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Prof Erik Berglöf, Professor of economics at the London School of Economics. Mar 20, 2021

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Tackling the pandemic globally, the challenges for developing countries and risk management for future pandemics

Prof Erik Berglöf is professor of economics at the London School of Economics. He is also the Chief Economist of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), the Beijing-based multilateral development bank established in 2016 with a mission to improve social and economic outcomes in Asia.

Prof. Scott Baraban, Professor & Chair in Neuroscience Research, UCSF Mar 18, 2021

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Persistent Seizure Control in Epileptic Mice Transplanted With Gamma Aminobutyric Acid Progenitors, Clemizole and modulators of serotonin signalling suppress seizures in Dravet syndrome, Phenotypic analysis of catastrophic childhood epilepsy genes: The Epilepsy Zebrafish Project, and Interneuron origins in the embryonic porcine medial ganglionic eminence

Prof. Scott Baraban is Professor & Chair in Neuroscience Research, UCSF. One of his primary research areas is the causes and treatment of epilepsy.

Prof. Paul Taylor, Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt university Mar 16, 2021

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Taking Postracialism seriously: From Movement Mythology to Racial Formation

Prof. Paul Taylor, who is professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt university. Prof. Taylor focuses on the Philosophy of race.

Prof. Jonathan Tan, Professor of Astronomy at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden Mar 14, 2021

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Star Formation Rates in Disk Galaxies, Equilibrium Star Cluster Formation, Massive Star Formation, The formation of supermassive black holes from Population III.1 seeds, and Inside-out Planet Formation

Prof. Jonathan Tan is Professor of Astronomy at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden and at the Dept. of Astronomy, University of Virginia. He coordinates the activities of the Chalmers and Virginia Initiatives on Cosmic Origins (CICO & VICO) - http://cosmicorigins.space/, which are interdisciplinary initiatives in the field of Origins Science.

Prof. Kadri Vihvelin, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern California Mar 12, 2021

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Compatibilism, incompatibilism and impossibilism views of Free Will and the Philosophy of Time Travel

Prof. Kadri Vihvelin is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern California. She has published articles on a wide variety of topics, including time travel, counterfactuals, free will, and determinism.

Prof. Randall McEntaffer, Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Pennsylvania State University Mar 10, 2021

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Water Recovery X-Ray Rocket grating spectrometer, Performance Testing of a Large-Format X-ray Reflection Grating Prototype for a Suborbital Rocket Payload, and Extreme Ultraviolet and Soft X-Ray Diffraction Efficiency of a Blazed Reflection Grating Fabricated by Thermally Activated Selective Topography Equilibration.

Prof. Randall McEntaffer is a Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Pennsylvania State University. He specializes in the design, fabrication, testing, and implementation of X-ray diffraction gratings for high throughput, high resolving power astrophysical observations.

Prof. Philip Mauskopf, Prof of Physics at Arizona State University Mar 08, 2021

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Millimeter-Wave Polarimeters Using Kinetic Inductance Detectors for TolTEC and Beyond, NASA's near-infrared spectrophotometric all-sky survey, BLAST Mission, and Design of a W-band Superconducting Kinetic Inductance Qubit (Kineticon)

Prof. Philip Mauskopf has a joint appointments at Arizona State University in the School of Earth and Space Exploration and the Department of Physics. His background is in primarily experimental cosmology - in particular designing and building new types of instruments for measuring signals from the most distant objects in the universe.

Prof. Mark Wilson, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh Mar 05, 2021

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Imitation of Rigor - Why philosophy needs mathematicians and vice versa.

Prof. Mark Wilson is Professor of philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh, a fellow of the Center for Philosophy of Science and a Fellow at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His main research investigates the manner in which physical and mathematical concerns become entangled with issues characteristic of metaphysics and philosophy of language.

Prof. Vikram Gadagkar, Assistant Professor of Neuroscience at Columbia University. Mar 03, 2021

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Dopamine neurons encode performance error in singing birds, and Dopamine neurons change their tuning according to courtship context in singing birds

Prof. Vikram Gadagkar is Assistant Professor of Neuroscience at Columbia University. His research focuses on learning, memory and computation.

Prof. Stephen Finlay, Prof of Philosophy at the Australian Catholic University in Melbourne, Australia Mar 01, 2021

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Confusion of Tongues: A Theory of Normative Language

Prof. Stephen Finlay is Director of the Dianoia Institute of Philosophy at the Australian Catholic University in Melbourne, Australia, as well as Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern California. He works primarily in metaethics, especially on the meaning and use of normative and evaluative language.

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