Handling uncertainty in science

• 9.00am – 5.00pm on 22 March 2010 – 23 March 2010
• at The Royal Society, London

Organised by: Professor Tim Palmer FRS (University of Oxford and European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts) and Professor Paul Hardaker (Royal Meteorological Society)/uploadedImages/Royal_Society_Content/Events/Events_Diary/Events_Diary_Archive/chaos.jpg2010-03-22T:2010-03-23T: TNaNHNaNM The Royal Society, London 6-9 Carlton House Terrace LondonLondonSW1Y 5AGUK

A highly multi-disciplinary meeting discussing how scientists from a range of disciplines handle the issue of uncertainty in their area of specialisation: i.e. how uncertainty can be characterised, estimated, predicted and communicated. The meeting will also address the question of how decisions are made, and should be made, in the light of scientific uncertainty. An exceptionally eminent set of speakers have agreed to participate.

Speakers include Professor John Barrow FRS, Professor Harvey Brown, Dr Philip Campbell, Professor Sally Davies, Lord Smith of Finsbury, Lord Krebs FRS, Mr Mervyn King, Lord May FRS, Sir Rodger Penrose FRS, Dr Nina M Skorupska, Professor Julia Slingo, Professor Leonard Smith, Professor David Spiegelhalter FRS,  Professor Ian Stewart FRS,  Professor Peter Webster.

Audio recordings of the meeting are now available to download.

The proceedings of this meeting are scheduled to be published in a future issues of Philosophical Transactions A.