Friday, May 14 

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

Saturday, May 15

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