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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 statisti...

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.

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 Pupill...

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.

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.

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.

Religious Experience: Psychology and Neurology, The Noetic Quality: A Multimethod Exploratory Study, and The Varieties of Self-Transcendent Experience Prof. Andrew Newberg is Professor of Integrative Medicine and Nutritional Sciences at Thomas Jefferson University. He has been involved in a number of neuroimaging research projects which have included the study of aging and dementia, epilepsy, and...

Securing Big Data in the Age of AI, Defending Against Backdoors in Federated Learning with Robust Learning Rate, and Does Explainable Artificial Intelligence Improve Human Decision-Making? Prof. Murat Kantarcioglu is Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Data Security and Privacy Lab at The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD). Prof. Kantarcioglu's research focuses on the integration of...

Dirty Superconductors Make Better Particle Accelerators, CAPST Research, Take a dip into the weird world of quantum liquids, and the future of quantum computing. Prof. James Sauls is Professor of Physics at Northwestern University and Co-Director, Center for Applied Physics & Superconducting  Technologies 

Countries, political systems, integration and democracy - what does the future hold? Prof. Charles Lipson taught international relations at the University of Chicago, where he was Professor in Political Science and the College. His research deals with international cooperation and conflict and with political aspects of the world economy.

Political Centralization, Federalism, and Urban Development: Evidence from US and Canadian Capital Cities, Understanding the Rise of Regulation during the Progressive Era, The Political Economy of Truth-in-Advertising Regulation, Effects of Occupational Licensing Laws on Minorities, and did early twentieth-century alcohol prohibition affect mortality? Prof. Marc Law is Professor of Economics at th...

Identifying genetic factors that contribute to the increased risk of congenital heart defects in infants with Down syndrome, The Genetic Basis of Turner Syndrome Aortopathy, and Conference summary: What we have learned and where we are headed Prof. Cheryl Maslen, who is professor of medicine at Oregon Health & Science University. Her Research focuses on the genetic basis of congenital cardiova...

The first neurons of the human cerebral cortex, Tactile perception recruits functionally related visual areas in the late-blind, What synesthesia isn’t, and I Haven’t a Clue! Expectations Based on Repetitions and Hints Facilitate Perceptual Experience of Ambiguous Images Sir Colin Blakemore is Professor of Neuroscience at City University of Hong Kong. His research has focused on vision, developmen...

Dynamic mRNA Transport and Local Translation in Radial Glial Progenitors of the Developing Brain, Prolonged Mitosis of Neural Progenitors Alters Cell Fate in the Developing Brain, and Pathogenic DDX3X Mutations Impair RNA Metabolism and Neurogenesis during Fetal Cortical Development Prof. Debby Silver is Associate Professor of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology at Duke University School of Medici...

Online Neural Connectivity Estimation with Noisy Group Testing, and Naturalistic decision-making:  continuous, open-world, and recursive Prof. John Pearson is Assistant Professor of Neurobiology at Duke University. His research focuses on the application of machine learning methods to the analysis of brain data and behavior.

Formation of supermassive black holes by direct collapse in pre-galactic haloes, Quasi-stars: accreting black holes inside massive envelopes, Evolution of supermassive stars as a pathway to black hole formation, and Strongly magnetized accretion discs: structure and accretion from global magnetohydrodynamic simulations Prof. Mitch Begelman is Professor of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences at th...

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 function...

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...

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 process...

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...

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 re...

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.

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...

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 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...