Area science event list

See wiki.hacdc.org/index.php/Area_science_event_info for the "instruction manual" for this list. September 2017 20 - 11AM - UMdGcS - Reversibility on the active site of the sulfite reductase enzyme and molecular level considerations for evaluating controls on vital effects UMdCSS - CLIP noon - NOAA - How Does the Early 21st Century Drought in the U.S. Compare to the Drought Episodes of the 1930s and 1950s? UMdBS - BCBM 1PM - American Univ. - Revolutionizing Perception - A lecture by Arthur Shapiro (registration - www.eventbrite.com/e/revolutionizing-perception-a-lecture-by-arthur-shapiro-tickets-37670446319) APS - Galactic Cosmic Rays: From Earth to Sources 2PM - UMdMS - Spreading in a kinetic reaction-transport equation for population dynamics 3PM (may change) - UMdPS - Markovian property of vacuum state and the a-theorem 3:15PM - UMdMS - Approximation Algorithms: Some ancient, some new - the good, the bad and the ugly 3:30PM - UMdES - SS 4:05PM - UMdSS - Lyman-Alpha Galaxies in the Epoch of Reionization 9PM - UMd. Obs. - Black Holes, Black Holes Everywhere! 21 - 11AM - UMdCS - The Surprising Quadruple Bond Character of Carbon noon - NOAA - National Snow Analysis: 13 Years of Operations Inorganic carbon dynamics in a marsh-dominated estuary 12:30PM - UMdBS - CBMG/MOCB RIP UMdPS - Basin Entropy: A Measure of the Final State Unpredictability and Applications to Some Physical Systems NOAA - Using sound to understand pelagic predator behavior 2PM - UMdBS - CBCB/CBBG RIP UMdPS - CNAM 3:30PM - UMdES - Groundwater depletion and its impacts 6PM - DASER - Artists in the Lab, Scientists in the Studio (registration & photo ID required) 22 - 10AM - UMdBS - NACS noon - UMdBS - CBMG EC UMdES - ACBBT 3PM - UMdGS - The Integration of Field Portable Instruments into Planetary Surface Exploration 7PM - BUGSS - A Plastic World: Are microplastics choking our environment? 25 - 11AM - UMdPS - JQI noon - UMdBS - BBS UMdES - An OSSE Investigating a Constellation of 4-5 um Infrared Sounders 3:15PM - UMdMS - Hitchen systems, Langlands duality, and spin bundles 4:30PM - ?UMdSS - SCRPS 6:30PM - GMU Obs. 26 - 11AM - UMdPS - A Web of Dualities in Condensed Matter Physics: from Quantum Hall Effect to Exotic Quantum Criticality UMdCS - Watching Proteins in Real Time via Femtosecond IR Spectroscopy, Picosecond X-ray Diffraction, and Millisecond NMR noon - NOAA - Data Assimilation in Marine Ecosystem Models 1:15PM - UMdPS - ISP 4PM - UMdPS - Life after grad school for the quantitatively inclined - Big banks, start-ups, and the great in-between UMdBS - PSL 5:30PM - ASub - Tiny Cell, Global Impact: A Journey of Discovery with a Microbe from the Sea (registration) 27 - 11AM - UMdGcS noon - UMdBS - Fit or Fat: The molecular mechanisms and biotechnological implications of lipid biosynthesis in microalgae NOAA - Can we predict Zika using good climate forecasts? NRL/JPSS Extending CrIS/ATMS Assimilation and Calibration Validation through correlated error, over clouds and to the surface 4:05PM - UMdSS 28 - UMdPS - Quantum phase fluctuations of superconductivity in overdoped cuprates 11AM - UMdCS - SS noon - NOAA - Multidecadal Variability and Climate Shift in the North Atlantic Ocean 12:30PM - UMdBS - CBMG/MOCB RIP UMdPS - Model-Free Prediction of Large Spatiotemporally Chaotic Systems: A Reservoir Computing Approach 2PM - UMdBS - CBCB/CBBG RIP UMdPS - Locating the missing superconducting electrons in overdoped cuprates 2:30PM - UMdPS - NTS 3:30PM - UMdES - DS 4:30PM - UMdEgS - Open Data in the Public Sector (registration) 5:30PM - AAAS - 2017 Neuroscience and Society Talk (AAAS 1200 N. Y. Ave. NW) 6:30PM - CI CSE - How Vesicles in Our Cells Allow Communication in the Body and the Brain (registration) 7:30PM - ASG - Update on the James Webb Space Telescope 29 - 10AM - UMdBS - Developmental and age-related changes in sleep's role in cognition noon - UMdBS - CBMG UMdES - ACBBT 1PM - UMdCSS - Assembly of big genomic data 3PM - UMdGS - Glacial meltwater streams in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica: ecosystems waiting for water October 2 - noon - UMdES - ESSIC UMdBS - The role of theory in biology 3:15PM - UMdMS - Finsler metrics of constant curvature 4PM - UMdBpS - Engineering the physical properties of the tumor microenvironment 3 - 12:30PM - UMdBS - Is having more than one CRISPR array adaptive? 8PM - STScI - Cassini's Grand Finale at Saturn 4 - 11AM - UMdGcS - Observations of Fault Growth from Dynamic Microtomography 3:15PM - UMdMS - Binet-Legendre metric and applications of Riemannian results in Finsler geometry 5 - 11AM - UMdCS - Self-Assembly of Giant Metallo-Supramolecules with Increasing Complexity 12:30PM - UMdPS - Complexity and Self-Organization in Superconducting Metamaterials 3:30PM - UMdES - Multi-hazard tropical cyclone disaster impact scenario modeling and my recent damage assessment following Hurricane Harvey UMdMS - An optimal adaptive Fictitious Domain Method 4PM - UMdBS - Improving photosynthetic efficiency for improved yield 6 - 10AM - UMdBS - A computational logic for olfaction 8 - 7PM - NoVAC - The History of the Universe from the beginning to the end: where did we come from, where can we go? 9 - noon - UMdES - A framework for Hydrological Modeling for Water Resources Management 10 - 11AM - UMdCS - Deciphering the Cell Code that Perpetuates Animel Life noon - NOAA - What caused the most toxic algal bloom ever recorded in Monterey Bay, California? 3:30PM - UMdMS - Adaptive Higher-Order Finite Element Simulations for the Time-Harmonic Maxwell Equations 4PM - UMdPS - Moore's Law and the Physics of Manufacturing Nanoscale Devices 7:30 - HacDC - monthly meeting 11 - 11AM - UMdCSS - Keldysh-ETH quantum computation algorithm UMdGcS - E-FIRE: What it is and how it works noon - UMdBS - How mutant "onco-ribosomes" translateleukemia: towards a solution of Dameshek's Riddle NOAA - NOAA Provides Tampa Bay Pilots with an Integrated Oceanographic and Meterological Forecast Tool 2PM - UMdMS - Unipotent Packets for Real Groups 3:30PM - UMdES - Anatomy of the 2015-2016 El Nino AND Implementation Targets for the Paris Climate Agreement 12 - 11AM - UMdCS - Tetrahedral Transition Metal Chalcogenides as Functional Inorganic Materials noon - NOAA - Can animal culture drive evolution? 12:30PM - UMdPS - Granular Dynamics in Low Gravity 6:30PM - MAA - Finding Fibonacci: The Quest to Rediscover the Forgotten Mathematical Genius Who Changed the World (registration) 13 - 10AM - UMdBS - The effects of attention and visual input on noninvasive electrophysiological indices of natural speech processing at different heirarchical levels. 14 - 1:30PM - NCAS - The Science of Fake News 7:30PM - NCA - Debris Disks and New Planets 16 - 6:30PM - DCSC - Extreme Seeing 17 - noon - NOAA - Know Before You Go: Rip Current Science, Forecasting and Communication at NOAA 12:30PM - UMdBS - Exploring the evolution and function of sperm glycoproteins 4PM - UMdBS - Perturbation and Control of Human BrainNetwork Dynamics 18 - noon - NOAA - Synthesis of public water supply use in the United States: Spatio-temporal patterns and socio-economic controls 1PM - APS - Peregrinus Versus the Pole Model: The Physics and History of Magnetism 3:30PM - UMdES - Storm Tracks and their Influence on High Impact Weather in the Southern Hemisphere Winter 19 - noon - NOAA - Caught between a rockwall and a farmed place: Effects of land use and shoreline armoring on submerged aquatic vegetation in Chesapeake Bay 12:30PM - UMdPS - Ultra-High Intensity Laser Physics and Applications 3:30PM - UMdBS - A Dynamic Neural Architecture for Social Memory 7PM - HAL - High Precision Exoplanet Observations with Amateur Telescopes 20 - 10AM - UMdBS - I am because we are: Dynamic and embodied brain-to-brain coupling as a new framework forsocial interaction between people. 23 - 4PM - UMdBpS - How, when and why does a drug leave the binding pocket of a host protein? 24 - 3:30PM - UMdPS - Quantum Information Processing and Raising Schrodinger's Cat 4PM - UMdPS - control of coherent quantum systems 25 - noon - UMdBS - Protein Quality Control in the Secretory Pathway 6:30PM - CI CSE - Pale Rainbow Dots: The Search for Other Earths (registration) 26 - noon - NOAA - Public acceptance of U.S. wind energy: Historical lessons and results from the first nationally representative survey of wind farm neighbors 12:30PM - UMdPS - Neural Representation of Speech in Human Auditory Cortex 3:30PM - UMdBS - Moral Flexibility: Insights from Neuroscience UMdES - Improving Constraints on Aerosols in the United States Using Ground Based Observations, Satellite Retrievals, Radar, and a Chemical Transport Model 6PM - DASER - Ecological Art (registration & photo ID required) 6:30PM - CI NLS - The Mystery of Planet Formation (registration recommended) 27 - 10AM - Heirarchical auditory neural processing underlying speech perception at the cocktail party 30 - 3:15PM - UMdMS - Twisted K-homology of compact Lie groups 4PM - UMdBpS - Understanding transcription and splicing heterogeneity in gene expression 31 - 12:30PM - UMdBS - Using Peromyscus mice to investigate sperm aggregation and its interactions with capacitation 3:30PM - UMdMS - Adaptive FEM for the fractional Laplacian: a priori and a posteriori error estimates, efficient implementation and multigrid solver November 1 - 3:30PM - UMdES - Seasonality in the Secular Warming of the Northern Continents 2 - noon - NOAA - In situ effects of shoreline type and watershed land use on submerged aquatic vegetation habitat quality in the Chesapeake and Mid-Atlantic Coastal Bays 12:30PM - UMdPS - Modeling Network Dynamics of Pulse-Coupled Neurons 9 - 12:30PM - UMdPS - Optimal Bounds and External Trajectories for Time Averages in Dynamical Systems 3:30PM - UMdES - Role of Indonesian Seas on Global Ocean Circulation and Climate 6 - 3:30PM - UMdES - History and Future of Air Pollution Emissions: Why, What, and How Much? 11 - 7:30PM - NCA - Transient Relativistic Jets 15 - 11AM - UMdGcS - Punctuated metamorphism during prolonged Archean orogenesis revealed by Sm-Nd garnet geochronology 16 - 12:30PM - UMdPS - Adaptive Coding for Sensory Inference in Dynamic Environments 6:30PM - CI NLS - The Roadside Geology of Earth's Moon (registration recommended) 21 - 3:30PM - UMdES - A new Integrated Threshold selection methodology for Spatial Forecast Verification of extreme Events 30 - 12:30PM - UMdPS - No Equations, No Variables, No Parameters, No Space, No Time: Data and the Modeling of Complex Systems December 6 - noon - NOAA - Vibrio pathogens in the Chesapeake Bay under future climate change scenarios 7 - 12:30PM - UMdPS - Optical Control of Excitation Waves in A Biological Excitable Medium