

Scientific Sense ®
Gill Eapen
Scientific Sense ® is an invigorating podcast that delves into the intricate tapestry of Science and Economics, serving as a nexus for intellectual exploration and fervor. This daily venture engages listeners by conversing with preeminent academics, unraveling their research, and unveiling emerging concepts across a diverse array of fields. Scientific Sense ® thoughtfully examines multifaceted themes such as the frameworks of worker rights and policy, the philosophical underpinnings of truth and its pursuit within academia, and constitutional discourse within divided societies.
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Sep 15, 2021 • 1h 3min
Prof. Selva Nadarajah of the University of Illinois, Chicago on Real Options
Real Options in Energy: A Guided Analysis of the Operations Literature, Data-Driven Storage Operations: Cross-Commodity Backtest and Structured Policies, Meeting Corporate Renewable Power Targets , and Self-adapting Robustness in Demand Learning.
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Selva Nadarajah who is Assistant Professor of Operations Management and Decision Sciences at the University of Illinois, Chicago. One of his research interests is decision-making under uncertainty and flexibility.

Sep 13, 2021 • 1h 6min
Prof. Katarina Juselius of the University of Copenhagen on Searching for a Theory That Fits the Data
Searching for a Theory That Fits the Data: A Personal Research Odyssey.
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Katarina Juselius is Professor Emeritus of econometrics and empirical economics at the University of Copenhagen. Her work has been on empirical macro models and associated issues.

Sep 11, 2021 • 57min
Prof. Maja Matarić of USC on human-robot interaction methods for behavior change.
Designing a Socially Assistive Robot to Support Older Adults with Low Vision, Modeling User Empathy Elicited by a Robot Storyteller, Affect-Aware Deep Belief Network Representations for Multimodal Unsupervised Deception Detection, and Simulation-Based Analysis of COVID-19 Spread Through Classroom Transmission on a University Campus
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Maja Matarić is professor of Computer Science, Neuroscience, and Pediatrics at the University of Southern California. Her research is focused on developing personalized human-robot interaction methods for behavior change aimed at health, wellness, rehabilitation, training and education.

Sep 9, 2021 • 1h 6min
Prof. Sabine Kastner of Princeton University on the Ryhtemic Theory of Attention and Gender Bias
A rhythmic theory of attention, A brief comparative review of primate posterior parietal cortex: A novel hypothesis on the human toolmaker, Gender bias in academia: A lifetime problem that needs solutions, and Bringing Kids into the Scientific Review Process.
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Sabine Kastner is Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Princeton University. The goal of her research program is to better understand how large-scale networks operate during cognition, with particular emphasis on interactions between cortex and thalamus.

Sep 7, 2021 • 44min
Prof. Carol Gould of Florida Atlantic University on the histrionic personality disorder
Why the histrionic personality disorder should not be in the DSM: A new taxonomic and moral analysis
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Carol Gould is a Professor of Philosophy at Florida Atlantic University, where she teaches primarily Aesthetics, Philosophy of Psychiatry, and Ancient Greek Philosophy, areas in which she publishes widely. Many of her recent publications concern the relation between aesthetics, ethics, and personhood. She is currently completing a book on True Glamour, an unexplored topic in philosophy that stands at the intersection of Aesthetics, Ethics, and Philosophy of Psychiatry.

Sep 5, 2021 • 1h 2min
Dr. Peter Vereš of Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics on Planetary Defense
Planetary Defense: Discovery and characterization of Near-Earth objects and possibilities to protect the Earth against the cosmic collisions.
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Dr. Peter Vereš is a research scientist at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, at the Minor Planet Center (MPC). MPC is the official worldwide organization in charge of collecting observational data of minor planets, calculating their orbits, computing ephemerides, announcing discoveries and publishing the data.

Sep 3, 2021 • 47min
Prof. Daniel Appelbaum of the University of Chicago on Radiomics, Theranostics and AI
Radiomics in Oncology, Theranostics in Nuclear Medicine and the rise of AI in the field.
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Daniel Appelbaum who Professor of Radiology and the Director, of the Nuclear Medicine and PET Imaging at the University of Chicago.

Sep 1, 2021 • 1h 4min
Prof. Ruchi Gupta of Northwestern University on Food Allergies
FOOD WITHOUT FEAR: Identify, Prevent, and Treat Food Allergies, Intolerances, and Sensitivities
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Ruchi Gupta is Professor of Pediatrics at Northwestern University. Her research focuses on food allergies

Aug 30, 2021 • 1h 5min
Prof. Henry Greenside of Duke University on How Nervous Systems Produce Behavior
From Matter to Minds : A Physics Perspective on How Nervous Systems Produce Behavior
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Henry Greenside is Professor of Physics and Neurobiology at Duke University. His research group study problems in theoretical neurobiology.

Aug 28, 2021 • 1h 8min
Prof. Yael Niv is Professor of Princeton University on brain and behavior
The primacy of behavioral research for understanding the brain, Human orbitofrontal cortex represents a cognitive map of state space, A model of mood as integrated advantage, and The case against economic values in the orbitofrontal cortex (or anywhere else in the brain)
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Yael Niv is Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Princeton University. The main focus of her research is to elucidate the computational, cognitive and neural processes involved in learning task representations from experience.


