Cours FdV

Mediator: François Taddei (INSERM, Paris Descartes),

Duration: 10x 2h, first session 10/11, every two weeks

The success of gamers in games such as Fold-it are each year more impressive.
Last year in Nature they announced that players can make better predictions than the best software.
This year the gamers in 2 weeks solve a problem where scientists had failed for 15 years.
Gamers are even able to propose new heuristics for solving problems.

In this course we'll propose the study of such games and we'll work on how to design new scientific discovery games and will contribute to the creation of an international community of students and researchers that create such games. As it was announced in the first workshop on the subject organized last year in the CRI, we'll organize with the international leaders in this emerging field a student competition inspired by the impact that iGEM had on the field of synthetic biology.

Mediator: François Taddei (INSERM, Paris Descartes)

Duration: 10x 2h, first session 10/11, every two weeks

The digitalization of science affects the way it is done, the way it shared, the way we collaborate or are evaluated.
In this course we'll invite some of the world leaders in these new approaches and invite the students to discuss how these innovations change they way they learn, collaborate and do research.

Topics to be discussed include
- creative commons (under which license should you protect your creation in different domains)
- open access to scientific publications and data
- crowd sourcing project (for computing such as BOINC or data classification such as galaxy zoo)
- open source software
- open source hardware (eg arduino)
- open wetware.

Mediators: Antoine Mazières and Cécile Galichet

Course duration: 3 X 2 Hours 8/11 15/11 10/01

Level: Beginners

This course aim at presenting a basic initiation to several tools available on the web for free that make the life of a researcher easier. Also, lot of this tools offer "network effects" that allow you to discover what people interested in the same things as you (a paper, a bookmark for example) are interested in.
Some elements of workflow optimization will be covered too (ie. tips and tricks that make your digital life easier)

- Bibliographical tools : Zotero, Mendeley, CiteUlike, Delicious
- Integration of biblio with Word Processing programs : Libre Office, LaTeX
- Groups frameworks : Google Groups, Google Docs, data sharing
- Quickly building a website, a wiki
- Good usage of bibliographic databases (search operators, histories)
- Advanced use of Pubmed

This is a basic initiation where tools we'll be presented with only a quick overview. The purpose is to help students to choose some tools so they can focus on specific features by themselves, through the extensive existing online documentation.

Mediator: Evelyne Jardin (journalist, career adviser and blogger)
(Maximum 15 participants, minimum 10)

Content and dates:
1. Preparation of the post-thesis. (with Barbara Filler from http://cchconseil.fr/)
- January, Monday 30 from 17:00 to 19:00
- January, Tuesday 31 from 09:00 to 13:00

2. Networking. (with Evelyne Jardin and Marc Chevalier, entrepreneur and president of the network EntrezDok http://entrezdok.fr/)
- February, Monday 27 from 17:00 to 19:00
- February, Tuesday 28 from 09:00 to 13:15

3. How to find a good post-doc?
- March, Tuesday 13 from 17:00 to 19:00 with Evelyne Jardin
- March, Monday 26 starting at 19:00 till 22:00 "An evening on Post-doc".

4. Towards non academic careers for scientists.
- To be schedule April-May

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