Spring 2011 Speakers:
January 25
Deborah Harter, PhD
Rice University
Art and the Poetics of Failure:
The Truth About Fiction
February 15
Paul Padley, PhD
Rice University
Failure On An Epic Scale:
The Excitement of Physics
Yesterday and Today
March 9
THE BOCHNER LECTURE
Richard Zare, PhD
Stanford University
The Power of a 'Failed' Lecture Demonstration:
Enhancing Learning from Unexpected Outcomes
April 12
Henry Petroski, PhD
Duke University
Success and Failure:
A Paradoxical Relationship
Fall 2010 Speakers:
September 7
James Pomerantz
Rice University
Failures of the Mind & Brain:
Perceptual Illusions and What They Tell Us about Cognition
October 5
Vimla L. Patel
The University of Texas Health Science Center
Failure to Detect Medical Error:
Debunking the Myth of the Infallible Expert
November 2
Dan Wallach
Rice University
Adventures in Electronic Voting Failures
November 30
Gordon B. Mills
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Failing to Learn from Our Successes and Failures:
Overcoming Hurdles to Delivering on Personalized Medicine
September 29
Panel Discussion:
BP Deepwater Horizon Catastrophe:
Causes, consequences and cures
Simon Grant, Lay Family Professor in Economics & Finance
Peter Hartley, George and Cynthia Mitchell Chair in Sustainable Development and Environmental Economics
Amy Jaffe, Wallace Wilson Fellow of the Baker Institute and
Associate Director, Rice Energy Program
Steven Klineberg, Professor of Sociology and Co-Director, Institute for Urban Research
Satish Nagarajaiah, Professor of Civil and Mechanical Engineering
Moderated by Richard Grandy, McManis Professor of Philosophy
