Agenda
Conference Agenda
Sunday, November 4, 2018
| Time | Details |
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| 6pm | Guest Arrivals |
| 6:15pm | Welcome Remarks Fabio Piano, Provost |
| 6:30pm | Keynote Speach H.E. Sara Al Amiri, Minister of State for Advanced Sciences |
| 6:45pm | MOU Signing Ceremony NYUAD & Advanced Sciences |
| 7pm | Movie Screening Anthropology of the Future Introduction by TBD |
| 7:15pm | Interactive Exhibit Tour Led by: Nouf Al Hamly, Rawdha Al Mansouri, and Salah Rouhani |
| 7:30pm | Closing Remarks and Dinner |
Monday, November 5, 2018
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| 8-8:45am | Breakfast and Registration |
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| 9am-7pm | 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 Movie Screening Anthropology of the Future |
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| 9:15am | KeyNote Fabio Piano, Provost Bioinnovation |
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| 9:30am-noon Morning Sessions (Parallel) |
BIOINNOVATION |
PERCEPTION, COGNITION, and LEARNING |
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| 9:30-10:15am | Chair: Claude Desplan The Generation of Neural Diversity |
9:30-11:15am
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Keynote Liina Pylkkanen Perception, Cognition, and Learning |
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| 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 Neuroscience of Language Lab: Discovering how our linguistic experience sculpts the mind |
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| Wael Rabeh Glucose Metabolism in Targeted Anticancer Therapies (Science of Health) |
Ainsley Temudo The neural basis of binding errors in visual working memory |
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| 10:15-10:30am | Q&Q Session - Science of Health | Julien Dirani Lexical access in reading vs. naming: MEG evidence from semantic priming and inhibition |
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| 10:30-11:30am | Timothy Dore Creating Probes of Brain Function and Embryonic Development (Drug Discovery) |
Emma Chen Role of Implicit Social Attitude on Face Perception |
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| Mazin Maghzoub 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 |
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| Hala Fahs Fighting parasitic nematodes with bacterial crystals (Drug Discovery) |
Zoltan Derzsi MacGyver-ing in the lab: how to make haptics in virtual reality a reality |
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| Farah Benyettou Fighting Cancer Using Nanoparticles: Towards the "Magic Bullet" Science (Drug Discovery) |
11:15-11:45am | Q&A Session |
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| 11:30am-noon | Q&A Session |
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| 11:45am-noon | Break | |||
| Noon-1:45pm | Lunch Break | Lunch Panel |
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| Building successful collaborations in the UAE - challenges, and opportunities Co-Chairs: Raghib Ali, Abdishakur Abdulle, Scott Sherman |
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| 1:45pm | Keynote Peter Bearman Governance and Peace |
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| 2-4:30pm Afternoon Sessions (Parallel) |
GOVERNANCE & PEACE | CYBER SECURITY | ||
| 2-3:30pm |
Chair: John Lawrence Aber Understanding and Promoting Children’s Learning and Development in Conflict-Affected Countries |
2-3:30pm |
Keynote Ramesh Karri Cyber Security |
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| David Cook-Martin Temp Nations? A Research Agenda on Time, Membership, and Migration |
Chair: Christina Poepper Communication Security in Aviation |
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| Kanchan Chandra Democratic Dynasties |
Hoda Alkhazaimi CCS-AD Outreach to the community; Cryptographic Primitives Implementation for Lightweight Devices Attacks and Designs |
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| Mario Chacon Polarization and Ethnic Division in New Democracies |
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| Rachel E. Brule Reform, representation, and resistance: The politics of Property Rights Enforcement |
Rafael Song Next Generation Biosensors and Biochips for Precision Healthcare |
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| Georgi Derluguian The Armenian Anomaly: Why a Bloodless Revolution in 2018? |
Abhrajit Sengupta Locking DARPA’s multi-million gate chip |
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| 3:30pm | Q&A Session | 3:30pm | Q&A Session |
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| 4:15pm | Capstone Film Screening | 4:15pm | Robyn Brazzil, StartAD Commericialization of Research |
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| 4:30-5pm | Break | |||
| 5-7pm | Networking Session | Poster Presentation Session | ||
* Please note, schedule is subject to change without notice.
Tuesday, November 6, 2018
| Time | Details | |||
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| 8-8:45am | Breakfast and Registration |
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| 9am-7pm | Interactive Exhibit (Interactive Exhibit Hall) | |||
| 9am | KeyNote Rebecca Morton Human Behavior |
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| 9:15am-noon Morning Sessions (Parallel) |
HUMAN BEHAVIOR |
ASTRONOMY & PHYSICS | ||
| 9:15-11:15am | Chair: Melina Platas Perspective taking can promote short-term inclusionary behavior toward Syrian Refugees |
9:15-11:15am | KeyNote Katepalli Sreenivasan Astronomy and Physics |
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| John Wooders Nash at Wimbledon: Evidence from Half a Million Serves |
Chair: Ingyin Zaw Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are the most powerful objects in the Universe |
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| 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 Targeting Terrestrial Gamma-Ray Flashes: a gamma detector for a CubeSat mission |
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| Javier Mejia Social Interactions and Modern Economic Growth |
Laurent Gizon Discovery of Giant Waves of Vorticity on the Sun |
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| Nikos Nikiforakis Motherhood and Competitiveness |
Shravan Hanasoge Super-rotating Banana cells and suppression of large-scale convection in the Sun |
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| Geffredo Puccetti The Banality of Evil Design |
Hind Al Noori Cannibalism in the galaxy |
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| Georgia Michailidou I'd Lie for You |
Nikolaos Georgakarakos Habitable Planets and Giant Neighbors: Friends or Enemies |
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| Olivier Bochet One Truth and a Thousand Lies: Defaults and Benchmarks in Mechanism Design(TBC) |
Yan-Ping Chen Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are the most powerful objects in the Universe (TBC) |
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| 11:15-11:30am | Q&A Session | Joseph Gelfand Astrophysics | ||
| 11:30-noon | Q&A Session | |||
| Noon-1:45pm | Lunch Break | GLOBAL TIES Lunch Panel |
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| Understanding and Promoting Children’s Learning and Development in Conflict-Affected Countries Chair: John Lawrence Aber |
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| 1:45pm | Keynote Monica Menendez Cities |
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| 2-4:30pm Afternoon Sessions (Parallel) |
CITIES | HEALTH | ||
| 2-3:45pm | Anthony Tzes Collaborative visual area coverage using a team of Mobile Aerial Agents equipped with PTZ cameras under positional uncertainty |
2-3:15pm |
Keynote Kirsten Sadler Edepli Health |
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| Athanasios Tsoukalas Path Planning and Selection of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Deployment Stations for City-Wide Search Operations" |
Keynote Raghib Ali Obtaining Reliable Evidence on the Determinants of NCDs in the UAE: The UAE Healthy Future Study |
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| Mayada Oudah How Machines Win Friends and Influence People |
Azza Abouzied Building an Evidence-based Physician Assistant |
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| Michael Weitzmann Effects of Hookah Smoking on Indoor Air Quality In Homes |
Nikolaos Evangeliou A hybrid actuated robotic system for minimally invasive surgical applications |
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| Etienne Wasmer Keeping Rents Low Without Efficiency Loss: Transportation vs. Rent Controls |
Dipesh Chaudhury Effects of Social Stress on Biological Rhythms and Sleep-Wake Cycle |
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| Cyrus R. K. Patell Cosmopolitanism and Multidisciplinarity |
3:15-3:45pm | Q&A Session | ||
| Jill Magi Walking and Writing: Learning from the City of Abu Dhabi |
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| 3:45-4:30pm | Q&A Session | |||
| 4:30-5pm | Break | |||
| 5-7pm | Networking Session | Poster Presentation Session | ||
* Please note, schedule is subject to change without notice.
Wednesday, November 7, 2018
| Time | Details | |||
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| 8-8:45am | Breakfast and Registration |
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| 9am-7pm | Interactive Exhibit (Interactive Exhibit Hall) | |||
| 9am | KeyNote Taneli Kalle Culture and Heritage |
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| 9:15am-noon Morning Sessions (Parallel) |
CULTURE & HERITAGE |
ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY | ||
| 9:15-9:45am | Reindert Falkenburg and Martin Klimke Exploring Humanities in the Arab World |
9:15-10:30am | KeyNote John Burt Environmental Sustainability |
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| Chair: Youssef Idaghdour Environmental genomics: genetic basis of complex traits |
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| 9:45-10:15am | James Montgomery and Chip Rosetti 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 |
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| Muriel Gros-Balthazard The Date Palm Genomics Project at NYUAD: Recent Advances and Future Directions |
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| 10:15-11:30am | Keynote Nathalie Peutz Islands of Heritage: Conservation and Transformation in Soqotra (Yemen) |
Ahmed Shibl Multi-omics reveal interactions between a cosmopolitan phytoplankton and its microbiome. |
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| Leigh Llewellyn GrahamEnvisioning a Bright Future for Human - Machine Relations in the UAE: Spotlight on Robotic Camel Jockeys |
10:30-11am | Q&A Session | ||
| Robert Parthesius Dhakira Interdisciplinary Research on Cultural Heritage Landscape in the UAE |
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| Marcel Kurpershoek Poetry Traditions in the Arabian Peninsula |
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| William Zimmerle 'Ya Luban! Ya Luban!' Sensing Heritage: The Arabian Incense Burner" |
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| 11:30-noon | Q&A Session | |||
| Noon-1:45pm | Lunch Break | GOVERNANCE AND PEACE PANEL Lunch Panel |
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| Research and Empirical Analysis of Labor Migration (REALM) project panel Chair: Peter Bearman |
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| 1:30-2:45PM |
ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY | |||
| Chair: Francesco Paparella Lagrangian modeling of ocean biogeochemical processes |
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| David Holland A Tale of Two Ice Sheets: Is It the Best of Times, or Worst of Times? |
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| Olivier Pauluis Regional Climate Modeling for the Arabian Peninsula and South Asia |
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| Zouhair Lachkar and Shafer Smith Expanding 'Dead Zone' in Arabian Sea is Approaching the UAE Shores: Modeling the Role of Climatic Factors |
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| 3-3:15pm | Q & A Session | |||
| 3:15-3:45pm | Closing Ceremony | |||
* Please note, schedule is subject to change without notice.