12:30

Registration, Coffee, Snacks

1:00

Mazviita Chirimuuta and Sandra Mitchell, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh
Robustness in Contemporary Science and Philosophy

1:30

Alison Barth, Professor, Department of Biology, and Head, Barth Lab, Carnegie Mellon University
Functional Connectivity is Regulated by SOM Interneurons Spontaneous Activity

2:00

Timothy O’Leary, Marder Lab, Volen Center for Complex Systems, Brandeis University
Reconciling Variability with Robust Behavior at the Single-Neuron Level

2:30

Trey Boone, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh
Temporal Organization and Robustness in Neural Systems

3:00

Coffee Break

3:30

Emilio Bizzi, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and McGovern Institute for Brain Research, MIT
Muscle Synergies, Concept, Principles, and Potential use in Neurorehabilitation

4:00

Raffaella Campaner,  Department of Philosophy, University of Bologna
Robustness Notions and Physiological Adaptability: Philosophical and Biomedical Reflections on the Neurological Basis of Disorders

4:30

Flavio Keller, Department of Physiology, Developmental Neuroscience Lab, Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma
Robustness of Musical Language: The Role of Motor Systems

5:00

Arnon Levy, Department of Philosophy, Program in History and Philosophy of Science, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Causal Order and Types of Robustness

5:30

General discussion

8:30

Continental Breakfast

9:30

Instructions, division into subgroups

10-12:30

Subgroup discussions
817 CL
HPS Seminar Room
Center for the Humanities (602 CL)

12:30

Lunch on your own

2:00- 3:00

Graduate Student Poster Session
& Coffee Break

3-5:30

Subgroup discussions, cnt'd.

5:30-6

Reconvene, debriefing

8:30

Continental Breakfast

9:30

Subgroup Reports

10:15

General Discussion, outcomes, products, open questions

12:00

Adjourn