Events

Upcoming Conferences and Events

Conference | January 12-16, 2026

Cosmic Collisions Conference

Conference | January 13-15, 2026

High Energy, Cosmology, and Astroparticle Physics Conference

Conference | January 23, 2026

Division of Science Annual Researcher Conference 2026

Conference | February 9-11, 2026

Innovations in Neuroimaging Methods Conference

Conference | March 30-April 1, 2026

The Fourth Middle-Eastern Materials Science Conference


Research Seminar Series: Fall 2025 Speakers

All six programs within the Division of Science host regular research seminars that bring leading international scholars to our campus, offering our community the opportunity to engage directly with cutting-edge discoveries and global experts across a wide range of scientific fields.

Date Speaker and Talk Title
September 4 John Parrington, Associate Professor in Pharmacology, University of Oxford
"Calcium is Everything!” The role of intracellular calcium signals as key mediators of fertility and infertility, lipid metabolism and obesity, tumorigenesis and metastasis
September 11 Marina Gioti, Artist-in-Residence, Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, NYUAD
Art and Science Synergies - Bridging the Two Cultures
September 18 Gabriel Verley, Postdoctoral Associate, NYUAD
The probabilistic nature of RNA splicing
Mohsin Mohammed, Postdoctoral Associate, NYUAD
September 25 Billy Moore, Postdoctoral Associate, NYUAD
Is it worth the cost? - The increasing value of transgenerational plasticity under multiple stressors
Somia Saidi, Postdoctoral Associate, NYUAD
Broad-scale population genomics of stone and pome fruit tree domestication
October 2 Karima Kissa, Team Leader, Université de Montpellier, France
Haematopoietic Stem Cell production: insights from zebrafish embryogenesis
October 9 Yann Bourgeois, Reseacher, Institut de recherche pour le développement, France
Studying the population dynamics of transposable elements: new avenues for research
October 23 Junaid Kashir, Asssociate Professor of Biology, Khalifa University
Calcium oscillations and early embryogenesis – novel paradigms for phospholipase C zeta
October 30 Gabriel Mochales Riaño, Post-Doctoral Associate, NYUAD
From genes to fangs: Discovering the evolutionary history of the genus Cerastes through genomics
Dr Rahgavi Poopalarajah, Post-Doctoral Associate, NYUAD 
Identifying factors that influence the human gut resistome
November 6 Thomas Grevesse, Research Associate, NYUAD 
Charting the ecology and function of microbiomes in the world hottest sea
Raman Gurusamy, Research Associate, NYUAD
The genetic evolution of global modern and indigenous dogs and their role in adaptation
November 13 Nils Gauthier, Principal Investigator and Pascale Monzo, Scientist, IFOM, Milan
Multiscale Mechanobiology, From Single Molecule to Cancer Ecosystem
Date Speaker and Talk Title
October 1 Biman Baghchi, Professor, Indian Institute for Science, Bangalore, India
RARE Events: Multidimensional Rate Theory
October 9 Dieter Suter, Professor, Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany
Quantum control of electron - and nuclear spin qubits
October 22 Dmitri Gelman, Professor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Modular Pincer Catalysts for CO2 Hydrogenation
October 29 Ivan Halasz, Ruđer Bošković Institute, Croatia
Deciphering Mechanochemical Transformations by In Situ Monitoring, Molecular Dynamics Simulations and Machine-Learning-Augmented Data Analysis
November 5 Tania Lupoli, Associate Professor of Chemistry, NYU-NY, USA
Activation of Rare Sugars to Study Host-Pathogen Protein-Glycan Interactions
November 12 Karl Gademann, Head of the Department of Chemistry and Professor of Organic Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Universitat Zurich, Switzerland
Discoveries and Surprises with Natural Products
Date Speaker and Talk Title
October 28 Yunyao Li, Director of Machine Learning, Adobe Experience Platform, California, USA
Building & Querying Enterprise Knowledge Bases: From Declarative Languages to GenAI
October 31 Sandro Claudio Lera, Assistant Professor, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China 
Beyond Pairwise Network Interactions: Implications for Information Centrality 
November 7 Fabio Petrillo, Associate Professor in the Department of Software Engineering and IT, École de Technologie Supérieure, ÉTS Montréal, Canada
Software Engineering for Games: Challenges, Opportunities, and Research Directions
November 14 Sharma Thankachan, Associate Professor, North Carolina State University (NCSU), Raleigh, USA
String Matching using Fast Fourier Transform
Date Speaker and Talk Title
Math Colloquium
October 24 Haocheng Yang, Postdoctoral Associate, NYUAD
Global Well-posedness of a 2D Fluid-structure Interaction Problem without Dissipation
November 7 Raghavendra Tripathi, Postdoctoral Associate, NYUAD
Dynamics on large graphs and their limits
Abu Dhabi Stochastics Seminars
October 8 Yves Le Jan, Visiting Professor of Mathematics, NYUAD
Trees and loop clusters in complete graphs
October 22 Akihiro Miyagawa, Postdoctoral Scholar, UC San Diego, USA
Norm estimates for epsilon-free semicircles
October 29 Christian Webb, Associate Professor, University of Helsinki, Finland
Operator product expansions and the sine-Gordon model
November 5 Jacob Campbell, Whyburn Research Associate and Lecturer, University of Virginia, USA
Finite free probability and matrix integrals
November 12 Alexander Pushnitski, Professor of Analysis, Department of Mathematics, King's College London, UK
Sums of projections with random coefficients
Date Speaker and Talk Title
October 22 Matilde Mingozzi, Astronomer, Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), Baltimore, USA
A UV-to-IR view of nearby high-z analogs with JWST and HST to interpret the first galaxies
October 29 Justin Read, Professor of Astrophysics, University of Surrey, UK
The Emergence of Dwarf Galaxies, Star Clusters and Something In-between
November 5 Richard Nelson, Professor of Astronomy and Mathematics, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Recent developments in understanding planet migration during the epoch of planet formation
November 13 Hannah Wakeford, Associate Professor in Astrophysics, University of Bristol, UK
Exoplanet Clouds and Chemistry: A WASP-17b case study
November 19 Andreas Crivellin, Professor, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Is there only one Higgs Boson?
Date Speaker and Talk Title
October 27 Alex Leemans, Associate Professor, University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands
The Brain’s Hidden Pathways: Challenges and Insights from Diffusion MR
November 10 Fatma Said, Assistant Professor, Zayed University, Abu Dhabi
Seeing the whole picture: An interdisciplinary lens on bilingualism
November 17 Dr Justin Thomas, Senior Research Specialist, King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture (Ithra), Saudi Arabia
Sync’s global digital wellbeing program: exploring the impact of tech on mind, body and society