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SUMMARY:Modeling Nature and Society – Can We Control the World?
DESCRIPTION:The new Leopoldina event format Crossing Boundaries in Science 
 is meant to stimulate discussions, without any preconceived views as to the
 ir outcome, on trendsetting scientific fields which are particularly depend
 ent on new forms of interdisciplinary cooperation and/or interdisciplinary 
 method transfer. Expected or already emerging social transformations correl
 ated to scientific developments are also meant to be taken into considerati
 on as well as their ethical implications.  The first workshop "Modeling Nat
 ure and Society – Can We Control the World?" will take place in Weimar – th
 e hub of the classical period in German cultural history and the residence 
 of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe who also conducted significant research in se
 veral scientific disciplines. The workshop will focus on the scientific mod
 eling of complex biological and social networks and on resulting implicatio
 ns for a targeted and strategical intervention in these systems. Particular
 ly interesting for the workshop are complex systems such as molecular gene 
 networks, the immune system, epidemiological phenomena, traffic dynamics, f
 inancial systems or the man-made climate change. These systems and their co
 mplexity are hardly intelligible anymore for the individual citizen. And ev
 en scientists who try to create models of complex correlations and connecti
 ons with different approaches in order to understand them and make them mor
 e predictable achieve merely limited understanding for many of these system
 s so far.  This is reflected for example in the rather insufficient knowled
 ge of widespread multifactorial diseases or vague economical predictions re
 garding the consequences of different approaches in new macroeconomic polic
 ies. Nevertheless, we try to interfere and control these systems repeatedly
 .  Crossing Boundaries in Science is meant to approach these challenges and
  discuss the following questions from an interdisciplinary point of view:\n
 \n 	Which analogue conceptual bases can be used to analyze complex biologic
 al and social networks? 	Which and how many variables are relevant or even 
 reasonable for appropriate modeling and understanding complex systems? 	Whi
 ch advantages do simplified reductionist models provide in contrast to far 
 more comprehensive ones (Big Data)? 	Is science able to deliver reliable in
 structions for target-oriented strategic intervention in complex cross-link
 ed systems? 	Which principles of self-organization can be utilized for crea
 ting resilient fault-tolerant system architectures (e.g. road traffic and f
 inancial system)? \n\n "Crossing Boundaries in Science" is sponsored by the
  Federal Ministry of Education and Research.\n\nVenues\n\nThe introductory 
 lecture will be held at the Goethe-Nationalmuseum, Frauenplan 1, 99423 Weim
 ar.The workshop will take place at the Hotel Dorint am Goethepark, Beethove
 nplatz 1-2, 99423 Weimar.\n\nContact\n\nYvonne BorchertAssistentin des Akad
 emiepräsidentenE-Mail: yvonne.borchert@leopoldina.orgTel.: 030 / 203 89 97-
 416\n\nFurther information and registration\n\nCrossing boundaries addresse
 s a specialist audience as well as policy makers and the broad public. It i
 s free of charge, registration via the following link is required.Registrat
 ion
LOCATION:Weimar
DTSTAMP:20251112T170935Z
DTSTART:20160629T220000Z
DTEND:20160701T220000Z
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