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Tuesday 18/11/2008

 

11:00-2:00          Registration

1:00-2:00            Buffet Lunch

2:00-2:30            Wilson Poon (Edinburgh): Introductory Address

2:30-3:30            Evelyn Fox-Keller (MIT): 'Towards a Science of Informed Matter'

3:30-4:00            Tea & Coffee

4:00-5:00            Greg Radick (Leeds): ‘Which Physics?  Which Biology?  Lessons in Specificity from the History of Mendelism’

5:00-5:30            End of Session Discussion

7:30                     Buffet Dinner (St. Celia’s Hall)

 

Wednesday 19/11/2008

 

9:30-10:30          Steven French (Leeds): 'Shifting to Structures in Physics and Biology: A Prophylactic for Promiscuous Realism'

10:30-11:00        Tea & Coffee

11:00-12:00        Michel Morange (ENS): 'The Limits of Molecular Explanations: A Trigger to Interdisciplinarity'

12:00-12:30        End of Session Discussion

12:30-1:30          Buffet Lunch

1:30-2:30            Jane Calvert (Edinburgh): 'Calculating Life? A Sociological Perspective on Systems Biology'

2:30-3:30            Darrell Rowbottom (Oxford): 'Approximations, Idealizations and "Experiments" at the Physics-Biology Interface'

3:30-4:00            Tea & Coffee

4:00-5:00            Nigel Brown (Edinburgh): ‘Policy and pragmatism - why and how are UK funders promoting multidisciplinary research?’

5:00-5:30            End of Session Discussion

7:30                     Reception & Main Conference Dinner (Playfair Library)

 

Thursday 20/11/08

 

9:30-10:30          Otávio Bueno (Miami): 'When Physics and Biology Meet: The Nanoscale Case'

10:30-11:00        Tea & Coffee

11:00-12:30        Panel discussion and summing up

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