Area science event list

See wiki.hacdc.org/index.php/Area_science_event_info for the "instruction manual" for this list. Oct. 2018 5 - 8PM - PSW - Dragonfly Exploring Titan by Rotorcraft 9PM - UMd. Obs. - Research with Small Telescopes 9 - 11AM - UMdCS - Specificity, Function and Regulation of Protein O-GlcNAc Modification 1PM - RSC ST - Lets Do Lunch (registration) 3PM - UMdPS - Occam's Razor, Boltzmann's Brain, and Wigner's Friend 7:30PM - HacDC - monthly meeting 10 - 11AM - UMdGcS UMdCSS - A Family of Neural Models for Voice Query Understanding on an Entertainment Platform Recovering quantum gates from few average gate fidelities noon - UMdES - The NASA Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System 12:30PM - UMdSS - Current status of Giant Magellan Telescope 4:05PM - UMdSS - NICER Early Operations and Initial Results 7:30PM - HacDC - Elecraft KX3 portable transceiver 8PM - NASM - Surprising Humanitarian Roles of Drones (ticket required) 11 - 12:30PM - UMdPS - Constructing Chaotic Coordinates for non-integrable dynamical systems 2PM - UMdPS - Probing many-body interactions through excitons in monolayer transition-metal dichalcogenides 3:30PM - UMdES - Spati-temporal Reconstruction of Land Surface Temperatures from Daily Max/Min Temperature Records. 7PM - RSC MoCo Makers Group 12 - 10:15AM - UMdBS - Leveraging olfaction to study innate behavior in the mouse 11AM - UMdCSS - Behavior-Driven Optimizations for Big Data Exploration noon - UMdBS - Insect herbivory impacts leaf-litter nitrogen with cascading effects on detritivory but not on plant growth 2PM - UMdCSS - Entanglement structure of current-driven diffusive fermion systems 7PM - BUGSS - Science in the Renaissance: The mind of Leonardo da Vinci. 13 - 1:30PM - NCAS - Investigating Mysteries: Out-of-the-Box Thinking that Solved Strange Cases 7:30PM - NCA - The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART): Defending the Earth from Asteroids 14 - 3PM - RSC - Convolutions Neural Networks..... How a AI program recognizes a Dog from a Cat 7PM - NoVAC 15 - 4:30PM - UMdSS - Advanced X-ray Imaging Satellite 6:30PM - GMU Obs. - New Horizons: From Pluto to Ultima Thule 16 - 11AM - UMdCS - Chemical Biology - mRNA Display 6:30PM - MAA - Innumaracy in the Lab and in the Wild: A Focus on Efficacy and Action with Numbers (registration) 7PM - RSC - Contributions and Relevance of Fluorescent Proteins 17 - 11AM - UMdCS - An Inside Story: Controlling, Separating, and Characterizing the Effects of Filling the Interior of Nanotubes UMdGcS UMdCSS 1PM - APS - A Primer on the Physics of Free-Electron Lasers 4:05PM - UMdSS - Waterfalls or Rain: How does gas get into galaxies? 6:30PM - CI CSE - Restoring and Protecting Earth's Wild Beauty (registration required) 7PM - PtSW - From Filter-Feeding Plesiosaurs to Miocene Megalodon (a double-header) 18 - 12:30PM - UMdPS - Bifurcations in dynamical control systems for aerospace applications 3:30PM - UMdES - Blue Carbon, Green Infrastructure, and Nature & Human Health: Science to Support Ecosystem Management 5:30PM - UMdGS - Acid Rain: A long and unfinished journey from discovery to political action (registration) 6PM - RSC YASC - My Life in Cancer Research: An Unexpected Journey 6:30PM - DASER - Integration: Art and STEM (registration & photo ID required) CI NLS - Deep Blue Planet (registration recommended) 7PM - HAL - A Lifelong Journey in Astronomy. RSC - MoCo Makers Group 19 - 10:15AM - UMdBS - Phylogenetic and individual variability of neural circuits underlying swimming behaviors in sea slugs 10:45AM - UMdCSS - PhD Defense: Fusing Multimedia Data into Dynamic Virtual Environments noon - UMdBS - Evolution of Hawaiian Insects: Insights from Phylogeny, Ecology and Genomics UMdCSS - Thermodynamics of individual one-dimensional Bose gases 3PM - UMdGS 8PM - PSW - Cube Sats A Giant Revolution in Space 20 - 9PM - UMd. Obs. - Spectrum Management and Astrophysics 4:30PM - UMdSS 22 - 4PM - UMdBpS - Exploiting active site water and thermodynamics to improve the discovery and design of new pharmaceutical compounds 4:30PM - UMdSS 23 - 10AM-3PM - NASM - Chemistry Day 11AM - UMdCS - Antimicrobial Resistance: Evolutionary Tales from the Protein Data Bank noon - NOAA - Preparing Ocean Governance for Species on the Move 4PM - UMdPS - Capturing Light on the Nanoscale 6:30PM - UMdSoT - 10 Amazing Facts About Vampires and Other Bats (registration) 24 - 11AM - UMdGcS UMdCSS - CLIP noon - NOAA - NOAA Geospatial (Geographic Information System) Hot Topics 4:05PM - UMdSS - High-cadence Light Curves of Transients from the Kepler Telescope 25 - noon - NOAA - Understanding Underwater Behavior of Humpback Whales to Mitigate Ship Strike and Entanglement 12:30PM - UMdPS - A computer-assisted study of red coral population dynamics 3:30PM - UMdES - DS 7PM - RSC - MoCo Makers Group 7:30PM - ASG - Scientific Visualization 26 - 10:15AM - UMdBS - Stability in the Face of Change: Cognitive Supports and Cognitive Constraints in speech Comprehension by older adults with age-related hearing loss 11AM - UMdCSS - Applying ML & NLP at Google noon - UMdBS - Manipulation, deceit, and symbiosis by a terrifyingly carnivorous plant 28 - 3PM - RSC - Convolutions Neural Networks..... How a AI program recognizes a Dog from a Cat 29 - 11:15AM - UMdSS - The 46P/Wirtanen Campaign noon - UMdES - Principle Component Analysis Technique for Satellite Remote Sensing of Air Pollution 3PM - UMdPS - Axions from Strings: the Attractive Solution 4PM - UMdBpS - Understanding the Complex Networks Driving Cellular Decisions 4:30PM - UMdSS 6PM - GMU Obs. - Extrasolar Planets: Exploring Alien Worlds 30 - 11AM - UMdCS - Host-Pathogen Genomics & Bioinformatics 4PM - UMdBS - Twenty-five Years of National Science Foundation Broader Impacts: Inspiring a Generation of Women Scientists by Infusing Science into The X-Files UMdCSS - PhD Defense: Improving Efficiency and Generalization of Visual Recognition 31 - 11AM - UMdGcS UMdCSS - CLIP noon - NOAA - Are fieldwork studies being relegated to second place in conservation science? 4:05PM - UMdSS - AC Nov. 1 - 11AM - UMdCS - Factors Affecting Carbohydrate-Protein Binding: Understanding Influenza A Specificity 3:30PM - UMdES - Multi-angle Implementation of Atmospheric Correction (MAIAC) 2 - noon - UMdBS - Vector physiology: from hormones to symbionts 3PM - UMdGS - Submarine volcanic eruptions: why some rocks float and others sink 8PM - PSW - Venus - Earth's Sister Planet The Next Mission 3 - 1-5PM - RSC - Maryland Maker Day 5 - 11:15AM - UMdSS - The dust of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko 4:30PM - UMdSS - The gamma-ray determination of star formation history 8PM - UMd. Obs. - Exploring Volcanoes on Earth, the Moon, and Mars 6 - 10AM - UMdCSS - PhD Defense: Planetary Scale Data Storage 11AM - UMdCS - Feast or Famine - Amino acid sensing on the tRNA by a mRNA 7 - 11AM - UMdGcS - Solar system initiation and its early, rapid growth and differentiation of planets 4:05PM - UMdSS - New Windows on Giant Planet Structure and Composition 8 - 11AM - UMdCS - Challenges in Automating Carbohydrate Synthesis and Analysis 3PM - UMdBS - Interactive exploration of mutational signatures 3:30PM - UMdES - Dynamics of the Ocean and Atmosphere of Indonesia 6:30PM - CI NLS - The Geodynamo: A Unique Window into the Dynamics of Earth's Deep Interior (registration recommended) 9 - 7PM - BUGSS - The flu: truth and fiction. 10 - 7:30PM - NCA - What is on the surface of Venus? 8PM - NASM - Surprising Roles of Drones (ticket required) 12 - 5:30PM - GMU Obs. - Observing Mars and the 4-day Old Moon with a Telescope 13 - 11AM - UMdCS - Engineering of Plant Receptors 8PM - STScI - Observing with Hubble: From Scientific Idea to Published Result (and Everything in Between!) 14 - 11AM - UMdCS - Carbon Nanotube Transistor Technology for Extremely-Scaled Logic Devices 1PM - APS - Gravitational Waves and Light from Merging Neutron Stars 15 - noon - NOAA - Marine Heatwaves under Global Warming: Discovering Risks for Marine Ecosystems 3:30PM - UMdES - Variability in Ozone Structure: Insights from Strategic Ozonesonde Networks 6:30PM - DASER - Creating Things That Matter: The Art and Science of Innovations that Last (registration & photo ID required) 7PM - HAL - Out of this World Astronomy: The Orbiting Astronomical Observatory-A2 16 - 10:15AM - UMdBS - Optimizing Neurodevelopmental Outcomes in Children with Congenital Heart Disease noon - UMdBS - Vive la Resistance: Evidence that Multidrug Resistance is an Ancient Stem Cell Trait 19 - 4PM - UMdBpS - The "Art of Possibility": Weighted Ensembles of Trajectories 20 - 11AM -UMdCS - MS-based Approaches for the Elucidation of Nucleic Acid Higher-Order Structure and Dynamics 8PM - UMd. Obs. - all sky cameras? 26 - 5:30PM - GMU Obs. - Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array What it is; what it can do; and, the latest results. 27 - 11AM - UMdCS - Structural Biology, Immunology, and HIV 4PM - UMdCS - Sticking and Stacking: Building Molecular Cages, Channels and Gels 28 - 6:30PM - UMdSoT - The Intersection of Water, Climate and Sustainability (registration) 29 - 3:30PM - UMdES - NOAA's Ecological Forecasting Roadmap: Insight into Partnership Opportunities 30 - noon - UMdBS - Novel Plant-Insect Associations: Implications of the Lack of Coevolution December 4 - 8PM - STScI - Black Holes and Other Dark Matters 5 - 11AM - UMdCSS - Experimentally bounding deviations from quantum theory in the landscape of generalized probabilistic theories 8PM - UMd. Obs. ASTR 310 Student Research 8 - NCA - New Astronomy With Gravitational Waves 20 - 8PM - UMd. Obs. - Cosmic Dust Near and Far