Scientific Sense ®

Gill Eapen
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.   
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.

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