FIP Sponsored or Co-sponsored Sessions at the APS Spring Meetings
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”
Association of Korean Physicists in America (AKPA)
Iranian-American Physicists Group Network (IrAP)
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