Session I – Chaos and Predictions in Physics and Astronomy
Predictions in Astrophysics and Cosmology
Rudolf Muradyan
Complexity and Predictions at the Fundamental Level of Scientific Knowledge
Antonino Zichichi
Session II – Geosciences and Environmental Evolution
Change of Scaling Before Extreme Events in Complex Systems
Vladimir Keilis-Borok, Alexandre Soloviev, Andrei Gabrielov, Ilia Zaliapin
Global Warming Science: Predictions, Surprises and Uncertainties
Veerabhadran Ramanathan
Predictability of Science and Climate Change
Mario J. Molina
An Example of Geo-Engineering: Cooling Down Earth’s Climate by Sulfur Emissions in the Stratosphere
Paul J. Crutzen
Session III – Predictions in the Life Sciences
Predicting the Minimal Sustainable Genome
Rafael Vicuña
The New Possibilities of Prediction and Prevention of Cancer
Umberto Veronesi
Stochastic Genetic Variations and their Role in Biological Evolution
Werner Arber
Session IV – Philosophical and Societal Aspects
Epistemological Study of the Vocabulary of Prediction in Science and Theology
Jean-Michel Maldamé
Predictability, Measurements and Cosmic Time
Michael Heller
Predictability, Determinism, and Emergence
Jürgen Mittelstraß
Predictability: Prophecy, Prognosis and Prediction. A Study in Neuroeducation
Antonio M. Battro
Session V – Research Procedures: Theories and their Verification, Serendipity
On the Unpredictability of Individual Research
Michael Sela
Science as Prediction and the Unpredictability of Science
Stanley L. Jaki
Session VI – Public Perception and Policy in the Context of Uncertainty
Some Issues Relating to Predictability and Certainty in Science
M. Govind Kumar Menon
Chaos in Self-Exciting Dynamos and the Main Geomagnetic Field
Raymond Hide
