[PRL] PRL Shotgun seminars

Karl Lieberherr lieber at ccs.neu.edu
Tue Apr 5 14:04:52 EDT 2011


Hi Dave:

Thanks for sending the shotgun-seminar link. My students have to go
one step further: they don't even know the exact
paper they have to defend but only the kinds of claims it will contain.
They must be prepared for any such claim to defend it on the spot, if
it is true.
Or to refute it on the spot if it is false. This requires thorough preparation.

The shotgun-seminar approach is normal in the life of a Scientific
Community Game (SCG) scholar:
http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/lieber/evergreen/specker/scg-home.html

The students often write an avatar who will perform the scientific
discourse on their behalf.
The claims cover all of predicate calculus as well as non-mathematical
claims, for example
claims involving secrets.

-- Karl


On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 4:58 PM, David Van Horn <dvanhorn at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
> We should do this:
>
> http://thepoetryofsight.blogspot.com/2011/03/shotgun-seminars-at-princeton.html
>
> David
>
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