Workshops
In addition to projects and lectures, students will participate in three specialized workshops:
Information overload: how to distinguish facts from fiction in our daily life?
Alternative medicine, UFOs, horoscopes, telepathy... these are disciplines we can easily recognize as unscientific. We call them pseudoscience. But there are many issues in our society, influencing our daily life and often mixed with politics and/or religion, where the unscientific component is difficult to recognize. In general, pseudoscience is any scheme of theories, beliefs and methods wrongly considered as scientific. However, it is also a term often used by those describing themselves as skeptics and attacking those who investigate new and anomalous phenomena.
Pseudoscience has become more sophisticated and more mainstream that it used to be. Therefore, the goal of this workshop is to try to develop a facility for critical, independent thinking which is important in recognizing/understanding many aspects of scientific method, on the contrary to pseudoscientific concepts which tend to be shaped by individual egos and personalities, almost always by individuals who are not in contact with mainstream science.
Leaders
Anita Krisko
Rudjer Boskovic Institute, Zagreb, Croatia
Dejan Vinkovic
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA
Anita is a doctoral student in molecular biophysics at Rudjer Boskovic Institute, Zagreb, Croatia. Her research is mainly focused on structure-function correlation in human low density lipoproteins. Her interests also include structural biology and bioinformatics. Dejan is a postdoctoral member in astrophysics at the Institute for Advanced Study. The main focus of his research is radiative transfer in astrophysical dusty environments, with a wide application from planet formation around young stars to dusty winds from old dying star. He is also interested in meteor physics.
Research Swapshop
Research Swapshop extends the range of topics covered by S3. Participants will get the opportunity to work in another scientific field with different people and different methodology. This evening workshop is led mostly by former S3 participants, now university students or high school graduates. Topics will include astronomy, analytical and inorganic chemistry and experimental physics.
Astronomy
Ana Bonaca
High School Mate Balote, Porec, Croatia
Exploring properties of acids and base
Adam Jakov Deak
Faculty of Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Building Tesla coil
Branko Djurdjevic
Faculty of Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Properties of ascorbic acid and titration of vitamin C tablets
Tomislav Kokotovic
5th Gymnasium, Zagreb, Croatia
Complex compounds and spectrochemical series
Andjela Saric
Faculty of Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Night field work: biology of bats
Leader
Marin Grgurev
Ucka Nature Park, Lovran, Croatia
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