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Session B12: Large Scale Neuroscience Projects
Monday, March 14, 2016, 11:15 am
Co-sponsor: DBIO;
Chair: Maria Spiropulu, California Institute of Technology
- Terry Sejnowski, “Computational Neuroscience Today”
- Miyoung Chun, “The BRAIN Initiative”
- Demis Hassabis, “Deep Mind”
- Hanchuan Peng, “Big neuron”
- David Tank, “The Global Brain (Simons Collaboration)”
Session P14: International Cooperative Efforts for Electronic Structure Methods
Wednesday, March 16, 2016, 2:30 pm
Co-sponsor: DCOMP;
Chair: Aldo Romero, West Virginia University
- Lucia Reining, “The European Theoretical Spectroscopy Facility: an illustration for the power of collective research”
- Gian-Marco Rignanese, “The ABINIT software project”
- Francois Gygi, “The Road to Interoperable Simulation Software: Examples Using the Qbox Code”
- Micael Oliveira, “The CECAM Electronic Structure Library: community-driven development of software libraries for electronic structure simulations”
- Andrea Marini, “The Yambo code: a comprehensive tool to perform ab-initio simulations of equilibrium and out-of-equilibrium properties”
Session Y4: Physics and Physicists in Cuba
Friday, March 18, 2016, 11:15 am
Chair: Maria Spiropulu, California Institute of Technology
- David Gross, “The Role of Science Cooperation in World-Wide Social Progress”
- Fidel Castro Díaz,-“Balart, Physics & Physicists in Cuba”
- Frances Colon, “Science and Technology Diplomacy with Cuba”
FIP Reception
Tuesday, March 15, 6 – 8 pm
Hilton Baltimore Latrobe room
Co-sponsors:
- APS Office of International Affairs
- Overseas Chinese Physics Association (OCPA)
- Association of Korean Physicists in America (AKPA)
- Iranian-American Physicists Group Network (IrAP)
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Session S7. “Big International Neutrino Projects and Collaborations”
Monday, April 18, 1:30 pm
- David Wark, “Global neutrino futures”
- Mark Thomson, DUNE: “A Large International Collaboration From the Start”
- Katsanevas Stavros, “The European Neutrino Landscape”
U7. Sakharov Prize Session
Monday, April 18, 2 pm
- Zafra Lerman, “Andrei Sakharov Prize: Human Rights and Peace - A Personal Odyssey”
- Perry Link, “Fang Lizhi Memorial Lecture”
- Adam Jermyn, “LeRoy Apker Award: The Atmospheric Dynamics of Pulsar Companions”
Session X7. “Physics and Physicists around the world”
Tuesday, April 19, 10:45 am
- Vladimir Shiltsev, “Physics and Physicists in Russia”
- Hossein Sadeghpour, “Physics and Physicists in Iran”
- Wang Yifang, “Physics and Physicists in China”
Session Y7. Next Generation of Large International Telescopes and Cosmic Experiments
Tuesday, April 19, 1:30 pm
- Wendy L. Freedman, “The Next Generation of Optical Telescopes”
- Angela Olinto, “Evolution and Next Generation of Large Cosmic-Ray Experiments”
- Miguel Morales, “Current and future radio-astronomy mega-projects”
FIP’s Distinguished Student Seminar Program (DS3) to support outstanding international students
- Karan Jani (Georgia Institute of Technology) Contributed paper K15, “Confronting Numerical Relativity With Nature: A model-independent characterization of binary black-hole systems in LIGO,” 2:30-2:42 pm, Sunday, April 17, room 251C
Poster papers by:
Arita Gosh
Arpan Sharma
Jasen Domoguen