Name: Adventures in Open Science Advocacy
Date: Thursday, November 1
Time: 2:45pm – 3:45pm
Location: Irving K. Barber Centre, Lillooet Room
Description: Ng will discuss his experiences in getting science topics into the general public’s consciousness. This includes a number of open projects that primarily rely on crowd-sourcing, involving attempts at hosting puzzles, determining the “truth,” ranking Candy, and his more recent grand crowdsourcing experiment, The Phylomon Project (http://phylogame.org). He will attempt to provide some advice on such ventures and show the merits of an open culture.
Ticketing: FREE
Open to Public, Recommended for Faculty, Staff, Students, and other Schools
