Area science event list

See wiki.hacdc.org/index.php/Area_science_event_info for the "instruction manual" for this list. March 2017 4 - 7PM - UMdPS * The Physics of Fantastic Worlds: From Star Wars to Harry Potter 5 - 8PM - UMd. Obs. - Advanced LIGO: Hearing the Sound of the Galaxy 6 - 11AM - UMdCSS - Behavior-Driven Optimizations for Big Data Exploration UMdPS - Quantum optics with emitters in waveguides noon - UMdES - ACBBT UMdBS - Mate-choice mechanisms and the evolutionary process 2PM - UMdMS - A generalization of the Springer resolution for GL_n(C) 3PM - UMdSS - New Diagnostics of MHD Turbulence in the Multiphase Interstellar Medium 3:15PM - UMdMS - On the equivalence between Bowditch's Q-condition and the primitive stable condition 4PM - UMdBpS - Reconstructing the Mechanical Behavior of Cells in Silico 4:30PM - UMdSS - SCRPS 7PM - GMU Obs. - Searching for Dark Matter in the Sky and in the Lab 7 - 11AM - UMdCSS - The Small and the Rare: The Twin Menace of Visual Recognition noon - NOAA - Hot off the Press! "Ocean Frontiers III: Leaders in Ocean Stewardship & the New Blue Economy." Film Spotlights Nation's First Regional Ocean Plans 1:15PM - UMdPS - Thermodynamic Cycle of Catalytic Nanoparticle Morphology Driven by Carbon Nanostructure Growth 3:30PM - UMdES - Impact of Arctic Rivers on Sea Ice AND Precursors to Winter Time Atmospheric Blocking in the North Atlantic 4PM - UMdPS - Tensor Networks: A quantum information perspective to many-body physics 6:30PM - CI CSE - ALMA: In Search of Our Cosmic Origins (registration required) 8PM - STScI - The Composition of Galaxies: Looking Beyond the Stars 8 - 9AM - UMdCSS - PhD Proposal: Efficient Layouts and Algorithms for Managing Versioned Datasets 11AM - UMdCSS - Secure Learning in Adversarial Environments Quantum homomorphic encryption for polynomial-sized circuits UMdGcS - Geocheminar noon - UMdBS - Connecting genotype to phenotype in cattle. NOAA - Biological and Physical Control of Marine Carbon Sequestration in the California Current Ecosystem 1PM - APS - Why Do Black Holes Shine? 3PM - UMdPS - LPS 4:05PM - UMdSS - The Microphysics of AGN Feedback 7:30PM - HacDC 9 - 11AM - UMdCS UMdBS - VMS UMdCSS - From Monogamy of Entanglement to Quantum Programming Languages: A Theorist's Adventure in Quantum Wonderland 12:30PM - UMdCSS - HCIL UMdPS - Toward a theory of reservoir computing prediction UMdBS - CBMG RIPT 1PM - RSC ST - In the Body (registration) 2PM - NOAA - National Park Service Alaska "GPS on Bench Marks" Projects UMdPS - CNAM UMdBS - CBCB/CBBG RIP 3:30PM - UMdES - The NCEP Production Suite: Plans and Perspectives from the "Tip of the Spear" UMdMS - Dirichlet Mixtures, the Dirichlet Process, and the Topography of Amino-Acid Multinomial Space 4PM - UMdBS - Harnessing 15MY of Evolutionary History to Help Solve the 10 billion People Question 5PM - YASC * Viruses and Synthetic Biology 10 - 10AM - UMdBS - Mechanisms underlying auditory perception and decision-making 11:30AM - UMdES - ACBBT noon - UMdBS - Targeting the Bacterial SOS Pathway to make Antibiotics great again EC UMdCSS - Defining and Parsing Universal Dependencies NOAA - Tackling Sea Level Rise in the Northern Gulf of Mexico: A Cooperative Approach 12:15PM - UMdCSS - Some recent progress on quantum information complexity 1PM - UMdPS - MSES 2PM - UMdEgS - Cognitive Priming in Human and Autonomous Systems 3:15PM - UMdMS 8PM - PSW - Saving the Past: The Quest to Combat Cultural Racketeering 11 - 7:30PM - NCA - ASTRO-Hitomi, The Wonderful Brief Life of an X-ray Telescope 12 - 7PM - NoVAC 13 - 11AM - NOAA - High resolution Global Modeling: Challenges and Emerging Capabilities UMdCSS - Quantum Cryptography and Quantum Information UMdSS - New Ways of Doing Time-Domain Astronomy: Supernovae, TDEs and Beyond 11:15AM - UMdSS - PALS noon - UMdES - ACBBT UMdBS - Impacts of climate change on the hydrological and ecological function of tropical island streams: windward Hawaii Island as a model study system. NOAA - Simulating the Impacts of Nutrient Reductions on Hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico: Implications for Nutrient Management 3PM - UMdSS - Forming realistic galaxies and magnetic fields in cosmological simulations 4:30PM - UMdSS 14 - 11AM - UMdCS noon - UMdBS - EGS NOAA - 255 Shades of Grey: Multibeam Backscatter and New Techniques to Create a Seamless Mosaic 1PM - RSC ST - In the Body (registration) 3:30PM - UMdES - SS 4PM - UMdPS - Scientific Innovation and the Energy System 7:30PM - HacDC - monthly meeting 15 - 11AM - UMdGcS - Mantle Heterogeneity, giant impacts, and the origin of Earth's volatiles UMdCSS - QuICS noon - UMdBS - BCBMS 4PM - UMdPS - PPS 6:45PM - MNC - Nature Matters: Second Chance Wildlife Center (registration - 30587) 7PM - HHMI - how biological systems work (free ticket required) 16 - 11AM - UMdCS UMdBS - VMS UMdEgS - Research and Development at the Pipeline and Hazardous Safety Administration noon - NOAA - A Flooded Future: Projecting the Frequency of Minor Coastal Flooding along the East and Gulf Coasts in 2030 and 2045 12:30PM - UMdCSS - Multimedia for Deaf Eyes: How do we make multimedia accessible for deaf and hard of hearing people? UMdPS - ADS UMdBS - CBMG RIPT 2PM - UMdBS - CBCB/CBMG RIP 3PM - UMdEgS - AsES Turbulent Combustion Modeling: The Combustion Perspective versus the Turbulence Perspective 3:30PM - UMdES - DS 4PM - UMdBS - PSL 6PM - DASER - Sound and the Deep Blue Sea (registration & photo ID required) 6:30PM - CI NLS - Jumping Genes: What They Mean for Evolution and Medicine (registration recommended) UMdPS - Movies, Science, and the World We Live In - ?The Imitation Game 7PM - HAL - Education, Public Outreach and Research at a Small Observatory 17 - noon - UMdBS - CBMG EC UMdES - ACBBT 1PM - UMdPS - MSES 3PM - UMdGS 7PM - BUGSS - We're building a weather station network for Baltimore! (tickets) 18 - 9AM-5PM - Montgomery County Science Fair 20 - 8PM - UMd. Obs. 21 - noon - NOAA - Rising to the challenge: will tidal marshes survive rising seas? 23 - 11AM - UMdCS - Utilizing Coordination-Insertion Based Polymerizations for the Synthesis of Tailored Polyolefins and Gas Separation Membranes UMdBS - VMS UMdCSS - Pragmatic Game Theoretic Approaches to Privacy in the Era of Big Data 8PM - NASM - Cassine to Saturn: The Journey and the Legacy (ticket required) 24 - noon - UMdBS - CBMG EC 8PM - PSW - Biological Collections & Digitalization 27 - 11:15AM - UMdSS - PALS noon - UMdES - ACBBT UMdBS - BBS 2PM - UMdCS - Analysis of Genetic Regulatory Mechanisms that Control Ethanolamine Utilization in Enterococcus faecalis 3PM - UMdSS - The Origin of Supermassive Black Holes 4PM - UMdBpS - Investigating the Conformational Landscape of Protein Kinase A with Single Molecule Optical Tweezers 4:30PM - UMdSS - SCRPS 7PM - GMU Obs. - The Search for Habitable Worlds & Alien Life in our Galaxy 28 - 11AM - UMdCS 12:30PM - UMdBS - EGS 2PM - UMdBS - BISI Dissertation Defense: Natalia Umana 3:30PM - UMdES - SS 4PM - UMdPS - Science and National Security in the White House 29 - 11AM - UMdCSS - QuICS Planning and Learning with Abstract Markov Decision Processes noon - UMdBS - BCBMS 4:05PM - UMdSS - Revealing the Formation and Atmospheres of Exoplanets with Direct Imaging 30 - 11AM - UMdCS UMdBS - VMS UMdCSS - HCIL 12:30PM - UMdCSS - An Information Activist, National Parks, and a Digital Future UMdBS - CBMG RIPT 2PM - UMdBS - CBCB/CBBG RIP 3PM - UMdEgS - AsES FDRS 3:30PM - UMdES - DS 4PM - UMdBS - Connecting source with sink - the role of nitrogen transporters in plant performance 6:30PM - UMdPS - Movies, Science, and the World We Live In - The Day the Earth Stood Still 7:30PM - ASG - Measuring Land Ice from Space 31 - 10AM - UMdBS - Calcium and integrin binding protein 2 (CIB2) is essential for hearing and vision noon - UMdBS - CBMG Population ecology of mosquitoes in a rapidly changing Artic UMdES - ACBBT 3PM - UMdGS April 3 - noon - UMdES - ACBBT 3PM - UMdSS - Dynamics in Dense Stellar Systems: Tidal Disruption Flares & Other Transients 4PM - UMdBpS - RNAs at Cell Protrusions: Regulation by the Extracellular Environment and Functional Effects 4:30PM - UMdSS - AMEGO and future perspectives in MeV gamma-ray astronomy 4 - 3:30PM - UMdES - GSI-based hybrid 3DEnVar Doppler radar radial velocity data assimilation for short-term forecasts in a dlobal model 8PM - STScI - Integrated Field Unit Spectroscopy 5 - 3:15PM - UMdMS 4:04PM - UMdSS - Protoplanetary Disks and Planet Formation: A Microphysical Perspective 8PM - UMd. Obs. - Studying the Shape of the Universe 6 - 12:30PM - UMdCSS - An Information Activist, National Parks, and a Digital Future 3:30PM - UMdES - DS 6:30PM - CI CSE - Dog Genes Tell Surprising Tales: Understanding the Genetics of Breed Behavior, Shape, and Disease (registration required) 7 - 8PM - PSW - Ocean Observation Satellites 8 - 7:30PM - NCA - What Are the Fermi Bubbles? 10 - noon - UMdES - ACBBT 4:30PM - UMdSS - SCRPS 7:30PM - GMU Obs. - The Early Life of Planet Earth 11 - noon - NOAA - Forty-two years in meteorology: vive la revolution 12 - noon - UMdBS - Regulation of protein functions through 3'-UTR-mediated protein-protein interactions. NOAA - Sentinels for a More Resilient Coast: How Sentinel Sites Connect Local Sea Level Rise and Coastal Change Science to Regional Decision-making 13 - 12:30PM - UMdCSS - Who is Mr. Robot?: A Study of the Humans Behind Software Vulnerability Discovery 3:30PM - UMdES - DS 6:30PM - UMdPS - Movies, Science, and the World We Live In - Arrival 17 - 11:15AM - UMdSS - PALS noon - UMdES - ACBBT 4PM - UMdBpS 4:30PM - UMdSS - SCRPS 19 - 11AM - UMdCSS - CLIP UMdGcS - Aqueous Alteration on Asteroids: Linking the mineralogy and spectroscopy of carbonaceous chondrites 6:45PM - MNC - Nature Matters: Voices of the Next Generation (registration - 30591) 20 - 12:30PM - UMdCSS - Cultural understanding (or impact), proof of concept and Agile teams 3:30PM - UMdES - Physics of the dispersive nature and energy propagation of Rossby waves 7PM - HAL - DSCOVR 8PM - UMd. Obs. NASM - Juno's Mission to Jupiter (ticket required) 23 - noon-5PM - Rockville Science Day 24 - 11:15AM - UMdSS - PALS noon - UMdES - ACBBT 4PM - UMdBpS - Mechanical Force Production in a Biomimetic Cell Cytoskeleton 4:30PM - UMdSS - SCRPS 7:30PM - GMU Obs. - Debris Disks: Finding Planets Using the Mess They Leave Behind 25 - 3:30PM - UMdES - A study on 30 years of forest fires and their connection to PyroCb development 26 - 3:15PM - UMdMS 27 - 3:30PM - UMdES - The Patterns, Causes and Consequences of Changes in Regional and Global Water Cycling 6:30PM - CI NLS - Rocks from Space: Be Grateful and a Little Afraid (registration recommended) UMdPS - Movies, Science, and the World We Live In - Particle Fever 7:30PM - ASG 28 - 11AM - UMdGcS - Geocheminar 8PM - PSW - Mosquitos, SynBio, CRISPR & Malaria May 1 - 11:15AM - UMdSS - PALS noon - UMdES - ACBBT 4PM - UMdBpS 4:30PM - UMdSS - SCRPS 2 - 8PM - NASM - Planet Nine From Outer Space (ticket required) STScI - The Harvard Computers and the HR Diagram 4 - noon - NOAA - The Use of Culturally Significant Area Criteria in an Ecosystem Approach to Management Processes 3:30PM - UMdES - DS 5 - 9PM - UMd. Obs. - Asteroid Rotation Period Results from ASTR 315 Student Research 7 - 7:30PM - NASM - Exploring the Universe with Gravitational Waves (ticket required) 8 - 11:15AM - UMdSS - PALS noon - UMdES - ACBBT 4:30PM - UMdSS - SCRPS 6:30PM - CI CSE - Engineering Human Genomes & Environments (registration required) 9 - 3:30PM - UMdES - Simulating the Rapid Intensification of Hurricane Joaquin (2015) 11 - 3:30PM - UMdES - DS 6:30PM - UMdPS - Movies, Science, and the World We Live In - China Syndrome 12 - 8PM - PSW 13 - 7:30PM - NCA - The Challenges of Directly Imaging Earth-like Exoplanets Around Nearby Stars 17 - 6:45PM - MNC - Nature Matters: Climate Change and Small Farm Ethic (registration - 30595) 18 - 7PM - HAL - Exoplanet Detection via Microlensing 25 - 6:30PM - CI NLS - Mars, Moons, Missions and Microbes: Life as We Don't Know It - How Do We Find It? (registration recommended) 7:30PM - ASG - Development of LEISA for New Horizons 31 - 6:30PM - CI CSE - When the Volcano Stirs (registration required) June 7 - 11AM - UMdCSS - Truly quantum Gibbs: Thermal state of a system whose charges don't commute 22 - 6:30PM - CI CSE - Neuromorphic Computing (registration required) 8PM - NASM - The Grand Tour: Exploring Planets Outside the Solar System (ticket required)