#AcademicRunPlaylist - 10/11/24

It was a beautiful fall day in Boston, and luckily I was able to get out for a short run and listen to talks for my #AcademicRunPlaylist!

First was a great talk by Ken Paller on enhancing the benefits of sleep using memory reactivation at the UC Santa Barbara SAGE Center https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKEP3OTF56M

Next was an important talk by Michelle Bomberry on Canada's Indian Act and the current reality for First Nations people at Six Nations Polytechnic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7J4dp4ayzA

Next was an engaging talk by Michael Tomasello on the importance of cooperation and joint commitment for human evolution, shown through experiments comparing 3 year olds and chimpanzees (!) at the SAGE Center https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYmJkkWwE-0

Next was an excellent talk by Sangyun Lee on digital markets regulation in Korea and Japan at Vellah Kigwiru's African Competition and Consumer Protection Centre. These jurisdictions aren't discussed nearly enough in this space, and the unique competitive dynamics of Korea was particularly instructive https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zruMxZc1XSk

Next was a thought-provoking talk by Diana Tamir on mental state concept similarity across cultures and modeling social behavior prediction at the SAGE Center https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYo_DfH1caA

Next was an intriguing talk by Andrei Hagiu on modeling the emergence of platform traps at PLAMADISO – Platforms, Markets, and the Digital Society https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqymjSy13fs

Next was a wide-ranging talk by Hazel Markus on how people thrive in a multicultural world and barriers to more equitable group outcomes at the SAGE Center https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncFZa_VOkdQ

Last was a nice talk by Antonio Loquercio on combining sim-to-real transfer with imitation learning to build higher performing robotic systems at the GRASP Lab https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nNABpXvQfA