====== Introduction ====== - introduction of the BRCP and its goals to guests - introduction of the workshop, the ideas and proposed topics: see notes below - introduction of participants == Discussion Suggestions Florian == - Who are "we": We are part of the BRCP, which means we are physicists (or mathematicians close to physics) and we are very critical with our "profession" * how fundamental is fundamental research today? * how free is the freedom of science? * is scientist as it is defined today a good job? * and especially, can science be done differently? * all these questions are fundamentally connected to the machinery that we are all part of and that we like to call "academia" * Thus it is almost inevitably to think science outside academia if we truly want to ask such questions - Who are you? * Introduction round for people to get to know each other * scientists meet artists (why is this interesting?) - Science outside Academia: We believe that the structure and organization of science influences strongly the way we do science * we will NOT discuss specific scientific topics, but want to talk about its structure. (That's why we invited also non-physicists) * when we relax the definitions of sciences that Academia sets, we will of course cross chances, but also many difficulties * what actually is science if not what a scientist at an institute does? * what is a scientist, if she or he does not have a contract from a scientific institution? \\ (for some people these question probably seem very simple, but believe us, the standard scientific apparatus never challenges these presumptions!) * if science and being a scientist could mean more than the tight definitions of academia allow for, can we do better outside academia? * can research be done differently then in Academia? * this is what we want to discuss during this weekend and as a start we chose two perspectives: \\ session 1 - processes in research \\ session 2 - biographies in science * we reduced the predefined program to a minimum to give us a maximal freedom for spontaneous new discussion topics or whatever we together decide to do here - formalities: * documentation: this wiki * fee * coffee/tea etc * dinner * evening in Potsdam/Berlin?