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Luís M. A. Bettencourt

Luis at home 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 		Research 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 in the News:

Math and the City The New York Times
Map of Knowledge The New York Times
Knowledge, in Real Time SEED Magazine
Web usage data outline map of knowledge Nature News
A New Picture of the Two Cultures SEED Magazine
Map of Science Looks Like Milky Way Wired Science
Why the future of humanity and the long-term sustainability of the planet are inextricably linked to the fate of our cities. SEED Magazine
How the Crash Will Reshape America The Atlantic
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

Research Interests

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

New Research Publications [Entire List]

Clickstream Data Yields High-Resolution Maps of Science
Population modeling of the emergence and development of scientific fields
Real Time Bayesian Estimation of the Epidemic Potential of Emerging Infectious Diseases
Growth, innovation, scaling, and the pace of life in cities
Invention in the city: Increasing returns to patenting as a scaling function of metropolitan size
Identification of functional information subgraphs in complex networks
The 1918-1919 influenza pandemic in England and Wales: spatial patterns in transmissibility and mortality impact
Spontaneous coordinated activity in cultured networks: Analysis of multiple ignition sites, primary circuits, and burst phase delay distributions
Towards Real Time Epidemiology: Data Assimilation, Modeling and Anomaly Detection of Health Surveillance Data Streams
Comparative estimation of the reproduction number for pandemic influenza from daily case notification data
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

Brief Biographical Sketch

Curriculum Vitæ

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