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Richard Thaler, Robert P. Gwinn professor of behavioral science and economics, University of Chicago; author, The Winner's Curse: Paradoxes and Anomalies of Economic Life (1991) and Advances in Behavioral Finance (1993)…

John Milton, William R. Kenan professor of computational neuroscience, CMC; co-author, Dynamical Diseases: Mathematical Analysis of Human Illness (1995) and Epilepsy as a Dynamic Disease (2002); "Milestones Along the Ro…

Victor Davis Hanson, professor of classical studies, C.S.U. Fresno; author, Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise of Western Power (2002) and An Autumn of War: What America Learned from September 11 and the…

Jennifer Walsh, assistant professor of criminal justice and criminalistics, C.S.U. Los Angeles; "Tough for Whom? A Discussion on the California Three-Strikes Law" (12:15 p.m.)  

Paul Krugman, professor of economics, Princeton University; author, The Return of Depression Economics (2000) and "The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century" (2003)  

Sander Vanocur, journalist; author, The Nixon-Kennedy Debates (1996) and co-editor, A Tribute to John F. Kennedy (1964); "Media Malarky: Can Democracy Survive the Mass Media?"  

Niall Ferguson, professor of history, Harvard University; senior research fellow, Jesus College, Oxford University; author, Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power (2004)…

Peter Siavelis, associate professor of political science and Hultquist Fellow, Wake Forest University; author, The President and Congress in Post-Authoritarian Chile: Institutional Constraints to Democratic Consolidatio…

Gaston Espinosa, assistant professor of religious studies, CMC; co-editor, Latino Religions and Social Activism in the United States (2004) and author, The Pentecostalization of Latin American and U.S. Latino Christiani…

Odir Pereira, president, Leadership Institute of Brazil; "Self-Leadership in a Changing World: A Brazilian Perspective" (12:15 p.m.)