This workshop explores philosophical questions related to the epistemology of experimental discovery: from the role of AI in contemporary scientific discoveries to trade-offs in scientific experimentation; from experimentation in the era of Big Science to model-agnostic searches in high energy physics.

09:00 – 09:30 Welcome
09:30 – 11:00 Samuel Schindler - AI and the discovery of new things
Coffee Break
11:15 – 12:45 Emanuele Ratti - Bioinformatics as an Experimental Discipline
Lunch
14:30 – 16:00 Siska de Baerdemaeker - The pursuitworthiness of Big Science experiments
Coffee Break
16:15 – 17:45 Michael Krämer - Model-Agnostic Searches for New Phenomena at the Large Hadron Collider
18:00 Pub
19:30 Dinner

https://sites.google.com/view/anamariacretu/the-epistemology-of-experimental-discovery-bristol-june-11th