2020-06-11

Not much; what constitutes a discovery?

Today I spent a lot of time on things that started yesterday when I was on strike, which includes revising how we run certain meetings at Flatiron, and establishing a committee to do work against racism in the Department of Physics at NYU. My only traditional research to speak of today was a discussion with Megan Bedell (Flatiron) about whether or how we should summarize and write up what she has learned about the ways people have claimed detections or discoveries in exoplanet searches. It's a huge, huge literature, bigger than I expected. And very diverse. One idea I like is to figure out how the different methods for assessing and claiming discoveries are related and connected.

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