1:00

Welcome, Introduction

1:15

Keynote Speaker:  Alisa Bokulich, Boston University
To See a World in a Grain of Sand? Emergence and Mixed-Scale Modeling in Aeolian Geomorphology

2:20

Mark A. Bedau, Philosophy, Reed College
A Defense of Pluralism About Emergence

3:05

Coffee Break

3:20

Ken Jordan, Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh
Coarse Graining of Dynamical Correlation Effects in Electronic Structure by Use of Quantum Drude Oscillators

4:10

Joshua Rosaler, Philosophy, University of Minnesota
Reduction in Physics: A Local, Model-Based, Empirical Approach

5:00

Patricia Palacios, Philosophy, Munich Ctr. for Mathematical Philosophy
The Role of Approximation in a Reductive Model for Phase Transitions

8:30

Continental Breakfast

9:00

Samuel Fletcher, Philosophy, Munich Ctr. for Mathematical Philosophy
Emergence from Scale's Labyrinth

9:50

Porter Williams, Philosophy, Columbia University
Naturalness, Effective Field Theory, and the Autonomy of Scales

10:35

Coffee Break

10:50

Mark Wilson, Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh
Language Design: Lessons from Multi-scalar Modeling

11:55

Karen Crowther, Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh
Decoupling Reduction and Emergence in Physics

12:45

Lunch on your own

2:20

Keynote Speaker:  Nigel Goldenfeld, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Patterns, Universality and Computational Algorithms

3:25

Sebastian de Haro, Philosophy, University of Cambridge/Amsterdam
Emergence and RG in Gauge/Gravity Dualities

4:10

Coffee Break

4:25

Patrick McGivern, Philosophy/School of Humanities and Social Inquiry, University of Wollongong
Realism and Multiscale Modeling

5:15

Keynote Speaker:  Wendy Parker, Durham University
Going Sub-grid: Parameterization in Weather and Climate Modeling

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