Monday, January 01, 2007

Update from ASU

Hey folks
The ASU crowd has been out of commission lately, but we will hopefully be posting more frequently in the coming months. A few things to report:

My earlier post about modeling at the margin has been adapted and slightly expanded for the newsletter put out by the Center for Science and Technology Policy Research (here). There was some lively discussion about this, including some commentary by climate modeler Richard Tol, over on Roger Pielke's blog.

In the coming months, what you might call the "core" of the ASU modeling group will be buckling down on a little project to explore the issue of "robustness" in greater depth. More on the reading, thinking and discussion that led us to this project soon.

The call for papers for next year's 4S meeting is already available, and is focused on "Ways of Knowing." Of course modeling (however you define it), might fit very well into this theme - stay tuned for panel ideas, or chime in with one here!


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