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The Kon‐Tiki and the PhDPanos Louridas

[email protected]@aueb.gr

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Kon‐Tiki: the story

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in the 1930s, in Fatu Hiva…

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Thor Heyerdahl, 1914 – 2002

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in the 1970s, in the West…

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the route

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getting the raw materials: balsa logs

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transporting the logs

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assembling the raft at the naval dockyards

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the Kon‐Tiki left Callao, Peru on April 28, 1948

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eating, not like Incas

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taking measurements

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in the cabin

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approaching land

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land fall on Raroia after 101 days

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afterwards

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lessons

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challenge perceived wisdom

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prepare for the unexpected

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don’t do what is fashionable to do

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a PhD can be an exercise in specialisation – but generalisation

can be more fun

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be wary of anybody challenging research because the researcher is 

from another field

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“The guild structure of the professions concerned with public affairs also helps to preserve doctrinal purity. In fact, it is guarded with much diligence. My own personal experience is perhaps relevant. As I mentioned earlier, I do not have the usual professional credentials in any field, and my own work has ranged fairly widely. Some years ago, for example, I did some work in mathematical linguistics and automata theory, and occasionally gave invited lectures at mathematics or engineering colloquia. No one would have dreamed of challenging my credentials to speak on these topics ‐‐ which were zero, as everyone knew; that would have been laughable. The participants were concerned with what I had to say, not my right to say it. But when I speak, say, about international affairs, I'm constantly challenged to present the credentials that authorize me to enter this august arena, in the United States, at least ‐‐ elsewhere not. It's a fair generalization, I think, that the more a discipline has intellectual substance, the less it has to protect itself from scrutiny, by means of a guild structure.” 

Noam Chomsky

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precise research problem

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ingenuity in overcoming unexpected problems

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study carefully prior art

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be brave

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carefully select your research companions

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interact with people

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get the equipment you need

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check your finance…… but if you are worth it, people 

will come to you

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be a good communicator

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last but not least, success is dangerous

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Linus Pauling (1901 – 1994)

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If you get a Nobel prize, decline it(Stuart Sutherland)

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bibliography

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Thor Heyerdahl. The Kon‐Tiki Expedition, 2nd ed., Flamingo, 1996.