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X-WR-CALNAME:Physics Colloquium\, "How much of a meritocracy? Untangling th
 e drivers of productivity and prominence among scientists"
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DESCRIPTION:Presented by: Aaron Clauset\, University of Colorado\, Boulder 
 Department of Computer Science\n\nAbstract: Simple measures of the product
 ivity and prominence vary enormously across both individual scientists and
  across institutions. But\, how much do these sometimes enormous inequalit
 ies represent genuine meritocratic differences\, and how much are they bia
 sed by non-meritocratic factors that may limit scientific progress?\nThis 
 talk will untangle some of the underlying drivers of differences in scient
 ific productivity and prominence. First\, we'll ask\, how much of an indiv
 idual's productivity (how many papers they publish) can be attributed to i
 nherent skill vs. environmental advantages. Second\, we'll ask\, what driv
 es where a scientist works? Then\, we'll ask\, what role do social network
 s and social capital play in shaping an individual scientist's productivit
 y and prominence within their field? In this last section\, we'll use two 
 network-based generative models that can untangle these two measures from 
 a scientist's collaboration network\, and allow us to evaluate how gendere
 d differences in social networks relate to gendered differences in product
 ivity and prominence\, and the degree to which social networks might be in
 heritable from advisors to advisees. I'll close with a discussion of how k
 nowing the systemic and structural sources of bias in science can help us 
 reconnect with our meritocratic principles\, to both diversify the academy
  and broaden its contributions to society.\n\nAaron Clauset is a Professor
  in the Department of Computer Science and the BioFrontiers Institute at t
 he University of Colorado Boulder\, and is External Faculty at the Santa F
 e Institute. He received a PhD in Computer Science\, with distinction\, fr
 om the University of New Mexico\, a BS in Physics\, with honors\, from Hav
 erford College\, and was an Omidyar Fellow at the prestigious Santa Fe Ins
 titute. He was awarded the Erdos-Renyi Prize in Network Science in 2016\, 
 and was named a Fellow of the Network Science Society in 2023. Since 2017\
 , he has been a Deputy Editor responsible for the Social\, Computing\, and
  Interdisciplinary Sciences at Science Advances.\n\nClauset is an internat
 ionally recognized expert on network science\, data science\, and machine 
 learning for complex systems. His research program is around two general t
 hemes: identifying fundamental principles of the organization and behavior
  of complex social and biological systems\, and developing approaches for 
 using data and computation to illuminate those ideas. A recent major focus
  of this work has been on the "science of science\," where he studies the 
 shape\, origins\, and consequences of social and epistemic inequalities on
  scientific careers\, productivity\, the spread of ideas\, and the composi
 tion of the scientific workforce. His research results have appeared in ma
 ny prestigious scientific venues\, including Nature\, Science\, PNAS\, SIA
 M Review\, Science Advances\, Nature Communications\, and Physical Review 
 Letters. His work has been covered in the popular press by Quanta Magazine
 \, the Wall Street Journal\, The Economist\, Discover Magazine\, Wired\, t
 he Boston Globe and The Guardian.\n\nHost: Andrew Lucas
LOCATION:JILA\, Auditorium
SUMMARY:Physics Colloquium\, "How much of a meritocracy? Untangling the dri
 vers of productivity and prominence among scientists"
URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.colorado.edu/event/physics_colloquium_mirito
 cracy
CATEGORIES:Colloquium/Seminar
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