Annual-Report-2024 - Flipbook - Page 55
Different roles for Scientific Co-Chair Heiner Linke: outlining the week's agenda during the Opening Ceremony, …
… welcoming guests at the Bavarian Evening, …
… and moderating parts of the Scientific Programme
experience from working at the boundary between disciplines. A lot of mutual teaching and learning happens
in collaborative, interdisciplinary projects; this learning
is then transferred to research groups. I notice a clear
difference in today’s students compared to a couple of
decades ago – there are many more who already during
their training naturally learn concepts from what used to
be multiple fields.
but the fundamentals of the scientific method – to observe, to establish and to test hypotheses, the importance
of transparency, reproducibility, and falsifiability, are
equally important in all sciences. Society, individuals, and
decision-makers need to know that they can and should
trust research results regardless of field.
What in your opinion should society know about the
interdisciplinary approach of science?
Perhaps that there is only one science. Similar concepts
can have different names in different fields or disciplines,
Frontiers of physics were
also elaborated on
in the opening film:
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