Scientific Program

 

Tuesday, June 23

 

9.00
Welcome and Opening
Carsten Kettner

Session Chair: Tim Clark

9.20
Handling Biological Complexity: The Need for New Narratives
Philip Ball, London

10.00
Standards for Scientific Explanation: Puzzles, Clarification, and Ways Forward
Lauren Ross, University of California Irvine

10.40
Coffee break

11.10
Investigating Biomolecular Self-organization with Simulation Intelligence
Roberto Covino, Goethe University Frankfurt

11.50
The Beginning and End of Systems Approaches to Modeling in the Life Sciences
Olaf Wolkenhauer, University of Rostock

12.30
Lunch

Session Chair: Julia Bursten

14.00
Representing Biological Reality: A New Type of Scientific Models in Systems Biology
Hans V. Westerhoff, Universities of Amsterdam

14.40
Reproducible Numbers, Elusive Objects: Measurement as the Meeting Point of Representation and Reality
Santiago Schnell, Dartmouth College, Hanover

15.20
Coffee break

15.50
Closer to Reality? Modeling in Catalysis
Sandra Luber, University of Zurich

16.30
Can Robots Help us Redefine Chemical Reactions?
Bartosz Grzybowski, Institute for Basic Science, Ulsan, Republic of Korea

17.10
Close

19.30
Dinner

 

 

Wednesday, June 24

 

9.00
Opening

Session chair: Vanessa Seifert

9.05
Why We All Love Orbitals
Tim Clark, Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg

9.45
Protein-ligand Binding Affinity: What is Really Being Measured?
Christian Kramer, F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd, Basel

10.25
Coffee break

11.00
Chemical Models, Paper Tools, and their Effects upon the Unfolding of Chemistry
Guillermo Restrepo, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig

11.40
Chemical Abstractions
Michelle Francl, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr

12.20
Close

12.30
Lunch

14.00 - 17.30
Excursion

19.30
Dinner

 

Thursday, June 25

 

9.00
Opening

Session chair: Santiago Schnell

9.05
Chemistry's Place among the Sciences: A View from Philosophy
Vanessa Seifert, National Kapodistrian University of Athens

9.45
Geometry and Complex Systems
Türkü Özlüm Celik, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden

10.25
Coffee break

11.00
Bugs and Pears: Understanding Data Models Beyond Statistics
Emma Cavazzoni, Technical University of Munich

11.40
Representing Reality: Reflections from Nonlinear Chemical Dynamics and Elsewhere
Irving R. Epstein, Brandeis University, Waltham

12.20
Close

12.30
Lunch

Session chair: Michelle Francl

14.00
Oxidation State and Valence in Chemistry: Two Simple Models that still Excite Controversy in Some Quarters
Nicholas C. Norman, University of Bristol

14.40
The Place of Historical Models in the Research Landscape
Jeremy N. Harvey, KU Leuven

15.20
Coffee break

15.50
Multiscale Modeling of Nanomaterials: Epistemic Challenges and Opportunities
Julia Bursten, University of Kentucky, Lexington

16.30
How Granular Formalization Transforms Modeling into a Social Machine
Daniel Mietchen, FIZ Karlsruhe

17.10
Closing Remarks
Carsten Kettner

19:30
Dinner