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Prof. Jack Burns, Professor of Astrophysical Sciences at the University of Colorado in Boulder Dec 11, 2020

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Artemis - A whole new program to travel to the moon and to establish a habitat there including an observatory, gateway that orbits with self propulsion and designing a launch pad for future exploration of the solar system including Mars.

Prof. Jack Burns is a Professor in the Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences at the University of Colorado in Boulder. He is also Vice President Emeritus for Academic Affairs and Research for the CU System.

Prof. Burns has 345 publications in refereed journals, books, and in conference proceedings and abstracts (as listed in NASA’s Astrophysics Data System). His research has been featured in articles and on the covers of Scientific American, Nature, and Science. His teaching and research focus on extragalactic astronomy and cosmology, supercomputer numerical simulations, astrophysics from the Moon, and public policy issues in higher education and science. Burns is director of the Lunar University Network for Astrophysics Research (LUNAR), a $6.5 million center recently awarded by the NASA Lunar Science Institute. Burns is an elected Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Prof. William Zame, Professor of Economics at UCLA Dec 10, 2020

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Linking Social and Personal Preferences, and Asset Markets with Asymmetric Reasoning.

Prof. William Zame is Professor of Economics and Mathematics at UCLA. His recent research includes work on the impact of culture on economic outcomes in diverse societies, informational asymmetries in macroeconomics, experimental financial markets, and a number of topics in machine learning. He is currently Co-Editor of Economic Theory and Associate Editor of Theoretical Economics.

Prof. Bruce Partridge, Emeritus Professor of Astronomy at Haverford college Dec 09, 2020

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The cosmological legacy of Planck, design, data, results and insights, Calibration of ALMA Using Planck Observations, and Can CMB Surveys Help the AGN Community?

Prof. Bruce Partridge is an emeritus professor of Astronomy at Haverford college. He has served as Education Officer of the American Astronomical Society; president of Commission on Cosmology, International Astronomical Union; and President, Astronomical Society of the Pacific. His research interests include cosmology, galaxy formation, the cosmic microwave background and radio astronomy.

Prof. John Dowling, Research Professor of Neurosciences at Harvard Dec 08, 2020

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Vitamin A: its many roles—from vision and synaptic plasticity to infant mortality

Prof. John Dowling is Research Professor of Neurosciences at Harvard. His interests include the wiring, physiology, pharmacology and genetics of the retina, as well as the effects of vitamin A and photoreceptors on vision.

Prof. Raja GuhaThakurta, Professor of Astrophysics at the University of California Santa Cruz Dec 07, 2020

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Extended halo of metal-poor stars in Andromeda, Dwarf galaxies, Star migration, Surface brightness fluctuations and understanding dark matter by studying satellite galaxies.

Prof. Raja GuhaThakurta is a Professor and Department Chair of Astronomy & Astrophysics at the University of California Santa Cruz. His research focuses on galaxies: their dark matter content, cannibalism history, and chemical enrichment as revealed by spectroscopy of their resolved stellar populations. He uses the Hubble Space Telescope and Keck telescope for his research.

Prof. Scott Gaudi, Professor of Astronomy at Ohio State University Dec 04, 2020

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Exoplanets: the history, exploration techniques and demographics. Habitable and free floating planets, and is there anybody out there?

Prof. Scott Gaudi is a Professor of Astronomy at Ohio State University. His research focuses on developing and applying ways of searching for planets around other stars, and he has been involved with the discovery of nearly two dozen extrasolar planets to date.

Prof. James McGaugh, Emeritus Professor of Neurobiology at the University of California, Irvine Dec 02, 2020

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Making lasting memories: Remembering the significant, Consolidating Memories, and Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory

Prof. James McGaugh is Emeritus Professor of Neurobiology and Behavior at University of California, Irvine. He is also fellow of the Center for the Neurobiology of Learning & Memory

Prof. Daniel Holz, Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Chicago Nov 30, 2020

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Gravitational Waves, Black hole mergers, Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and upcoming space based LISA project.

Prof Daniel Holz is a professor of Physics, Astronomy & Astrophysics at the University of Chicago, the Enrico Fermi Institute, and the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics. His research focuses on general relativity in the context of astrophysics and cosmology. He is a member of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) collaboration, and was part of the team that announced the first detection of gravitational waves in early 2016 and the first multi-messenger detection of a binary neutron star in 2017.

Prof. Kent Berridge, Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Michigan Nov 27, 2020

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Liking, Wanting, and the Incentive-Sensitization Theory of Addiction, A Liking Versus Wanting Perspective on Emotion and the Brain, and The central amygdala recruits mesocorticolimbic circuitry for pursuit of reward or pain

Prof. Kent Berridge is a Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of Michigan. His research aims for answers to questions such as: What causes addiction? How are pleasure and desire generated in the brain? And how does fear relate to desire in the brain?

Prof. Ira Rothstein, Professor of Physics at Carnegie Mellon University Nov 25, 2020

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Reducing black holes into a fundamental particle, An Effective Field Theory of Quantum Mechanical Black Hole Horizons, Virtual Hawking Radiation, Gravity waves, and LIGO

Prof. Ira Rothstein is a professor of Physics at Carnegie Mellon University. He is interested in diverse topics in elementary particle physics, gravity wave physics, astrophysics/cosmology, and QCD. In the realm of high energy physics, he uses the data from the LHC to explain the origin of mass and the nature of dark matter.

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