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Neurological development of the young brain,  The importance of educational process, content, and environment, Left/Right brain specialization, Language, and Mathematics processing in the brain. Prof. Gerry Leisman is Professor of Neuro and Rehabilitation Sciences at the University of Haifa and Director of the National Institute for Brain and Rehabilitation Sciences in Nazareth, Israel, He is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Functional Neurology, Rehabilitation, and Ergonomics. He is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, is a Senior Member of the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society in IEEE and a Life Fellow of the International Association of Functional Neurology and Rehabilitation.

Early detection of localized COVID/disease outbreaks, Age as the dominant consideration in COVID intervention strategy, and vaccine/drug surveillance strategies. Prof. Martin Kulldorff is a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is an expert on infectious disease outbreaks. As a biostatistician, he has developed methods for the early detection and monitoring of disease outbreaks, currently used by many public health departments for COVID-19 and other diseases. He has also developed methods for the early detection of drug and vaccine adverse events.

Computational Materials Sciences, Atomic-Scale Discoveries with Machine Learning, Hydrogen for storage and transport of energy, Hydrogen as the new natural gas. Prof Sean Smith is a Professor of computational nanomaterials science and technology at the Australian National University and Director of Australia’s national supercomputing facility, NCI Australia. He has extensive theoretical and computational research experience in chemistry, nanomaterials, and nano-bio science and technology. Prior to returning to Australia, he directed the US Department of Energy-funded Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (CNMS) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Sean has published over 260 refereed journal papers with more than 15000 citations.

Open Science Grid,  Distributed Computing, Midscale collaborations, South Pole Telescope, ENZO: Adaptive mesh code for Astrophysics, Hydrodynamic simulations, and Fraud Detection. Dr. Pascal Paschos is a computational scientist at the University of Chicago and an instructor of Mathematics and Computer Science at Chicago State University. Previously he was in academic research at UC California San Diego on Computational cosmology, he moved to Chicago where he worked in High-Performance Computing at Northwestern University. Later, he joined the Maniac Lab at the University of Chicago where he is involved in accelerating computational research using advanced cyberinfrastructure for several international high energy physics experiments and serves as the Open Science Grid area coordinator for midscale collaborations.

Asset pricing methodology confusion, Required Yield Theory (RYT), Connectalism, Mindfulness, and Compassion in Finance Prof. Christophe Faugère is a professor of finance at the Kedge Business School in France. He is the co-inventor of the “Required Yield Theory”, a financial theory that provides more robust insights into the valuation of broad market indexes such as S&P 500 and gold. He has published articles in leading American academic journals, such as The Journal of Portfolio Management and Financial Markets, Institutions & Instruments.

Personal finance decisions, AI-based behavioral finance interventions, Robo-advising, Framing advisory fees, Funding biases and crowdfunding Prof. Orly Sade is the  Chair in Business Administration and an Associate Professor of Finance at the Department of Finance, School of Business Administration, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is a member of the scientific board of the experimental finance society. She is a Visiting Associate Professor at the Stern School of Business, NYU, and has been a visiting Associate Professor at additional leading universities around the world (NYU Shanghai and  IE Madrid and NES, Moscow). She has received letters of recognition for excellent teaching, and her research has been published in leading international academic journals and has been presented at leading academic conferences. Professor Orly Sade served as director of the BA program at The Hebrew University and received the Abe Gray awards from the President of the Hebrew University. She has been awarded several research grants, including multiple grants from the Israel Science Foundation.

Mortgage securitization, Measuring Bank Risk, Taxpayer returns from Bailouts, Dividends during a pandemic, and the principal-agent problem in structuring contracts with banks for bailouts.  Prof Amiyatosh Purnanandam is professor finance at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, and the chair of the finance area. His research focuses on corporate finance, banking, and financial crisis. He has closely studied topics such as the effects of banking crises on the real economy, the role played by securitization during the subprime mortgage crisis and the economics of government bailout of the financial sector.

Demystifying the Business of Performing Arts, "Sacred," the movie, Learning from Germany on public media, and Organizations for people that succeed. Prof. William Baker is a Professor and Journalist-in-Residence at Fordham University in NY.  He is also a Professor of media & entertainment at IESE Business School, Barcelona, Spain, and President Emeritus of WNET-Thirteen, New York’s public television station. Prof. Baker is the recipient of seven Emmy Awards, two Columbia DuPont Journalism Awards, and honored in 2016 by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center for his work in the performing arts.

Cognitive and Neurobiological Imaging, Human Connectome Project for disordered emotional states, Imaging systems for oral cancer screening, and Better camera designs for convolutional neural networks using synthetic images Prof Brian A. Wandell is a professor at the Psychology Department of Stanford University.  He is also a member of Electrical Engineering, Ophthalmology, and the Graduate School of Education. He is the founding Director of Stanford’s Center for Cognitive and Neurobiological Imaging and he founded the Stanford Center for Image Systems Engineering Program.  Prof. Wandell’s research centers on imaging science and technology, spanning neuroscience measurements of the visual cortex and reading development to simulation and design of imaging systems.

History of oil prices and possible future paths Dr. Rouben Indjikian, an adjunct professor of energy, commodities, trade finance, digital economy, and international economics at Webster University in Geneva, Switzerland. Dr. Indjikian had a distinguished career of nearly 30 years at UNCTAD (The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development ) where, as an economist and manager, he was in charge of analysis, policy advice, and technical assistance in the areas of international trade, finance, e-commerce, and commodities.