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This conference, hosted at the NYUAD Conference Center (A6), aims to highlight the role NYU Abu Dhabi has played and continues to play in establishing itself as a hub for education, scholarship, and advanced research in Abu Dhabi. As this falls during the Year of Zayed, the conference has adopted a theme that emphasizes the spirit and values represented by the Year of Zayed.

There will be many events onsite including an interactive exhibition hall, speakers and workshops, interdisciplinary networking session, and paper presentations. This conference will be an event to enjoy and remember.

Email nyuad.research-rsvp@nyu.edu for more details.

Conference Agenda

Sunday, November 4, 2018

Time Details
6pm Guest Arrivals
6:15pm Welcome Remarks
Fabio Piano, Provost
6:30pm Keynote Speach
H.E. Sara Al Amiri, Minister of Advanced Sciences
6:45pm MOU Signing Ceremony
NYUAD and Advanced Sciences
7pm Movie Screening
Anthropology of the Future
Introduction by NYUAD students
7:15pm Interactive Exhibit Tour
Led by: Rawdha Al Mansouri
7:30pm Closing Remarks and Dinner

Monday, November 5, 2018

Time Details
8-9am Breakfast and Registration
9am-5pm Interactive Exhibit (Interactive Exhibit Hall)
9-9:15am
 Introduction and Welcome Remarks
Sehamuddin Galadari, Senior Vice Provost of Research Outreach, Managing Director of NYUAD Research Institute
(Auditorium)
9:15am Keynote
Fabio Piano, Provost
Bioinnovation & Health
(Auditorium)
9:30am
-noon
Morning Sessions (Parallel)
BIOINNOVATION  &HEALTH
(Auditorium)
PERCEPTION, COGNITION, and LEARNING
(Lecture Hall)
9:30-
10:15am		 Chair:
Claude Desplan
The Generation of Neural Diversity
 9:30-
11:15am

 

 Keynote:
Liina Pylkkanen
Neuroscience of Language Lab: Discovering How our Linguistic Experience Sculpts the Mind
Mohamed Al Sayegh
Transcriptome Analysis and Linkage Role of Nuclear Actin and Adipocyte Differentiation Reveal a Molecular Modifier Sub-type Potential
(Science of Health)
 Chair: Alec Marantz
Wael Rabeh
Glucose Metabolism in Targeted Anticancer Therapies
(Science of Health)		 Ainsley Temudo
The Neural Basis of Binding Errors in Visual Working Memory
10:15-
10:30am		 Q&A Session
Science of Health		 Julien Dirani
Lexical Access in Reading vs. Naming: MEG Evidence from Semantic Priming and Inhibition
10:30-
11:30am		 Timothy Dore
Creating Probes of Brain Function and Embryonic Development
(Drug Discovery)		 Emma Wei Chen
Role of Implicit Social Attitude on Face Perception
Mazin Magzoub
Designed Cell-Penetrating Peptide Inhibitors of Amyloid-Beta Aggregation and Cytotoxicity
(Drug Discovery)		 Iryna Nadyukova
Exploring Teachers’ Visual Gaze Patterns Using Mobile Eye-Tracking Glasses
Hala Fahs
NYUAD High-Throughput Robotic Screening Platform for Drug Discovery
(Drug Discovery)		 Zoltan Derzsi
MacGyver-ing in the Lab: How to Make Haptics in Virtual Reality a Reality
Farah Benyettou
Fighting Cancer Using Nanoparticles: Towards the "Magic Bullet" Science
(Drug Discovery)		 11:15-
11:45am
Q&A Session
11:30am-noon Q&A Session
Drug Discovery
11:45am-noon Break
Noon-
1:30pm		 Lunch Break Lunch Panel
Building Successful Collaborations in the UAE — Challenges and Opportunities
Co-Chairs:
Raghib Ali, Abdishakur Abdulle, Scott Sherman
1:30pm  Keynote:
Peter Bearman
Governance and Peace
Neuroscience of Language Lab: Discovering How our Linguistic Experience Sculpts the Mind
(Auditorium)
1:45-4:15pm
Afternoon Sessions (Parallel)
 
GOVERNANCE & PEACE
(Auditorium)
CYBER SECURITY
(Lecture Hall)
1:45-3:30pm
 Chair:
John Lawrence Aber
Understanding and Promoting Children’s Learning and Development in Conflict-Affected Countries
 1:45-3:00pm
 Keynote
Ramesh Karri
Cyber Security Research Outreach and Capacity Building Activities at NYUAD are Relevant for this Region (and Globally)
David Cook-Martin
Temp Nations? A Research Agenda on Time, Membership, and Migration
 Hoda Alkhazaimi
CCS-AD Outreach to the Community; Cryptographic Primitives Implementation for Lightweight Devices Attacks and Designs
Kanchan Chandra
Democratic Dynasties		 Nasir Memon
Media Integrity in a Post-Truth World
Mario Chacon
Minority Representation in New Democracies
 Chair: Christina Poepper
Communication Security in Aviation
George Derlugyan
The Armenian Anomaly: Why a Bloodless Revolution in 2018		 Rafael (Yong-Ak) Song
Emerging Microfluidic Biochip Security Research
3:00pm Q&A Session  
3:15pm  Q&A Session
3:30pm Robyn Brazzil
StartAD
The Commercialization of Research and Innovations Through Startups
4:00pm Capstone Film Screening and Q&A: Anthropology of the Future
4:15-4:45pm Break
5-7pm Networking Social
(Interactive Exhibit Hall)		 Poster Presentation Session
Themes: Bioinnovation & Health; Culture & Heritage; Cyber Security;
(Lower Atrium)

* Please note, schedule is subject to change without notice.

Tuesday, November 6, 2018

Time Details
8-9am Breakfast and Registration
9am-5pm Interactive Exhibit (Interactive Exhibit Hall)
9am KeyNote:
Rebecca Morton
Human Behavior
(Auditorium)
9:15am-
noon
Morning Sessions (Parallel)
HUMAN BEHAVIOR
(Auditorium)
ASTRONOMY & PHYSICS
(Lecture Hall)
9:15-
11:30am		 Olivier Bochet
One Truth and a Thousand Lies: Defaults and Benchmarks in Mechanism Design
 9:15-
11:15am		 Keynote:
Katepalli Sreenivasan
Astronomy and Physics
John Wooders
Nash at Wimbledon: Evidence from Half a Million Serves
 Chair:
Ingyin Zaw
Astronomy and Physics
Anisa Shyti
The Priceless Entrepreneur? A Behavioral Account on Risk and Ambiguity Attitude
 Francesco Arneodo
Targeting Terrestrial Gamma-Ray Flashes: a gamma Detector for a CubeSat Mission 
Javier Mejia
Social Interactions and Modern Economic Growth
 Laurent Gizon
Discovery of Giant Waves of Vorticity on the Sun
Nikos Nikiforakis
Motherhood and Competitiveness
 Shravan Hanasoge
Super-Rotating Banana Cells and Suppression of Large-Scale Convection in the Sun
Geffredo Puccetti
The Banality of Evil Design
 Hind Al Noori
Cannibalism in the Galaxy
Georgia Michailidou
I'd Lie for You
 Nikolaos Georgakarakos
Habitable Planets and Giant Neighbors: Friends or Enemies?
Chair:
Melina Platas
Perspective Taking Can Promote Short Term Inclusionary Behavior Toward Syrian Refugees		 Yan-Ping Chen
Dependence of Optical Active Galactic Nuclei Identification on Stellar Population Models
Godfried Toussaint
The Geometry of Musical Rhythm: What Makes a “Good” Rhythm Good		 Joseph Gelfand
Astrophysics
11:30-
11:45am		 Q&A Session 11:30-
11:45am		 Q&A Session
Noon-
1:30pm		 Lunch Break
GLOBAL TIES

Lunch Panel
Understanding and Promoting Children’s Learning and Development in Conflict-Affected Countries
Chair: John Lawrence Aber
1:30pm   Keynote
Monica Menendez
Cities
1:45-4:15pm
Afternoon Sessions (Parallel)
CITIES
(Auditorium)
HEALTH
(Lecture Hall)
1:45-3:45pm Chair:
Anthony Tzes
Collaborative Visual Area Coverage Using a Team of Mobile Aerial Agents Equipped with PTZ Cameras Under Positional Uncertainty

 1:45-3pm
 Keynote:
Kirsten Sadler Edepli
Health
Athanasios Tsoukalas
Path Planning and Selection of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Deployment Stations for City-Wide Search Operations
 Chair:
Raghib Ali and Scott Sherman
Obtaining Reliable Evidence on the Determinants of NCDs in the UAE: The UAE Healthy Future Study
Michael Weitzmann
Effects of Hookah Smoking on Indoor Air Quality in Homes
 Azza Abouzied
Building an Evidence-Based Physician Assistant
Mayada Oudah
How Artificial Intelligence Wins Friends and Influences People
 Nikolaos Evangeliou
A Hybrid Actuated Robotic System for Minimally Invasive Surgical Applications
Etienne Wasmer
Keeping Rents Low Without Efficiency Loss: Transportations vs. Rent Controls
 Dipesh Chaudhury
Effects of Social Stress on Biological Rhythms and Sleep-Wake Cycle
Cyrus R. K. Patell
Cosmopolitanism and Multidisciplinarity
 3-3:45pm  Q&A Session
Jill Magi
Walking and Writing: A Poetics of Abu Dhabi
3:45-
4:15pm		  Q&A Session    
4:30-5pm Break
5-7pm

Networking Social

Institute Research Centers: From Inception to Fruition
Are you currently a center PI, planning to submit a center application, have you received a center planning grant, or are you just curious?
Come join us and share your experience!
Panel moderated by Samer Madanat
(Interactive Exhibit Hall)

 Poster Presentation Session
Themes: Cities; Environmental Sustainability; Human Behavior; Astronomy and Astrophysics; Governance & Peace
(Lower Atrium)

* Please note, schedule is subject to change without notice.

Wednesday, November 7, 2018

Time Details
8-9am Breakfast and Registration
9am-5pm Interactive Exhibit (Interactive Exhibit Hall)
9am Keynote and Chair:
Taneli Kukkonen
Culture and Heritage
(Auditorium)
9:15am-
noon
Morning Sessions (Parallel)
CULTURE & HERITAGE
(Auditorium)
ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY
(Lecture Hall)
9:15-
9:45am		 Reindert Falkenburg and 
Martin Klimke
Exploring Humanities in the Arab World		 9:15-
11:15am		 Keynote:
John A. Burt
Causes and Consequences of the 2017 Mass Coral Bleaching Event in the Southern Arabian Gulf
Chair:
Youssef Idaghdour
Gene-Environment Interactions in Mitochondrial RNA Processing in Human Cancers
9:45-
10:15am		 James Montgomery
and Chip Rossetti
The Library of Arabic Literature: Past Achievements, Present Challenges, Future Prospects
 Yann Bourgeois
Population Genomics of the Green Anole Reveals Evolutionary Forces Shaping Diversity in a Reptile
Muriel
Gros-Balthazard
The Date Palm Genomics Project at NYUAD: Recent Advances and Future Directions
10:15-
11:30am		 Nathalie Peutz
Islands of Heritage: Conservation and Transformation in Socotra (Yemen)
 Ahmed Shibl
Multi-omics Reveal Interactions Between a Cosmopolitan Phytoplankton and its Microbiome
Leigh Llewellyn Graham
Envisioning a Bright Future for Human - Machine Relations in the UAE: Spotlight on Robotic Camel Jockeys
11:15 -11:45am		 Q&A Session
Robert Parthesius
Dhakira Interdisciplinary Research on Cultural Heritage Landscape in the UAE
Marcel Kurpershoek
Poetry Traditions in the Arabian Peninsula		    
William Zimmerle
'Ya Luban! Ya Luban!' Sensing Heritage: The Arabian Incense Burner
11:30-
noon		 Q&A Session
Noon-
1:30pm		 Lunch Break
GOVERNANCE AND PEACE PANEL

Lunch Panel
Research and Empirical Analysis of Labor Migration (REALM) Project Panel
Chair: Peter Bearman
(Interactive Exhibit Hall)
1:30-3pm
ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY: CLIMATE SCIENCE
(Auditorium)
Keynote:
Francesco Paparella
Lagrangian Modelling of Ocean Biogeochemical Processes
Chair: Shafer Smith
Environmental Sustainability
David Holland
A Tale of Two Ice Sheets: Is It the Best of Times, or Worst of Times?
Olivier Pauluis
Regional Climate Modeling for the Arabian Peninsula and South Asia
Zouhair Lachkar
Expanding 'Dead Zone' in Arabian Sea is Approaching the UAE Shores: Modeling the Role of Climatic Factors
Ajaya Ravindran
Prediction of Low-Frequency Variations of South Asian Monsoon using Nonlinear Models
3-3:30pm Q & A Session: Climate Science
3:30-
4pm		 Closing Remarks
Sehamuddin Galadari, Senior Vice Provost of Research Outreach, Managing Director of NYUAD Research Institute

Film Screening
Through the Glass Lightly
(Auditorium)

* Please note, schedule is subject to change without notice.

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