Location: Room 400 Student Services Center, UCSD main campus
12:30 - 1:15 Lunch buffet
First Session 1:15- 5:00
Marion Fourcade: Cents
and
Sensibility: Economic Valuation and the Nature of 'Nature' in
France and America
Jessica O’Reilly: Characterizing
Uncertainty in Expert Assessment
Golan, Tal : The
Kishon
Affair: Science, Law, and the Politics of Causation in the
Israeli context
Collier, Stephen: Risk
assessment
and catastrophe modeling
Comments: Akos Rona-Tas
Dinner 6:30 at Piatti's in La Jolla
Location:
Room
400 Student Services Center, UCSD main campus
Second Session 9:30 – 12:00
Erik Millstone: The
evolution
of risk assessment paradigms: in theory and in practice
Roger Strand: "Decisions
under strict uncertainty: Whither Responsibility?"
James Hammitt:
Uncertainty and Decision Making (PowerPoint) (
Paper)
Comments: Mark Machina
12:00-12:45 Lunch buffet
Third Session 12:45- 3:15
Akos Rona-Tas, Sandrine Blanchemanche, Eve Feinblatt Meleze: Cognitive
Demarcation in Assessing Food Risk in the E.U. and the U.S.: Melamine
and Listeria
Beth Kewell: The
shifting
sands of uncertainty: Risk construction and BSE/vCJD
David Demortain: The
genericness
of risk: exploring the trans-problem and trans-national
applications of risk assessment
Comments: TBA
3:15-3:30 Coffee break
Fourth Session 3:30- 6:00
Andrew Lakoff: Generic
biothreats, or, how we became unprepared
Laura Maxim: Dealing
with
uncertainty in EU regulatory chemical risk assessment
Frederic Bouder:
"Applying the Tolerability of Risk heuristic outside
the Health and safety field: does it work ?" PowerPoint
Presentation
Comments: John Evans
Dinner 7:00 at the Mustangs and Burros Restaurant located in the Hotel
Estancia