Schedule

Morning talks (10:30am - 11:30am)

1. Evolution of Nursing Home Industry in States with Different Certificate of Need PoliciesNasim B. Ferdows (USC)
2. Theoretical Approaches to Life in the UniverseStuart Bartlett (Caltech)
3. Computational Approaches for Learning from Massive, Unstructured Biomedical Text DataHarry Caufield (UCLA)
4. Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators: The Interstella PowerGiacomo Cerretti (JPL)
5. Legacy from archaic human: the role of adaptive introgression in shaping human genomic diversityXinjun Zhang (UCLA)
6. Locating the source of large-scale outbreaks of foodborne diseaseAbigail Horn (USC)

Afternoon talks (1:15pm-2:45pm)

1. Probing the Big Bang from the bottom of the Earth: Telescopes at the South PoleHoward Hui (Caltech)
2. Naturally produced antimicrobial peptides and antibiotics control gene stealing in bacterial communities Frances Tran (USC)
3. Latina/o Cultural Expressions and the Re-Shaping of Twentieth-First Century Los ÁngelesJorge Leal (USC)
4. Deep brain stimulation of right hemisphere entorhinal white matter enhances memory encoding in humansEmily Mankin (UCLA)
5. Why intervention before birth could be the key to curing the obesity epidemicJasmine Plows (USC)
6. Science upside down: physics applied in mathPiotr Kucharski (Caltech)
7. Fear Protects Us from the BeginningGuangwei Zhang (USC)
8. Why black holes shine so brightRiley Connors (Caltech)
9. Promoting the cognitive learning: Middle school formative assessment on MathematicsYu Zhang (USC)
10. Shaping an embryo: the role of cell walls in brown algal developmentMarina Linardic (UCLA)