NIMBioS 2019 Event Calendar Archive | |
January 2019 | |
Jan 1 | NIMBioS administrative offices are closed for New Year's Day. |
Jan 16-18 | NIMBioS Working Group: Conservation Hierarchies, 3rd meeting |
Jan 21 | NIMBioS administrative offices are closed for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. |
Jan 22 |
*DySoC/NIMBioS Seminar. Oleg Manaev, Political Science, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville; Center for the Dynamics of Social Complexity (DySoC). Topic: Reshaping social structure for legitimation of power in resurgent autocracy: The case of Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine |
February 2019 | |
Feb 1 12:15 p.m. |
Spatial Analysis Lab (SAL) at NIMBioS Brown Bag Seminar Series, UAS@UTK: Drones for Research
Shuai Li, Civil and Environmental Engineering, UTK. Topic: Drones for civil engineering. Room 206, Claxton |
Feb 4-6 | NIMBioS Tutorial: Network Modeling |
Feb 12-13 | (NICS/NIMBioS) XSEDE HPC Monthly Workshop at NIMBioS: Big Data |
Feb 13-15 | NIMBioS Working Group: Ecosystem Network Dynamics, 4th meeting |
Feb 14 3:30-5 |
*DySoC/NIMBioS Seminar. Frans B. M. de Waal, Living Links, Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory Univ., Atlanta, USA, and Utrecht Univ., the Netherlands. Topic: Animal Emotions and Empathy. Book signing to follow. Location: Strong Hall Auditorium 101 |
Feb 15-16 | DySoC/NIMBioS Investigative Workshop: Human Origins 2021 |
Feb 25-26 | NIMBioS Working Group: Learning in Networks, 2nd meeting |
March 2019 | |
Mar 5-7 | NIMBioS Tutorial: Risk Assessment Calculator Training |
Mar 25 3:30 p.m. |
*DySoC/NIMBioS Seminar. Stephanie A. Bohon, Assoc. Director of the Center for the Study of Social Justice; Sociology, Univ. of Tennessee. Topic: Structural conditions of police-involved killings in the United States |
April 2019 | |
Apr 11 1-2:30 p.m. |
NIMBioS Seminar. Krithi K. Karanth, Director, Centre for Wildlife Studies, Bangalore; Conservation Scientist, Wildlife Conservation Society, New York; Duke Univ. Topic: Living with Wildlife: Insights from conservation research, technology and education programs in India. Location: Toyota Auditorium (room 103), Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy, 1640 Cumberland Ave |
Apr 16 12:40 p.m. |
Canceled due to travel cancellations. *NIMBioS Seminar. Mary Ann Horn, Mathematics and Statistics, Case Western Reserve Univ. Topic: Using mathematical modeling to understand the role of diacylglycerol (DAG) as a second messenger |
Apr 19 | NIMBioS administrative offices are closed for Spring Holiday. |
Apr 23 7:30 p.m. |
DySoC/NIMBioS Event: Baba Brinkman, World Premiere of "Rap Guide to Culture." The performance is free. Public welcome. Location: 272 Student Union |
Apr 23-25 | DySoC/NIMBioS Investigative Workshop: Social norms: emergence, persistence, and effects |
Apr 25 3:30 p.m. |
DySoC/NIMBioS Seminar. Michele Gelfand, Psychology, Univ. of Maryland. Topic: Rule makers, rule breakers: How tight and loose cultures wire our world. Location: Strong Hall Auditorium 101 |
May 2019 | |
May 1-3 | NIMBioS/DySoC Investigative Workshop: Mathematics of Gun Violence |
May 7-9 | NIMBioS Working Group: Long Transients and Ecological Forecasting, 4th meeting |
May 13-15 | NIMBioS Investigative Workshop: Scientific Collaboration Enabled by High Performance Computing |
May 16-19 | NIMBioS Working Group: Conservation Hierarchies, 4th meeting |
May 27 | NIMBioS administrative offices are closed for Memorial Day. |
May 29-31 | NIMBioS Investigative Workshop: Transients in Biological Systems |
May 30-Jun 1 | NIMBioS Working Group: Quant Bio@Community College, 3rd meeting |
June 2019 | |
May 30-Jun 1 | NIMBioS Working Group: Quant Bio@Community College, 3rd meeting |
Jun 1 | Monthly deadline to apply for Short-term Visits to NIMBioS beginning after July 15. |
Jun 3-7 | NIMBioS Tutorial: The Search for Selection. |
Jun 3-7 | (NICS/NIMBioS) XSEDE HPC Monthly Workshop at NIMBioS: Summer Boot Camp. |
Jun 4-Jul 26 | Summer Research Experiences (SRE) at NIMBioS for Undergraduates |
Jun 24-28 | Adventures in STEM Camp |
July 2019 | |
Jun 4-Jul 26 | Summer Research Experiences (SRE) at NIMBioS for Undergraduates |
Jul 1 | Monthly deadline to apply for Short-term Visits to NIMBioS beginning after August 15. |
Jul 4 | NIMBioS administrative offices are closed for Independence Day. |
Jul 15-16 | NIMBioS Working Group: Optimal Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs), 2nd meeting |
Jul 23 10-noon |
UT Summer STEM Poster Symposium with NIMBioS SRE students participating. Location: Atrium of Mossman Building |
Jul 26 9-noon |
Final presentations of NIMBioS SRE students: Friday 9-noon. Location: NIMBioS, Hallam Auditorium, Room 206 |
August 2019 | |
Aug 1 | Monthly deadline to apply for Short-term Visits to NIMBioS beginning after September 15. |
Aug 7-9 | Short-term visitors to NIMBioS: Gary C. An, Division of Acute Care Surgery, Univ. of Vermont Larner College of Medicine, collaborating with Judy Day on control discovery techniques applied to mathematical models for acute care. |
Aug 7-9 | NIMBioS Working Group: Multiscale Vectored Plant Viruses, 5th meeting |
Aug 25-31 | Short-term visitors to NIMBioS: collaborating with Nina Fefferman on Parasite risks and the evolution of social behaviors and emergent population organization. |
September 2019 | |
Sep 1 | Monthly deadline to apply for Short-term Visits to NIMBioS beginning after October 15. |
Sep 2 | NIMBioS administrative offices are closed for Labor Day. |
Sep 4 11:30-1:30 |
Panel on Proposals for NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)—2019 NIMBioS in Hallam Auditorium (Rm 206) 11:30 am-1:30 pm EDT. Streamed live for remote participants and hosted for local attendees. Pizza will be served. |
Sep 10 3:30 p.m. |
DySoC/NIMBioS Seminar.
Jeremy Van Cleve, Biology, Univ. of Kentucky
Topic: Components of cooperation: Synergy in structured populations and the evolution of guilt |
Sep 16 2 p.m. |
NIMBioS Staff Meeting, Room 103 |
Sep 24-26 | Short-term visitors to NIMBioS: Horan and Finnoff collaborating with Charles Sims on "Stochasticity in bioeconomic models" |
Sep 26-Dec 5 | Visiting Scholar to NIMBioS: Etotépé Sogbohossou (Conservation Biology, Univ. of Abomey-Calavi, Cotonou, Benin), collaborating with Mona Papes and the NIMBioS Spatial Analysis Lab on "Niche modeling of species of concern in Benin" |
October 2019 | |
Oct 1 | Monthly deadline to apply for Short-term Visits to NIMBioS beginning after November 15. |
Sep 26-Dec 5 | Visiting Scholar to NIMBioS: Etotépé Sogbohossou (Conservation Biology, Univ. of Abomey-Calavi, Cotonou, Benin), collaborating with Mona Papes and the NIMBioS Spatial Analysis Lab on "Niche modeling of species of concern in Benin" |
Oct 8-9 | Short-term visitor to NIMBioS: Tom McAvoy, collaborating with Suzanne Lenhart, Greg Wiggins, and Hannah Thompson to discuss mathematical modeling of population dynamics and interactions among HWA and two predatory beetles |
Oct 10-11 | Short-term visitors to NIMBioS: Sudakov et al. collaborating with UT paleontoligist Colin D. Sumrall on "Nonlinearity in past mass extinctions" |
Oct 15 3:30 p.m. |
DySoC/NIMBioS Seminar.
Luke J. Matthews, Behavioral and Social Scientist, RAND Corporation; Faculty, Pardee RAND Graduate School; Co-Director, RAND Center for Applied Network Analysis and System Science
Topic: Cultural inheritance mechanics: Their affordances for evolutionary adaptation and applications to policy analysis |
Oct 18-19 | Short-term visitors to NIMBioS: Stanhope et al. collaborating on the topic: "Assessing undergraduate quantitative biology skills" |
Oct 18-21 | Short-term visitors to NIMBioS: Leite et al. collaborating with Dr. Orou Gaoue to study "Plant sustainability under virus co-infection and harvesting" |
Oct 24-26 | Short-term visitors to NIMBioS: Pinter-Wollman et al. collaborating with Dr. Nina Fefferman to study "Null models in social behavior" |
Oct 27-29 | Short-term visitors to NIMBioS: Marinez Ferreira de Siqueira (Instituto de Pesquisas Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), collaborating with Mona Papes |
November 2019 | |
Nov 1 | Monthly deadline to apply for Short-term Visits to NIMBioS beginning after December 15. |
Sep 26-Dec 5 | Visiting Scholar to NIMBioS: Etotépé Sogbohossou (Conservation Biology, Univ. of Abomey-Calavi, Cotonou, Benin), collaborating with Mona Papes and the NIMBioS Spatial Analysis Lab on "Niche modeling of species of concern in Benin" |
Nov 9 9 am-2:30 pm |
Expanding Your Horizons STEM Activity Day for Middle School Girls |
Nov 16-17 | Eleventh Annual Undergraduate Research Conference at the Interface of Mathematics and Biology, UT Conference Center. |
Nov 20-27 | Short-term visitor to NIMBioS: Karen Maguire (Economics, Oklahoma State Univ.) collaborating with Mona Papeş and the NIMBioS Spatial Analysis Lab on "Pecking order? Fracking boom and bird populations on the high plains of Colorado" |
Nov 25 4 p.m. |
DySoC/NIMBioS Seminar.
Simon Levin, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Princeton Univ.
Topic: Public goods, from biofilms to societies |
Nov 25-26 | Short-term visitors to NIMBioS: Cuddington et al. collaborating to study mismatched transients in the dynamics of social and ecological systems |
Nov 28-29 | NIMBioS administrative offices are closed for Thanksgiving. |
December 2019 | |
Dec 1 | Monthly deadline to apply for Short-term Visits to NIMBioS beginning after January 15. |
Sep 26-Dec 5 | Visiting Scholar to NIMBioS: Etotépé Sogbohossou, Conservation Biology, Univ. of Abomey-Calavi, Cotonou, Benin, collaborating with Mona Papes and the NIMBioS Spatial Analysis Lab on "Niche modeling of species of concern in Benin" |
Dec 4-6 | Short-term visitors to NIMBioS: Kling et al. collaborating with Charles Sims and Suzanne Lenhart on "Matching policy scope to ecosystem scale: Lessons from environmental federalism" |
Dec 9-13 | Short-term visitor to NIMBioS: David Swofford collaborating with Michael Gilchrist and Brian O'Meara on "Porting spatially explicit model of UCE sequence evolution SelON into PAUP" |
Dec 23-27 | NIMBioS administrative offices are closed for Winter holiday. |
*NIMBioS Seminars are held in Rm. 206, Claxton Building, 1122 Volunteer Blvd.
Light refreshments will be served starting 30 min. before seminars.
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