IMC Open Forum - Scientific Modelling at SFU
Details
Date: Friday, December 2, 2011
Time: 11:30 - 1:00
Room: IRMACS Presentation Studio, ASB 10900
Schedule
Opening Remarks: Veselin Jungic, The IRMACS Centre
Moderator: Uwe Glasser, School of Computing Science
Panelists:
- Dr. Vahid Dabbaghian, MoCCSy Program
- Dr. Michael Eikerling, Department of Chemistry
- Dr. Steve Thompson, Department of Statistics
Background
The IMC Open Forum - Scientific Modelling at SFU is scheduled for December 2, 2011, between 11:30-1:00. The Open Forum is the closing event of the IRMACS 2011 Thematic Year: Scientific Modelling at SFU. Our goal is to wrap up our activities in 2011 with a forum in which SFU scientists from various fields that use modelling as a research tool will talk about similarities and differences in their approaches and techniques.
Each of the panelists will present short answers, 6-7 minutes in total, to 3 out of the following 5 questions.
In the quest of understanding common characteristics of scientific modelling methodologies used in a wide spectrum of applied research fields, as well as how to differentiate underlying concepts, methods and tools, we invite you to provide answers to some of the following questions:
- How do you establish the validity of your model in a given application scope?
- How do you separate macro-level behavior from micro-level behavior, avoiding insignificant details that do not affect the observable behaviour?
- What is the meaning of the structure of your model compared with the structure of the system under study (if any)?
- What are the three most important characteristics of your model, for instance, such as constructiveness, fidelity, parsimony and prospectiveness?
- How do you delineate the system under study from the external world, making the system boundary explicit?
Presentations will be followed by the question and answer period and discussion.