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Prof. Jonathan Tan, Professor of Astronomy at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
March 14, 2021

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 Chalm

Prof. Kadri Vihvelin, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern California
March 12, 2021

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,

Prof. Randall McEntaffer, Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Pennsylvania State University
March 10, 2021

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 Fabric

Prof. Philip Mauskopf, Prof of Physics at Arizona State University
March 08, 2021

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

Prof. Mark Wilson, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh
March 05, 2021

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 Scienc

Prof. Vikram Gadagkar, Assistant Professor of Neuroscience at Columbia University.
March 03, 2021

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

Prof. Stephen Finlay, Prof of Philosophy at the Australian Catholic University in Melbourne, Australia
March 01, 2021

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 Ca

Prof. Igor Shovkovy, Professor in the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts at Arizona State University.
February 26, 2021

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 Arizo

Prof. Lenn Goodman, Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University
February 24, 2021

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 phil

Prof. Anne C Hart, Professor of Neuroscience at Brown University.
February 22, 2021

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. Ann