Lant Pritchett talks to us about education, migration and development. Lant Pritchett is a Professor of the Practice of International Development at the Harvard Kennedy School.
Juan Pérez Mercader talks to us about the origins of life and astrobiology. Juan Pérez Mercader directs the Synthetic Life project at Harvard’s Origin of Life Inititative.
Marshall Van Alstyne talks to us about Information Markets and how they are beginning to change the way organizations and institutions work. Marshall Van Alstyne is a professor at Boston University’s Department of Management and Information Science.
Luis Bettencourt talks to us about the science of cities and on scientific productivity. Luis is a Researcher 4 from LANL and Professor at the SFI.
Ricardo Hausmann talks to us about his views on what differentiates nations at different levels of development and on economic “black matter”. Ricardo Hausmann is the director of Harvard’s Center for International Development and Professor of the Practice of Economic Development at Harvard Kennedy School.
Marc Vidal talks to us about systems biology and how we can understand the molecular biology or organisms in an integrative way. Marc Vidal is professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Dana Farber’s Center for Cancer Systems Biology.
Geoffrey West talks to us about the fractal nature of the metabolism and the scaling laws of life. Geoffrey West is a distinguished professor and former President of the Santa Fe Institute and a fellow of the American Physical Society.
Albert-László Barabási discusses the science of networks, from its fundamental aspects, to its implications in biology. Barabási is distinguished professor of physics and the director of Northeastern University’s Center for Complex Networks Research.
