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Prof. Adele Diamond, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of British Columbia Jan 25, 2021

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Review of the Evidence on, and Fundamental Questions About, Efforts to Improve Executive Functions, Including Working Memory, and ideas to redesign the education system.

Prof. Adele Diamond is Professor of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of British Columbia and Head of the Program in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience at UBC. Prof. Diamond’s specialty is executive functions, which depend on the brain’s prefrontal cortex and interrelated neural regions.

Prof. Wendy Freedman, Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Chicago Jan 22, 2021

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Cosmology at a crossroads, the legacy and development of the Hubble constant, and The Carnegie-Chicago Hubble Program: An Independent Determination of the Hubble Constant Based on the Tip of the Red Giant Branch

Prof. Wendy Freedman is professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Chicago. Professor Freedman is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Physical Society, and a Legacy Fellow of the American Astronomical Society. She is a recipient of the American Philosophical Society's Magellanic Prize and co-recipient of the Gruber Cosmology Prize.

Prof. Ted Gibson, Professor of Cognitive Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Jan 21, 2021

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How Efficiency Shapes Human Language, Color naming across languages reflects color use, Large-scale evidence of dependency length minimization in languages, and Information processing and cross-linguistic universals

Prof. Ted Gibson is a professor of Cognitive Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Prof. Gibson’s research examines how language is processed, and how language processing constraints constrain language structure (words and sentences).

Prof. Mark Schroeder, Professor of philosophy at the University of Southern California Jan 20, 2021

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Persons as Things, and Treating like a child : Philosophical treatment of people and relationships

Prof. Mark Schroeder is professor of philosophy at the University of Southern California. He is interested in the ways in which rationality, reasons, value, and other 'evaluative' or 'normative' categories are related to the mundane, physical world in which we live, in which things are round, red, or left of one another.

Prof. Matthew Johnson, Assistant Professor of Economics at Duke University Jan 19, 2021

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Demand Conditions and Worker Safety: Evidence from Price Shocks in Mining, Regulation by Shaming: Deterrence Effects of Publicizing Violations of Workplace Safety and Health Laws, and The Labor Market Effects of Legal Restrictions on Worker Mobility

Prof. Matthew Johnson is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Economics at Duke University. Through his research, he seeks to understand how regulations, policies, and other institutions shape working conditions in the U.S.

Prof. Scott Huettal, Professor of Neuroscience at Duke University Jan 18, 2021

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Decision neuroscience: neuroeconomics, Linking the neural and social sciences via neuroeconomics, Cognitive Foundations of Voter Choice, and Indulgent Foods Can Paradoxically Promote Disciplined Dietary Choices

Prof. Scott Huettal is Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University. Research in his lab investigates the brain mechanisms underlying economic and social decision-making.

Prof. Christopher McKee, Emeritus Professor of Astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley Jan 15, 2021

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A theory of the interstellar medium: Three components regulated by supernova explosions in an inhomogeneous substrate, Theory of Star Formation, and Radioactive feedback processes and implications for the initial mass function.

Prof. Christopher McKee is emeritus professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on how stars form out of the diffuse interstellar medium of galaxies.

Prof. Nicholas Christakis, Professor of Social and Natural Science at Yale University Jan 14, 2021

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Social networks, Influencers, On the origins of a good society, Artificial Intelligence in hybrid systems, and managing pandemics.

Prof. Nicholas Christakis is professor of Social and Natural Science at Yale University. He directs the Human Nature Lab at Yale. His current research is focused on the social, mathematical, and biological rules governing how social networks form (“connection”), and (2) the social and biological implications of how they operate to influence thoughts, feelings, and behaviors (“contagion”).

Prof. Philip Cook, Professor of Public Policy & Economics at Duke University Jan 13, 2021

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The Great American Gun War: Notes from Four Decades in the Trenches, Understanding Gun Violence: Public Health v/s Public Policy, and Thinking about gun violence.

Prof. Philip Cook is Professor of Public Policy, Economics and Sociology at Duke University. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. He is also co-director of the NBER Work Group on the Economics of Crime, and co-editor of a NBER volume on crime prevention.

Prof. Adriana Lleras-Muney, Professor of Economics at UCLA Jan 12, 2021

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Do Youth Employment Programs Work? Evidence from the New Deal, The association between educational attainment and longevity using individual-level data from the 1940 census, The Incentive Effects of Cash Transfers to the Poor, and A Unified Model of Cohort Mortality for Economic Analysis

Prof. Adriana Lleras-Muney is a Professor of Economics at UCLA. Her research examines the relationships between socio-economic status and health, with a particular focus on education and income. Her most recent work investigates the long term impact of government policies on children by analyzing the effects of programs like the Mother’s Pension program and the Civilian Conservation Corps, implemented during the first half of the 20th century.

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