Student Publications and Conference Papers

Roman Arguello

Publications:

7. Shuang Yang, J. Roman Arguello, Xin Li 1, Ying Chen, Yue Zhang , Ruoping Zhao, Frederic Brunet, Lixin Peng, Wen Wang, Manyuan Long. 2006. Experimental Genomic Evidence for Evolving Functional Diversity Generated by Chimeric Genes in Drosophila. 2006. submitted

6. J. Roman Arguello, Chuanzhu Fan, Wen Wang and Manyuan Long . Origination of Chimeric Genes through DNA-level Recombination (review). Gene and Protein Evolution, Genome Dynamics Vol. 3. Karger Basel, Switzerland (forthcoming).

5. J. Roman Arguello, Ying Chen , Shuang Yang, Wen Wang, Manyuan Long. 2006. Origination of an X-linked Testes Chimeric Gene by Illegitimate Recombination in Drosophila. PLoS Genet 2(5): e77.

4. Eric A. Hoffman, Niclas Kolm, Anders Berglund, J. Roman Arguello, and Adam G. Jones. 2005. Ggenetic structure in a coral-reef associated Banggai cardinalfish, Pterapogon kauderni . Molecular Ecology, 14, 1467-1375.

3. Jones, A. G., J. R. Arguello, and S. J. Arnold. 2004. Molecular parentage analysis in experimental newt populations: the response of mating system measures to variation in operational sex ratio. American Naturalist 164: 444-456.

2. Hoffman, E. A., J. R. Arguello, N. Kolm, A. Berglund, and A. G. Jones. 2004. Eleven polymorphic microsatellite loci in a coral reef fish, Pterapogon kauderni. Molecular Ecology Notes 4:342-344.

1. Jones, A. G., J. R. Arguello, and S. J. Arnold. 2002. Validation of Bateman's principles: a genetic study of mating patterns and sexual selection in newts. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences 269:2533-2539

Naomi Beck

Publications:

Book Review: "Martin Fichman, Evolutionary Theory and Victorian Culture . New-York: Humanity Books, 2002 ", Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences , vol. 39, issue 4, Fall 2003 , pp. 412-413 .  

"The Diffusion of Spencerism and its Political Interpretations in France and Italy ," in Herbert Spencer: The Intellectual Legacy edited by Greta Jones and Robert Peel, London : The Galton Institute 2003, pp. 37-60.

"Enrico Ferri's Socialism: A Marxist Interpretation of Herbert Spencer's Organic Analogy", accepted for publication in the Journal of the History of Biology .

Entries on "Social Darwinism" and "Herbert Spencer" for the Harvard Companion to Evolution, to be published by Harvard University Press in 2006 .

Papers:

"Scientific Socialism: A Case Study in the Diffusion of Spencerism in Late Nineteenth Century Italy ,"Thirty-Ninth Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of Biology , the Rockefeller University , New-York, 5 April 2003.

"Spencerism and Political Doctrines in Italy and France : A Methodological Introduction", Fishbein Center's History of the Human Sciences Workshop, the University of Chicago , 2 May, 2003 .

"Evolution and Politics (I-II)", session organiser and speaker, the Bi-Annual Meeting of the International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology , Vienna, 16-20 July, 2003.

"The Diffusion of Spencersim and its Political Interpretations in France and Italy ", Symposium: Herbert Spencer, 1820-1903: founding father of modern sociology , the Linnean Society, London , 18 Sept. 2003 .

"The Appeal of the Organic Metaphor in Spencersim", History of Science Society Annual Meeting, Cambridge-Massachusetts, 20-23 Nov. 2003 .

"Individual Freedom, Capitalism and Evolutionary Biology in the Chicago School of Economics", Biology and Values Workshop, Florida State University , 16-18 April 2004 .

Papers:

"Bringing physics to bear on the phenomenon of life: the divergent positions of Bohr, Delbruck, and Schrodinger," Studies in the History and Philosophy of Biology and Biomedical Science, 37 (2006) 433–458.

Matthew Frank

Papers:

Commentary on Prof. Joseph Dauben's talk at conference on the History of Mathematics, University of Chicago, May 1997

"Gibbs's Vector Method for the Computation of Orbits", Notre Dame conference on the History of Astronomy, June 1997

"The Introduction of Vectors into Astronomy: Gibbs's 1889 failure and Herget's 1948 success", Midwest History of Mathematics Conference, Ames, IA, October 1998

"The Quantum-Mechanical Context of von Neumann's Work on Hilbert Space", American Mathematical Society meeting (special session on history of mathematics), San Antonio, TX, January 1999

"A Constructive Proof of Gleason's Theorem", University of Chicago Logic Seminar, April 1999

"Constructive Mathematics and Quantum Mechanics: Recent Results and How to Evaluate Them", Indiana University (Bloomington) History and Philosophy of Science department, April 1999

"Questions about the Effectiveness of Mathematics (the case of von Neumann)", University of Chicago Workshop on the History and Philosophy of Science, April 1999

"Ergodic Theory, 1931-1937: American and International", at conference "Mathematics Unbound: The Evolution of an International Mathematical Community, 1800-1945", Charlottesville, VA, May 1999

"General Relativity Without Derivative Operators", seminar for relativity group in University of Chicago physics department, Aug 1999

"Proving the Consistency of the first-order Theory of the Reals in Weak Systems", Notre Dame Graduate Student Logic Conference, Sept 1999

"What Mathematics Owes to Quantum Mechanics: The Work of von Neumann, 1927-1932", at History of Science Society Meeting, Pittsburgh, Nov 1999; also at Stanford Logic Seminar, May 2000

"Eberhard Hopf: The Ergodic Theorist who went back to Germany in 1936", at American Mathematical Society meeting (special session on history of mathematics), Washington, DC, Jan 2000

"Constructive Mathematics and Mathematical Physics: Recent Results and Evaluations", University of California (Irvine) conference on the Foundations of Physics, Feb 2000

"Constructive Mathematics: How and Why", Graduate Student Conference in Philosophy at CMU and University of Pittsburgh, Mar 2000

"Ergodic Theory and Spectral Theory from a Constructive Point of View", Stanford Logic Seminar, May 2000

"The Foundations of Differential Geometry", Mac Lane category theory seminar, University of Chicago, July 2000

"Teaching Graduate Students How to Teach Using Case Studies" (with Diane Herrmann, Ashley Reiter, and David Schmitz), Symposium on Excellence in Teaching Undergraduate Science and Mathematics, University of Illinois at Chicago, Mar 2001

"Envisioning the Future of Constructive Mathematics", at American Mathematical Society Meeting (special session on proof theory and the foundations of mathematics), Columbus, Ohio, September 2001

"Working Outward from the Philosophy of Mathematics", at Association for Symbolic Logic Meeting (special session on the philosophy of mathematics), Las Vegas, Nevada, June 2002

"Two Years of Struggle with the Principle of Computational Equivalence", New Kind of Science Conference, Waltham, Massachusetts, April, 2004.

"Axioms and Aesthetics in Constructive Mathematics and Differential Geometry", thesis defense in Committee of Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science, University of Chicago, July 2004.

Alessandro Pajewski

Papers:

“David Hume and the Order of Nature." Presented as a lecture at the Universita' degli Studi dell'Aquila, Italy, 19 December 2000.

“Hume's Liberalism: Politics and Economics." Presented as a series of lectures at the Universita' degli Studi dell'Aquila, Italy, 18-20 December 2001.

“Beyond the Mortal Eye: Lyell and Darwin on the Experimental Use of Historical Records”, Fishbein Center's History of the Human Sciences Workshop, the University of Chicago , 15 February, 2002 .

“How to Untie the Gordian Knot - Complexity and Method in Lyell's Geology.” Presented at the Bi-Annual Meeting of the International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology , Vienna, 16-20 July, 2003.

“The Very Idea of Humanity: Darwin, Sympathy, and the Idea of a Liberal Left”, Biology and Values Workshop, Florida State University , 16-18 April 2004 .

"David Hume: from History to Morals." Presented as a lecture at the Universita' degli Studi dell'Aquila, Italy, 12 May 2004.

Trevor Pearce

See Trevor Pearce's webpage for publications and papers.

Dana Rovang

Publications:

" When reason reigns: madness, passion and sovereignty in late 18th-century England ", History of Psychiatry 2006 17(1): 23-44.

“When the Mind Cannot Govern: Depictions of Madness and Sovereignty in Film”
Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, Jan 8-11, 2004.

“The Passion of George III: Madness, reason, and sensibility in eighteenth- century Britain”
Graduate Student Conference, University of Illinois at Chicago, February 13, 2004.

“Gentlemen of Science: The popularization of science on the Victorian Magician’s Stage”
Midwest Junto for the History of Science, Kirksville, Missouri, April 1-3, 2005

“The Head of the King: Madness, passion and sovereignty in late eighteenth-century England”
Conference on Principles of Association in British History, Nicholson Center, University of Chicago, April 8, 2005.

“Professors of Magic: The Professional Magician as the Counterpoint to Science in Late Eighteenth-Century Europe”
History of Science Society, Minneapolis, MN, November 3, 2005

“Darwin and the Will to Know: Biology and Education in Nineteenth-Century Britain”
Science in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Nicholson Center, University of Chicago, April 7, 2006.

“‘The bird wants to fish’: free-will, species development, and educational movements in early nineteenth-century Britain,”
Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Science, York University, May 30, 2006.

Patrick Singy

Publications:

"Le sujet, l'objet, et la logique du réel dans Naissance de la clinique ." In Foucault, nouveaux déploiements . Edited by Frédéric Gros. Paris: Presses de l'Université de Chicago à Paris, forthcoming

"The History of Masturbation: An Essay Review." Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences . Vol. 59 (2004). 112-121

"Friction of the Genitals and Secularization of Morality." Journal of the History of Sexuality . Vol. 12 (2003). 345-64

"Le pouvoir de la science dans L'Onanisme de Tissot." Gesnerus, Swiss Journal of the History of Medicine and Sciences . Vol. 57 (2000). 27-41

"Tissot and L'Onanisme : a Shadow in the Enlightenment." Spring, a Journal of Archetype and Culture: Lost Souls . Vol. 65 (1999). 33-53

Papers:

"Le sujet, l'objet, et la logique du réel dans Naissance de la clinique ," Colloque International Foucault: Nouveaux Déploiements , Paris, France, June 2004

"'The Will Present in Vision': M.F.R. Buisson's Concept of the Gaze and Its Significance for Medical Practice," American Association for the History of Medicine, Madison, April 2004

"Seeing the Invisible, Sensing the Elusive: Medical Practice and the Art of Observation, 1750-1850," Brandeis University, February 2004

"Usage des femmes et abus de soi: discours et expérience au dix-huitième siècle," Conference Maladies en lettres/Krankheit in Briefen, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland, June 2003

"Seeing the Invisible, Sensing the Elusive: Structures of Perception in Medical Practice, 1750-1850," The Social Life of Body and Mind, Human Sciences Workshop Graduate Meeting, University of Chicago, May 2003

"Le principe de dispersion des éléments dans Naissance de la clinique ," Journée d'étude Michel Foucault, Université Paris XII, Paris, France, March 2003

"Tissot's Avis au peuple sur sa santé : A Medical Book for Nobles, the People, and Horses," History of Science Society Meeting, Milwaukee, WI, November 2002

"'L'usage des femmes': Experience of the Flesh and Experience of Sex in the Eighteenth Century," Modern France Workshop, University of Chicago, May 2002

"'Here Is the Story of My Disease': Eighteenth-Century Sufferers and their Relationship to the Physician Samuel Auguste Tissot," Lecture Series "Art, History and Medicine," International Museum of Surgical Science, Chicago, IL, May 2002

"'Friction of the Genitals' and Secularization of Morality: A New Perspective on the History of Masturbation," History and Philosophy of Science Workshop, University of Chicago, February 2002

"A Historical Study of the Power of Rationality: The Case of Tissot's L'Onanisme ," History of the Human Sciences Workshop, University of Chicago, March 2000.

Bill Sterner

Publications:

"ELIZA," Encyclopedia of HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION , William Sims Bainbridge, Editor. Great Barrington, MA: Berkshire Publishiing Group, 2004.

  "A Process Model is unique in its Conceptual Co-Generativity," The Folio , V. 19, no. 1, 2000-2004, (ISSN: 1063-3693).  A themed issue on "Thinking At the Edge: A New Philosophical Practice."

"Modeling Complex Ecosystems using Biota," B. Jones, W. Sterner, J. Schank.  Proceedings of the Meeting of IUFRO S4.11-00 , August 1995, published by the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, CH-8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland.

"Biota: An Object-oriented Tool for Modeling Complex Ecological Systems," B. Jones,  W. Sterner  and  J. Schank. The Journal of Mathematical and Computer Modelling ,  Vol. 19, #9, Sept. 1994.  Presented in the Object Oriented session at the Resource Technology 94 / DSS2001 Symposium, Toronto in 12-16 September 1994.

Papers:

"The Definitory Dialectic of Aristotle's Four Causes and their Organization of Knowledge in Aristotle's Poetics", Presented at the History of Science Society (HSS), 2004 Annual Meeting, Friday, November 19, 2004.

"Symbolic Demeaning (or Discursive Debasement) in Human-Computer Interactions," Online paper for "Conference on After Postmodernism," University of Chicago, November 14-16, 1997.  http://www.focusing.org/Sterner.html.

Software:

Project Manager and Co-Designer:  BIOTA - A Tool for Simulations of Species Interactions in Diverse Environments, on  The BioQUEST Library: COMPACT DISK, Ed. John R. Jungck, published by the Academic Software Development Group, University of Maryland .  Team included:  William Wimsatt, Jeffrey Schank, Benjamin Jones, Eric Nelson, James Danbury, and John Kruper.

Jonathan Tsou

See Jonathan Tsou's webpage for publications and papers.

Cecelia Watson

See Cecelia Watson's webpage for publications and papers.