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SUMMARY:Deciding on Future Science - what to prioritise?
DTSTART:20260513T131500Z
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DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Siska De Baerdemaeker (Stockholm University)\n\nMany
  of the recent breakthroughs in physics have been made by huge collaborati
 ons using new and large-scale instruments. The Higgs boson was discovered 
 at the LHC\, gravitational waves are consistently being detected by LIGO/V
 irgo/KAGRA\, and the first picture of the event horizon of a black hole wa
 s made by a telescope spanning the size of the entire Earth. These instrum
 ents can cost billions of euros. Given limited resources\, how should scie
 ntists decide what sort of science to prioritise? Deciding what project to
  pursue becomes a critical challenge since any new instrument will likely 
 impact the field for decades to come. At the same time\, we would never kn
 ow the breakthroughs that might have been achieved by the projects that we
 re never pursued! In this talk\, Siska De Baerdemaeker\, researcher at the
  Philosophy Department at SU\, will give us an overview of the challenges 
 that scientists face in making such decisions as a collective. She will ra
 ise some important open philosophical questions about what scientists shou
 ld keep in mind while making decisions about future science. Don't miss th
 is talk on the considerations that could affect how science is funded in t
 he future!\n\nhttps://indico.fysik.su.se/event/9709/
LOCATION:Albano 3: 6228 - Mega (22 seats) (Albano Building 3)
URL:https://indico.fysik.su.se/event/9709/
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