IFIP/IIASA/GAMM Workshop on Coping with Uncertainty (CwU)

Event Detail

General Information
Dates:
Monday, December 10, 2007 - Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Days of Week:
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Target Audience:
Academic and Practice
Location:
IFIP Laxenburg/Vienna, Austria
General Phone:
43-2236-8070
General Email:
Price:
240 Euro (early registration: 190Euro)
Registration Information
Registration Phone:
none (only Web-based registr.)
Event Details/Other Comments:

Following the success of the CwU'2004 the main aim of the workshop is to provide researchers and practitioners from different areas with an interdisciplinary forum for discussing various ways of dealing with uncertainties in various areas, including Environmental and Social Sciences, Economics, Policy-Making, Management, and Engineering. Presentations shall be prepared for an interdisciplinary audience, and shall address: open problems, limitations of known approaches, novel methods and techniques, or lessons from applications of various approaches. Ongoing global changes give rise to fundamentally new scientific problems which require new concepts and tools. A key issue concerns a vast variety of practically irreducible uncertainties, which challenge our traditional models and require new concepts and analytical tools. This uncertainty critically dominates, e.g., the climate change debates. In short, the dilemma is concerned with enormous costs vs massive uncertainties of potentially extreme impacts.