart interfaces that know what you need before you do
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Human Performance Monitoring: health and safety tools that tell us when we are at risk
- Autonomous Asset Inspection: AI that warns before failure in infrastructure, systems and parts
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Adaptive Learning: systems that learn, adapt and reconfigure in high-stress environments
Teams research and analyze the problem rather than build a product, then pitch what they find to industry leaders. Each team has to span at least two disciplines, drawn from technology, entrepreneurship, arts and athletics, marketing, and science, so this is not a competition only for engineers.
There is no cost to enter. Fall registration runs through November 27, submissions are due December 19, and finals are at the NEXPLORE Summit in April 2027.
Register at connexions.xfoundry.org. Full details at xfoundry.org/horizons-challenge.
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CS UNDERGRADUATE ADVISING
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Drop-in Advising and Appointments — Important Changes |
Undergrad CS Advising Drop-In hours are now remote on Mondays and hybrid on Fridays. On Mondays, please join via zoom through the link on our website. On Fridays, students are still welcome to join remotely through the link above, but are encouraged to attend in person in CDS614! The times will remain the same, as well as the modality for Tuesday and Thursday.
Visit the Academic Advising & Appointments page or email csadvise@bu.edu for more information.
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Resume Reviews, Fall 2026 Career Events, and More! |
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PhD candidiate Tianle Chen (GRS'29) was selected for the 2026 Hariri Institute’s Graduate Student Fellow Award, awarded only to 5 students every year, with a stipend that supports travel to conferences and more.
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PhD candidiate Dahye Kim (GRS'29) was awarded 2026 Hariri Institute Student Excellence Award, awarded to: an outstanding student who has made significant contributions to their areas within the Institute, demonstrated a strong work ethic, exceptional skills, dedication to learning and development, and a commitment to excellence in their work.
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The paper titled "Swift Sampling: Selecting Temporal Surprises via Taylor Series" was accepted to NeurIPS 2026. The authors include PhD candidiate Dahye Kim (GRS'29) and Assistant Professor Deepti Ghadiyaram.
- Assistant Professor Deepti Ghadiyaram received the Hariri Institute Research Innovation Award.
- Adam Godel (CAS'27) won first place in the ACM Student Research Competition at SOSP’26 (undergraduate category) for his work “Closing the Data Alignment Gap in Secure Analytics with Private Edit Distance." Professor We (John Liagouris, Mayank Varia, and myself) are very proud of Adam!
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