Area science event list

See wiki.hacdc.org/index.php/Area_science_event_info for the "instruction manual" for this list. Feb. 7 11AM UMdCS - An Academic Industrial Antimalarial Drug Discovery Collaboration: From Orphan Screening Hit to Deciphering Plasmodium Biology 4PM UMdPS - Seeking Group Theory Mathematics for SUSY 8 11AM UMdCSS - Towards Practical and Efficient Neural Data Compression 11:30 UMdSS - Co-evolution of dust and chemistry in simulated dwarf galaxies with a resolved interstellar medium 2PM UMdCSS - Do Vision-Language Pretrained Models Learn Primitive Concepts for Recognition and Reasoning? 4:05 UMdSS - How do stars shape interstellar gas? cosmic rays -- supernova -- UV radiation 6 IBBR - Maryland Bionetworking Summit (registration required) 6:30 CI - Squid pro quo: Insights from a Hawaiian denizen about living with our microbial partners (tickets) 8 GSW - Citizen Seismology: How a $400 Seismometer Led to a 4600 Station Global Network AND Passive Seismic Monitoring Using Microseismic Noise Sources: Two Case Studies from Alberta, Canada AND Geocoding Applications for Social Science to Improve Earthquake Early Warning 9 11AM UMdCS - MOF-Polymer Hybrids - At the Interface of New Materials 2PM UMdPS - Flat bands in geometrically frustrated lattices UMdBS - What's next for computational precision oncology? UMdCSS - Generative AI for Biomedicine 3:30 UMdES - The Multiscale Nature and Moisture Dependency of Tropical Cyclone Formation 10 noon UMdCSS - Spin cross-correlation experiments in a Cooper Pair Splitter 3PM UMdGS - Compression in Multiple Regimes: Studies of Plagioclase, Cu, and MgO 13 11:15AM UMdSS - A Simple Static Disk Condensation Model to Connect Refractory Abundances in Ultra-hot Jupiters with Formation Location 4PM UMdBpS - Single-cell imaging and single-cell manipulation: Measurement considerations for emerging technologies 7:45 GLMSMC - Questions To Ask In Advance Of A Collection's Transfer 14 11AM UMdCS - Student literature seminar -- 3C-like main protease as a drug target of SARS-CoV-2 UMdCSS - Memorization in Large Language Models 4PM UMdPS - Phase-sensitive Josephson interferometry of unconventional superconductors and exotic quantum materials 16 10AM UMdCSS - Novel Applications and Noise-enabled Control for a Trapped-ion Quantum Simulator 11 UMdCS - Expanding the compositional and microstructural space of layered and 2D materials (MAX phases and MXenes) 3:30PM UMdES - The 2022 Asian Summer Monsoon Chemical and Climate Impact Project (ACCLIP) 17 8PM PSW - Mayan Civilization in Northern Guatemala An Extensive Civilization Revealed with Extraordinary LIDAR Technology (see COVID-19 policy) 22 11AM UMdCSS - Good Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill codes frfom the NTRU cryptosystem 3PM WCDG & CASSS - Pure Knowledge: Improving Downstream Processing by Deciphering Separation Mechanisms Formation of transient highly-charged MAb clusters strengthens interactions with host cell proteins and results in poor clearance of host cell proteins during downstream processing AND Leveraging Light Chain Binding Avidity for Control of Mispaired Byproducts During Capture of Bispecific Antibodies 23 11AM UMdCSS - PhD Proposal: ML for Anime: Illustration, Animation, and 3D Characters 7:30PM ASG - Human-Proximity Exploration of Venus 24 10:15AM UMdBS - Temperament in Context: Capturing Socioemotional Trajectories IN the Social World 28 4PM UMdPS - Majorana zero modes and topological quantum computation: What, why, how, when? March 3 10:15AM UMdBS - Prediction and Reward Learning in Music, and Implications for Neurodegenerative Disease 10 10:15AM UMdBS - The role of neural precursor heterogeneity in development of the cerebral cortex 12 7:30PM NoVAC - solar eclipse 13 7:45PM GLMSMC - What's New In the Museum's Gem Collection (Smithsonian) 14 11AM UMdCS - Active syntaxin is sorted from reservoir clusters for synaptic vesicle fusion 16 11:15AM UMdCSS - Non-Abelian symmetry can increase entanglement entropy 17 8PM PSW - Comets, Centaurs, and Trans-Neptunian Objects Exploring the Echoes of Formation in the Outer Solar System (see COVID-19 policy) 28 4PM UMdPS - Center for Geospace Storms: Transforming the Understanding and Predictability of Space Weather 30 2PM UMdBS - Single-cell methylation sequencing data reveal succinct metastatic migration histories and tumor progression models AND TreeTerminus- Creating transcript trees using inferential replicate counts 31 10:15AM UMdBS - A Cross-Species Approach to Understanding the Physiological Mechanisms underlying Age-related Hearing Loss 3PM UMdGS - Multiscale Earth models: Wavefield verification and space exploration 8 PSW - Using Experiments in Nature to Study Evolution Research on Lizard Island Adaptations in Real Time (see COVID-19 policy) April 4 4PM UMdPS - Bioethics and the Rules-Based International Order 6 2PM UMdBS - TREE-QMC: Improving quartet graph construction for scalable and accurate species tree estimation from gene trees AND Spectrum preserving tilings enable sparse and modular reference indexing 7 10:15AM UMdBS - "Idiosynchrony": Using naturalistic stimuli to draw out individual differences in brain and behavior 12 6:30PM CI - Cloudy with a Chance of Science 14 10:15AM UMdBS - Using songbirds to explore auditory-motor interactions during musical rhythm perception 18 11AM UMdCS Nature's protein/protein interactions--Inspirations for novel therapeutics and biotech tools 19 11AM UMdCS - Ultrafast dynamics and reaction pathways of organic cations and radicals 21 10:15AM UMdBS - Contributions of the home environment and early caregiving on neurocognitive development during infancy 23 noon-5PM RSC - Rockville Science Day May 5 10:15AM UMdBS - How does one (re)build a brain to learn and remember?