BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Grails iCalendar plugin//NONSGML Grails iCalendar plugin//EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260420T193014Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260402T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260402T170000 SUMMARY:LSE Conjectures and Refutations Inaugural Workshop: Scientific Modelling UID:20260420T214834Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/London LOCATION:Lakatos Building\, Room 2.06\, London\, United Kingdom DESCRIPTION:

We are pleased to announce that the Conjectures and Refutations workshop series will hold its inaugural session on Scientific Modelling on 2 April 2026\, organised by the PhD community in the Department of Philosophy\, Logic and Scientific Method at LSE.  \;

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Models play a central role across the sciences and in philosophy itself\, yet fundamental questions remain about how they represent\, explain\, and produce understanding. This workshop brings together four talks spanning the spectrum from the philosophy of modelling to concrete modelling practices.  \;

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Date: Thursday\, 2 April 2026

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Venue: Lakatos Building\, Room 2.06\, LSE  \;

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Schedule:  \;

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11:00&ndash\;12:00 \;Keynote: Roman Frigg(LSE)  \;  \;

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Lunch  \;

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13:30&ndash\;15:00 \;Robert Northcott (Birkbeck\, University of London)\, "Modelling and fragility&rdquo\; \;  \;  \;  \;  \; \;

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 \;  \;  \; Response: Vita Kudryavtseva (LSE)\, followed by Q&\;A  \;

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15:15&ndash\;16:45 \;Tarja Knuuttila (University of Vienna)\, &ldquo\;The Abstractness of Network Motifs" \;  \;  \;  \;

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 \;  \;  \;  \;Response: Jonathan Coull (LSE)\, followed by Q&\;A  \;

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17:00&ndash\;18:30 \;Emily Sullivan (University of Edinburgh)\, &ldquo\;Decomposing Machine Learning Models&rdquo\; \;  \;  \;

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 \;  \;  \;  \; Response: Franco Menares-Paredes (LSE)\, followed by Q&\;A  \;

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18:30&ndash\;19:00 \;Reception  \;

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The workshop is open to all. To attend\, please register here: https://forms.gle/wWhMep57yMwfgCLK7 \;  \; \;

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We very much hope to see you there! Please feel free to circulate this announcement to anyone who might be interested. \;  \;

ORGANIZER;CN=Franco Menares-Paredes;CN=Binjie Zou;CN=Daria Zakharova;CN=Alexander Niederklapfer: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR