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The Real Effects of Financial Markets, Trading frenzies, Feedback Effects, Asymmetric Trading, and the Limits to Arbitrage, Financial Crises: Fundamentals vs. Panic, Investor flows and fragility in corporate bond funds, and Financial Fragility in the COVID-19 Crisis Prof. Itay Goldstein is Professor of Finance and Economics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is the Executi...

The relationship between quarks and hadrons, Heavy-Quark QCD Exotica, and Exotics in the Dynamical Diquark Model Prof. Richard Lebed is Professor of Physics at Arizona State University.  His research involves studying the properties of, and interactions between, particles at the most elementary level.

Black hole variability and the star formation-AGN connection, Obscured Active Galactic Nuclei, A Large Population of Luminous Active Galactic Nuclei Lacking X-ray Detections, and Cosmic evolution of supermassive black holes Ryan Hickox is a Professor of Astronomy at Dartmouth College, studying supermassive black holes in galaxies and how they grow over cosmic time. He is currently the Chair of NAS...

Challenges and Advances in Modeling of the Solar Atmosphere, The Coronal Global Evolutionary Model , Active Region Irradiance during Quiescent Periods , and Inferring depth-dependent plasma motions from surface observations using the DeepVel neural network Prof. Maria Kazachenko is an assistant professor of Astrophysical & Planetary Science at the University of Colorado, Boulder and the Nation...

Tackling the pandemic globally, the challenges for developing countries and risk management for future pandemics Prof Erik Berglöf is professor of economics at the London School of Economics. He is also the Chief Economist of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), the Beijing-based multilateral development bank established in 2016 with a mission to improve social and economic outcomes in...

Persistent Seizure Control in Epileptic Mice Transplanted With Gamma Aminobutyric Acid Progenitors, Clemizole and modulators of serotonin signalling suppress seizures in Dravet syndrome, Phenotypic analysis of catastrophic childhood epilepsy genes: The Epilepsy Zebrafish Project, and Interneuron origins in the embryonic porcine medial ganglionic eminence Prof. Scott Baraban is Professor & Chai...

Taking Postracialism seriously: From Movement Mythology to Racial Formation Prof. Paul Taylor, who is professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt university. Prof. Taylor focuses on the Philosophy of race.

Star Formation Rates in Disk Galaxies, Equilibrium Star Cluster Formation, Massive Star Formation, The formation of supermassive black holes from Population III.1 seeds, and Inside-out Planet Formation Prof. Jonathan Tan is Professor of Astronomy at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden and at the Dept. of Astronomy, University of Virginia. He coordinates the activities of the Chal...

Compatibilism, incompatibilism and impossibilism views of Free Will and the Philosophy of Time Travel Prof. Kadri Vihvelin is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern California.  She has published articles on a wide variety of topics, including time travel, counterfactuals, free will, and determinism.

Water Recovery X-Ray Rocket grating spectrometer, Performance Testing of a Large-Format X-ray Reflection Grating Prototype for a Suborbital Rocket Payload, and Extreme Ultraviolet and Soft X-Ray Diffraction Efficiency of a Blazed Reflection Grating Fabricated by Thermally Activated Selective Topography Equilibration. Prof. Randall McEntaffer is a Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Penn...

Millimeter-Wave Polarimeters Using Kinetic Inductance Detectors for TolTEC and Beyond, NASA's near-infrared spectrophotometric all-sky survey, BLAST Mission, and Design of a W-band Superconducting Kinetic Inductance Qubit (Kineticon) Prof. Philip Mauskopf has a joint appointments at Arizona State University in the School of Earth and Space Exploration and the Department of Physics. His background...

Imitation of Rigor - Why philosophy needs mathematicians and vice versa. Prof. Mark Wilson is Professor of philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh, a fellow of the Center for Philosophy of Science and a Fellow at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His main research investigates the manner in which physical and mathematical concerns become entangled with issues characteristic of metaphys...

Dopamine neurons encode performance error in singing birds, and Dopamine neurons change their tuning according to courtship context in singing birds Prof. Vikram Gadagkar is Assistant Professor of Neuroscience at Columbia University. His research focuses on learning, memory and computation.

Confusion of Tongues: A Theory of Normative Language Prof. Stephen Finlay is Director of the Dianoia Institute of Philosophy at the Australian Catholic University in Melbourne, Australia, as well as Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern California. He works primarily in metaethics, especially on the meaning and use of normative and evaluative language.

The overdamped chiral magnetic wave, Electronic Properties of Dirac and Weyl Semimetals, and Ellipticity of photon emission from strongly magnetized hot QCD plasma Prof. Igor Shovkovy is a professor in the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts at Arizona State University. His expertise includes theoretical physics, nuclear physics, high-energy physics and condensed matter physics.

Science and Religion : Complementary or Substitutes Prof. Lenn Goodman is Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. He has published over 2 dozen books in Jewish, Islamic and General philosophy, including books on truth and justice, political philosophy, bio-philosophy, and comparative philosophy.

Genetic modifiers ameliorate endocytic and neuromuscular defects in a model of Spinal Muscular Atrophy, and Single copy/knock-in models of ALS SOD1 in C. elegans suggest loss and gain of function have different contributions to neurodegeneration Prof. Anne C Hart is Professor of Neuroscience at Brown University. Her research focuses on the molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying neurological...

Philosophy, Photography, and the (Cosmo)Politics of Life and Death, and Religion, Sexuality, and Post modernity Prof. Ellen Armour is the Chair of Feminist Theology at Vanderbilt Divinity School and directs the Carpenter Program in Religion, Gender and Sexuality. Her research interests are in feminist theology, theories of sex, race, gender, disability and embodiment, and visual culture as well as...

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...