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Evolution, Ideology, and Human Nature, New Evidence about Human Nature, Biocultural Synthesis, Domination Systems, and Partnership Systems, Four cornerstones of change: Childhood Relations, Gender Relations, Economic Relations, and Narratives. Prof. Riane Eisler who is a systems scientist and cultural historian whose research focuses on how to construct a more equitable and less violent world based on partnership rather than domination. She is president of the Center for Partnership Studies (CPS), and Editor in Chief of the Interdisciplinary Journal of Partnership Studies, She has written many books applying her research to evolution, religion, education, sexuality, economics, and politics, including Nurturing Our Humanity

Frontiers of Materials Research, Metals, Glasses, and Quantum Materials, Simulation and Computational Tools, and AI in Materials Research Prof. Nadya Mason is a professor of Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she specializes in experimental studies of materials. Prof. Mason’s research focuses on the electronic properties of small-scale materials, such as nano-scale wires and atomically thin membranes. Her research is relevant to applications involving nano-scale and quantum computing elements. She currently serves as Director of the Illinois Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (I-MRSEC), a multidisciplinary research and education center funded by the National Science Foundation.

Economic Diversity and the Resource Curse, Gravity, Borders, and Regionalism, and Globalization, Income Disparity, and Inclusive Development Dr. Fred Olayele is the Chief Economist and Head of the Economic Research & Policy Group with New York City Economic Development Corporation. He oversees economic research and policy initiatives aimed at making New York City the global model for inclusive growth and innovation. He is also a Research Professor at the Sprott School of Business, Carleton University, Canada.

Effects of food, sleep and the microbiome on Alzheimer’s Disease, Parkinson’s Disease and other neurodegenerative diseases Prof. Giulio Pasinetti is a Professor of Neurology, Neuroscience, and Geriatrics at the Ichan School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS). He also serves as the Director of Basic and Biomedical Research in the Center for Geriatric Research and Training at the Bronx Veterans Affairs Medical Center. He is also the Director of the Center for Molecular Integrative Neuroresilience at Mount Sinai.

Suspense and Surprise: How to write novels and enjoy sports/politics, Why torture or money for information schemes are not advisable, Rotation to mitigate epidemics, Allocating tests in a pandemic, and a cake-cutting solution to gerrymandering. Prof. Jeff Ely is the director of the mathematical methods in Social Sciences at Northwestern University. He is a microeconomic theorist with interests ranging from pure game theory to applied microeconomics to behavioral and experimental economics. His work includes contributions to the foundations of Game Theory under incomplete information, repeated games, and the evolution of preferences. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society. He was a founding co-editor of the open-access journal Theoretical Economics.

Optimal Commissions and Subscriptions in Networked Markets, Dynamic Learning and Market Making in Spread Betting, Credit Shock Propagation in Supply Chains, and the Impact of COVID-19 on Supply Chain Credit Risk Prof. John Birge is a Professor of Operations Management at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. His work focuses on application, theory, and computation for decision making under uncertainty with applications in the management of operations in finance, energy, health care, manufacturing, public policy, and transportation. He is an INFORMS Fellow, MSOM Society Distinguished Fellow, member of the US National Academy of Engineering, and Editor-in-Chief of Operations Research.

Forward-Looking Behavior: The Case of Consumer Stockpiling, Late-Mover Advantages: The Case of Statins, the Zero-price Effect, The Value of Perfect Information, Consumer assessment of Quality of products? Evidence from the diaper market Prof. Andrew Ching is a professor at the Carey Business School at Johns Hopkins University, where he is cross-appointed to the Department of Economics and the Bloomberg School of Public Health. He is currently serving as an Associate Editor for Management Science, and a member of editorial boards for Marketing Science and Journal of Marketing Research. His research focuses on developing new empirical structural models and estimation methods to understand the forward-looking, strategic, learning, and bounded rational behavior of consumers and firms.

Disparities in Breast Cancer and African Ancestry, Mammographic screening from age 40 years, Disparities in Breast Cancer Surgery Delay, Prophylactic mastectomy in BRCA 1 and BRCA 2 patients. Dr. Deepa HalaHarvi is a breast cancer surgeon at Ohio Health and a breast cancer survivor. She is also an associate program director for the breast surgery fellowship at Grant Medical center. She has started a survivorship series of lectures at Ohio Health for cancer survivors.

Investor Response to Extreme Language in Earnings Conference Calls, Business Cycle and Industry Returns, Pension Overhang and Corporate Investment, Impact of E-Commerce on Employees at Brick-and-Mortar Retailers, and Investment Consultants’ Search Behavior Prof. Sudheer Chava is a Professor of Finance at Scheller College of Business at Georgia Institute of Technology and leads the Financial Services Innovation Lab. Sudheer’s research interests are in Credit Risk, Banking, FinTech, Household Finance, Empirical Asset Pricing, and Corporate Finance.

The history and status of Human Language Technologies, Automatic Classification of Primary Progressive Aphasia Patients Using Lexical and Acoustic Features, and speech characteristics of young and older healthy adults Prof. Mark Liberman is a Professor of Linguistics and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania. His many research interests include phonetics, information extraction, language evolution, and speech.  He is the founder and director of the Linguistic Data Consortium