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Prof. Giulio Pasinetti, Professor of Neurology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Sep 28, 2020

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Effects of food, sleep and the microbiome on Alzheimer’s Disease, Parkinson’s Disease and other neurodegenerative diseases

Prof. Giulio Pasinetti is a Professor of Neurology, Neuroscience, and Geriatrics at the Ichan School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS). He also serves as the Director of Basic and Biomedical Research in the Center for Geriatric Research and Training at the Bronx Veterans Affairs Medical Center. He is also the Director of the Center for Molecular Integrative Neuroresilience at Mount Sinai.

Prof. Jeff Ely, Director of the mathematical methods in Social Sciences at Northwestern University Sep 26, 2020

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Suspense and Surprise: How to write novels and enjoy sports/politics, Why torture or money for information schemes are not advisable, Rotation to mitigate epidemics, Allocating tests in a pandemic, and a cake-cutting solution to gerrymandering.

Prof. Jeff Ely is the director of the mathematical methods in Social Sciences at Northwestern University. He is a microeconomic theorist with interests ranging from pure game theory to applied microeconomics to behavioral and experimental economics. His work includes contributions to the foundations of Game Theory under incomplete information, repeated games, and the evolution of preferences. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society. He was a founding co-editor of the open-access journal Theoretical Economics.

Prof. John Birge, Professor of Operations Management at the University of Chicago Sep 25, 2020

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Optimal Commissions and Subscriptions in Networked Markets, Dynamic Learning and Market Making in Spread Betting, Credit Shock Propagation in Supply Chains, and the Impact of COVID-19 on Supply Chain Credit Risk

Prof. John Birge is a Professor of Operations Management at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. His work focuses on application, theory, and computation for decision making under uncertainty with applications in the management of operations in finance, energy, health care, manufacturing, public policy, and transportation. He is an INFORMS Fellow, MSOM Society Distinguished Fellow, member of the US National Academy of Engineering, and Editor-in-Chief of Operations Research.

Prof. Andrew Ching, Professor at the Carey Business School at Johns Hopkins University Sep 24, 2020

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Forward-Looking Behavior: The Case of Consumer Stockpiling, Late-Mover Advantages: The Case of Statins, the Zero-price Effect, The Value of Perfect Information, Consumer assessment of Quality of products? Evidence from the diaper market

Prof. Andrew Ching is a professor at the Carey Business School at Johns Hopkins University, where he is cross-appointed to the Department of Economics and the Bloomberg School of Public Health. He is currently serving as an Associate Editor for Management Science, and a member of editorial boards for Marketing Science and Journal of Marketing Research. His research focuses on developing new empirical structural models and estimation methods to understand the forward-looking, strategic, learning, and bounded rational behavior of consumers and firms.

Dr. Deepa HalaHarvi, Breast cancer surgeon at Ohio Health Sep 23, 2020

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Disparities in Breast Cancer and African Ancestry, Mammographic screening from age 40 years, Disparities in Breast Cancer Surgery Delay, Prophylactic mastectomy in BRCA 1 and BRCA 2 patients.

Dr. Deepa HalaHarvi is a breast cancer surgeon at Ohio Health and a breast cancer survivor. She is also an associate program director for the breast surgery fellowship at Grant Medical center. She has started a survivorship series of lectures at Ohio Health for cancer survivors.

Prof. Sudheer Chava, Professor of Finance at Georgia Institute of Technology Sep 22, 2020

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Investor Response to Extreme Language in Earnings Conference Calls, Business Cycle and Industry Returns, Pension Overhang and Corporate Investment, Impact of E-Commerce on Employees at Brick-and-Mortar Retailers, and Investment Consultants’ Search Behavior

Prof. Sudheer Chava is a Professor of Finance at Scheller College of Business at Georgia Institute of Technology and leads the Financial Services Innovation Lab. Sudheer’s research interests are in Credit Risk, Banking, FinTech, Household Finance, Empirical Asset Pricing, and Corporate Finance.

Prof. Mark Liberman, Professor of Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania Sep 21, 2020

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The history and status of Human Language Technologies, Automatic Classification of Primary Progressive Aphasia Patients Using Lexical and Acoustic Features, and speech characteristics of young and older healthy adults

Prof. Mark Liberman is a Professor of Linguistics and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania. His many research interests include phonetics, information extraction, language evolution, and speech. He is the founder and director of the Linguistic Data Consortium

Prof. Francis Schortgen, Professor of Political Science at the University of Mount Union Sep 19, 2020

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The Political Logic of Economic Backwardness in North Korea, China’s New Role of Assertiveness in the 21st Century International System, and Chinese High-Tech in the Crosshairs of Geopolitics

Prof. Francis Schortgen is a Professor of Political Science & International Affairs and Business at the University of Mount Union. Prior to going into academia, he worked in the business consulting industry in Seoul, South Korea.

Prof. Sašo Tomažič, Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Sep 18, 2020

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Non-profit society: Utopia or necessity, Changes in the collective consciousness, Monetary Reform, Money as a medium of exchange, and Strengthening social security

Prof. Sašo Tomažič is a professor of Electrical Engineering and the head of the Laboratory of Information Technology at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. He has authored or co-authored more than two hundred scientific papers in the field of ICT and signal processing. However, since 2006, when he predicted in his lectures at several conferences the crisis that occurred two years later, he has been engaged in research on the causes of economic crises and the measures that would be necessary to prevent them in the future.

Prof. Michael Miller, Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Maryland Sep 17, 2020

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COVID and long term negative effects on the heart, POTS, Takotsubo Syndrome, Chronic Myocarditis, and other Myocardial injuries, and the need to prevent disease by individual actions to reduce long term disease burden.

Prof. Michael Miller is a Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. He has authored numerous scientific papers in cardiovascular disease with a primary focus on prevention. His most recent book is “Heal Your Heart”.

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