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Faculty and Fellows
The Institute for Innovative Study (IIS) is presently preparing invitations for new faculty members
and is also accepting letters of interest, intent and support from researchers, sponsors and benefactors.
Affiliations may be developed in the form of visiting or permanent positions including distance-based relationships
for persons with interest and desire to be involved within IIS but who may not be able to spend significant or primary
time at the Institute's home base. The concept of "faculty" within IIS is more akin to that of
"fellow" and "mentor";
while IIS will not deliver formal degree programs or courses, the atmosphere is one of collegiate cooperative learning
and education in the classical sense of to lead out and up ("educare") and to uncover, disclose and discover ("aletheia").
Presently (Autumn, 2011) all focus is being directed into the establishment of
LEAPS, the Laboratory. (See also
the growing Library @ LIBRARY.)
The Institute is interested in bringing into its community persons who are creative, multidisciplinary, and
keen to engage in advanced studies that are synergistic and symbiotic in both intellectual and professional
implications. What matters most at this point is truthfulness, sincerity, character, innovation, a willingness to
stand forth and present cogent and rational arguments for one's hypotheses, theories and models, and a patience to
listen, to understand competive perspectives, and to be able to admit, like Socrates, the limits of one's knowledge and
the vast expanse of one's ignorance.
Present Faculty (permanent/visiting/guest) and Fellows and Honored Emeritus Fellows within the Institute include:
Prof. Anna Brainina, PhD (Biology, Biochemistry, Physiology)
- Dr. Martin Dudziak, PhD (Physics, Mathematics, Biophysics, Genetics)
- Dr. Robert Eisler, PhD (Computer Science, Electrical Engineering)
- Dr. David Finkelstein, PhD (Physics, Philosophy)
- Dr. Basil Hiley, PhD (Physics
- Dr. Vitaly Kalchennko, PhD (Chemistry, Electrical Engineering
- Dr. Mark Kon, PhD (Mathematics, Genetics)
- Ms. Lena Kommarisova, MS (Chemistry)
- Dr. Eric Miller, PhD (Mathematics)
- Mr. Paul Miller, MS (Computer Science)
- Dr. Matti Pittkanen, PhD (Physics)
- Dr. Barbara Price, PhD (Health Physics, Nuclear Physics)
- Ms. Zubaida Isabel Rusal, MS, MS (Human Rights, Conflict Resolution, Int'l Business, Int'l Relations)
- Dr. Stephen Selesnick, PhD (Physics)
- Dr. Kevin Sharpe, PhD, DD (Mathematics, Physics, Theology)
- Mr. Cenchao Shen, MS (PhD-cand.) (Genetics, Molecular Biology)
- Dr. Marina Skvyrya, PhD (Zoology)
- Dr. Branko Soucek, PhD (Computer Science and Neural-Biological Systems)
- Dr. Boris Spassky, PhD (Computer Science, Physics, Robotics)
- Dr. Stefan Zikeli, PhD (Chemistry, Chemical Engineering)
- Dr. Paul Ziolo, PhD (Biology, Psychology, Sociology)
(Biographies and websites are being prepared)
Special areas of interest (in terms of academic disciplines) for faculty development and
project activity include (i.e., areas which are suggested and welcome):
- Anomaly detection within imaging, sensing, and sensor fusion environments
- Biologically-based predictive models for social behavior
- Chaos, Complexity theory and Emergent systems
- Computational physics and biology
- Educational and social engagement, especially regarding population conflict
- Emergent Critical Processes
- Epidemiology and transpecies transfer of infectious disease
- Game theory and gaming models
- Gene sequencing and mutation tracking & forecasting
- Meme models and Psychohistorical studies
- Morse and Ramsey theory
- Mutual information models
- Noncommutative mathematics and physics
- Nonlinear dynamic and attractor systems
- Pattern perception and differentiation
- Quantum logics, mechanics and computing
- Quantum gravity, quantum relativity and cosmology
- Social network forecasting and prediction
- Solitons and Catastrophe phenomena
- Topology and Differential Geometry
- Terrorist and violent predatory criminal psychopathogy
- Working capital and neo-capital economic & financial management
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