Geoffrey West

Distinguished Shannan Professor & Former President

Santa Fe Institute

1 standalone talk · 1 total lecture · 1h recorded

Engineering, Control & Robotics Biology & Neuroscience

Standalone talks by Geoffrey West

Self-contained public lectures, keynote addresses, and research seminars.

Universal Scaling Laws in Biology, Cities, and Socioeconomic Systems

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Engineering·Public Colloquium

Universal Scaling Laws in Biology, Cities, and Socioeconomic Systems

Geoffrey West·Santa Fe Institute

Derives sublinear 3/4-power metabolic scaling in vascular biological networks and contrasts it with superlinear scaling of innovation and infrastructure in cities.