Workshop: Hands-on Experiments, Scientific Discovery Games and Citizen Science
Learning through Research for all

Paris, July 10-13, 2011

Organizers: François Taddei, Ariel Lindner & Livio Riboli-Sasco

Aims of the workshop

Learning by practising true scientific research provides invaluable experience as one gets not only the classical scientific knowledge that is produced by what François Jacob called "day science", but also the thrill of "night science" that only the exploration of the unknown can provide. Unfortunately, too few people have access to such experiences as research is mostly conducted in the few places that have the resources and trained faculties.

Interestingly, different initiatives that focus on promoting "hands-on experiments" that are cheap and easy to realize and to "citizen science", "crowd sourcing of research " and "scientific discovery games". These changes to educational practices make night science accessible to any internet users and allows even the youngest children to contribute to scientific research.

This workshop aims at bringing those who innovate along these lines, together with motivated students and innovative faculty members. We will look for synergies between the different scientific areas covered by the projects that have been proposed, as well as in between online and real life activities as both can promote learning through research. Finally, we will discuss possibilities to attract larger audiences and look for ways of stimulating the development of such approaches on larger scales across the globe.


Speakers by order of talk

Zoran Popovic (University of Washington)
Harry Swinney (University of Texas)
François Taddei (CRI, Inserm, Paris Descartes University)
Eva-Maria Schoetz (HoS, Princeton University)
Mark Shattuck (HoS, City University of New York)
Michael Schatz (HoS, Georgia Tech)
Kenneth Showalter (HoS, West Virginia University)
Ingmar Riedel-Kruse (Stanford University)
Scott Barolo (University of Michigan)
Robert Full (University of California Berkeley)
Jeehyung Lee (Carnegie Mellon)
Joseph Niemela (Trieste, International Centre for Theoretical Physics ICTP)
Onofrio Gigliotta (ISTC Roma and University of Naples Federico II)
Thomas Schaus (Harvard)
Thomas Murphy (University of Mariland)
Kenneth Stanley (University of Central Florida)
Eva Guinan (Harvard)
François Grey (CERN, Citizen Cyberscience Center, Geneva)
Beau Lotto (University College London)

About the speakers (bio, useful links...)

Program & Participants

Open sessions

SUNDAY July 10 - 18:00-20:00 : 3 keynote talks of 40 min (open to all)
Zoran Popovic : Scientific discovery games
Harry Swinney : Hands on research schools
François Taddei : Learning through Research for all

MONDAY July 11 : 18:45 - 19:45 -- Beau Lotto's talk (open to all)
The youngest authors of scientific publications

Otherwise, sessions are open to all interested PhD students and teachers
but contact us if you wish to join the workshop, to be registered first.

Location

Faculty of Medicine - Paris Descartes University
Centre for Research and Interdisciplinarity (CRI)
Second Floor - Conference Room 2006
24 rue du Faubourg Saint Jacques
75014 PARIS

Tél CRI : 01 44 41 25 22