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Speaker: Azar Etesamypour-King
Language: Farsi

Synopsis:

The field of Psychology has been plagued by the stereotypical viewpoint that the field is devoted to the narrow concern of mental illness in human behavior. Psychology has evolved to encompass larger fields of human behavior and human cognition; even though, Psychology has its origins in the much older fields of physiology and philosophy as well as the study of mental illness. Psychology is the scientific study of behavior and mental processes which does not just focus on mental illness. The field of Psychology is built on different concepts such as “Unconscious”, or “Relation between Social Behavior and Culture”. Psychology has different fields such as Cognitive Psychology that studies mental processes for example memory, and language. In addition, Neuropsychology is another field that aims to understand how the nervous system relates to specific psychological processes.
Psychologists do not deal solely with mental illness; they have the larger concern of how individuals interact in their environments as they perform everyday activities. Psychologists are also devoted to make people’s lives healthier; therefore they suggest us to laugh more so the natural physiological process of laughter helps relieve physical or emotional stresses we might have.

About the Speaker:

Azar Etesamypour-King, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in Psychology at the Community College of Baltimore County, Maryland. Her education has included a Bachelor degree in Psychology with three majors: Experimental Psychology, Physiology of the Nervous System, and Ethology; a Master degree in Psychology, Cognition, & Communication; a Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from Rennes II University, France. Additionally, she has a Post Doctorate from the University of Maryland, School of Medicine funded by NIH, toxicology training grant. Her experiences in Iran and in France have included the teaching of Psychology as an Assistant Professor at undergraduate and graduate levels, and working as a clinical psychologist in a private practice (Iran). Her collaboration with two of her colleagues resulted in publishing a textbook in “Multicultural psychology, Reflecting Humanity” in 2013. This textbook has been used as a textbook for the diversity course. She has been presenting in several national and international conferences on topics related to Multicultural Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, and Behavioral Psychology. She has been doing research in collaboration with one of her colleagues at Isfahan University on various topics. Her interest areas of research are Experimental Psychology (Memory, Learning), Neuropsychology (the effect of neurotoxin on human health) and Multicultural Psychology.

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Speaker: Parastoo Chamanrokh, Ph.D.
Language: Farsi

Synopsis:

Dr. Parastoo Chamanrokh will present an overview of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) especially GM foods covering the following topics:

• What is a Genetically Modified Organism?
• History of the GMOs
• Examples of GMOs
• Uses of GMOs
• Controversies of GMOs
• Genetically Modified Foods
• Risks and benefits of GM foods in the environment and wildlife
• Risks and benefits of GM foods to human health

About the Speaker:

Dr. Parastoo Chamanrokh has several years of experience in environmental microbiology such as Vibro cholera and H. pylori coccoid form detection, medical microbiology such as H. pylori diagnosis in stomach cancer, and biotechnology in food and oil industry. She earned her Bachelor and Master degrees in Microbiology. After graduation, she started working in the School of Chemical Engineering and the Research Center for New Technologies in Life Science Engineering at the University of Tehran as laboratory supervisor, instructor and teacher assistant.
In 2011, she started her Ph.D. at Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Tehran while she was working as a Scientific Manager in the Iranian Gene Fanavar Institute (IGF), in Tehran. She was lecturer at the Department of Microbiology, Islamic Azad University, Malard, Iran, and instructed courses in Human Genetics and Molecular Biology in 2013. Dr. Chamanrokh graduated with Ph.D. in Medical and Environmental Microbiology in 2013.
Dr. Chamanrokh has been working as a Post-Doctoral Associate/fellow at the Maryland Pathogen Research Institute, Department of Cell Biology & Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, College Park since May 2014. In 2014, she received a scholarship from the Iranian American Academic and Professionals (IAAP) in the Post-Doc category. She has been serving as the President of Iranian Graduate Student Foundation (IGSF) at University of Maryland (UMD) since December 2014.

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Speaker: Hassan Salmani, Ph.D.
Language: Farsi

Synopsis:

Digital computer technologies have penetrated to every facet of our lives through smart phones, implantable medical devices, banking, and smart power networks, to name a few. While we are amazed with unprecedented provided capabilities, they also present new threats to our personal and national economics, security, and health. Our visual media can be manipulated with Photoshop; our software and networks may be hacked; and the hardware hosting these capabilities is known to often be counterfeited and compromised. Trust is essential to our way of life; it allows us to work and live together. While what we are more familiar with is about software and internet security, this talk mainly focuses on the impact of globalization in the interested of economy on the hardware security of our computing devices. Whereas software security is on pace to become a $156 billion industry in the next five years, the challenges hardware presents are in many ways more extensive, more dangerous, and more difficult to combat.

About the Speaker:

Dr. Hassan Salmani is currently an Assistant Professor in electrical and computer engineering at Howard University, Washington DC. He got his PhD in electrical engineering from University of Connecticut in 2011. His main research projects are on hardware security and trust. Dr. Salmani has published several papers on hardware security, one book entitled “Integrated Circuit Authentication: Hardware Trojans and Counterfeit Detection”, and one chapter book on hardware Trojans. He has served on the program committee and session chairs at different conferences and as reviewers for conferences and journals. Dr. Salmani is a member of the IEEE and SAE G19-A Tampered Subgroup.

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