Modeling, Simulation and Computational Science: Perspectives from different sciences

TINT conference

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Thursday 29.11

Venue: Metsätalo, aud. 4

	Computational templates and computational science:
10.00 – 11.15	Paul Humphreys, Department of Philosophy, University of Virginia: “Computational Templates: Representation and Application”
11.15 – 11.30	Coffee
11.30 – 12.15	Andrea Loettgers, California Institute of Technology: “Computational templates in modeling biological systems”
12.15 – 13.00	Tarja Knuuttila, Department of Philosophy, University of Helsinki: “Computational templates and the strategy of model-based science”
13.00 – 14.15	Lunch
	Modeling and simulation in physics
14.15 – 15.45	Panel discussion: Simulative modelling and access to reality Tapio Ala-Nissilä, Laboratory of Physics, Helsinki University of Technology Paul Humphreys, Department of Philosophy, University of Virginia Ismo Koponen, Department of Physical Sciences, University of Helsinki Arkady Krashenninikov, Accelerator Laboratory, University of Helsinki
15.45 – 16.15	Break
	The uses of simulation
16.15 – 17.00	Till Grüne-Yanoff, Department of Social and Moral Philosophy, University of Helsinki: “Making Policy With In Silico Experiments”
17.00 – 17.45	Erika Mattila, Economic History Department, London School of Economics: “Predictive and explanatory functions in simulation models: perspectives from infectious disease studies”

Friday 30.11

Venue: The Main Building, aud. XVI

	Some things compute, other things don’t. Computational models in neurocognitive sciences:
10.00 –10.45	Gualtiero Piccinini, Department of Philosophy, University of Missouri St.Louis: "Digits, strings, and spikes: Empirical evidence against computationalism"
10.45 – 11.30	Oron Shagrir, Department of Philosophy, Hebrew University of Jerusalem: “Why we view the brain as a computer?”
11.30 – 12.00	Break
12.00 – 12.45	Anna-Mari Rusanen & Otto Lappi, Department of Philosophy, University of Helsinki & Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki: “From observable neurophysiological mechanisms to models of neural computation”
12.45 – 13.30	Aapo Hyvärinen, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, University of Helsinki: “The practice of mathematical and computational modeling in neuroscience”
13.30 – 14.30	Lunch
	Computation and emergence
14.30 – 15.15	Timo Honkela, Adaptive Informatics Research Centre, Helsinki University of Technology: “Modeling the emergence of shared meaning systems: Philosophical, computational and societal aspects”
15.15 – 16.00	Jaakko Kuorikoski & Petri Ylikoski, Department of Social and Moral Philosophy, University of Helsinki: “Understanding understanding emergence”
16.00 – 16.30	Break
16.30 – 17.45	Closing panel: Challenges of computational modeling of cognition and language Piccinini Honkela Humphreys Hyvärinen Lappi Rusanen Shagrir

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