SENSE Double Lecture, featuring: Prof. Marten Scheffer & Prof. Buzz Holling

The SENSE Research School aims to foster scientific exchange and to inspire new generations of junior and senior researchers.

Therefore we are pleased to hereby cordially invite you to a ‘meeting of minds’ – which is likely to make you think (again):

“Changing the traditional way
of doing science to realise
scientific breakthroughs”

 Featuring:

« Prof. Marten Scheffer
(SPINOZA Prize Laureate 2009) &

« Prof. Crawford Stanley (Buzz) Holling
(highly influential Canadian ecologist)

Admission: FREE

Programme:

15.00 – 15.30:   Prof. Marten Scheffer:
Breakthroughs in ecology and other scientific fields: own experiences and the influence of Buzz Holling

15.30 – 16.00:   Prof. Crawford Stanley (Buzz) Holling:
How to realise scientific breakthroughs: some examples from own experience

16.00 – 17.00:   Debate with the audience

17.00 – 17.30:   Drinks and Bites

Prof. Scheffer:

“Holling has a remarkable track record of ideas that have been influential far beyond his original field of ecology ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._S._Holling ).

I believe we need more of the kind of science he has done, and think that having him in Wageningen is an excellent opportunity to learn from him how we might want to change the traditional way we do science (and policy) to let such work emerge.”