Science Seminar Series

Join our upcoming science seminar series running from February to April, 2023. More dates to be announced soon.

Location

All of the seminar sessions will take place in SE-43, room 319B on the Boca Raton campus, unless otherwise stated.

Virtual meeting links will be available with each talk and placed in the listing below.

Date Time Speaker and Topic
Monday, 2/13 10:00-11:00 a.m. Lukas Kolsch, Cryptology

  1:30-2:30 p.m. Maria E. Santiago-Rodriquez, Health Behavioral Scientist

Wednesday, 2/15 10:00-11:00 a.m. Ashley Artese, Health Behavioral Scientist

  1:30-2:30 p.m. Ashley Artese, Cardiovascular Scientist

Thursday, 2/16 10:00-11:00 a.m. Seminar canceled 
  1:30-2:30 p.m. Han Fu, Computational Physics

  3:00-4:00 p.m. Marcio Gameiro, Data Science

Monday, 2/20 10:00-11:00 a.m. Jiahui Chen, Data Science

  1:30-2:30 p.m. Efthymios Papadopoulos, Health Behavioral Scientist

  3:00-4:00 p.m. Hristo Chipliski, Computational Physics

Tuesday, 2/21 9:00-10:00 a.m.
in SE-43, room 213
Dung Hoang Duong, Cryptology

Wednesday, 2/22 10:00-11:00 a.m. Melina Matos, Urban Planning and Environmental Design 

  3:00-4:00 p.m. Rahele Saryazdi, Lifespan Human Development/Aging/Gerontology
"Communication in the Context of Aging and Technology"

  Thursday, 2/23 1:30-2:30 p.m. Md Zulfikar Ali, Computational Physics

  3:00-4:00 p.m. Nazla Bushra, Climate Science
"Circumpolar Vortex & Climate Change Implications: Towards Understanding Natural Hazards, Risks, & Future Climate"

Friday, 2/24 10:00-11:00 a.m.
in SE-43, room 215
Qingju Wang, Cryptology

Monday, 2/27 10:00-11:00 a.m. Peijie Zhou, Data Science
  1:30-2:30 p.m. Brandon Fico, Cardiovascular Scientist

  3:00-4:00 p.m. Yijie Zhu, Climate Science

Wednesday, 3/1 3:00-4:00 p.m. Hannah J. Kramer, Lifespan Human Development/ Aging/Gerontology
“Children's and Adults' Lay Theories about the Duration of Mental States”

Thursday, 3/2 3:00-4:00 p.m. Zhiying Li, Climate Science
“Assessing Water Resources in a Changing Climate”

Monday, 3/13 10:00-11:00 a.m. Xiaolang Zhang, Hydrogeology
"Exploring Surface Water and Groundwater Interaction in Coastal Areas and Streams Using Isotope Tracers and Numerical Modeling"

  1:30-2:30 p.m. Michael Henson, Microbial Ecologist
"Exploring How Genomic Diversity and Evolutionary Histories Influence Microbial Distribution in Coastal Environments" 

  3:00-4:00 p.m. Stephanie Wakefield, Urban Planning and Environmental Design 
"Urban Design in the Age of Climate Change: Infrastructure, Imagination, and Resilience"

Wednesday, 3/15 10:00-11:00 a.m. Matthew Sirianni, Hydrogeology
"Salinization in the Coastal Critical Zone: Understanding Hydrological Drivers and Impacts from North Carolina to Florida"

  1:30-2:30 p.m. Hao Yang, Bioinorganic Chemistry
"Biological Radical initiation by Radical SAM Enzymes"

Thursday, 3/16 10:00-11:00 a.m. Amanda Mulcan Lopez, Hydrogeology
"Coastal Resilience Under A Changing Climate"

  11:30-12:30 p.m. Yichen Hu, Computational Physics

  1:30-2:30 p.m. Zhu-Lin Xie, Bioinorganic Chemistry
"Unleashing the Power of Transition Metal Complexes for Chemical Transformations Relevant to Energy Conversion: a Tale of Structure and Function"

 
3:00-4:00 p.m.
Vanessa Fernandes, Microbial Ecologist  
"Microbes In a Changing World: Lessons From Biological Soil Crusts"

Monday, 3/20 10:00-11:00 a.m. Arianna Salazar Miranda, Urban Design for Healthy Communities
"Urban Science for Sustainable CitiesHow to shape the environmental and social performance of cities using digital tools."

  1:30-2:30 p.m. Brittni Bertolet, Microbial Ecologist 
"Assembly, emergence, and change: Understanding microbial contributions to ecosystem biogeochemistry"

  3:00-4:00 p.m. Stephen Turner, Geochemistry / Hard Rock Geology
"Subduction through the lens of arc geochemistry"

Wednesday, 3/22 10:00-11:00 a.m. Donggyu Lee, Urban Design for Healthy Communities
"How can urban design professionals promote socially just and healthy communities?"

  3:00-4:00 p.m. Kuppuswamy Arumugam, Bioinorganic Chemistry
"Engineering Redox-active Gold Complexes for Cancer Therapy"

Thursday, 3/23 10:00-11:00 a.m. Maciej Stawikowski, Bioinorganic Chemistry
"Fluorescent probes and their application for biomolecular studies"

  1:30-2:30 p.m. Adam Curry, Geochemistry / Hard Rock Geology
"Chemical and temporal evolution of crustal magmas: from super eruptions to economic Li deposits"

  3:00-4:00 p.m. Nobuaki Mizumoto, Ecologist/Landscape Ecologist
"Evolutionary perspectives of termite collective behavior"

Monday, 3/27 10:00-11:00 a.m. Praveen Maghelal, Urban Design for Healthy Communities

  1:30-2:30 p.m. Chelsea Allison, Geochemistry / Hard Rock Geology
"Volatiles, bubbles, and timescales of magma ascent in explosive volcanic eruptions"

Wednesday, 3/29 3:00-4:00 p.m. Qiong Wang, Urban Planning and Environmental Design

Thursday, 3/30 3:00-4:00 p.m. Jacob Francis, Ecologist/Landscape Ecologist
"Disentangling tripartite ecological interactions in the floral marketplace: connecting plant, insect, and microbe perspectives to understand how tiny organisms shape big processes"

Monday, 4/3 10:00-11:00 a.m. Parker Edwards, Data Science
Zoom Link
Meeting ID: 819 8520 1670
Passcode: YkysS3
  1:30-2:30 p.m. Luciano Dyballa, Computational Neuroscience
“Neural manifolds at the interface between neuroscience and machine learning"
Zoom Link
Meeting ID: 810 3733 0340
Passcode: sP3Df8
Thursday, 4/6 1:30-2:30 p.m. Yunliang Zang, Computational Neuroscience
“Elucidating principles of efficient and reliable computations: from neurons to circuits”
Zoom Link
Meeting ID: 813 7196 5006
Passcode: DpZfd1
Monday, 4/10 1:30-2:30 p.m. Rodrigo Peña, Computational Neuroscience
"Neuronal communication across different levels of organization"
Zoom Link
Meeting ID: 828 7649 7284
Passcode: kDHKV4
Additional Information
The Charles E. Schmidt College of Science offers unparalleled experiential learning opportunities to prepare the next generation of scientists and problem solvers.
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Florida Atlantic University
777 Glades Rd, SE-43
Boca Raton, FL 33431
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