Area science event list

See wiki.hacdc.org/index.php/Area_science_event_info for the "instruction manual" for this list. January 2018 18 - 7PM - HAL - Hot Jupiters and Lava Planets: Exploring the Diversity of Exoplanets. 19 - 3:30PM - SCBI - The evolutionary and ecological context of food-hoarding in birds 7PM - BUGSS - "Open Mic" Night at BUGSS: Tell YOUR Science Story (or listen and learn!) 8PM - PSW - The Human Cell Atlas 20 - 8PM - UMd. Obs. - How massive can stars be? 22 - 10AM - UMdBS - Master's Thesis Defense - Alisha Barnes 23 - 11:30AM - UMdBS - Rewiring Protein Synthesis: From Population To Single Cells noon - NOAA - Economic Valuation of Natural Infrastructure Provided by the Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve Convective-Scale Ensemble Prediction Experiments over Yangtze-Huaihe River Basin 24 - 11AM - UMdCSS - Reasoning about Incomplete and Uncertain Preferences with Order-based Markov Models Duolingo: Improving Language Learning and Assessment with Data 25 - noon - NOAA - Human influence at the coast: Upland and shoreline stressors affect coastal benthic macrofauna 2PM - UMdMS - Disjointness criterion for parabolic flows 3:30PM - UMdBS - CSC UMdMS - Elasticity and curvature: the elastic energy of non-Euclidean thin bodies UMdES - Atmospheric Electricity and Why it Matters for the Earth System 7:30PM - ASG 26 - 10AM - UMdBS - Breaking the Neural Code with Brain Perturbations 11AM - UMdCSS - The Polynomial Method Strikes Back: Tight Quantum Query Bounds via Dual Polynomials 3PM - UMdGS 3:30PM - SCBI - Tracking and weather radar to study the flight behavior of birds and insects at multiple scales 29 - 11AM - UMdBS - Ribosome Modification and Hibernation in Bacterial Stress Management noon - UMdBS - BBS 4PM - UMdBpS - Microstructural Alterations of Mucus in Obstructive Lung Diseases 30 - 11AM - UMdBS - CBMG/Chemistry Special Joint Seminar noon - NOAA - Data Driven Decision-Making: Introducing the American Community Survey 12:30PM - UMdBS - Evolutionary Genetics 4PM - UMdPS - New Materials for Next Generation Printable Solar Cells 31 - 11AM - UMdGcS noon - NOAA - Planning for a Biogeochemical-Argo profiling float array: Results from the SOCCOM array and future goals Well below 2 C: Mitigation strategies for avoiding dangerous to catastrophic climate changes UMdBS - BCBMS 12:30PM - NASM - Explorer 1: 60th Anniversary of the 1st U.S. Satellite 12:30-5:30PM - NAS - A Celebration of the Explorer 1 Mission and the Discovery of Earth's Radiation Belts (registration; www.eventbrite.com/e/a-celebration-of-the-explorer-i-mission-and-the-discovery-of-earths-radiation-belts-tickets-41091504797) February 1 - 2PM - NOAA - Blueprint for 2022, Part 2: Geopotential Coordinates 3:30PM - UMdES - DS 2 - 10AM - UMdBS - Single-Trial Decisions are Accurately Predicted by Inhibitory Neural Population Activity 3:30PM - SCBI - When the stork doesn't deliver: biology and management of crane reproduction 5 - 11AM - UMdPS - Electronic and Optoelectronic Physics in the van der Waals Heterojunctions 8PM - UMd. Obs. - Watching the Explosive Universe in Action 6 - 8PM - STScI - The Wildest Weather in the Universe 7 - noon - NOAA - Making estuarine shoreline science relevant to managers and policymakers UMdBS - Do dependencies among organisms demonstrably result in correlated patters of population growth? The view from some genomes. 8PM - NASM - Engineering Miracles for Scientific Discoveries with the James Webb Space Telescope (ticket required) 8 - noon - NOAA - The Worth of Giants: The Consumptive & Non-Consumptive Use Value of the Giant Sea Bass 3:30PM - UMdES - Large-scale wind and solar farms in the Sahara would increase precipitation and vegetation 9 - 10AM - UMdBS - Algorithms and Neural Circuits in Odor-Guided Behaviors in Mice 7PM - BUGSS - Open-source oceanography: Tools for community science & marine conservation. 8PM - PSW - Cultural Heritage and Modern Inscriptional Forgeries in the Marketplace 10 - 7:30PM - NCA - The New Moon 13 - 6PM - Nerds In NoMa - Love Me Tinder: Digital dating in the city 7:30PM - HacDC - monthly meeting 14 - noon - NOAA - Transformative Mindset Change as a Precondition to Successful Reorganization: Part 1 3PM - NOAA - Ecosystem Based Management/EBFM seminar series: Process studies to quantify ecosystem dynamics and inform EBFM in the central California Current 15 - noon - NOAA - Natural Shoreline Infrastructure: Working with Nature to Increase Coastal Resilience 3:30PM - UMdES - Carbon monitoring for the US Northeast Corridor 7PM - HAL - TESS Mission 16 - 3:30PM - SCBI - Caught in the SNOWstorm: Studying Snowy Owls 21 - noon - NOAA - Allusions,Collisions and Groundings: The Impact of the Physical Oceanographic Real Time System (PORTSr) On Accident Reduction UMdBS - Plasmacytoma Susceptibility/Resistance Gense identify mTOR and p16 Intervention in Myeloma 22 - noon - NOAA - Citizen Science Benefits Coral Reef Restoration 6:30PM - MAA - Nuclear Weapons and Nonproliferation: Mathematical Research and Opportunities in the Science of National Security (registration) 7:30PM - ASG - JWST update 23 - 10AM - UMdBS - Using Functional Genomics to Understand Hearing Regeneration 26 - 4:30PM - UMdSS - A thermodynamic interpretation of electron density and temperature description in the Sun's corona 28 - noon - NOAA - Transformative Mindset Change as a Precondition to Successful Reorganization: Part 2 March 2 - 10AM - UMdBS - Chemical Regulation of Breathing: Neuronal Sensors and Molecular Detectors 3:30PM - SCBI - Seeing is believing: Vision through the eyes of a fish 7PM - BUGSS - Popscope at BUGSS! An evening of community astronomy 6 - 8PM - STScI - Mapping the United Federation of Planets: An Astronomer's Guide to the Galaxy 7 - noon - NOAA - Risk Factors for Seabird Bycatch in the Hawaii Pelagic Longline Tuna Fishery 8 - 2PM - NOAA - The State Plane Coordinate System: History, Policy, Future Directions 9 - 10AM - UMdBS - Dynamic 3D Scene Representation 3:30PM - SCBI - When form meets function: the influence of sperm shape on sperm aggregation behavior in Peromyscus rodents 7PM - BUGSS - What Google search data reveal about our interest in climate change 10 - 7:30PM - NCA - What We Can Learn from Dust in the Solar System 13 - noon - NOAA - Methane Variation Over Terrestrial And Marine Arctic Areas (2010-2016): IASI Satellite Data 6PM - Nerds In NoMa - "I'm Totally Starting a Podcast":Learning to love the mic 14 - 7:30PM - HacDC - monthly meeting 8PM - NASM - The Earliest Galaxies: Exploring Cosmic Sunrise with Hubble, Spitzer, and JWST (ticket required) 15 - 12:30PM - UMdBS - The Dinoflagellate Gambierdiscus and its Neurotoxin Arsenal 7PM - HAL - Eclipse 2017: Results and Next Steps for NASA 16 - 3:30PM - SCBI - Population models of cats and birds in the urban jungle 23 - 3:30PM - SCBI - Victims or hosts? Disease, social behavior, and long-distance migration in the American Crow 8PM - PSW - Earth's Earliest Life Written in Stone 30 - 3:30PM - SCBI - Towards using microbiomes to diagnose health of marine mammals April 6 - 3:30PM - SCBI - Conservation genomics for black-footed ferrets and/or African antelopes 8PM - PSW - Cube Sats 10 - 6PM - Nerds in NoMa - The Games We Play: Recreation in the urban space 13 - 3:30PM - SCBI - Computational Approaches to Biodiversity Informatics: from crayfish to rhinos 14 - 7:30PM - NCA - Planets Without Stars 18 - 8PM - NASM - Is Astronomy Ready for the James Webb Space Telescope? (ticket required) 19 - 7PM - HAL - Mercury/MESSENGER Mission May 4 - 3:30PM - SCBI - Molecular ecology and pathways of dispersal in foxtail millet 12 - 7:30PM - NCA - Relativistic Jets Stir Things Up16 - 3:30PM - SCBI - Chasing the High Fliers: Radar Studies of Insect Migration 30 - noon - NOAA - Managers, modelers, and measuring the impact of species distribution model uncertainty on marine zoning decisions