Workshops
NeuroScience Workshop
Friday, October 3, 2025
09:00 – 10:00am
Amber L. Alhadeff
Monell Chemical Senses Center & Department of Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania
Amber Alhadeff is an Associate Professor at the Monell Chemical Senses Center and Department of Neuroscience at Penn, where her lab investigates gut-brain communication. The Alhadeff lab employs a combination of modern neuroscience tools – with a focus on in vivo approaches – to understand the neural circuits underlying feeding behavior, and how they relate to diseases such as obesity.
“Neural control of hunger and satiety”
We eat every day, and although we may not realize it, this process is tightly controlled by neural communication between the gut and the brain. This presentation will explore the neural mechanisms for hunger and satiety, and how new weight loss medications leverage these brain circuits to help manage food intake in an environment replete with palatable, energy-dense foods.
Social & Decision Sciences Workshop
Friday, October 3, 2025
10:00 – 11:00am
Alex Imas
Booth School of Business, University of Chicago
Alex Imas studies behavioral economics with a focus on cognition and mental representation in dynamic decision-making. His research explores topics related to choice under uncertainty, applied AI, discrimination, and how people learn from information. Professor Imas’ work utilizes a variety of methods, including lab experiments, field experiments, analysis of observational data and theoretical modeling.
Alex Imas is the recipient of the 2023 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, the Review of Financial Studies Rising Scholar Award, the New Investigator Award from the Behavioral Science and Policy Association, the Hillel Einhorn New Investigator Award from the Society of Judgment and Decision Making, the Distinguished CESifo Affiliate Award, and the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.