AATRN Networks seminar, December 5 at 5pm CET by Dani Bassett
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Dec 4, 2023, 9:15:52 AM12/4/23
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Dear AATRN Networks members,
Our next online seminar will be Tuesday, December 5, at 5pm CET / 11am Eastern Time.
Speaker: Dani Bassett
Title: Science as branched flow: A case study in citation disparities.
Abstract: Science is a beautiful rational process of highly structured inquiry that allows us to learn more about our world. By it, we see past old theories, and build new ones. We realize a phenomenon occurs because of this, and not that. Perennially the skeptic, we spar with our own internal models of how things might happen: always questioning, ever critical, rarely certain. What if we were to turn this audacious questioning towards—not science—but how we do science? Not broadly a natural phenomenon but more specifically a human phenomenon? This query is precisely what drives the field of the science of science. How does science happen? How do we choose scientific questions to pursue? How do we map fields of inquiry? How do we determine where the frontiers are, and then step beyond them? In this talk, I will canvas this broader research agenda while foregrounding recent advances at the intersection of science of science, machine learning, and big data. Along the way, I’ll uncover gender, racial, and ethnic inequalities in the most obvious of places (the demographics of scientists) and also in the most unexpected and out-of-the-way places (the reference list of journal articles). I will consider what these data mean for the way we think about science—for our theories of what science is. What opportunities might we have to see past old theories and build a new one? What possibilities to lay down a new praxis for a science of tomorrow?
We will meet in the following coordinates.
https://rtucloud1.zoom.us/j/92064430961?pwd=TkY1VU52MHlyN29ON2IvblFNVXVoZz09
Meeting ID: 920 6443 0961
Passcode: 862736
Our seminar occurs on the first Tuesday of every month, and you can follow our future planned list of speakers in our website sites.google.com/view/aatrn-networks-seminar .
You may also be interested in adding AATRN’s Google calendar ( link ), which contains other seminar information.
Best,
The AATRN Networks organizers
Daniela Egas Santander, Jānis Lazovskis, Henri Riihimäki, Jason Smith
https://www.youtube.com/c/AppliedAlgebraicTopologyNetwork
Our next online seminar will be Tuesday, December 5, at 5pm CET / 11am Eastern Time.
Speaker: Dani Bassett
Title: Science as branched flow: A case study in citation disparities.
Abstract: Science is a beautiful rational process of highly structured inquiry that allows us to learn more about our world. By it, we see past old theories, and build new ones. We realize a phenomenon occurs because of this, and not that. Perennially the skeptic, we spar with our own internal models of how things might happen: always questioning, ever critical, rarely certain. What if we were to turn this audacious questioning towards—not science—but how we do science? Not broadly a natural phenomenon but more specifically a human phenomenon? This query is precisely what drives the field of the science of science. How does science happen? How do we choose scientific questions to pursue? How do we map fields of inquiry? How do we determine where the frontiers are, and then step beyond them? In this talk, I will canvas this broader research agenda while foregrounding recent advances at the intersection of science of science, machine learning, and big data. Along the way, I’ll uncover gender, racial, and ethnic inequalities in the most obvious of places (the demographics of scientists) and also in the most unexpected and out-of-the-way places (the reference list of journal articles). I will consider what these data mean for the way we think about science—for our theories of what science is. What opportunities might we have to see past old theories and build a new one? What possibilities to lay down a new praxis for a science of tomorrow?
We will meet in the following coordinates.
https://rtucloud1.zoom.us/j/92064430961?pwd=TkY1VU52MHlyN29ON2IvblFNVXVoZz09
Meeting ID: 920 6443 0961
Passcode: 862736
Our seminar occurs on the first Tuesday of every month, and you can follow our future planned list of speakers in our website sites.google.com/view/aatrn-networks-seminar .
You may also be interested in adding AATRN’s Google calendar ( link ), which contains other seminar information.
Best,
The AATRN Networks organizers
Daniela Egas Santander, Jānis Lazovskis, Henri Riihimäki, Jason Smith
https://www.youtube.com/c/AppliedAlgebraicTopologyNetwork
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