How to collect matches that will catch fire [IMA]

http://arxiv.org/abs/1502.00709


How can we select a cohort of promising astrophysicists before they have made their discoveries? This is the fundamental challenge of academic planning. I argue that science can only blossom if young researchers are rewarded for acquired skills and growth rather than inherited academic ancestry.

Read this paper on arXiv…

A. Loeb
Wed, 4 Feb 15
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Comments: 3 pages, submitted for publication