Cristina Alberini Professor in the Center for Neural Science, New York University Cristina Alberini, Professor in the Center for Neural Science, New York University, has been studying the biological mechanisms of long-term memory for the last 20 years. Her studies explore the biological mechanisms of memory consolidation and reconsolidation, the processes by which newly learned information become long-lasting memories, and how memories are modulated and integrated into complex behavioral manifestations.… read more »
Mark Alford Professor of Physics, Washington University in Saint Louis Mark Alford is chairman of the physics department at Washington University in Saint Louis. He performs research at the intersection of particle physics, nuclear physics, and astrophysics, focusing on the theory of neutron stars and the ultradense matter that exists inside them.… read more »
Harald Atmanspacher Physicist, The Collegium Helveticum (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) View Papers / Presentations » Harald Atmanspacher, PhD, is a senior scientist and staff member at Collegium Helveticum, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, since 2007. After his PhD in physics at Munich University (1986), he worked as a research scientist at the Max-Planck-Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics at Garching until 1998.… read more »
Andrea Califano Clyde and Helen Wu Professor of Chemical and Systems Biology, Columbia University Andrea Califano is the Clyde and Helen Wu Professor of Chemical and Systems Biology, in the departments of Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics and of Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University. He is currently the founding director and chair of the Columbia Initiative for Systems Biology.… read more »
Joseph Cambray Jungian Analyst; past President of the International Association of Analytical Psychology Joseph Cambray is a Jungian Analyst, and past President of the International Association of Analytical Psychology. He has been a faculty member at Harvard Medical School, Center for Psychoanalytic Studies, at Massachusetts General Hospital, Psychiatry Department, and adjunct faculty at Pacifica Graduate Institute.… read more »
Mary Ann Caws Distinguished Professor of English, French, and Comparative Literature at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York Mary Ann Caws is Distinguished Professor of English, French, and Comparative Literature at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, the recipient of Guggenheim, Rockefeller, and Fulbright fellowships, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, past President of the Modern Language Association, of the American Comparative Literature Association, of the Association for Dada and Surrealism, and of the Association of Literary Scholars.… read more »
Selina Chen-Kiang Professor of Pathology and Professor of Immunology and Microbial Pathogenesis at Weill-Cornell Medical College Selina Chen-Kiang is Professor of Pathology and Professor of Immunology and Microbial Pathogenesis at the Weill-Cornell Medical College. After receiving her PhD in Genetics and Development at Columbia University she went on to become a Jane Coffin Child Cancer Fellow and completed her postdoctoral training in molecular biology at Rockefeller University.… read more »
Graciela Chichilnisky Professor of Economics, Columbia University Dr. Graciela Chichilnisky (www.chichilnisky.com) is a professor of Economics and Mathematical Statistics and a University Senator at Columbia University in New York, where she is the Director of the Columbia Consortium for Risk Management (CCRM). A world-renowned economist, she is the creator of the formal theory of Sustainable Development and acted as Lead US Author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which received the Nobel Prize in 2007. … read more »
Edgar Choueiri Professor of Applied Physics, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Associated Faculty, Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Program in Plasma Physics, Princeton University Professor Edgar Choueiri is Director of Princeton University’s Program in Engineering Physics, and Director of Princeton’s Electric Propulsion and Plasma Dynamics Laboratory (EPPDyL). He is tenured Full Professor in the Applied Physics Group at the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, and associated faculty at the Astrophysical Sciences Department/Program in Plasma Physics at Princeton University.… read more »
Marit Delozier Lawyer and Assistant District Attorney, New York city. Marit DeLozier currently serves as an Assistant District Attorney for the Manhattan DA’s Office. Prior to becoming a prosecutor, she clerked for the DC Court of Appeals and also served as special legal counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee on the nomination of Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts. … read more »
Nancy DiTomaso Vice Dean for Faculty and Research, and Professor of Management and Global Business, Rutgers University Business School Nancy DiTomaso is Vice Dean for Faculty and Research and Professor of Management and Global Business at Rutgers Business School—Newark and New Brunswick. Her research specialties include the management of diversity and change, the management of knowledge-based organizations, and the management of scientists and engineers.… read more »
Chip Gagnon Associate Professor of Politics at Ithaca College Chip Gagnon is Associate Professor of Politics at Ithaca College, and a long-time Visiting Scholar at Cornell University’s Judith Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science, with a focus on International Relations, from Columbia University, where he also received certificates in Soviet/Russian Studies and East European Studies. … read more »
Elise Giuliano Lecturer in Political Science at Columbia University and Columbia’s Harriman Institute Elise Giuliano is a political scientist at Columbia University where she teaches courses on secession and nationalism, Russian politics, and international relations. She is the academic advisor to graduate students at Columbia’s Harriman Institute for Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies.… read more »
Alfred Scharff Goldhaber Professor in the C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics and the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Stony Brook University Alfred Scharff Goldhaber is a professor in the C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics and the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Stony Brook University. He represents the second of three physics generations in his family. Collaboration with his parents led to what may have been the first mother-son publications in physics.… read more »
Liah Greenfeld University Professor and Professor of Sociology, Political Science, and Anthropology, Boston University Liah Greenfeld is University Professor and Professor of Sociology, Political Science, and Anthropology, Boston University and is the author, among other publications, of Nationalism: Five Roads to Modernity, The Spirit of Capitalism: Nationalism and Economic Growth, and Mind, Modernity, Madness: The Impact of Culture on Human Experience (Harvard University Press, 1992, 2001, 2013), which form a trilogy.… read more »
Martin Hägglund Professor of Comparative Literature and Humanities, Yale University Martin Hägglund is Professor of Comparative Literature and Humanities at Yale University. He is the author of three books, most recently Dying for Time: Proust, Woolf, Nabokov (Harvard University Press, 2012) and Radical Atheism: Derrida and the Time of Life (Stanford University Press, 2008).… read more »
Joel David Hamkins Professor of Mathematics, Philosophy and Computer Science at the City University of New York Joel David Hamkins (Ph.D., C. Phil., University of California at Berkeley; B.S., California Institute of Technology) is professor of mathematics, of philosophy and of computer science at the City University of New York, affiliated with the College of Staten Island and the doctoral faculty at the CUNY Graduate Center in midtown Manhattan. … read more »
Chris Impey University Distinguished Professor, Astronomy, University of Arizona Chris Impey is a University Distinguished Professor of Astronomy at the University of Arizona. He has over 220 refereed publications on observational cosmology, galaxies, and quasars, and his research has been supported by $20 million in NASA and NSF grants. He has won eleven teaching awards and has taught three online classes with over 350,000 enrolled and 5 million minutes of video lectures watched.… read more »
Leora Kahn Founder and president of PROOF: Media for Social Justice Leora Kahn is founder and president of PROOF: Media for Social Justice. She works on global projects with Amnesty International and the United Nations. Her 2007 book Darfur: 20 years of War and Genocide has won several awards and an exhibition of this work is traveling in the US under the auspices of the Holocaust Museum of Houston.… read more »
Adam Kirsch Senior Editor at The New Republic Adam Kirsch is a senior editor at The New Republic and a columnist for Tablet Magazine. He is the author of two books of poetry, The Thousand Wells and Invasions, and several other books, including most recently Rocket and Lightship: Essays on Literature and Ideas.… read more »
Joseph Kohn Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, Princeton University Joseph Kohn was born in Prague, on May 18, 1932. He emigrated to Ecuador in 1939 and to the US in 1945. There, he received his BS at MIT 1953, and his Ph.D. at Princeton, in 1956. He served as a Professor at Brandeis University 1958-1968 and at Princeton since 1968.… read more »
John Krakauer Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Director of BLAM Lab, Co-founder of the KATA project Dr. Krakauer is the John C. Malone Professor at the Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare, Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience, Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Director of the Brain, Learning, Animation, and Movement Lab, and co-founder of the Kata Project at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.… read more »
Zosia Krusberg Visiting Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Vassar College Zosia Krusberg is a theoretical particle physicist and cosmologist in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Vassar College. She obtained her Ph.D. at the University of Chicago, where she studied the physics of the early universe. She previously obtained a master’s degree in mind, brain, and education at Harvard University, and undergraduate and master’s degrees in astrophysics at Dartmouth College.… read more »
Anne-Marie Levine Poet and Visual Artist Anne-Marie Levine lives in New York City. A poet and visual artist who began writing while touring as a concert pianist, she’s the author of three books of poetry: Euphorbia, Bus Ride to a Blue Movie, and Oral History; and a forthcoming artists book called Reculer Pour Mieux Sauter.… read more »
Charles Liu Professor of Astrophysics, City University of New York’s College of Staten Island Charles Liu is a professor of astrophysics at the City University of New York’s College of Staten Island, and an associate with the Hayden Planetarium and Department of Astrophysics at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. His research focuses on colliding galaxies, quasars, and the star formation history of the Universe.… read more »
Susan Lutgendorf Professor in the Departments of Psychology, Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Urology, member of the Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Iowa. Dr. Lutgendorf is a Professor in the Departments of Psychology, Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Urology and member of the Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Iowa. Her current work, funded by the National Cancer Institute, examines how factors such as stress, depression, and social support are linked to biological processes involved in angiogenesis, inflammation, and recurrence inovarian cancer patients.… read more »
Farzad Mahootian Faculty of Liberal Studies, New York University Farzad Mahootian is a Clinical Associate Professor of Global Liberal Studies at New York University since 2010. He has an interdisciplinary background (PhD Philosophy, Fordham; MS Chemistry, Georgetown). His research focuses on interactions between philosophy, science and society within the mythological imagination of technoscience and with guidance from process philosophy, biomimicry, artificial intelligence, and premodern sciences.… read more »
Gary Marcus Professor of Psychology, New York University, and Director, NYU Center for Language and Music Gary Marcus, described by the New York Times as “one of the country’s best known cognitive psychologists”, has published numerous articles on language, evolution, computation, and cognitive development, in leading journals such as Science and Nature. He is the author of four books, including: Kluge; The Algebraic Mind; and the New York Times Bestseller, Guitar Zero.… read more »
Tim Maudlin Professor of Philosophy, New York University Tim Maudlin is Professor of Philosophy at New York University. He received his B. A. in Physics and Philosophy from Yale and his Ph.D. in History and Philosophy of Science from the University of Pittsburgh. His work centers on the interpretation of physical theory: how the mathematical structures used in physics may be understood as presenting a physical account of the world.… read more »
Ken Miller Professor of Neuroscience, Department of Physiology and Director, Center for Theoretical Biology, Columbia University Kenneth Miller is Professor, Department of Neuroscience, Department of Physiology and Director, Center for Theoretical Neurobiology, Columbia University. Co-Director of Columbia’s Swartz Program in Theoretical Neurobiology, its Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, as well as its Neurobiology and Behavior Graduate Program, Professor Miller also serves as Vice-Chair of its Department of Neuroscience.… read more »
Priyamvada Natarajan Professor of Astronomy and of Physics, Yale University Priyamvada Natarajan’s research is focused on exotica in the Universe-dark matter, dark energy and black holes. She is noted for her key contributions to two of the most challenging problems in cosmology: mapping the distribution of dark matter and tracing the growth history of black holes.… read more »
Timothy O’Connor Professor of Philosophy, Indiana University Tim O’Connor is Professor of Philosophy at Indiana University, Bloomington and a member of its Cognitive Sciences Program. He specializes in metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of religion. O’Connor received his doctorate in philosophy from Cornell University. He has held year-long research fellowships at the Universities of Notre Dame, St.… read more »
Liz Phelps Julius Silver Professor of Psychology and Neural Science, New York University Dr. Liz Phelps received her PhD from Princeton University in 1989, served on the faculty of Yale University until 1999, and is currently the Julius Silver Professor of Psychology and Neural Science at New York University. Her laboratory has earned widespread acclaim for its groundbreaking research on how the human brain processes emotion, particularly as it relates to learning, memory and decision making.… read more »
Mark Polizzotti Author, Director of the Publications Program at The Metropolitan Museum of Art Mark Polizzotti has translated more than fifty books from the French, including works by Gustave Flaubert, Patrick Modiano, Marguerite Duras, André Breton, and Raymond Roussel. A Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and the recipient of a 2016 American Academy of Arts & Letters Award for Literature, he is the author of eleven books, including Revolution of the Mind: The Life of André Breton (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1995; revised ed.,… read more »
Raul Rabadan Associate Professor in the Departments of Systems Biology and Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons Raul Rabadan, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Systems Biology and Biomedical Informatics, at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. Previously, Dr. Rabadan has been the Martin A. and Helen Chooljian Member at The Simons Center for Systems Biology at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.… read more »
Tal Rabin Research Staff Member and Manager of Cryptographic Research Group, IBM T.J.Watson Research Center Tal Rabin is the manager and a research staff member of the Cryptography Research Group at IBM’s T.J. Watson Research Center. Her research focuses on the general area of cryptography and, more specifically, on secure multiparty computation, threshold cryptography and proactive security which the National Research Council Cybersecurity Report to Congress identified as “exactly the right primitives for building distributed systems that are more secure”.… read more »
Patrick Rosal Poet Patrick Rosal is the author of three full-length poetry collections, most recently Boneshepherds, named a notable book by the National Book Critics Circle and the Academy of American Poets. He has also won the Association of Asian American Studies Book Award, Global Filipino Literary Award and the Asian American Writers Workshop Members’ Choice Award.… read more »
David Rosenthal Professor of Philosophy and Coordinator of the Interdisciplinary Concentration in Cognitive Science, CUNY Graduate Center View Papers / Presentations » David Rosenthal is professor of philosophy at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, with courtesy appointments in linguistics and cognitive neuroscience. He is also the coordinator of the Graduate Center’s Interdisciplinary Concentration in Cognitive Science. He has published widely on consciousness, the mental qualities of perceiving and sensation, the representational character of thought, the nature of emotions, the self, and related topics, including his 2005 book, Consciousness and Mind.… read more »
Ernesto Reuben Assistant Professor of Management, Columbia Business School Ernesto Reuben is an Assistant Professor at the Columbia Business School. His research interests lie within behavioral and public economics. Broadly speaking, he investigates the role played by social norms and particular psychological traits on activities that are economically relevant for public policy and business strategy.… read more »
Caleb Scharf Director of Astrobiology, Columbia University Caleb Scharf’s research career spans cosmology, exoplanetary science, and astrobiology. He currently leads efforts at Columbia University in New York to understand the nature of exoplanets and living environments in the universe. He is also a Global Science Coordinator for the Earth-Life Science Institute’s Origins Network at the Tokyo Institute for Technology and a co-founder of YHouse, Inc.… read more »
Theodore Shapiro Professor Emeritus, Weill-Cornell Medical College Theodore Shapiro is Professor Emeritus at the Weill-Cornell Medical College and a practicing psychoanalyst and adult, child and adolescent psychiatrist . He is a co-principle investigator on a study of psychodynamic psychotherapy for children and adolescents with anxiety disorders. He has more than 200 scholarly and research publications, is author of 7 books, and was Editor of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association from 1983-94.… read more »
Sheldon Solomon Professor of Psychology and Ross Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, Skidmore College Sheldon Solomon is Professor of Psychology and Ross Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Skidmore College. As an experimental social psychologist (with a B.A. in psychology from Franklin and Marshall College, and PhD from the University of Kansas), his interests include the nature of self, consciousness, and social behavior.… read more »
Ellen Handler Spitz Honors College Professor of Visual Arts at the University of Maryland (UMBC) Ellen Handler Spitz writes, teaches, and lectures on the visual, literary, and performing arts and psychology and on the aesthetic lives of children. Her background includes four years as a research candidate at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. … read more »
Eric Steinhart Professor of Philosophy at William Paterson University Eric Steinhart grew up on a farm in Pennsylvania. He received his BS in Computer Science from the Pennsylvania State University, after which he worked as a software designer for several years. Many of his algorithms have been patented. He earned an MA in Philosophy from Boston College and was awarded a PhD in Philosophy from SUNY at Stony Brook. … read more »
Matthew Stone Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Rutgers University Matthew Stone completed his Ph.D. in the Computer and Information Science Department at the University of Pennsylvania in 1998. Since then he has had an appointment in the Computer Science Department and Center for Cognitive Science at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. … read more »
Nathan M. Szajnberg Wallerstein Research Fellow in Psychoanalysis, San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis Nathan Szajnberg is the Wallerstein Research Fellow in Psychoanalysis of the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis, on the Faculty at New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, and formerly Freud Professor of Psychoanalysis at the Hebrew University. He is the author or editor of four books and one novella: Educating the Emotions (on Bruno Bettelheim’s ideas); Lives Across Time (with Henry Massie); Reluctant Warriors (the maturation and inner lives of elite Israeli soldiers) and Sheba and Solomon’s Return: Ethiopian Children in Israel (the foundational study for this roundtable).… read more »
Patricia Taylor Chair of the Women’s International Advisory Council of International House Dr. Patricia Taylor is married to Kenneth Taylor, former Canadian Ambassador to Iran. She has accompanied her husband on postings to Guatemala City, Detroit, Karachi, London, Tehran and New York City, and did research at institutions in each of these cities. … read more »
Jean Valentine Poet Jean Valentine has been contributing poems to our literature for half a century. Her first book, Dream Barker and Other Poems, won the Yale Younger Poets Prize in 1965. Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965-2003 won the National Book Award in 2004, and her most recent book, Break the Glass, was a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize.… read more »
Dorothea von Mücke Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Columbia University Professor Dorothea von Mücke holds a Ph. D. in Comparative Literature from Stanford University and has been teaching at Columbia since 1988. She has held visiting professorships in Berlin and Giessen. Representative courses: Eighteenth-Century Semiotics and Aesthetics, Heinrich von Kleist, Rousseau and Goethe, The Romantic Fantastic, Paradigms of Feminist Scholarship, Survey of Eighteenth-Century Literature, Literature and Psychoanalysis, Enlightenment and Visuality, Faust and Media, Classical Drama.… read more »
Hans-Guido Wendel Principal Investigator at the Cancer Genetics Laboratory at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Dr. Hans-Guido Wendel, M.D. is a Principal Investigator at the Cancer Genetics Laboratory at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. He works to identify new cancer therapies based on the genetic origins of the disease. He come from Germany and trained in medicine in Aachen and Edinburgh and is currently an Associate Member of the Sloan-Kettering Institute.… read more »
Polly Young-Eisendrath Psychologist, Jungian Psychoanalyst Polly Young-Eisendrath, Ph.D., is a psychologist, speaker, Jungian analyst, and has published 15 books including The Self-Esteem Trap, The Resilient Spirit, and Women and Desire. Her most recent book, The Present Heart: A Memoir of Love, Loss and Discovery is an unsentimental meditation on the healing power of love in the face of early onset Alzheimer’s that attempts to answer the question “What is love, anyway?”… read more »
Beverley Zabriskie Jungian Analyst, a founding faculty member and past President of New York’s Jungian Psychoanalytic Association Beverley Zabriskie is a Jungian Analyst, a founding faculty member and past President of New York’s Jungian Psychoanalytic Association (JPA; associate editor, Journal of Analytical Psychology, (JAP) London; Board Member of The Philemon Foundation which is producing the unpublished works of Jung.… read more »
Bill Zavatsky Poet Bill Zavatsky holds B.A. and M.F.A degrees from Columbia University. He has taught at all levels of education since 1971. For many years he taught in the high school at the Trinity School in Manhattan, and most recently at the Eugene Lang College of the New School.… read more »
Anna Ziegler Playwright Anna Ziegler’s plays have been produced at Seattle Repertory Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, The Magic Theatre, Ensemble Studio Theatre, New Georges, Theater J, DR2 (W.E.T.), Cherry Lane Theatre (Playwrights Realm), Brown/Trinity Playwrights Repertory Theatre, Summer Play Festival (SPF), The Fountain Theatre, English Theatre of Berlin, Theatre503 (UK), Synchronicity Theatre, Jewish Ensemble Theatre, and Vermont Stage Company, among others.… read more »