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Rethinking Anomalies in Science
October 27, 2023 @ 8:00 am - October 28, 2023 @ 5:00 pm EDT
Organizing Committee Members:
- Michael R. Dietrich, (University of Pittsburgh, History and Philosophy of Science)
- John Norton (University of Pittsburgh, History and Philosophy of Science)
- Carol Cleland (University of Colorado Boulder)
Please be aware we have limited room, so we will only be able to accept those that registered by 10/23. If you have any questions, please reach out to Chantel at snodgrassc@pitt.edu.
Invited Speakers
Heather Demarest (University of Colorado Boulder)
Steven Dick (Indiana University)
Roberta Millstein (UC Davis)
Anirudh Prabhu (Carnegie Institution for Science)
Dejan Makovec (University of Pittsburgh, History and Philosophy of Science)
Victor Baker (University of Arizona)
Allan Franklin (University of Colorado Boulder)
Edwin Turner (Princeton University)
Veronica Vaida (University of Colorado Boulder)
Wesley Watters (Wellesley College)
Avi Loeb (Harvard University)
Paul Rimmer (Cambridge University)
Steve Benner (Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution)
Andrea Aiello (Max Plank Institute for the Science of Light)
Michael Krämer (Aachen University of Technology)
Alisa Bokulich (Boston University)
Program Schedule
Friday October 27
Session 1 (9:00– 10:30)
- How anomalies drive scientific discovery
- Carol Cleland
- Low Probability, Surprisingness, and Anomalies
- Heather Demarest
- Astronomical Anomalies, Classification, and Extended Discovery
- Steven Dick
Coffee Break (10:30-11:00)
Session 2 (11:00-12:30)
- The Geological Anomaly of Catastrophic Mega-flooding
- Victor Baker
- Anomalies lost and Found
- Allan Franklin
- Two Anomalies Associated with Apparent Violations of the Speed of Light Limit and their Resolutions
- Edwin Turner
Lunch (on your own) (12:30-1:30)
Session 3 (1:30-3:00)
- Making Monsters: Regularities and Anomalies in Biology
- Michael R. Dietrich and Roberta Millstein
- Data Science and Anomaly Detection: Why should we look for outliers?
- Anirudh Prabhu and Xiaogang (Marshall) Ma
- Open Texture and Scientific Anomalies
- Dejan Makovec
Coffee Break (3:00-3:30)
Session 4 (3:30-5:00)
- Anomalous cloud absorption: A case study in atmospheric science
- Veronica Vaida
- Thunderstones and Meteorites: from Fairy Tale to Scientific Object
- Wesley Watters
- Exploring the unknown: Model-agnostic anomaly searches for physics beyond the Standard Model at the Large Hadron Collider
- Michael Kraemer
Speaker’s Dinner 6:00-8:00
Saturday October 28th
Session 5 (9:00- 10:30)
- The anomalies of Oumuamua and the interstellar meteor
- Avi Loeb
- Anomalies in the atmospheres of rocky (exo)planets
- Paul Rimmer
- The Tide Beneath Our Feet: Solid Body Tides and the Epistemology of Anomaly-Driven Research
- Alisa Bokulich, Matilde Carrera, and Miguel Ohnesorge
Coffee Break (10:30-11:00)
Session 6 (11:00-12:00)
- Synthetic research in chemistry as a driver of anomaly creation
- Steve Benner
- Ball lightning: Myth and Science
- Andrea Aiello
Lunch and open discussion (12:00-2:00)
Details
- Start:
- October 27, 2023 @ 8:00 am EDT
- End:
- October 28, 2023 @ 5:00 pm EDT
- Event Categories:
- Conferences 2023-24, Conferences, Workshops and Programs
Venue
- 1119 Cathedral of Learning