Rick Van Kooten is Professor of Physics and the Vice Provost for Research at Indiana University Bloomington. His research focuses on elementary particle physics. He has pursued his studies at the highest energy electron-positron colliders in the world and at the energy frontier of hadronic colliders. As the Vice Provost for Research, he oversees a number of research centers and programs on the Bloomington campus and helps to implement the university’s Grand Challenges program, which targets “major and large-scale problems” facing humanity that can “only be addressed by multidisciplinary teams of the best researchers.”

Rick Van Kooten Blog Entries

• To Be or Not To Be “Unstuck in Time” | Van Kooten on Slaughterhouse-Five
• The Grand Social Experiment | Van Kooten on God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
• Addendum to The Grand Social Experiment
• No Damn Cat, and No Damn Cradle | Van Kooten on Cat’s Cradle
• Mother Night: Why People—Even Smart Ones—Believed Howard Campbell | Van Kooten on Mother Night
• The Sirens of Titan: Playfully Toying with Time | Van Kooten on The Sirens of Titan
• Player Piano and Technology | Van Kooten on Player Piano