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Grandy, Richard E.
Department: Philosophy
Title: Carolyn and Fred McManis Professor

Hulet, Randy
Department: Physics and Astronomy
Title: Fayez Sarofim Professor of Physics

Kemmer, Suzanne E.
Department: Linguistics
Title: Associate Professor

Klineberg, Stephen L.
Department: Sociology
Title: Professor; Co-Director, Kinder Institute for Urban Research

Lane, Neal F.
Department: President's Office
Title: Malcolm Gillis University Professor & Professor of Physics; Senior Fellow, Baker Institute

Matthews, Kathleen S.
Department: Biochemistry & Cell Biology
Title: Stewart Memorial Professor,

McIntosh, Susan K., Director
Department: Anthropology
Title: Professor

Michel, Curt
Department: Physics and Astronomy
Title: A.H.Buchanan Prof Emeritus; Research Professor

Ostherr, Kirsten Anne 
Department: English
Title: Associate Professor

Pomerantz, James R
Department: Psychology
Title: Professor

Skura, Meredith A.
Department: English
Title: Libbie Shearn Moody Professor; Department Chair, Education Cert.

Subramanian, Devika
Department:Computer Science
Title: Professor, Professor, ECE

Wilson, Rick K.
Department: Political Science
Title: Herbert S. Autrey Professor; Professor of Statistics and Psychology

EMERITUS MEMBERS

C. Sidney Burrus
Robert F. Curl
Ronald L. Sass

Welcome our Newest Members

Richard Baraniuk
Department: Electrical & Computer Engineering
Title: Victor E. Cameron Professor

Steven Cox
Department: Comp & Applied Mathematics
Title: Professor

Elaine Ecklund
Department: Sociology
Title: Associate Professor

Frederick Oswald
Department: Psychology
Title: Associate Professor

SCIENTIA FELLOWS

George Abbey
Department: James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy
Title: Baker Botts Senior Fellow in Space Policy

David Alexander
Department: Physics & Astronomy
Title: Professor

Dan Carson
Department: Wiess School of Natural Sciences
Title: The Schlumberger Chair of Advanced Studies and Research and Professor of Biochemistry and Cell Biology

Jeffrey Kripal
Department: Religious Studies
Title: J. Newton Rayzor Professor, Department Chair

Gene Levy
Department: Physics & Astronomy
Title: Andrew Hays Buchanan Professor of Astrophysics

Cyrus Mody
Department: History
Title: Professor

 

Spring 2010 Speakers:

January 26
Leonardo Dueñas-Osorio

Rice University
Complex Networks:
The Key to Resilient Infrastructure Systems
February 16
John H. Byrne, Ph.D.

The University of Texas Medical School at Houston
Neural Networks:
Brain Circuitry for Processing Information, Generating Rhythms, and Learning and Remembering
March 16
Kerry Ward

Rice University
Networks of Empire:
Forced Migration in the Dutch East India Company
Link
April 20
Dr. Craig Watkins

University of Texas at Austin
Got Facebook?
Rethinking Social Capital and Social Networks in the Digital Age
Link

Fall 2009 Speakers:

September 22
D. Michael Lindsay

Rice University
Networks as Channels of Power
October 27
Lauren Ancel Meyers

Section of Integrative Biology
University of Texas
Using Network Models to Predict and Control 2009 (H1N1) Pandemic Influenza
November 10
Bochner Lecture

Albert-Lászió Barabási
Center for Complex Network Research, Northeastern University
Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Networks and the Architecture of Complexity: From the WWW to the Cell
December 1
Rich Baraniuk

Rice University/Connexions
Networks of Knowledge
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