NIMBioS 2018 Calendar

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NIMBioS 2018 Event Calendar Archive
January 2018
Jan 1	NIMBioS administrative offices are closed for New Year's Day
Jan 9	(NICS/NIMBioS) XSEDE HPC Monthly Workshop at NIMBioS: OpenMP
Jan 15	NIMBioS administrative offices are closed for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Jan 17-19	NIMBioS Investigative Workshop: Stoichiometric Ecotoxicology
Jan 23	*NIMBioS Seminar. Nicholas Panchy, NIMBioS postdoctoral fellow Topic: Modeling gene expression and regulation in response to light-dark signaling
Jan 24-26	NIMBioS Working Group: Ecosystem Federalism, 2nd meeting
February 2018
Feb 1	NIMBioS/NISER Monthly Webinar Evaluating Social Media Impact in NSF INCLUDES Projects
Feb 7-8	(NICS/NIMBioS) XSEDE HPC Monthly Workshop at NIMBioS: Big Data
Feb 14	DySoC/NIMBioS Seminar. Alex Bentley*, Anthropology, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville; Center for the Dynamics of Social Complexity (DySoC) Topic: The acceleration of cultural evolution
Feb 22-24	NIMBioS Working Group: Learning in Networks, 1st meeting
March 2018
Mar 1	NIMBioS/NISER Monthly Webinar Program Models as a Tool for Scaling up NSF INCLUDES Projects
Mar 6	(NICS/NIMBioS) XSEDE HPC Monthly Workshop at NIMBioS : GPU Programming Using OpenACC
Mar 19	DySoC/NIMBioS Seminar. Brandon Prins*, Political Science, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville; Center for the Dynamics of Social Complexity (DySoC) Topic: Pirate lands: Governance and maritime piracy
Mar 30	NIMBioS administrative offices are closed for Spring Holiday.
April 2018
Apr 3-4	(NICS/NIMBioS) XSEDE HPC Monthly Workshop at NIMBioS: MPI
Apr 5	NIMBioS/NISER Monthly Webinar Engaging Diverse Populations in Evaluations of NSF INCLUDES Projects
Apr 10	NIMBioS Seminar. Patrick Shipman*, Mathematics, Colorado State Univ. Topic: Counterdiffusion in biological and atmospheric systems
Apr 13 12:15 p.m.	Spatial Analysis Lab (SAL) at NIMBioS Brown Bag Seminar Series, UAS@UTK: Drones for Research Jeff Moersch (Earth & Planetary Sciences, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville) Topic: Unmanned aerial vehicle studies of terrestrial analogs for Mars. Room 206, Claxton
Apr 16	DySoC/NIMBioS Seminar. Garriy Shteynberg*, Psychology, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville; Center for the Dynamics of Social Complexity (DySoC) Topic: Not by imitation alone: Collective learning as a psychological foundation of human evolutionary success
Apr 26-28	NIMBioS Working Group: Quant Bio@Community College, 1st meeting
May 2018
May 1-2	(NICS/NIMBioS) XSEDE HPC Monthly Workshop at NIMBioS: Big Data
May 3	NIMBioS/NISER Monthly Webinar Qualitative Data in Culturally Rich Evaluations of NSF INCLUDES Projects
May 4 12:15 p.m.	Spatial Analysis Lab (SAL) at NIMBioS Brown Bag Seminar Series, UAS@UTK: Drones for Research Speakers: UT System Office of Risk Management Topic: Everything About Drones That You Didn't Know You Needed to Know at UT Knoxville. Room 206, Claxton.
May 16-18	NIMBioS Working Group: Conservation Hierarchies, 2nd meeting
May 16-18	NIMBioS Tutorial: Applications of Spatial Data: Ecological Niche Modeling
May 28	NIMBioS administrative offices are closed for Memorial Day.
May 29-Jul 20	Summer Research Experiences (SRE) at NIMBioS for Undergraduates
June 2018
May 29-Jul 20	Summer Research Experiences (SRE) at NIMBioS for Undergraduates
Jun 4-7	(NICS/NIMBioS) XSEDE HPC Monthly Workshop at NIMBioS: Summer Boot Camp
Jun 7	NIMBioS/NISER Monthly Webinar Evaluation Strategies for Measuring the Broader Impacts of NSF INCLUDES Projects
Jun 9-10	DySoC Critical Workshop: Modeling Complex Systems in Archaeology.
Jun 18-22	NIMBioS Tutorial: The Search for Selection
Jun 25-27	NIMBioS Investigative Workshop: Bio-acoustic Structure
Jun 25-29	Adventures in STEM, an engineering, math, & biology camp for middle school girls, visiting NIMBioS on Monday, June 25.
July 2018
May 29-Jul 20	Summer Research Experiences (SRE) at NIMBioS for Undergraduates
Jul 4	NIMBioS administrative offices are closed for Independence Day.
Jul 20 9–noon	Final presentations from undergraduate participants in the NIMBioS Summer Research Experiences program. Location: Hallam Auditorium, Claxton 205-206.
August 2018
Aug 7	(NICS/NIMBioS) XSEDE HPC Monthly Workshop at NIMBioS : OpenMP.
Aug 27	DySoC/NIMBioS Seminar. Todd Freeberg*, Psychology, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville; Center for the Dynamics of Social Complexity (DySoC) Topic: Songbird social psychology: flock complexity affects Carolina chickadee behavior
September 2018
Sep 3	NIMBioS administrative offices are closed for Labor Day.
Sep 4	NIMBioS Seminar. Shandelle M. Henson, Mathematics, Biology, Andrews Univ., Berrien Springs, MI; Editor-in-Chief, Natural Resource Modeling*. Topic: Climate change and tipping points for seabird colonies in the Pacific Northwest
Sep 7 11:30 am-1:30 pm	Panel on Proposals for NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)—2018 NIMBioS in Hallam Auditorium (Rm 206). Pizza will be served.
Sep 14 12:15 p.m.	Spatial Analysis Lab (SAL) at NIMBioS Brown Bag Seminar Series, UAS@UTK: Drones for Research Michael Buban, Air Resources Laboratory, Atmospheric Turbulence & Diffusion Division, NOAA. Topic: NOAA UAS Research and Technology Program: Moving research UAS platforms into operations. Room 206, Claxton
Sep 18	NIMBioS Seminar. Luc Doyen*, Director of Research CNRS, GREThA, Univ. of Bordeaux, France Topic: Tragedy of open ecosystems
Sep 24	DySoC/NIMBioS Seminar. Damian Ruck*, Anthropology, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville; Center for the Dynamics of Social Complexity (DySoC). Topic: Cultural prerequisites for democracy and economic development
Sep 26-28	NIMBioS Working Group: Long Transients and Ecological Forecasting, 3rd meeting
October 2018
Oct 2	NIMBioS Seminar. John Jungck*, Biological Sciences, Univ. of Delaware. Topic: Exploring nanobiological structures with 3D nanotomography, 4D printing via self-assembly, and graph theory
Oct 2-3	(NICS/NIMBioS) XSEDE HPC Monthly Workshop at NIMBioS: MPI
Oct 15 Monday	DySoC/NIMBioS Seminar. Sergey Gavrilets*, EEB, Mathematics, NIMBioS, UTK; DySoC Director; Anthropology, Oxford Univ. Topic: Modeling the evolutionary origins and dynamics of social complexity
Oct 16 11:45-3:00	A Tasting Menu of Mathematical Models: What Can They Do and How They Might Help in Your Research, at NIMBioS, Room 206. Hosted by the Mathematical Modeling Consulting Center at NIMBioS.
Oct 19 12:15 p.m.	Spatial Analysis Lab (SAL) at NIMBioS Brown Bag Seminar Series, UAS@UTK: Drones for Research Yingkui Li, Geography, UTK. Topic: Mapping topography and surface processes using unmanned aircraft system and structure from motion. Room 206, Claxton
Oct 22 11:45-3:00	A Tasting Menu of Mathematical Models: What Can They Do and How They Might Help in Your Research, at NIMBioS, Room 206. Hosted by the Mathematical Modeling Consulting Center at NIMBioS.
Oct 25-27	NIMBioS Working Group: Quant Bio@Community College, 2nd meeting. Reception: 5 p.m. Thursday
Oct 27-28	Tenth Annual Undergraduate Research Conference at the Interface of Mathematics and Biology, UT Conference Center.
Oct 29-31	NIMBioS Working Group: Remotely Sensing Biodiversity, 3rd meeting. Reception: 5 p.m. Monday, Oct 29
Oct 30	NIMBioS Seminar. Olivia Prosper*, Mathematics, Univ. of Kentucky. Topic: Spatial heterogeneity, host movement, and the transmission of mosquito-borne disease
November 2018
Nov 2 12:15 p.m.	Spatial Analysis Lab (SAL) at NIMBioS Brown Bag Seminar Series, UAS@UTK: Drones for Research Xiaopeng Zhao, Mechanical, Aerospace and Biomedical Engineering, UTK. Topic: Planar control of a quadcopter using Brain Machine Interface. Room 206, Claxton
Nov 6	(NICS/NIMBioS) XSEDE HPC Monthly Workshop at NIMBioS : GPU Programming Using OpenACC
Nov 12	DySoC/NIMBioS Seminar. Aleydis Van de Moortel*, Classics, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville; Center for the Dynamics of Social Complexity (DySoC). Topic: Understanding the rise and decline of complex society at prehistoric Mitrou, Greece, through practice theory and human agency
Nov 22-23	NIMBioS administrative offices are closed for Thanksgiving.
Nov 27	NIMBioS Seminar. Luis Melara*, Mathematics, Shippensburg Univ.; Visiting Scholar, NIMBioS and Mathematics, Univ. of Tennessee. Topic: Optimal control of treatments for retinitis pigmentosa
December 2018
Dec 3-5	NIMBioS Tutorial: Applications of Spatial Data: Ecological Niche Modeling
Dec 4-5	(NICS/NIMBioS) XSEDE HPC Monthly Workshop at NIMBioS: Big Data
Dec 5-7	DySoC/NIMBioS Investigative Workshop: Extending the Theory of Sustainability.
Dec 10-12	NIMBioS Working Group: Ecosystem Federalism, 3rd meeting
Dec 24-28	NIMBioS administrative offices are closed for Winter holiday.

*NIMBioS Seminars and Teatime Talks are held in Rm. 206, Claxton Building, 1122 Volunteer Blvd. Light refreshments will be served starting 30 min. before seminars.
**NIMBioS Postdoctoral Fellows Invited Distinguished Visitor

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From 2008 until early 2021, NIMBioS was supported by the National Science Foundation through NSF Award #DBI-1300426, with additional support from The University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.