| 25th of May 2017 |
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| The Labyrinth of the Unexpected |
| by Tasso Tzioumis (CASS) |
| About every 5 years in the village of
Kerastari in the ancient region of Arcadia in Greece experts in radio
astronomy from all around the world meet to discuss their latest scientific
discoveries and astronomical techniques. (see previous workshops in 2002,
2007, 2012) The next workshop, at the end of May 2017, will explore how radio astronomy has enabled flexible processing environments that are opening new windows on the Universe (discovery of FRBs is the prime example) and may open others (e.g. SETI). How have unexpected discoveries unfolded in a technical sense and in the new/traditional fora for scientific debate? Has anything benefited the process or held it back? As we enter the era of the SKA, are we prepared for the technical challenges and, more importantly, do we have people prepared for serendipity? Or are we preparing a generation of SKA users to blindly extract data from catalogues to produce plots? Do these questions matter? |