Dear colleagues,
We have extended the deadline for the Call for Application for our Summer
School on Trust in Science organized by "The Trust in Information" research
group at HLRS, Stuttgart.
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*Call for Application Summer School: Trust in Science*
*Venue: High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart, Germany (HLRS) Date:
3rd - 5th of August 2022Organizer: “Trust in Information” Research
group*
Trust in science is of central importance for democratic societies, which
aim at participatory decision-making processes. To enable well-informed
public discussions and to promote acceptance of political decisions on this
basis, scientific results must be widely trusted. However, various forms of
mistrust and skepticism about science, as well as confusion about
scientific results, seem to be on the rise. They are thus increasingly
becoming a social problem. A key challenge in fostering trust in science is
to adequately communicate intra-scientific practices. Science is a complex
endeavor in many respects, which is why the interpretation of scientific
results is challenging even for scientists themselves. Consequently,
uncertainty and profound debates characterize the inner-scientific
discussion. However, if the interpretation of scientific results is
challenging and already controversial within the scientific community, how
are they to be communicated to the outside world without generating
mistrust? The summer school will address these complex problems from
various angles. We aim to better understand the inner-scientific complexity
and discuss the question of how it should be dealt with in the interplay
between science, politics, media and the broader public.
Central questions to be addressed are for example: What makes the
interpretation of experimental results so complex that they are usually
contested? How should science communication deal with the uncertainty of
scientific results and the fact that they are disputed among scientists
without causing mistrust? How can science communication reach audiences
that are notoriously neglected?
We plan to hold the following sessions (for a detailed description of
sessions check https://philo.hlrs.de/?p=127):
1. Scientific Practices (Day one) :
1.1 Trust in Experiments
1.2 Understanding the Failure of Replication in Science
2. Science Communication (Day two) :
2.1 Communication of Uncertainty in the Interplay between Science and the
Public and its Connection to Trust in Science
2.2 Trust-building Science Communication: How to Include Neglected
Audiences?
3. Science & Politics (Day three) :
3.1 Scientific Disputes
3.2 From the Scientification of Politics to the Politicization of Science
To apply for the summer school, please write to us at phil@hlrs.de. Please
include a short motivation letter (no longer than 1 page) and a short CV.
If you are working on a project or a use case that is related to the
conference‘s topic, do not hesitate to indicate this as well. The deadline
for registration is the *30th of May*. It is planned that the conference
will take place at the HLRS in Stuttgart. Note that there will be no
participation fee. If you have any questions, please contact phil@hlrs.de.
About us: HLRS is a research institute and a supercomputer center with one
of the fastest computer systems worldwide. HLRS conducts its own research
in the field of high-performance computing. Emphasis is placed on the
topics of scalability, performance optimization, big data, green IT and the
application areas of health, environment, energy and mobility. HLRS houses
a department for the philosophy of computational sciences headed by Dr.
Andreas Kaminski. The project “Trust in Information“ is kindly funded by
the Ministry of Science, Research and Arts Baden-Württemberg.
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Best regards,
Ammu Joshy (she/her)
Scientific Researcher
Philosophy of Computational Sciences
High Peformance Computing Center(HLRS) Stuttgart
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