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    The document discusses the concepts of multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary work. Multidisciplinary involves incorporating aspects of multiple disciplines, while interdisciplinary work occurs at the intersections of disciplines and involves fluidly shifting between perspectives and tools from different fields. The goal of the summer school described is to expose students to a variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary work, methods, and tools in order to help them develop interdisciplinary skills and serve as examples after the program ends.

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    The document discusses the concepts of multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary work. Multidisciplinary involves incorporating aspects of multiple disciplines, while interdisciplinary work occurs at the intersections of disciplines and involves fluidly shifting between perspectives and tools from different fields. The goal of the summer school described is to expose students to a variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary work, methods, and tools in order to help them develop interdisciplinary skills and serve as examples after the program ends.

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    What is Interdisciplinary?

    Discipline
    (and punish? :-)

    Physics Chemistry

    Biology Mathematics Economics

    Psychology Etc.
    Or . . .

    Physics
    Chemistry
    Biology

    Social Sciences

    Etc.
    q
    Or . . .

    Mathematics

    Real World
    But is this really . . .

    Mathematics

    Real World
    Back to this version . . .

    Physics Chemistry

    Biology Mathematics Economics

    Psychology Etc.
    Multidisciplinary involves
    pieces of more than one

    Physics Chemistry

    Biology Mathematics Economics

    Psychology Etc.
    Some disciplines seem to lend
    themselves easily to this . . .

    Mathematics

    Physics Biology Chemistry Psychology Economics

    Etc.
    Or . . .

    Computer
    Science

    Physics Biology Chemistry Psychology Economics

    Etc.
    Or, some claim . . .

    Philosophy

    Physics Biology Chemistry Psychology Economics

    Etc.
    Interdisciplinary, on the other
    hand, lives in interstices:
    Philosop
    Linguistics
    hy

    Cognitive
    Biology Computing
    Science

    Psychology Etc.
    Eventually (or often, or
    hopefully) it goes both ways:
    Philosop
    Linguistics
    hy

    Cognitive
    Biology Computing
    Science

    Psychology Etc.
    Another traditional example:

    Geograp
    Economics
    hy

    Biology Ecology Management

    Poly. Sci. Etc.


    Sometimes, these become new
    disciplines:
    Geograp
    Economics
    hy

    Biology Ecology Management

    Poly. Sci. Etc.


    Of course, this Summer School
    is:

    Physics Economics

    Complex
    Biology Computing
    Systems

    Poly. Sci. Etc.


    How to become
    interdisciplinary . . .
    • Exposure to a variety of disciplinary work
    • Exposure to interdisciplinary work
    • Exposure to and experience with tools and methods
    from a variety of disciplines

    • Exposure to and experience with interdisciplinary


    tools and methods

    • Experience working with others in an


    interdisciplinary mode . . .
    And also, an understanding of how
    disciplines work . . .
    A discipline typically has:
    • A language (with technical terms . . .)
    • An ontology (a collection of “objects”)
    • An epistemology (what constitutes knowledge, and
    how to acquire and validate it)

    • A collection of methods and tools


    • A (collection of) theoretical perspective(s)
    • Criteria for “acceptability” (of subject matter,
    methods, and behavior . . .)
    To be interdisciplinary, one
    must be able to:
    • Be comfortable with multiple languages, and shift
    easily among them

    • Be comfortable with a variety of ontologies,


    epistemologies, methods, tools, and theoretical
    perspectives

    • Be able to shift perspectives easily, and continually


    see things in new ways

    • Use analogies and metaphors fluidly


    And further . . .

    • Develop facility with tools and methods from


    various disciplines

    • Develop facility with new and innovative tools with


    multiple applicability

    • Understand criteria of rigor and acceptability, and


    eventually, work to develop your own such criteria

    • And, be willing to be an “outsider,” to take risks, and


    have internal measures of success and value . . .
    During the Summer School, we
    try to
    • Expose you to a variety of discipline based subject
    matters, methods and tools

    • Expose you to a variety of interdisciplinary


    examples, methods and tools (e.g., entropy and
    probabilistic methods)

    • Expose you to uniquely interdisciplinary efforts


    currently being explored (e.g., network/graph
    methods, agent based modeling)

    • Push you to engage in interdisciplinary work in a


    group context, and to work outside your familiar
    domain of experience
    Important goals of the Summer
    School are:
    • To help you build your experience and skills as
    interdisciplinary workers

    • To have you serve as examples of such work after


    you leave the Summer School

    • To be seeds, spreading new methods, new


    approaches, and new ideas

    • And also, to provide a context in which those


    working in the field can present, discuss, and explore
    their work with the next generation . . .
    Will it work?

    • Obviously, there are no guarantees. The Summer


    School itself is an experiment in a variety of ways.
    Each Summer things are different. We explore
    different approaches to content, to pedagogy, to
    interaction with students, to schedules, etc.

    • The continued interest by students in participating,


    and positive response to their experience, says we
    are doing at least some things right :-)

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