Agenda

Conference Agenda

Opening Ceremony
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3

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
9-9:45am	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
	11-11:15am	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*
Noon-1:30pm	*Lunch Break*		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
	1:30-2pm	Chair: TBD	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

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
Noon-1:30pm	*Lunch Break*		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
	1:30-2pm		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	4-4:15pm	Symposium Talk #9
	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

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
Noon-1:30pm	*Lunch Break*		Global Network Panel Discussion. Chair: TBD
1:30-2pm	BREAK OUT SESSION
1:30-2pm	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