72 Hours of Science

One of the things that SFI does best is to bring diverse people into an intimate setting, where the outcome is often a surprisingly fluid and quick generation of ideas that are both novel and powerful. Our basic premise for the 72‐Hours of Science is to test the limits of this strategy, both in terms of pace and multidisciplinarity: is it possible to go from a novel research question to a publication in 72 hours while involving scientists spanning all of the major disciplines? More specifically, can the postdocs of SFI see a project from conception to publication in an almost unreasonable amount of time? Will the outcome be important/useful science? What do we learn along the way in terms of what works and doesn’t? What are the outcomes following such an event?