SISSA Colloquium: Quantifying Performance and Success in Science and Art | 25 September, 4 pm

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*SISSA Colloquium: Quantifying Performance and Success in Science and Art*

A Colloquium by Roberta Sinatra of ITU Copenhagen

25 September 2019, 4 pm
SISSA, Via Bonomea 265

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 measure, 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. Indeed, even experts of performance assessment are 
notoriously bad at predicting long-term success. 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 complex systems, 
network and data science.

On Wednesday 25 September, Roberta Sinatra of ITU Copenhagen will focus 
on success in science and art as a way to testing our ability to measure 
and predict success. She 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. Her Colloquium, entitled "Quantifying 
Performance and Success in Science and Art", will take place at the 
"Paolo Budinich" Main Lecture Hall at 4pm.

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