EASA WORKSHOP

Date: 06.03.2025

We have chosen the theme “Advancement of Scientific Thought”, which we consider of timely relevance for practically all disciplines in the various classes of the EASA. Evidently sciences have ever been influencing each other in augmenting understanding and knowledge. From time to time, certain research fields have been at the forefront of the corresponding developments. Even a historical consideration cannot always tell, however, which efforts and achievements have been preponderant and driving for the advancement of knowledge to follow. Even less is it possible to predict the impact of achievements by a particular subject on the future developments of understanding as a whole. One may recall, as an example, the appearance of the internet in physics only a few decades ago and its immediate spreading to practically all kinds of areas in human life with all its – a priori unexpected – consequences until the present.
Recently we have seen an increasing impact of machine assistance above all in learning, research, and communication. We are facing the question if this development will, as is often conjectured, revolutionize the advancement of understanding and thought. Will it outperform sooner or later the human abilities that beyond logic and induction, rely to a large extent also on qualities such as inspiration, feeling, belief, curiosity, etc.?
The workshop will focus on identifying the mechanisms governing the progresses in knowledge and thought and thus try to determine the prerequisites and chances for future developments.

Organization:

Prof. Dr. Willibald Plessas (Class IV)
Institute of Physics / Theoretical Physics
University of Graz/contact: willibald.plessas@uni-graz.at

Prof. Dr. Marko Robnik (Class IV)
Center for Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics
University of Maribor
Mladinska 3, SI-2000 Maribor/contact: marko.robnik@guest.um.si

Prof. Dr. Ludvik Toplak (Class V)
Alma Mater Europaea University
Slovenska ulica 17
SI-2000 MARIBOR

REGISTRATION FORM/contact: workshop2025@euro-acad.eu

Place: Bibliotheksaula der Universität Salzburg

Time: 08:30 am-7 pm