The Power of Ideas Part II
Ideas - and the various processes of inventing, developing, critiquing, testing, transforming, rebutting, transmitting, and implementing them - are the heart and soul of the university. Each of this year's Scientia colloquia will present a set of 5-minute talks by faculty on the ideas that have most powerfully influenced and engaged them in their career and intellectual life.
2013 Fall Lecture Schedule
- September 10
McMurtry Auditorium, Duncan Hall
Interacting with Memories
Caleb Kemere, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Video available here.
The Social Determinants of Health
Rachel Kimbro, Associate Professor, Sociology
Video available here.
SUPERFORM
Neyran Turan, Assistant Professor, School of Architecture
Video available here.
Constant Change
Daniel Wagner, Associate Professor, Biochemistry & Cell Biology
Video available here.
- September 18
Ray Courtyard, Rice Student Center
Social Capital and Finance
Mahmoud Amin El-Gamal, PhD, Professor of Economics and Statistics and Chair of Islamic Economics, Finance and Management
Super
Sarah Whiting, PhD, Dean and William Ward Watkin Professor of Architecture, School of Architecture
Why Minds Need Art
Anthony Brandt, PhD, Associate Professor of Composition and Theory, Shepherd School of Music
Innovation Fallout
Naomi Halas, PhD, Stanley C. Moore Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Director, Laboratory for Nanophotonics
Video available here.
- October 8
McMurtry Auditorium, Duncan Hall
Pacts
Andrea Ballestero, Assistant Professor, Anthropology
Video available here.
Foundations
Hadley Wickham, Adjunct Assistant Professor Statistics. Chief Scientist, RSTudio
Video available here.
Open Notebook Research
Caleb McDaniel, Assistant Professor, History
Video available here.
Cooking with Metals
Emilia Morosan, Associate Professor, Physics & Astronomy
Video available here.
- October 12
Brochstein Pavillion Garden
Mt. Fuji and Me
John H. Zammito, PhD, John Antony Weir Professor of History
I Didn’t Do This By Myself
Robert F. Curl, PhD, Kenneth S. Pitzer-Schlumberger Professor of Natural Sciences, Emeritus and University Professor Emeritus
Local:Global = David:Goliath
Elizabeth Long, PhD, Professor of Sociology and Department Chair
Getting to Know President Lovett
John B. Boles, PhD, William P. Hobby Professor of History. Editor, Journal of Southern History
Learning to Swim
Rebecca Richards-Kortum, PhD, Stanley C. Moore Professor of Bioengineering and Chair, Department of Bioengineering
Turrell with Music
Robert Yekovich, D.M.A., Dean, Shepherd School of Music and Elma Schneider Professor of Music
Video of all lectures combined is available here.
- October 29
McMurtry Auditorium, Duncan Hall
Heterogeneity
Simon Fischer-Baum, Assistant Professor, Psycology
Video available here.
The Power of Culture
Eric Cech, Assistant Professor, Sociology
Video available here.
In Praise of Irreverrence
Gisela Heffes, Assistant Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Video available here.
What We Can't Know
Andrew Putman, Associate Professor, Mathematics
Video is available here.
- November 13
Brochstein Pavillion Garden
The Pursuit for Total Control
Thomas Killian, PhD, Professor of Physics and Astronomy and Department Chair
Mentoring
Elaine Howard Ecklund, PhD, Associate Professor of Sociology and Director, Religion & Public Life Program
Thinking with History
Paula A. Sanders, PhD, Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and Dean of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies; Professor of History
Numerate Citizenship
Mark Embree, PhD, Professor of Computational and Applied Mathematics and Director of the Rice Center for Engineering Leadership
Video of all lectures combined is available here.
- November 19
McMurtry Auditorium, Duncan Hall
Be Careful What You Wish For
Melissa Marschall, Professor, Political Science
Video available here.
Earth’s Thin Blue Line
Daniel Cohan, Associate Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering
Video available here.
Exclusion
Julie Fette, Associate Professor, French Studies
Video available here.
Beyond Vision
Casey O’Callaghan, Associate Professor, Philosophy
Video available here.