Luís M. A. Bettencourt

Research Scientist Los Alamos National Laboratory Theoretical Division , T-7 Mail Stop B284 Los Alamos NM 87545, USA Phone: +1.505.667.8453 Fax: +1.505.665.5757 Email: lmbett at lanl dot gov

External Professor Santa Fe Institute 1399 Hyde Park Road Santa Fe New Mexico 87501, USA Phone: +1.505.984.8800 Fax: +1.505.982.0565 Postdoc & Graduate Jobs: T-7, CNLS, SFI

Research Professor Arizona State University Dept. of Mathematics & Statistics School of Human Evolution & Social Change P.O. Box 871804 Tempe, AZ 85287-1804, USA

Computer just might reveal the secrets of the brain Santa Fe New Mexican
Sin cities: The geometry of crime New Scientist
Scientists examine new way to track outbreaks Santa Fe New Mexican
To escape flu - move to the country Telegraph.co.uk
Die 15-Prozent-Formel Deutschlandfunk (german public radio)
The urban organism Nature News and Views
If You Can Make it There: Cities Are the Greatest Generators of Innovation and Wealth Scientific American
Big cities need a fast-paced life to grow Nature News
Innovation and Growth: Size Matters Breakthrough Ideas for 2007 : Harvard Business Review
Ideas: the lifeblood of cities New Scientist
The Living City: A new science applies metabolism to the metropolis SEED Magazine
Modeling the Emergence and Development of Scientific Fields U.S. Department of Energy : Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Memory and Information Processing in living Neuronal Networks
Urban Organization and Dynamics, Population and Economic Growth, Sustainability
Real Time Epidemiology, Emerging Infectious Diseases and Pathogen Evolution
The Social Dynamics of Innovation and Scientific Discovery
Distributed Sensor Networks and Aridland Ecology
Fundamental Aspects of Nonlinear Dynamics, Statistical Physics, Complex Systems

The functional structure of cortical neuronal networks grown in vitro
Separating the Wheat from the Chaff: Practical Anomaly Detection Schemes in Ecological Applications of Distributed Sensor Networks
New opportunities in ecological sensing using wireless sensor networks
The power of a good idea: Quantitative Modeling of the spread of ideas from Epidemiological models