Agenda

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 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

Time	Details
8-8:45am	*Breakfast and Registration*
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
9:15am	KeyNote Fabio Piano, Provost Bioinnovation
9:30am-noon Morning Sessions (Parallel)	BIOINNOVATION		PERCEPTION, COGNITION, and LEARNING
	9:30-10:15am	Chair: Claude Desplan The Generation of Neural Diversity	9:30-11:15am	Keynote Liina Pylkkanen Perception, Cognition, and Learning
		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
		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&Q 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 Chen Role of Implicit Social Attitude on Face Perception
		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
		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
		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	11:15-11:45am	Q&A Session
	11:30am-noon	Q&A Session	11:45am-noon	*Break*
Noon-1:45pm	*Lunch Break*		*Lunch Panel*
Noon-1:45pm	*Lunch Break*		Building successful collaborations in the UAE - challenges, and opportunities Co-Chairs: Raghib Ali, Abdishakur Abdulle, Scott Sherman
1:45pm	Keynote Peter Bearman Governance and Peace
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
		David Cook-Martin Temp Nations? A Research Agenda on Time, Membership, and Migration		Chair: Christina Poepper Communication Security in Aviation
		Kanchan Chandra Democratic Dynasties		Hoda Alkhazaimi CCS-AD Outreach to the community; Cryptographic Primitives Implementation for Lightweight Devices Attacks and Designs
		Mario Chacon Polarization and Ethnic Division in New Democracies
		Rachel E. Brule Reform, representation, and resistance: The politics of Property Rights Enforcement		Rafael Song Next Generation Biosensors and Biochips for Precision Healthcare
		Georgi Derluguian The Armenian Anomaly: Why a Bloodless Revolution in 2018?		Abhrajit Sengupta Locking DARPA’s multi-million gate chip
	3:30pm	Q&A Session	3:30pm	Q&A Session
	4:15pm	Capstone Film Screening	4:15pm	Robyn Brazzil, StartAD Commericialization of Research
4:30-5pm	*Break*
5-7pm	Networking Session		Poster Presentation Session

Tuesday, November 6, 2018

Time	Details
8-8:45am	*Breakfast and Registration*
9am-7pm	Interactive Exhibit (Interactive Exhibit Hall)
9am	KeyNote Rebecca Morton Human Behavior
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
		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
		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
		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
		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)
	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
Noon-1:45pm	*Lunch Break*		Understanding and Promoting Children’s Learning and Development in Conflict-Affected Countries Chair: John Lawrence Aber
1:45pm	Keynote Monica Menendez Cities
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
		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
		Mayada Oudah How Machines Win Friends and Influence People		Azza Abouzied Building an Evidence-based Physician Assistant
		Michael Weitzmann Effects of Hookah Smoking on Indoor Air Quality In Homes		Nikolaos Evangeliou A hybrid actuated robotic system for minimally invasive surgical applications
		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
		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	3:15-3:45pm	Q&A Session
	3:45-4:30pm	Q&A Session
4:30-5pm	*Break*
5-7pm	Networking Session		Poster Presentation Session

Wednesday, November 7, 2018

Time	Details
8-8:45am	*Breakfast and Registration*
9am-7pm	Interactive Exhibit (Interactive Exhibit Hall)
9am	KeyNote Taneli Kalle Culture and Heritage
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
	9:15-9:45am			Chair: Youssef Idaghdour Environmental genomics: genetic basis of complex traits
	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
	9:45-10:15am			Muriel Gros-Balthazard The Date Palm Genomics Project at NYUAD: Recent Advances and Future Directions
	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.
		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	10:30-11am	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-1:45pm	*Lunch Break*		GOVERNANCE AND PEACE PANEL Lunch Panel
Noon-1:45pm	*Lunch Break*		Research and Empirical Analysis of Labor Migration (REALM) project panel Chair: Peter Bearman
1:30-2:45PM	ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY
	Chair: Francesco Paparella Lagrangian modeling of ocean biogeochemical processes
	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 and Shafer Smith Expanding 'Dead Zone' in Arabian Sea is Approaching the UAE Shores: Modeling the Role of Climatic Factors
3-3:15pm	Q & A Session
3:15-3:45pm	Closing Ceremony