You are cordially invited to join us for the following summer talk.
June 12, 2009
1:00 p.m.
Wells Library 001
"Why modelling science?" will be presented by Andrea Scharnhorst, Virtual Knowledge Studio for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Abstract:
Scholarly activity - or the social system of science - can be studied in very different ways, with ethnographic observations of "scientific tribes", with statistical analysis of scientific communication and with help of new visualization tools "mapping the scientific universe". In this talk I will ask what mathematical models from physics can add to these perspectives. Do we need complexity theory to understand science and will we ever be able to capture important aspect of creative processes such as in science by models though complex ones? I will also give examples of how models can be used at different levels: in measurement, as generators for hypotheses; and to develop and test scenarios.
If you would like to meet with Andrea during her visit June 3-30, please contact Mark Price at maaprice@indiana.edu
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