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Prof. Igor Shovkovy, Professor in the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts at Arizona State University. Feb 26, 2021

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The overdamped chiral magnetic wave, Electronic Properties of Dirac and Weyl Semimetals, and Ellipticity of photon emission from strongly magnetized hot QCD plasma

Prof. Igor Shovkovy is a professor in the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts at Arizona State University. His expertise includes theoretical physics, nuclear physics, high-energy physics and condensed matter physics.

Prof. Lenn Goodman, Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University Feb 24, 2021

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Science and Religion : Complementary or Substitutes

Prof. Lenn Goodman is Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. He has published over 2 dozen books in Jewish, Islamic and General philosophy, including books on truth and justice, political philosophy, bio-philosophy, and comparative philosophy.

Prof. Anne C Hart, Professor of Neuroscience at Brown University. Feb 22, 2021

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Genetic modifiers ameliorate endocytic and neuromuscular defects in a model of Spinal Muscular Atrophy, and Single copy/knock-in models of ALS SOD1 in C. elegans suggest loss and gain of function have different contributions to neurodegeneration

Prof. Anne C Hart is Professor of Neuroscience at Brown University. Her research focuses on the molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying neurological disease, sensory signaling, sleep, and fatigue.

Prof. Ellen Armour, Carpenter Chair of Feminist Theology at Vanderbilt Divinity School Feb 19, 2021

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Philosophy, Photography, and the (Cosmo)Politics of Life and Death, and Religion, Sexuality, and Post modernity

Prof. Ellen Armour is the Chair of Feminist Theology at Vanderbilt Divinity School and directs the Carpenter Program in Religion, Gender and Sexuality. Her research interests are in feminist theology, theories of sex, race, gender, disability and embodiment, and visual culture as well as contemporary continental philosophy.

Prof. Emery Brown, Professor of Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School and Computational Neuroscience at MIT Feb 17, 2021

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General Anesthesia and Altered States of Arousal: A Systems Neuroscience Analysis, Clinical Electroencephalography for Anesthesiologists, and Multimodal General Anesthesia: Theory and Practice.

Prof. Emery Brown is Professor of Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School and Professor of Medical Engineering and computational neuroscience at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His lab develops statistical methods and signal-processing algorithms for neuroscience data analysis.

Prof. Jason Haffner, Prof of Physics and Astronomy at Rice University. Feb 15, 2021

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A Tunable Plasmon Resonance in Gold Nanobelts, Novel Plasmonic Structures Based on Gold Nanobelts, and Structural Analysis by Enhanced Raman Scattering

Prof. Jason Haffner is Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Rice University. His lab at Rice studies nanophotonics and interfacial biology.

Prof. Ghassan AlRegib, Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Feb 12, 2021

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Backpropagated Gradient Representations for Anomaly Detection, Implicit Saliency in Deep Neural Networks, Contrastive Explanations in Neural Networks, Fabric Surface Characterization: Assessment of Deep Learning-Based Texture Representations Using a Challenging Dataset, Successful Leveraging of Image Processing and Machine Learning in Seismic Structural Interpretation, and Relative Afferent Pupillary Defect Screening Through Transfer Learning.

Prof. Ghassan AlRegib is Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is the director of the Omni Lab for Intelligent Visual Engineering and Science and the center for Energy and Geo Processing at Georgia Tech.

Prof. Jacquelyn Pless, Assistant Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Feb 11, 2021

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Are “Complementary Policies” Substitutes? Evidence from R&D Subsidies in the UK, and Bringing rigor to energy innovation policy evaluation.

Prof. Jacquelyn Pless is Assistant Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Her research interests are in the economics of innovation, energy and environmental economics.

Prof. Wael Asaad, Associate Professor of Neuroscience and NeuroSurgery at Brown University Feb 10, 2021

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Deep Brain Stimulation Targeting the Fornix for Mild Alzheimer Dementia, Rapid motor fluctuations reveal short-timescale neurophysiological biomarkers of Parkinson’s disease, and LITT for Intractable Psychiatric Disease

Prof. Wael Asaad is Associate Professor of Neuroscience and NeuroSurgery at Brown University. He is also the Director of Functional Neurosurgery and Epilepsy program.

Prof. Benjamin Moll, Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics Feb 09, 2021

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The Rich Interactions between Inequality and the Macroeconomy

Prof. Benjamin Moll is a Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics. His research is concerned with understanding why some countries and people are so much poorer than others and how micro heterogeneity impacts the macro economy and macroeconomic policy.

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