Area science event list

NOTE: Due to intermittant internet access, I may not always be able to update this. See wiki.hacdc.org/index.php/Area_science_event_info for the "instruction manual" for this list. April 18 11AM UMdCS Nature's protein/protein interactions--Inspirations for novel therapeutics and biotech tools UMdPS - Exciton Condensates Through the Years 12:30PM UMdCSS - Anti-Privacy and Anti-Security Advice on TikTok: Case Studies of Technology-Enabled Surveillance and Control in Intimate Partner and Parent-Child Relationships UMdMS - A PDE Model to Study Natural Selection Across Multiple Levels of Organization 2 UMdMS - Geometry of Music Perception 3:30 UMdMS - Topological dynamics of kaleidoscopic groups 4 UMdPS - Exploring new scientific frontiers using programmable atom arrays 6:30 DASER - Science, Poetry, and Society (registration, photo ID, & proof of up-to-date COVID-19 vaccination required) 19 11AM UMdCS - Ultrafast dynamics and reaction pathways of organic cations and radicals UMdPS - Learning properties of interacting fermionic systems with limited hardware 11:30 UMdSS - The impact of the first gargantuan black holes on galaxies and their surroundings in the early Universe - insights from cosmological simulations 2PM UMdCSS - PhD Defense: Compiler Optimizations for Irregular Memory Access Patterns in the PGAS Programming Model UMdMS - Error control for target measure diffusion maps Prismatic realization functors on Shimura varieties of abelian type Berkovich spaces -- applications to complex dynamics and non-Archimedean potential theory 3:30 UMdPS - From symmetry to transport: scale invariance and critical balance in electrostatic drift kinetic turbulence 4 UMdCSS - Towards Scalable Autonomy in the Social Settings (registration requested) 4:05 UMdSS - The Deep Synoptic Array: fast radio burst probes of the unseen Universe 20 10AM UMdCSS - PhD Defense: Design Considerations for Remote Expert Guidance Using Extended Reality in Skilled Hobby Settings 2PM UMdMS - Simplicity of Lyapunov spectrum for systems with canonical holonomies 3:30 UMdMS - Harmonic maps with free boundary and beyond 21 10:15AM UMdBS - Contributions of the home environment and early caregiving on neurocognitive development during infancy 3PM UMdGS - The NASA Psyche Mission: An Electric Journey to a Metal World 22 6-11PM NoVAC - NOVAC Astronomy Day (event is free but there is a charge for vehicles to enter the site) 23 noon-5PM RSC - Rockville Science Day 24 11AM UMdCSS - MS Defense: A Pedagogical Approach to Problems in Ramsey Theory UMdPS - Protecting Superconducting Qubits from Environmental Poisoning 11:15 UMdSS - The Promise and Challenge of Brown Dwarf Retrievals at Medium Spectral Resolution 2PM UMdCSS - MS Defense: Usable Machine Learning for Remote Sensing Data UMdMS - Local-global compatibility over function fields 3 UMdCSS - PhD Proposal: Repetitive pattern synthesis and analysis 4 UMdBpS - Development and Applications of Rationally Designed DNA Looping Proteins UMdPS - Search for anomalous metal to insulator transition in magnetically doped FeSb2 4:30 UMdSS - Cosmic Explorer, the Next-Generation of US Gravitational-Wave Observatories 25 11AM UMdCS - Chemistry in a Regulatory Setting: Options and Opportunities 1PM UMdCSS - PhD Proposal: Clustering Algorithms for Characterizing Microbial Communities 3:30 UMdCSS - PhD Proposal: Move Faster or Go Smaller: Efficient Models and Learning Paradigms for Resource-Constrained Systems UMdMS - Analytical quadrature for (Fast Multipole Accelerated) Boundary Element Methods 26 11AM UMdCSS - Another Round of Breaking and Making Quantum Money: How to Not Build It from Lattices, and More 1PM UMdCSS - PhD Proposal: Object-Attribute Compositionality for Visual Understanding 2 UMdMS - Newton stratification on the B+dR-Grassmannian 3 UMdMS - Optimal CLT rates in transport distances under weak dependence 27 10AM UMdCSS - Towards Immersive Visual Content with Machine Learning 11 UMdCSS - PhD Defense: Towards Multimodal and Context-Aware Emotion Perception 2PM UMdMS - Arnold Tongues in Standard Maps with Drift 3:15 UMdMS - The Mathematics of Consilience 6:30PM CI NLS - A new golden age of sample return missions (registration required) 28 1PM UMdCSS - Inspiring Science with Music (registration requested) 3 UMdGS - Interrogating the relationship between microbial ecology and taphonomy: A view through the phosphorite window 8 PSW - Ancient Lives Preserved in Cuneiform Impressions of Mesopotamian Society Over 3,500 Years Ago 29 10AM-4PM UMd Maryland Day May 1 11AM UMdPS - Integrated Optical Control of Atomic Systems 4PM UMdBpS - Beyond the structural picture: key role of conformational changes for biological function and activity 3 11AM UMdCSS - Will quantum interior point methods be practical? An end-to-end resource analysis for portfolio optimization incorporating improvements to state preparation 4 11AM UMdCS - Organic synthesis with small rings and HIV vaccine chemical biology with 6-membered rings 5 10AM UMdCSS - Program Synthesis with Lightweight Abstractions 10:15 UMdBS - How does one (re)build a brain to learn and remember? 11 UMdEgS - Smart 3D Microtechnologies for Biology and Human Health 7 7:30PM NoVAC - radio astronomy from the South Pole 8 4PM UMdBpS - Single-cell imaging and single-cell manipulation: Measurement considerations for emerging technologies 9 11AM UMdCS - Quantifying bias in receptor tyrosine kinase signaling. 4PM UMdCSS - MAESTRO: Open-Ended Environment Design for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (registration requested) 10 3:15PM UMdMS - The games that people, lizards, and cancer cells play 11 2PM UMdPS - Simulating the Schwinger model as an open quantum system 18 1PM APS - Dragonfly: Flights of Exploration on an Exotic Ocean World 19 8PM PSW - Inhabiting the Moon Building Systems for Lunar Life 24 8PM NASM - Exploring the Moon and Mars: Learning to Work and Live in Space (registration required) June 2 8PM PSW - Einstein's Real Equation Mass, Energy and the Curvature of Space-Time 12 3PM UMdCSS - PhD Defense: ANALYZING COMMUNICATIVE CHOICES TO UNDERSTAND THEIR MOTIVATIONS, CONTEXT-BASED VARIATION, AND SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES 16 8PM PSW - The Ike Dike Protecting Houston from Water Disasters 29 8PM NASM - The Habitability of Worlds in the Outer Solar System (registration required)