INSIS Seminar Series: 'Model truths: modelling, evidence and truth in science and policy'

Event Series

Date
15 January 2019, 4:00pm 18 March 2019 - 6:00pm

In this series:

15 January 2019
'Lessons from the IPCC Special Report on 1.5 degrees: the science communication and policy challenges of hyper-ambitious mitigation' with Prof Myles Allen

22 January 2019
'Quantum computing and simulation: a responsible perspective' with Philip Inglesant

29 January 2019
'Model cases: canonical research objects in the social sciences' with Monika Krause

05 February 2019
'Why is time always (never) running out on climate policy? The role of modelling in masking policy inaction' with Oliver Geden

12 February 2019
'Model evaluation - an adequacy-for-purpose view' with Wendy Parker

19 February 2019
'Science for future Earth' with Myanna Lahsen

26 February 2019
'The LIBOR market and its models: the emergence of the interest rate derivatives 'Quant' profession and its modelling practices' with Taylor Spears

04 March 2019
'The science of modelling through' with Dan Sarewitz

18 March 2019
'Critical appraisal of assumptions in model-based scientific assessment' with Jeroen van der Sluijs