Scientific Sense ®

Gill Eapen
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Oct 5, 2021 • 1h 14min

Prof. Dean Buonomano of UCLA on the biology of time

The biology of time across different scales, Population clocks: motor timing with neural dynamics, Temporal Perceptual Learning, and The Neural Basis of Timing: Distributed Mechanisms for Diverse Functions.   Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Dean Buonomano, Professor, Behavioral Neuroscience and Neurobiology at UCLA. The primary goal of his laboratory is to understand the neural basis of temporal information processing.
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Oct 3, 2021 • 1h 2min

Prof. Garance Genicot of Georgetown University on aspirations, inequality, networks and elections

Tolerance and Compromise in Social Networks, Aspirations and inequality,  Electoral Systems and Inequalities in Government Interventions, and Political Reservations as Term-Limits.   Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Garance Genicot is Professor of Economics at Georgetown University. She studies key issues in development economics such as aspirations, informal credit and insurance markets, intra-household bargaining, social networks, tolerance and inequality.
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Oct 1, 2021 • 1h

Prof. Gautam Menon of Ashoka University on the dynamics of COVID spread and policies in India

The dynamics of COVID spread and policies in India Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Gautam Menon is Professor of Physics and Biology, and Director of the Centre for Climate Change & Sustainability at Ashoka University, India. He is also Professor of Theoretical Physics and Computational Biology at The Institute of Mathematical Sciences in India.
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Sep 29, 2021 • 1h 32min

Prof. James Hughes of the University of Massachusetts on public policy, sociology and ethics

EcoSocialism and the Technoprogressive Perspective, The Politics of Moral Enhancement: Tripping our Way to Social Democracy, and A Socialist Approach to Disaster Preparedness.   Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. James Hughes is Associate Provost for Institutional Research, Assessment, and Planning at University of Massachusetts, Boston. His interests span many areas including public policy, community medicine, sociology and ethics.
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Sep 27, 2021 • 56min

Prof. Amy Orsborn of the University of Washington on brain-machine interfaces

Closed-Loop Decoder Adaptation Shapes Neural Plasticity for Skillful Neuroprosthetic Control, Parsing learning in networks using brain–machine interfaces, and A Game-Theoretic Model for Co-Adaptive Brain-Machine Interface.   Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Amy Orsborn who is assistant professor of Computer and Bio Engineering at the University of Washington. She works at the intersection of engineering and neuroscience building brain-machine interfaces to restore and rehabilitate motor function after injury. The main emphasis of her work is building interfaces that can adapt along-side the brain to shape brain plasticity.
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Sep 25, 2021 • 1h 1min

Prof. Teresa Fort, Associate Professor of Dartmouth College on the decline in US manufacturing

New Perspectives on the Decline of US Manufacturing Employment, Structural Change Within Versus Across Firms: Evidence from the United States,  Colocation of Production and Innovation: Evidence from the United States, and Heterogeneous Globalization: Offshoring and Reorganization   Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Teresa Fort is an Associate Professor of Business Administration at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. She conducts research in international trade and industrial organization.
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Sep 23, 2021 • 1h 22min

Prof. Gabriele Veneziano of Collège de France on the Quantum Universe and String Theory

A Quantum Universe Before the Big Bang(s), String Theory and Pre-big bang Cosmology, and High-energy collisions of particles, strings and branes.   Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Gabriele Veneziano who is a pioneer of String Theory. He has conducted most of his scientific activities at CERN , and held the Chair of Elementary Particles, Gravitation and Cosmology at the Collège de France in Paris till he retired.
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Sep 21, 2021 • 1h

Prof. Gina Poe of UCLA on Sleep

Input Source and Strength Influences Overall Firing Phase of Model Hippocampal Pyramidal Cells During Theta: Relevance to REM Sleep Reactivation and Memory Consolidation, Different Simultaneous Sleep States in the Hippocampus and Neocortex, Unraveling Why We Sleep: Quantitative Analysis Reveals Abrupt Transition from Neural Reorganization to Repair in Early Growth, and Shining a Light on the Mechanisms of Sleep for Memory Consolidation   Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Gina Poe, who is Professor of Integrative Biology and Physiology at UCLA. Her Lab investigates the mechanisms by which sleep traits serve learning and memory consolidation.
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Sep 19, 2021 • 54min

Prof. Maria Roche of Harvard Business School on the impact of inter-personal exchange on innovation

The impact of inter-personal exchange on innovation in three different contexts: neighborhoods, co-working spaces, and university laboratories.    Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Maria Roche is an Assistant Professor of Business at Harvard Business School. Her research focuses on the production and diffusion of knowledge, which she examines in various contexts.
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Sep 17, 2021 • 1h 2min

Dr. Murad Banaji is a Mathematician of Middlesex University on the statistics of COVID in India

Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Dr. Murad Banaji is a Mathematician in the School of Science & Technology at Middlesex University, London. He has worked on a variety of problems at the interface between dynamical systems, and combinatorics, with applications to real-world systems with a network structure, including in biology and chemistry.

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