Area science event list

See wiki.hacdc.org/index.php/Area_science_event_info for the "instruction manual" for this list. April 2018 7-8 - USASEF 8 - 7PM - NoVAC - Electronically Assisted Astronomy 9 - 11AM - UMdPS - JQI UMdBS - BISI Dissertation Seminar: Alex Novarro 11:15AM - UMdSS - An Introduction to the PDS4 Standards: Concepts and Consequences noon - UMdBS - BBS 2PM - UMdMS - Lang-Trotter Questions on the Reductions of Abelian Varieties 3:15PM - UMdMS - Domains of discontinuity for (Quasi-)Hitchin representations 4PM - UMdBpS - Tertiary Alphabet for the Observable Structural Universe UMdPS - Self-Destructing Dark Matter 7:30 - GMU Obs. - The Wide Field InfraRed Survey Telescope (WFIRST) 10 - 11AM - UMdCS noon - NOAA - The Ocean Aero SubmarranTM an Innovative Hybrid Autonomous Unmanned Underwater & Surface Vehicle (AUUSV) Marine Microplastics Quest 12:30PM - UMdBS - EG 1PM - RSC ST - Raising the Bar Using Science (registration requested) UMdCS - Tailoring Guanosine Hydrogels for Various Applications 1:15PM - UMdPS - Maximum Caliber: An Inference Principle for Nonequilibrium Statistical Physics 3:15PM - UMdMS - Stability of Nonlinear Swarms on Flat and Curved Surfaces 3:30PM - UMdES - WRF Simulations of Land Surface Temperatures During the 2007 Valentine's Day Storm AND Radial wind assimilation for improved short-term precipitation forecasts UMdMS - An accurate and fast solver for high-frequency wave propagation The bi-embeddability relation for countable abelian groups Obstruction Theory and dimension estimates for Hilbert Schemes 4PM - UMdPS - How Fermi Became Fermi 6PM - Nerds in NoMa - The Games We Play: Recreation in the urban space 7:30PM - HacDC - monthly meeting 11 - 9:30AM - UMdBS - Stephen Christensen BISI Dissertation Defense 11AM - UMdCSS - On the syntactic abilities of recurrent neural networks PhD Proposal: Quantum algorithms for machine learning and optimization UMdGcS - When Life Got Hard: A Geochemical and Paleontological Perspective on Biomineralization UMdPS - Cell Behaviors are not just from the Biology of Genes, but also from the Physics of Proteomes noon - UMdBS - Rachel Shahan BISI Dissertation Defense NOAA - Introducing Gulf TREE, a New Resource for Climate Resilience Tools 1PM - UMdPS - Real-time Dynamics of Gauge Theories on the Lattice UMdMS - Train Tracks and Laminations 3PM - NOAA - Science to Support Ecosystem-Based Fisheries Management of Coral Reef Ecosystems Across the U.S. Pacific Islands 4PM - UMdPS - Probing Velocity Dependent Self-Interacting Dark Matter with Neutrino Telescopes 4:05PM - UMdSS 7:30PM - HacDC - amateur radio 12 - 11AM - UMdCS - pH Responsive Miktoarm Polymers Showcasing the Advances in Macromolecular Drug Delivery Systems NASM - WNIA? - Alan Eustace Looks Back at His Record-Breaking Freefall 11:15AM - UMdSS - PALS noon - NOAA - Landscape Ecology Influences Estuarine Community Dynamics and Service Delivery 12:30PM - UMdBS - Cancer vulnerabilities based on somatic copy number map UMdPS - Macroscopic Behavior of Systems of Many Interacting Orientable units: The Strong Influence of Dimensionality on the Dynamics 2PM - UMdMS - Variational construction of periodic and connecting orbits in the planar Sitnikov problem UMdPS - TopologicalSurface States and InducingSuperconductivity in Bi2Te3 Nanotubes UMdBS - CBCB/CBBG RIPS 3:30PM - UMdES - DS UMdBS - CSC 4PM - UMdBS - PSL 7:30PM - TBC - How to Tame a Fox and Build a Dog (registration) 13 - UMdCS 10AM - UMdBS - The Unipolar Brush Cell: A Class of Neuron Tailored for Radical Transformation of Neural Signals noon - UMdBS - The paradox of sex: sexual conflict and reproductive mode polymorphisms CBMG UMdES - ACBBT 1PM - UMdPS - Nanopattering in GeTe Phase Change Materials Using Heated Atomic Force Microscopy 3PM - UMdGS - Experimental dilute pyroclastic density currents 3:30PM - SCBI - Promoting the Research and Conservation of Tapirs Throughout Brazil 4:10PM - UMdPS - Toward the first quantum simulation with quantum speedup 14 - 7:30PM - NCA - Isolated Planetary-Mass Objects 16 - 11AM - UMdCSS - Adaptive Adversarial Learning for a Diverse Visual World UMdPS - Quantum gas microscopy of atomic Fermi-Hubbard systems 11:15AM - UMdSS - PALS noon - UMdBS - Regulation of Intestinal Immunity and Stem Cell Maintenance by Nub/Pdm1 Isoform Antagonism 3:15PM - UMdMS - From point-picking to sections of surface bundles 3:30PM - UMdPS - The Basis for Cosmic Ray Feedback 17 - 11AM - UMdCS - The C9orf72 Nucleotide Repeat Expansion and Neurodegeneration: A Tale of Two Toxicities UMdCSS noon - NOAA - Assessing the Population Consequences of Disturbance on Migratory Baleen Whales Exploring Using Artificial Intelligence (AI) for NWP and Situational Awareness Applications 2PM - NOAA - Using the NOAA Institutional Repository (IR) as a research tool UMdMS - The pro-p-Iwahori-Hecke algebra of a reductive p-adic group 3:30PM - UMdES - Water vapor transport and near-surface salinity contrasts in the North Atlantic Ocean 4PM - UMdPS 7PM - RSC - How you and I can change what we do to make a better county and world. 18 - 11AM - UMdCSS - CLIP UMdGcS noon - NOAA - Sea Turtle Bycatch in U.S. Longline Fisheries: Do the Regulations Work? UMdBS - BCBMS 1PM - Game Changing New Technologies for Community Risk Reduction (www.cfsi.org/2018-dinner/2018-seminar-program/) UMdPS - NTS 2PM - Preparing to Better Manage and Respond to Wildfire in the Wildland-Urban Interface: Fire Adapted Communities (www.cfsi.org/2018-dinner/2018-seminar-program/) UMdMS - Representation ring of Levi subgroups versus cohomology ring of flag varieties 3PM - Occupational Health & Safety Research: Where are We Now and Where are We Going? (www.cfsi.org/2018-dinner/2018-seminar-program/) Coalition for Construction Fire Safety (www.cfsi.org/2018-dinner/2018-seminar-program/) 3:15PM - UMdMS - Eigenvalue problem for reductive groups 4:05PM - UMdSS 7PM - HHMI - Objects and People: From Core Cognition to New Systems of Knowledge (ticket required) 8PM - NASM - Is Astronomy Ready for the James Webb Space Telescope? (ticket required) 19 - noon - NOAA - Predicting Whale Acoustic Exposures: Effect of Vessel Management Options 12:30PM - UMdBS - Genome size and transcriptome Complexity in Green Algae UMdPS - AD 2PM - UMdPS - Measurement and Control of Superconducting Qubits Using Single Flux Quantum Digital Logic UMdBS - CBCB/CBBG RIP 2:05PM - UMdMS - D 3:30PM - UMdES - DS 4PM - UMdBS - The Three Legs of Sustainable Turf UMdPS - Fast scrambling on sparse graphs 6:30PM - CI NLS - Eyes on the Universe: Carnegie's Leadership in Astronomy Today (registration recommended) 7PM - HAL - MESSENGER at Mercury: New Views of the Innermost Planet 20 - 10AM - UMdBS - Fluid Semantics:Semantic Knowledge is Experience-Based and Dynamic noon - UMdBS - The importance of neighborhood pubs and coffee breaks to novel research findings and applications. UMdES - ACBBT 3PM - UMdGS 3:30PM - SCBI - Genomic insights into bird speciation in the tropical Pacific 8PM - UMd. Obs. - The Rosetta Mission to Orbit and Land on a Comet PSW - The Mystery of the Missing Anti-Matter Why Is There A Matter Only Universe? 21 - 1:30PM - NCAS - Understanding Eyewitness Evidence and Confession Evidence in Criminal Cases: A Sensitive Skeptic's Guide. 22 - noon-5PM - Rockville Science Day 23 - 11AM - UMdPS - Rydberg excitons in cuprous oxide 11:15AM - UMdSS - PALS noon - UMdBS - Hide and Seek in the Open Sea: Pelagic camouflage and visual countermeasures 4PM - UMdBpS - Two-Way Transmembrane Signaling in Outer-Membrane Transprt Protein: or why do spectroscopy when we have a crystal structure? 4:30PM - UMdSS - The South Pole IceCube Neutrino Detector and the Era of Multi-Messenger Astronomy NASM - Open Data in the "New Space" Environment (registration required) 24 - 11AM - UMdPS - Criticality in Quantum Long Range Systems 12:30PM - UMdBS - EG 3:30PM - UMdES - SS 4PM - UMdPS 25 - 10AM - UMdCSS - PhD Proposal: Application of Homotopy Medthods in Neural Networks and Transportation 11AM - UMdCSS - CLIP UMdGcS noon - UMdBS - Transcription termination in Leishmania: a role for the modified DNA base J 1PM - APS - Prospects for Life and Human Habitability Around Nearby Stars Many Possible Homes - But the Likely Neighbors Are Microbes 3:15PM - UMdMS 4:05PM - UMdSS - From One to Two Dimensional Interstellar Carbon: A Synthesis of Laboratory, Observations, and Theory 6:30PM - CI CSE - Hope for People and the Ocean (registration required) 26 - 11AM - UMdCS - SS 12:30PM - UMdPS - High-speed prediction of a chaotic system using reservoir computers UMdBS - CBMG/MOCB RIP 2PM - UMdBS - CBCB/CBBG RIP 3:30PM - UMdES - DS 4PM - UMdBS - PSL 6:30PM - MAA - A Glimpse at the Horizon (registration requested) 7:30PM - ASG 8PM - NASM - Meet the King and Queen of Speed (ticket required) 27 - 11AM - UMdPS - CMTC UMdMS - Counting points, counting fields, and new heights noon - UMdBS - Elucidation of Novel Morphological and Behavioral Adaptations for Host Exploitation in Parasitic Mesostigmatid Mites of Honey Bees CBMG UMdES - ACBBT 3PM - UMdGS 3:30PM - SCBI - Dual transcriptomics of birds with malaria UMdMS - The Geometry of Redistricting 28 - 10AM-4PM - UMd - Maryland Day 30 - 11AM - UMdPS - JQI 11:15AM - UMdSS - PALS noon - UMdBS - The structure, function, and evolution of distributed visual systems in marine invertebrates 4PM - UMdBpS - The emergence of contractility in biological fiber networks 4:30PM - UMdSS May 1 - 8PM - STScI - Gravitational Wave Astronomy 2 - NOAA - Nutrient Biogeochemistry of Vatia Bay, American Samoa: Variability, Sources and Effects 3 - noon - NOAA - Defining ecosystem thresholds for human activities and environmental pressures in the California Current 4 - 10AM - UMdBS - Cortical Circuits for Dynamic Auditory Perception and Learning noon - UMdBS - Development and evolution: Lessons from Drosophila pigmentation 3:30PM - SCBI - Is it time to flower? Molecular ecology and pathways of dispersal in foxtail millet 8PM - PSW - Adventures in Big Data Analysis Using Astronomical Methods to Understand Housing Patterns for a Better Baltimore 7 - noon - UMdBS - Complex interactions between orchids and fungi are key components of orchid conservation 4PM - UMdBpS - Dynamics of cilia: mechanical response, chirality and phenotypic variability 8 - 11AM - UMdCS - Histone Ubiquination in Transcription Regulation noon - NOAA - Heavy Metal on the High Seas: USS Monitor and World War II Shipwrecks off the North Carolina Coast 9 - 6:30PM - CI CSE - Deep Earth Through a Diamond Looking Glass (registration required) 11 - noon - UMdBS - Spatial distribution, habitat preference, and societal impact of the nuisance black fly, Simulium jenningsi 3:30PM - SCBI - Losing not choosing? Reconstructing the evolution of female and male bird song 12 - 7:30PM - NCA - Relativistic Jets Stir Things Up 16 - 3:30PM - SCBI - Chasing the High Fliers: Radar Studies of Insect Migration 17 - 7PM - HAL - Astrophotography From Down Under 18 - 3:30PM - SCBI - Trends in the birds of Bogota, Colombia: 26 years of Christmas bird counts 8PM - PSW - Lectures on Cassini 23 - noon - NOAA - A Preview of 2018 Fieldwork for Southeast Deep Coral Initiative and It's Management Implications 6:30PM - CI CSE - The Future of Cybersecurity: Winning the War (registration required) 8PM - NASM - The Hubble Space Telescope: Opening Cosmic Doors for JWST (ticket required) 24 - noon - NOAA - New Models and Analysis of Deep-sea Corals to Support Essential Fish Habitat Designations in the Gulf of Mexico 6:30PM - CI NLS - Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger: How High Pressure and Supercomputers Will Shape Materials of the Future (registration recommended) 25 - 3:30PM - SCBI - The Conservation Commons Working Land and Seascapes Action Area: Current research and future plans 30 - noon - NOAA - Managers, modelers, and measuring the impact of species distribution model uncertainty on marine zoning decisions. 31 - noon - NOAA - Pushing the Boundaries: Technology-Driven Exploration of the Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary 2PM - NOAA - Assessing the Relationship Between Geomorphology and Deep-Sea coral Community on the West Florida Escarpment June 5 - 8PM - STScI - Star Formation in Orion 7 - 7:30PM - TBC - Application of Theory: Toward Resolving Degrees of Unresolved Emotional Attachment (registration) 12 - 6:30PM - CI CSE - Probing the Universe with Gravitational Waves (registration required) 19 - 2PM - NOAA - Cooperative Institutes and Grantees 20 - noon - NOAA - Seasonal and Short-term Prediction of K. brevis Harmful Algal Bloom Outbreaks on the West Florida Shelf 8PM - NASM - The Historical Quest to See to the End of the Universe... Or Its Beginning (ticket required) 21 - 7PM - HAL - Tips on Observing Mars During the 2018 Opposition