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Prof. James Kakalios, Professor of Astronomy at the University of Minnesota Dec 25, 2020

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Transient Striatal γ Local Field Potentials Signal Movement Initiation in Rats, Structural and electronic properties of dual plasma codeposited mixed-phase amorphous/nanocrystalline thin films, and Proton radiation-induced enhancement of the dark conductivity in composites.

Prof. James Kakalios is Professor, School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Minnesota. His current research ranges from the Nano to the Neuro, with active studies of the optical and electronic properties of materials to investigations of voltage fluctuations in the brain.

Prof. Lee Ohanian, Professor of Economics at UCLA Dec 24, 2020

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Capital-skill complementarity and inequality, Are Phillips Curves Useful for Forecasting Inflation?, New Deal Policies and the Persistence of the Great Depression, Long-term changes in labor supply and taxes, and Tarnishing the Golden and Empire States: Land-Use Restrictions and the U.S. Economic Slowdown

Prof. Lee Ohanian is Professor of Economics, and Director of the Macroeconomic Research program at UCLA. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and the Associate Director of the Center for the Advanced Study in Economic Efficiency at Arizona State University. He is an adviser to the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, and previously has advised other Federal Reserve Banks, Foreign Central Banks, and the National Science Foundation.

Prof. Michael Ullman, Professor of Neuroscience at Georgetown University Dec 23, 2020

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THE Declarative/Procedural Model: A Neurobiologically Motivated Theory of First and Second Language, Child first language and adult second language are both tied to general-purpose learning systems, and the Neurocognition of Developmental Disorders of Language

Prof. Michael Ullman is Professor of Neuroscience, with secondary appointments in the Departments of Psychology and Neurology at Georgetown University. He is Director of the Brain and Language Lab, and Director of the Georgetown EEG/ERP Laboratory. The Brain and Language Lab aims to elucidate how language is learned, represented, and processed in the mind and brain.

Prof. Tudor Oprea, Professor of Medicine at the University of New Mexico. Dec 22, 2020

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Exploring the dark genome: implications for precision medicine, Virtual and In Vitro Antiviral Screening Revive Therapeutic Drugs for COVID-19, Artificial intelligence, drug repurposing and peer review, mining the human proteome for disease biology, drug discovery and repositioning

Prof. Tudor Oprea is Professor of Medicine, Pharmaceutical Sciences and Chemistry and Chemical Biology; and Division Chief, Translational Informatics, at the University of New Mexico. His current research is in the development of validated artificial intelligence models for target selection in drug discovery, by combining numerical and text-mined information to model human health via knowledge graphs.

Prof. Frank Wolak, Professor of Commodity Price Studies at Stanford University Dec 21, 2020

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An Experimental Comparison of Carbon Pricing Under Uncertainty in Electricity Markets, Emissions Uncertainty and Environmental Market, Wholesale Market Design, and Transmission Planning

Prof. Frank Wolak is Professor of Commodity Price Studies in the Economics Department, Director of the Program on Energy and Sustainable Development and Co-Director of the Natural Gas Initiative at Stanford University. Prof. Wolak has worked on the design and regulatory oversight of the electricity markets internationally throughout Europe, Australia/Asia, Latin America, and Africa. He was also a member of the Emissions Market Advisory Committee (EMAC) that advised the California Air Resources Board on the design and monitoring of the state's cap-and-trade market for Greenhouse Gas Emissions.

Prof. Adina Roskies, Professor of Philosophy at Dartmouth College Dec 18, 2020

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Why Libet’s studies don’t pose a threat to free will, Agency and intervention, Neurotechnologies for Mind Reading, and Neuroethics

Prof. Adina Roskies who is Professor of Philosophy and chair of the Cognitive Science Program, and an affiliate of the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Dartmouth College. Dr. Roskies’ research interests lie at the intersection of philosophy and neuroscience, and include philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, and ethics. She has coauthored a book with Stephen Morse, A Primer on Criminal Law and Neuroscience.

Prof. Manfred Paulini, Professor of Physics at Carnegie Mellon University Dec 17, 2020

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Standard model and supersymmetry of particle physics, experiments at the Large Hadron Collider and novel uses of machine learning in experimental Physics.

Prof. Manfred Paulini is a Professor of Physics at Carnegie Mellon University and a member of the CMS experiment operating at the Large Hadron Collider (the LHC) at CERN. He is looking for the production of dark matter particle in collision events at the LHC. In recent years he has started to explore novel machine learning and AI based approaches for event classification in particle physics, where he is interested to use ML to go beyond the classic data analysis approaches that have been used in particle physics for many years.

Prof. Jacqueline Gottlieb, Professor of Neuroscience at Columbia University Dec 16, 2020

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Intrinsic motivation, curiosity, and learning: animals, humans and education systems, neuroscience basis of curiosity and learning, reward uncertainty and information transmission in the brain.

Prof. Jacqueline Gottlieb is Professor of Neuroscience and the founder and director of the Research Cluster on Curiosity at Columbia University. Dr. Gottlieb studies the neural mechanisms of attention and their relationship with information processing, including learning, decision making, and curiosity.

Prof. Jeremy Darling, Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Colorado, Boulder Dec 15, 2020

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Direct Measurement of the Cosmic Acceleration, The Hubble expansion is isotropic in the epoch of dark energy, How to Detect Inclined Water Maser Disks and Measure Black Hole Masses, Extragalactic Proper Motions: Gravitational Waves and Cosmology, and New Limits on Axionic Dark Matter from the Magnetar.

Prof. Jeremy Darling is a Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He studies black holes, galaxy evolution, and cosmology. Mostly using telescopes, but sometimes just by thinking.

Prof. Oswald Schmitz, Professor of Community Ecology at Yale University Dec 14, 2020

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Predator community composition is linked to soil carbon retention across a human land use gradient, and Animals and the zoogeochemistry of the carbon cycle

Prof. Oswald Schmitz, Professor of Population and Community Ecology in the Yale University School of Environment. His research aims to make sense of nature’s complexity that comes from interdependencies among the variety of carnivore, herbivore, and plant species that coexist within ecosystems. These insights help to inform environmental stewardship to enhance the conservation of wildlife species and ensure the sustainability of ecosystems, their functions, and the services that they provide to humankind.

He teaches courses on the role of humans in nature and how humans can develop the means to coexist harmoniously with nature. His book “The New Ecology: Rethinking a Science for the Anthropocene” encapsulates much of his thinking about humans and nature, making ecological science accessible to a broader readership.

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