8:00 Continental Breakfast (for all registered participants)
8:30 Welcome and Introduction to the Workshop
Environmental Models
Chair: Ken Belitz, U.S. Geological Survey
9:00 Keith Beven, Hydrology and Fluid Dynamics, Lancaster University: On Environmental Models of Everywhere
10:00 Steven Jackson, School of Information, University of Michigan: TBA
11:00 Coffee Break
Chair: Ken Belitz, U.S. Geological Survey
11:15 Susan G. Sterrett, Department of Philosophy, Duke University: What Makes A Good Model Good?
12:15 Discussion of Environmental Models
1:00 Lunch (for all registered participants)
Chair: Steve Epstein, Sociology and Science Studies, UCSD
2:00 Pasky Pascual, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: All Models are Wrong, but Some are Wronger
3:00 Coffee Break
3:15 Harry Collins, Gravitational Wave Project, Cardiff University: Make your Own Goalposts: Models and Criteria of Success
4:15-5:30 Poster Session
8:00 Continental Breakfast (for all registered participants)
Biological Models
Chair: James Griesemer, Philosophy, University of California, Davis
8:30 Frank Bruggeman, Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam: Modelling of Cells: Adventures in Systems Biology
9:30 William Wimsatt, Department of Philosophy, University of Chicago: Modeling Truncation Selection at the Boundary: When (and how) Complex Nature gets Simple
10:30 Coffee Break
Chair: Werner Callebaut,
Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research
10:45 Jay Odenbaugh, Philosophy, Lewis and Clark College: Ecology's Toolbox
11:45
Discussion of Biological Models
12:45 Lunch (for all registered participants)
Climate Models
Chair: Naomi Oreskes, History and Science Studies, UCSD
2:00 Wendy Parker, Science Studies Program, UCSD: Hierarchies of Models and the Search for Explanations of Weather and Climate
3:00 Lenny Smith, Centre for the Analysis of Time Series (CATS), London School of Economics: Seeing Through Models
4:00 Coffee Break
Chair: Paul Churchland, Philosophy and Science Studies, UCSD
4:15 Steven Rayner, Saïd Business School, Oxford University: Some Limitations of Models for Policy Making
5:15 Discussion of Climate Models
7:00 Conference Dinner (for all registered participants)
8:00 Continental Breakfast (for all registered participants)
Cognitive and Neuroscience Models
Chair: Richard Belew, Cognitive Science, UCSD
8:30 Carl Craver, Philosophy, Neuroscience, Psychology Program, Washington University: When Mechnaistic Models Explain: Lessons from Hodgkin and Huxley
9:30 Cees van Leeuwen, Laboratory for Perceptual Dynamics, RIKEN Institute, Japan: Good Models Are Not Always Predictable
10:30 Coffee Break
Chair: David Kirsh, Cognitive Science, UCSD
10:45 Jeffrey Schank, Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis: Multiple Levels and Multiple Models
11:45 Chris Eliasmith, Department of Philosophy, University of Waterloo: Classifying and Evaluating Theories and Models in Theoretical Neuroscience
12:45 Lunch
(for all registered participants)
1:00 Discussion of Cognitive and Neuroscience Models (over lunch)
1:45 CONFERENCE END
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