Department: Chemistry and Physics
Email: deumens@qtp.ufl.edu
Title Of Talk: Renormalization of Mathematical Sciences Education
Abstract: When calculations in quantum field theory kept giving nonsensical answers, the idea of renormalization led to progress. There is a joke that we are educating specialists who have ever increasing knowledge about an ever decreasing subject. Many interdisciplinary efforts suffer from this effect. To counter it, a renormalization of the education level of senior and junior research personnel is needed and of the education process that produces new researchers. The history of science gives us examples of a successful tool to perform the renormalization.
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