From : Monday 02 May 2022 -

To     : Monday 02 May 2022 -

Workshop on "Virtual Brains & Digital Twins", co-organised by Kathinka Evers, Viktor Jirsa and Alain Destexhe.

This workshop is free but registration is mandatory.

Register here.

PROGRAMME :

13:00 – 13:15  | Welcome & short introduction - Kathinka Evers & Maxime Guye

13:15 – 14:15  | Theme 1. Virtual Brains & Digital Twins in Neuroethics & Science

Moderator: Maxime Guye

13:15 – 13:30  | Kathinka Evers: Epistemic and Neuroethical Challenges of Virtual Brains & Digital Twins: Why Concepts Matter

13:30  – 13:45  | Viktor Jirsa: On the nature of a digital brain twin: how real is it?

13:45 – 14:15  | Panel discussion

Panel members: Jean-Pierre Changeux, Jeanette Hellgren Kotaleski, Viktor Jirsa, Kathinka Evers

14:15 – 15:15  | Theme 2. Neuroethics & Responsible Innovation: Mapping the Issues

Moderator: Kathinka Evers

14:15 – 14:30  | Arleen Salles: Some ethical issues related to virtual brains and digital twins

14:30 – 14:45  | Manuel Guerrero: Mapping the Neuroethical Issues on Digital Twins in Alzheimer research and treatment

14:45 – 15:15  | Panel discussion

Panel members: Pawel Swieboda, Florent Gaillard, Manuel Guerrero, Arleen Salles

15:15 – 15:45  | Coffee break

15:45 – 16:45  | Theme 3.  Early career researchers' perspectives on questioning modelling practices: individual and structural perspectives

15:45 – 16:00  | Three short introductions

• Mallory Carlu: Why do we build models (and why we should (always) ask this question)?
• Damien Depannemaecker: How we build and validate models: on the loss of reality and its propagation
• Lionel Kusch: How do we use models, and who are "we"? Standardisation and popularity of models

16:00 – 16:40  | Questions to the audience :
An interactive session during which randomly chosen attendees will address one of the proposed questions about their relationship with modelling.

16:40 – 16:45  | Synthesis

16:45 – 17:00  | Thanks & wrapping up 

17:00 –18:00  |  Apéritif

Location Paris