Agenda
Conference Agenda
Monday, April 6, 2020
| Time | Details |
|---|---|
| 6pm | Guest Arrivals |
| 6:15pm | NYUAD Host Welcome Remarks & Introducing Senior NYUAD Leadership TBA |
| 6:30pm | NYUAD Senior Leadership Remarks TBA |
| 6:45pm | Welcome Reception Keynote TBA |
| 7pm | Movie Screening 10 Years of Research at NYUAD 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 |
Tuesday, April 7, 2020
| Time | Details | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8-9am | Breakfast and Registration | |||
| 9am-5pm | Interactive Exhibit (Interactive Exhibit Hall) | |||
| 9-9:45am | Opening Ceremony TBD Movie Screening Celebrating 10 Years of Research at NYUAD | |||
| KeyNote TBD | ||||
| 9:45-10:45am | 10 Year Anniversary Panel Reflecting Upon 10 Years of Research at NYUAD Moderator: TBD Speakers: TBD | |||
| 10:45-11am | Coffee Break | |||
| 11am-12pm Morning Sessions (Parallel) | CYBERSECURITY | WORKSHOP | ||
| 11-11:15am | Chair: TBD | 11am-12pm
| Nizar Habash Arabic and Artificial Intelligence: Challenges, Solutions, and Outlook | |
| Ozgur Sinanoglu Hardware Security for and beyond CMOS Technology: An Overview on Fundamentals, Applications, Challenges, and Prospects | ||||
| 11:15-11:30am | Michail Maniatakos CoPHEE: Co-processor for Partially Homomorphic Encrypted Execution | |||
| 11:30-11:45am | Christina Popper Security of 4G/5G Mobile Telephony Networks | |||
| 11:45am-12pm | Mahmoud Rasras Plasmonics-Enhanced Silicon Disc Resonator Physically Unclonable Function | |||
| Noon-1:30pm | Lunch Break | Lunch Panel | ||
| Interdisciplinary Topic Co-Chairs: TBD | ||||
| 1:30-3pm Afternoon Sessions (Parallel) | CULTURE AND HERITAGEE | TOPIC TITLE | ||
| 1:30-2pm | Chair: TBD | 1:30-1:45pm | Nikos Nikiforakis Predicting social tipping and norm change in controlled experiments | |
| 1:45-2pm | Mayada Oudah Facial Expressions in Repeated Human Interactions | |||
| 2-2:15pm | Muhamed Al Khalil From Blissful Certainties to Sordid Doubts: The Bewildered Education of Tawfiq Sayigh" | 2-2:15pm | Dipesh Chaudhury Differences in Vulnerability to Social Stress Effects Sleep-Cycle and the Ability to Cope with Jet-Lag | |
| 2:15-2:30pm | Michael Purugganan Date Palm Genomics: From Genome Diversity to Trait Genes | 2:15-2:30pm | Haiyang Jin Does the human brain process faces and words in a similar manner? A functional MRI investigation of configural processing for faces and words" | |
| 2:30-2:45pm | Goffredo Puccetti Reframing Originality | 2:30-2:45pm | Ainsley Temudo What determines visual working memory precision? | |
| 2:45-3pm | Fiona Kidd At the interface: Bashtepa between oasis and steppe/desert | 2:45-3pm | Dustin Chacon Understanding Language in the Brain with MEG | |
| 3-3:15pm | Coffee Break | |||
| 3:15-5:15pm | 3:15-3:30pm | Michael Purugganan Date Palm Genomics: From Genome Diversity to Trait Genes [DUPLICATE?] | ||
| 3:30-3:45pm | Cyrus Patell The NYUAD Global Shakespeare Project | |||
| 3:45-4pm | Bilal Orfali Illustrating Classics: Library of Arabic Literature for the Youth | |||
| 4-4:15pm | Javier Mejia The Network Formation Origin of Tribal Societies | |||
| 4:15-4:30pm | Samantha Wray How Arabic behaves in the Emirati Brain | |||
| 4:30-4:45pm | Kaustuv Kanti Ganguli Developing new ways of “seeing” cross-cultural relationships in music | |||
| 4:45-5pm | Wifag Adnan Save the Melting Pot! The Role of Culture vs Context in Shaping Economic Outcomes | |||
| 5:5:15pm | Salam Khalifa Developing Resources for Emirati Arabic Processing | |||
| 5:15-6:30pm | Break | |||
| 6:30-9pm | Networking Session | Film Screening and Panel Hirokazu Yoshikawa and Lawrence Aber Ahlan Simsim: Evaluating the impact of preprimary- and primary-school interventions in Jordan and Lebanon | ||
* Please note, schedule is subject to change without notice.
Tuesday, November 6, 2018
| Time | Details | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8-9am | Breakfast and Registration | |||
| 9am-5pm | Interactive Exhibit (Interactive Exhibit Hall) | |||
| 9-10:45 Morning Sessions (Parallel) | BIOINNOVATION AND HEALTH | SPACE SCIENCE | ||
| 9-9:15am | Keynote: TBD | 9-9:15am | Andrea Maccio The visible and invisible Universe | |
| 9:15-9:30am | Farah Shamout AI Applications for the Detection of Clinical Deterioration on Hospital Wards | 9:15-9:30am | Christopher Hanson Does the Sun have long lived giant convective cells? | |
| 9:30-10am | Andras Gyorgy Competition for shared cellular resources decreases the robustness of toggle switches by pushing them towards monostability | 9:30-10am | Payaswini Saikia How Fast Are the Jets Coming From Black Holes? | |
| 10-10:15am | Mohammad Qasaimeh Microtechnologies for Liquid Biopsy | 10-10:15am | Dima Taji CALIMA-STAR: A Rich Arabic Morphological Analyzer, Generator, and Reinflector | |
| 10:15-10:30am | Yong Ak Song Measuring Mechanical Forces of Cells and Multicellular Organisms using Elastomeric Micropillar Arrays | 10:15-10:30am | Adriano Di Giovanni The RAAD detector for Studying Terrestrial Gamma-Ray Flashes | |
| 10:30:10:45am | Timothy M Dore Photochemistry to Illuminate Physiology | 10:30:10:45am | Dimitra Atri Stellar Flares and Planetary Habitability or Impact of Solar Flares on Astronaut Health and Implications on the Human Exploration of Mars | |
| 10:45-11am | Break | |||
| GOVERNANCE AND PEACE | TOPIC | |||
| 11am-12pm | 11-11:15am | Yaoyao Dai When Do (and Don't) Politicians Use Populist Rhetoric? Populism as a (De)mobilization Gamble | 11am-12pm | Rebecca Morton Using Laboratory Experiments to Study Interactive Human Behavior |
| 11:15-11:30am | Romain Ferrali Is honesty or dishonesty more contagious? Evidence from the field | |||
| 11:30-11:45am | Michelle O'Brien Thirsty for Heaven: The Consequences of Genocide for Religious Institutions in Rwanda | |||
| 11:45am-12pm | Hannah Melville-Rea Parched and Impatient: How Drought Shapes Political Preferences | |||
| Noon-1:30pm | Lunch Break | Lunch Panel | ||
| External Funding: Opportunities Panel Chair: TBD | ||||
| 1:30-3pm Afternoon Sessions (Parallel) | BIOINNOVATION AND HEALTH | GLOBAL ENGAGEMENT SYMPOSIUM | ||
| 1:30-2pm | Mohamed Al-Sayegh Nuclear β-actin contributes to an open chromatin for activation of the adipogenic pioneer factor CEBPA during transcriptional reprograming. | NYUAD Student Research | ||
| 1:45-2pm | Symposium Talk #1 | |||
| 2-2:15pm | Mazin Magzoub pH-Responsive High Stability Polymeric Nanoparticles for Targeted Delivery of Anticancer Therapeutics | 2-2:15pm | Symposium Talk #2 | |
| 2:15-2:30pm | Piergiorgio Percipalle The role of cytoskeletal proteins in chromatin and transcriptional regulation during development and differentiation | 2:15-2:30pm | Symposium Talk #3 | |
| 2:30-2:45pm | Ibtissem Nabti The role of Glycogen Synthase Kinase 3 (GSK3) in regulating intracellular transport" (same abstract also submitted as poster presentation) | 2:30-2:45pm | Symposium Talk #4 | |
| 2:45-3pm | Murade, Chandrashekhar A FRET-Based Probe for High Throughput DNA Intercalator Drug Discovery and In Vivo Imaging | 2:45-3pm | Symposium Talk #5 | |
| 3-3:15pm | Break | |||
| 3:15-3:30pm | Gennaro Esposito Mapping slow and intermediate exchange from structural interconversion or intermolecular interaction in protein NMR spectra | 3:15-3:30pm | Symposium Talk #6 | |
| 3:30-3:45pm | Elena Beretta On Some Inverse Boundary Value Problems Related to the Monodomain | 3:30-3:45pm | Symposium Talk #7 | |
| 3:45-4pm | Serdal Kirmizialtin Computational study of the dynamics and function of biomolecules | 3:45-4pm | Symposium Talk #8 | |
| CLIMATE CHANGE | 4-4:15pm | Symposium Talk #9 | ||
| 4-4:15pm | David Holland A Decade of Sea Level Change Research at the Ends of the Earth | |||
| 4:15-4:30pm | Aaron Chow Hydrodynamic simulation of inundation by sea level rise: 1 case studies in San Francisco Bay and UAE | 4:15-4:30pm | Symposium Talk #10 | |
| 4:30-4:45pm | Jhon Mojica Antarctic Collaboration with the Colombian Antarctic Program: Fieldwork 2018-2019 Gerlache Strait, Antarctic Peninsula | 4:30-4:45pm | Symposium Talk #11 | |
| 4:45-5pm | Lachkar, Zouhair "Climatic control of recent ocean deoxygenation in the Arabian Sea" | 4:45-5pm | Symposium Talk #12 | |
| 5-5:15pm | Eayrs, Clare "Changes in the distribution of Antarctic sea ice and implications for sea-level change in the Arabian Gulf" | 5-5:15pm | Symposium Talk #13 | |
| 5:15-6:30pm | Break | |||
| 6:30-8:30pm | Poster Presentation Session | |||
* Please note, schedule is subject to change without notice.
Thursday, April 9,2020
| Time | Details | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8-9am | Breakfast and Registration | |||
| 9am-2pm | Interactive Exhibit (Interactive Exhibit Hall) | |||
| 9-11am Morning Sessions (Parallel) | CITIES | ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY | ||
| 9-9:15am | Blumtritt, Joerg "Banking the Unbanked with Blockchain: An experimental application of interactive media" | 9-9:15am | Paparella, Francesco "Connectivity of Coral Reefs in the Arabian Gulf" | |
| 9:15-9:30am | Jagannathan, Ramesh "An Apparent Spatial Memory Register and Homing Instinct in Sub-Nanometer Thin Gold Nanostructures" | 9:15-9:30am | Naleem, Nawavi "Computational investigation of contaminant selectivity of Covalent Organic Framework polymers" | |
| 9:30-9:45am | Assuncao Batista, Sergio Filipe "The role of aggregated traffic models towards the development of sustainable transportation systems" | 9:30-9:45am | Wang, Xianwei "Land Subsidence in Al Khaznah, UAE Detected by Sentinel-1 INSAR Time-Series" | |
| 9:45-10am | Hannoun, Gaby Joe "Modular Emergency Medical Services Dispatching and Redeployment System" | 9:45-10am | Fu, Weiqi "How microalgae shape-shift to make surface colonization and cause biofoulings of underwater facilities" | |
| 10-10:15am | Tsoukalas, Athanasios "Collaborative Visual Relative Fiducial Localization for Unmanned Aerial Systems" | 10-10:15am | Hashaikeh, Raed "Electrically conductive membranes for fouling prevention in desalination processes" | |
| 10:15-10:30am | Gandolfi, Alberto "Decidability in Probability and Machine Learning" | 10:15-10:45am | Internal Funding Mechanisms Talk | |
| 10:45-11am | Break | |||
| 11am-12pm | PANEL - Ali, Raghib "Obtaining Reliable Evidence on the Determinants of NCDs (non-communicable diseases) in the UAE: The UAE Healthy Future Study." A6- Exhibit Hall | WORKSHOP - Masmoudi, Nader "Stability" (60 min) | ||
| Noon-1:30pm | Lunch Break | Lunch Panel | ||
| Global Network Panel Discussion. Chair: TBD | ||||
| 1:30-2pm | BREAK OUT SESSION | |||
| Klimke, Martin "Humanities Research Fellowship for the Study of the Arab World" | Marchand, Benoit "MPI Optimizer a Game Changer for Super Computing" | |||
| 2-3pm | 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY PANEL Moderator: TBD Speakers: TBD | |||
| 3-3:30pm | NYUAD Closing Ceremony Highlight Video Sehamuddin Galadari, Senior Vice Provost of Research; Managing Director, Research Institute; Professor of Biology | |||
* Please note, schedule is subject to change without notice.