2018 Research Conference

Conference

WHEN November 5-7, 2018
WHERE NYU Abu Dhabi WHO NYU Abu Dhabi By Invitation Interested scholars please contact nyuad.research-rsvp@nyu.edu

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

Opening Ceremony
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3

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	11:15- 11:45am	Q&A Session
	11:30am-noon	Q&A Session Drug Discovery	11:45am-noon	Break
Noon- 1:30pm	Lunch Break		Lunch Panel
Noon- 1:30pm	Lunch Break		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	3:00pm	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	3:30pm
4:15-4:45pm	Break
5-7pm	Networking Social (Interactive Exhibit Hall)		Poster Presentation Session Themes: Bioinnovation & Health; Culture & Heritage; Cyber Security; (Lower Atrium)

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
Noon- 1:30pm	Lunch Break		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	3-3:45pm	Q&A Session
	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)

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
	9:15- 9:45am			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
	9:45- 10:15am			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	11:15 -11:45am	Q&A Session
		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
Noon- 1:30pm	Lunch Break		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)

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