BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Lewis & Clark//NONSGML v1.0//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20110313T100000 RDATE:20110313T100000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20111106T090000 RDATE:20111106T090000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111012T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111012T210000 LOCATION:Council Chamber GEO:45.44918;-122.670969 SUMMARY:Environmental Affairs Symposium - Keynote Presentation DESCRIPTION:The Great Urban Transition: New Opportunities and Challenges for Humanity's Relationship with the Environment \;Dr. Luís Bettenco urt \;is a Research Scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory and a Research Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. \; His research intere sts center on the structure and dynamics of diverse complex phenomena\, r anging from the emergence and spread of diseases to the social dynamics o f innovation and discovery. \; His work on cities investigates how ra tes of innovation\, wealth creation\, crime\, or disease incidence scale with city size\, identifying common "laws" in such relationships and sugg esting implications for the growth and sustainability of human communitie s. \; Dr. Bettencourt holds a Licenciatura in Engineering Physics fro m the Instituto Superior Tecníco in Lisbon\, Portugal and a PhD in The oretical Physics from Imperial College\, University of London. \; He has held postdoctoral positions at Heidelberg University\, MIT\, and Los Alamos National Laboratory. \; His work on "Growth\, innovation\, sca ling\, and the pace of life in cities" has been highlighted by Scientific American\, New Scientist\, Harvard Business Review\, and the premier sci entific journal Nature. \; Dr. Bettencourt also consults for the U. S . Department of Energy's Office of Science and Technology Information abo ut scientific innovation and discovery. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Dr. Luís Bettencourt \;is a Research Scientist at Los Alamos National Laborato ry and a Research Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. \; His researc h interests center on the structure and dynamics of diverse complex pheno mena\, ranging from the emergence and spread of diseases to the social dy namics of innovation and discovery. \; His work on cities investigate s how rates of innovation\, wealth creation\, crime\, or disease incidenc e scale with city size\, identifying common "laws" in such relationships and suggesting implications for the growth and sustainability of human co mmunities. \; Dr. Bettencourt holds a Licenciatura in Engineering Phy sics from the Instituto Superior Tecníco in Lisbon\, Portugal and a PhD . in Theoretical Physics from Imperial College\, University of London. 60\; He has held postdoctoral positions at Heidelberg University\, MIT\, and Los Alamos National Laboratory. \; His work on "Growth\, innovati on\, scaling\, and the pace of life in cities" has been highlighted by Sc ientific American\, New Scientist\, Harvard Business Review\, and the pre mier scientific journal Nature. \; Dr. Bettencourt also consults for the U. S. Department of Energy's Office of Science and Technology Informa tion about scientific innovation and discovery.
UID:20111013T030000Z-7473@www.lclark.edu DTSTAMP:20110915T135556Z URL:https://www.lclark.edu/live/events/7473-environmental-affairs-symposi um-keynote LAST-MODIFIED:20111005T182053Z ATTACH:https://www.lclark.edu/live/image/gid/5/width/80/height/80/crop/1/ 23710_easweb.rev.1373936596.jpg X-LIVEWHALE-TYPE:events X-LIVEWHALE-ID:7473 X-LIVEWHALE-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles X-LIVEWHALE-IMAGE:https://www.lclark.edu/live/image/gid/5/width/80/height /80/crop/1/23710_easweb.rev.1373936596.jpg X-LIVEWHALE-IMAGE-CAPTION:Fish-eye photo by Pablo Aguilar X-LIVEWHALE-SUMMARY:Citisphere: the 14th Annual Symposium - Luis Bettenco urt of Los Alamos National Laboratory presents his keynote address.