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SOE: Fachverband Physik sozio-ökonomischer Systeme

SOE 5: Young Scientist Award for Socio- and Econophysics

SOE 5.3: Prize Talk

Monday, March 16, 2020, 16:30–17:00, HSZ 01

Quantifying Science and Art — •Roberta Sinatra — IT University of Copenhagen — ISI Foundation Torino — Laureate of the Young Scientist Award 2020

Performance, representing the objectively measurable achievements in a certain domain of activity, like the publication record of a scientist or the winning record of an athlete, captures the actions of an individual entity. In contrast, success, captured by impact or visibility, is a collective phenomenon, representing a community's reaction and acceptance of an individual entity's performance. We are often driven by the belief that the detection of extraordinary performance is sufficient to predict exceptional success. However, the link between these two measures, while often taken for granted, is actually far from being understood. Nevertheless, differently from performance, success is quantifiable and predictable: given its collective nature, its signatures can be uncovered from the many pieces of data around us using the tools of statistical physics, complex systems, network science, and data science. In this talk, I will focus on success in science and art as a way to test our ability to model and predict the collective phenomenon of success. I will discuss the role of luck in achieving success, and will address the relation between performance and success in a variety of settings, highlighting the challenges of gauging performance through success.