Area science event list

See wiki.hacdc.org/index.php/Area_science_event_info for the "instruction manual" for this list. NOTE: Many events have been canceled (& information may not have been updated). Checking before going to any event is highly recommended. March 2020 13 - noon - UMdBS - Mechanisms that govern Bacterial Penetration of the Blood-Brain Barrier Changes in animal migration and consequences for infectious disease: Monarch butterflies as a case study 1PM - UMdPS - MSE 2PM - UMdMS - The Frobenius Theorem 3PM - UMdBS - Lexically-conditioned phonology in probabilistic grammar 15 - 1:30PM - RSC - Introductory Quantum Programming Series Session 5 16 - noon - NOAA - Using CrlS to Examine Feasibility of Short-Wave SmallSat Assimilation 7PM - RSC - Introduction to locks and physical security systems 17 - noon - NOAA - Emergent Properties of Deep Convective Ensembles in OTREC 3:30PM - UMdMS - Problems related to the Chern scalar curvature 4PM - MAA - Data Science: The Discipline, Methods, and Preparation (sold out) 7PM - RSC - What does a Zoo Keeper Do (registration optional) 18 - noon - NOAA - Assimilation of Lidar PBL Height Retrievals into WRF Forecasts 4PM - MAA - Data Science: The Discipline, Methods, and Preparation (sold out) 19 - 11AM - UMdCSS - QuICS UMdPS - Reconfigurable Photonics: A Phase Change for the Better noon - NOAA - Phenotypic and transcriptomic response of farmed Atlantic surfclams to repeated heat stress The Impact of Extreme Weather Events on Organic Matter Dynamics in South Texas Bays and Estuaries 12:30PM - UMdBS - MOCB RIP NOAA - Using deep-sea imagery to characterize ecosystem services associated with methane seeps 3PM - NOAA - Characterizing Potential Distributions of Deep-Sea Corals and Sponges Offshore the US West Coast through Spatial Predictive Modeling 3:30PM - NOAA - The State of Deep-sea Coral Protection in U.S. Waters 7PM - RSC - MoCo Makers group 7:30PM - TBC - Searching for Harmony between Human Societies and Their Sustaining Environments (registration) 20 - 8PM - PSW - Contextual Robotics 22 - 1PM - RSC - Linux / Unix User group 23 - 11AM - UMdPS - Optical properties of Semiconductor Moire Crystals IBBR 11:15AM - UMdSS - Clouds and Haze of sub-Neptune Worlds from the Lab noon - UMdBS - Sexual Selection 2PM - UMdCSS - PhD Proposal: Robust self-testing and the complexity of constant-sized quantum correlations 4PM - UMdPS - EPT 24 - 11AM - UMdCSS - Promises and Perils of Social Platforms noon - UMdBS - NACS Dissertation Defense: Maureen Bowers 12:30PM - UMdBS - EG 1:15PM - UMdPS - ISP 3:30PM - UMdBS - NACS Master's thesis Defense: Wanyi Liu 25 - 11AM - UMdCSS - Understanding the Relationship between Media Framing and Public Opinion UMdPS - PACP 11:30AM - NOAA - History and Potential of Artificial Intelligence for the Environmental Sciences 4:05PM - UMdSS - Of Worlds to Come: Exoplanets with Extreme Precision Spectroscopy 8PM - GSW 26 - 11AM - UMdCS - Expanding the palette of Cucurbituril recognition motifs UMdBS - VM 12:30PM - UMdPS - AD 1PM - UMdCSS - PhD Defense: Quantum algorithms for machine learning and optimization 4PM - UMdBS - Maintaining Orchard Sustainability in an Era of Climate Change: Lessons from Blueberry, Apple and Asian Pear 5PM - UMdBS - AGNR Discovery and Innovation Night (registration requested - vetmed.umd.edu/events/event/6179/agnr-discovery-and-innovation-night) 5:30PM - UMdGS - The Deep History of Life (registration - go.umd.edu/helzrsvp2020) 7PM - RSC - MoCo Makers Group 27 - 11AM - IBBR noon - UMdBS - Making and breaking nucleocapsids: New approaches to study alphavirus assembly and RNA packaging 1PM - UMdPS - Probing Nanoscale Damage Gradients in Irradiated Metals using Nanomechanical Test Tech 3:10PM - UMdGS - Systems Paleontology 29 - 1:30PM - RSC - Introductory Quantum Programming Series Session 5 30 - 11AM - IBBR UMdPS - JQI 11:15AM - UMdSS - Giant planet characterization noon - NOAA - A comparison of the zooplankton communities between the Arctic Ocean and subarctic Pacific with emphasis on ROV observations UMdBS - Plant-Insect Ecology 4PM - UMdPS - EPT 4:30PM - UMdSS - Massive star explosions: clues for Cosmic Ray particles and maximally rotating black holes? 7PM - RSC - Introduction to locks and physical security systems 7:30PM - GMUObs - The Search For Other Earth-Like Worlds 31 - 11AM - UMdEgS - Controllable and Predictable Synthesis of Colloidal Metal Nanocrystals 1:15PM - UMdPS - ISP 7PM - RSC - Introduction to locks and physical security systems April 1 - 11AM - UMdCSS - Quantum Query-to-Communication Simulation Needs a Logarithmic Overhead 11:30AM - NOAA - Introduction to Machine Learning Applications for Numerical Weather Prediction Systems 1PM - UMdCSS - Thesis Defense - Algorithms for quantum simulation: design, analysis, implementation, and application 3:15PM - UMdMS - Solving inverse problems with machine learning 4:05PM - UMdSS - Mapping planets through space and time 2 - 11AM - UMdCS - Catalysis for a More Sustainable Chemistry noon - NOAA - What is the status of fish stocks around the world and the role of fisheries management? 12:30PM - UMdPS - Reservoir Computing for Time Series Prediction: A Tutorial with Tricks of the Trade 3PM - NOAA - Combining eDNA and traditional surveys to study biodiversity in seamount communities 4:30PM - UMdEgS - Building Trendsetting Disruptive Technologies: Thoughts & Experiential Lessons 7:30PM - TBC - Reclaiming and Creating Relationships to Place, Land, and Nature (registration) 3 - 3:10PM - UMdGS - The Formation of Iron Oxide - Apatite (IOA) and Iron Oxide - Copper - Gold (IOCG) Mineral Deposits: Implications for Sustainable Development 8PM - PSW - Project Team Research at Janelia 6 - 11AM - UMdPS - Violations of Bell's Inequality for Macroscopic States 11:15AM - UMdSS - Atmospheres and biosignatures of exoplanets 7 - 12:30PM - UMdBS - Genomic consequences of X chromosome drive 8PM - STScI - 30 Years of the Hubble Space Telescope 8 - 1PM - APS - Cryptography in a Post-Quantum World 4:05PM - UMdSS - Exploring the Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems 9 - 11AM - UMdCS - From the Lab Bench to Manufacturing: How Does Process Research Work Designing Functional Sites in Porous Materials for Energy Storage and Conversion 12:30PM - UMdBS - Characterization of Packaged Chromatin in Papillomavirus Virions UMdPS - Reconcilable Differences 2PM - UMdPS - Majorana fermions could be just around the corner 3PM - NOAA - Combining eDNA and traditional surveys to study biodiversity in seamount communities 4PM - UMdBS - Serving Indiana Agriculture with Applied Research and Extension 4:05PM - UMdSS - Cubesats 10 - 11AM - UMdEgS - The good, the bad, and the beautiful: Leonardo's studies of turbulence 3:10PM - UMdGS - Geochemical, Mechanical, and Fluid flow Models for the Subduction Interface based on Field Observations 3:30PM - UMdCS - From atoms to mechanisms: with a little help from staistical physics and artificial intelligence 11 - 1PM - LFV - Gait and Balance (registration) 12 - 1:30PM - RSC - Introductory Quantum Programming Series Session 5 13 - 4:30PM - UMdSS - Achieving detailed information about the structure of stars and AGN with optical interferometry 7PM - RSC - Introduction to locks and physical security systems 7:30PM - GLMSMC - Amethyst 8PM - GMUObs - X-ray Pulsars: What We Can Learn From These Enigmatic Powerhouses 14 - 1:15PM - UMdPS - Current Inversion in a Periodically Driven Two-Dimensional Brownian Ratchet 2PM - NOAA - The Opportunity Imperative 7:30PM - HacDC - monthly meeting 15 - 4:05PM - UMdSS - Interpreting astronomical observations to characterize the atmospheric circulation, climate, and habitability of exoplanets 16 - 3PM - NOAA - Quantifying the overlap of trawl fisheries with deep-sea corals and sponges in the Aleutians Islands, Alaska 3:30PM - NOAA - Deep-sea data measurements and gaps identified by NOAA's Office of Ocean Exploration and Research 4:05PM - UMdSS - TMT update 17 - 8PM - PSW - Is There a Crisis in Cosmology? 18 - 7PM - APS - Seeing the Unseeable: Capturing an Image of a Black Hole 19 - noon-5PM - RSC - Rockville Science Day 1PM - RSC - Linux / Unix User Group 7PM - NoVAC - JWST Update 20 - 11:15AM - UMdSS - Observability of exoplanets noon - UMdBS - How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog) 21 - 11AM - UMdEgS - Sensitive Electronic Devices for Multi-Scale Biological Measurements 22 - noon - UMdGcS - The detection and preservation of organic molecules on Mars: optimization of the in-situ extraction techniques coupled to GCMS and analysis of Martian analogs 1PM - LFV - Back Pain Management and Prevention: Ways to Minimize Pain and Maximize Function (registration required) 3:15PM - UMdMS - Taming Infinities 4:05PM - UMdSS - Understanding Planetary Evolution with Eclipsing Disks & Transiting Planets 23 - 4PM - UMdBS - Managing soilborne diseases of strawberry post-methyl bromide 24 - 9AM - UMdEgS - Dynamic Hydrogel Matrices: Cell Biology in the Fourth Dimension 1PM - UMdPS - Biological Materials, Biomaterials, and Biomimetics: Emulating Performance-Defining Features in Bulk by Freeze Casting 26 - 1:30PM - RSC - Introductory Quantum Programming Series Session 5 27 - 11:15AM - UMdSS - Asteroids 7PM - RSC - Introduction to locks and physical security systems 8PM - GMUObs - Looking for Life in All the Wrong Places 30 - noon - NOAA - Bet Your Bottom Dollar: Mapping and Modelling Benthic Macrofauna Distribution in the New York Wind Energy Area 7:30PM - ASG - Life detection: the next frontier of robotic space missions May 1 - 9AM - UMdEgS - Cell Therapy Meets Drug Delivery 10:15AM - UMdBS - Specificity and longevity of infant statistical learning 3:10PM - UMdGS - Enhancing Planetary Exploration Mission Planning and Data Analysis using Machine Learning 8PM - PSW - Golden Rice 4 - 11:15AM - UMdSS - Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko noon - UMdBS - Molecular basis of fish social behavior 5 - 11AM - UMdEgS - Tailoring the Structure and Performance of Model Polyamide-based Membranes for Desalination 9PM - UMdObs - The Birth of the First Stars in the Universe 7 - 4:05PM - UMdSS - Outreach at NASA 9 - 7:30PM - NCA - Radio Astronomy Observes the Earth's Ionosphere 11 - 9AM-5PM - UMdBpS - Biophysics-PoLS Symposium 11:15AM - UMdSS - Lunar studies 7:30PM - GLMSMC - Geologic Origin of Serpentines and the Unique Minerals Associated with Ultramafic Rocks 12 - 7:30PM - HacDC - monthly meeting 14 - 12:30PM - UMdPS - Solving hard computational problems with coupled lasers 1PM - LFV - Planet Word: The First Museum of Words & Language (registration) 8PM - NASM - Seeing the Unseeable: Capturing an Image of a Black Hole (ticket required) 15 - 8PM - PSW - The Event Horizon Telescope 20 - 9PM - UMdObs - Understanding Asteroids through Meteorite Analogues 21 - 2PM - NOAA - Creating OneNOAA 26 - noon - NOAA - Resilience insurance: a new way to finance coastal resilience trough nature-based solutions