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 |