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<p class="paragraph" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span class="eop"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">The Emmy Noether group UDNN: Scientific Understanding and Deep Neural Networks is pleased to announce the
Call for Abstracts for the upcoming workshop Machine Learning Meets Scientific Understanding, which will take place on June 26 and 27 at TU Dortmund University. This interdisciplinary event seeks to bring together philosophers of science and machine learning
(ML), as well as ML practitioners, to explore the intersections between ML and scientific understanding.
<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<span class="eop"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">We welcome contributions that address, but are not limited to, the following topics:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">• ML as a Tool for Scientific Discovery: How can ML systems contribute to generating new hypotheses, models, or experimental
designs, and how may this advance scientific understanding? </span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">• ML and Scientific Explanation: How do ML systems impact scientists’ ability to explain scientific phenomena? Is ML an obstacle
to explanation, or can it serve as an aid to explaining phenomena? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">• Understanding from ML: How do ML systems aid or hinder human understanding of scientific phenomena? Is there understanding
more or less directly from ML, and does it have to pass through explanations based on ML models? Or does ML instead pave the way towards new modes of understanding? How does ML relate to different known forms of understanding, such as objectual and explanatory
understanding? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">• Evaluating ML-Driven Insights: What are the criteria for assessing the reliability, robustness, and explanatory power of
ML-generated scientific outputs? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">• ML and Scientific Understanding in Particular Cases: What are use cases of ML in specific scientific fields, such as biology, physics, or social sciences, that ostensibly show
its impact on scientific understanding?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0cm;vertical-align:baseline">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Confirmed speakers<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">• Cameron Buckner, Philosophy, University of Florida
</span></span><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">• Edward Chang, Computer Science, Stanford University
<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">• Finnur Dellsén, Philosophy, University of Iceland
<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">• Insa Lawler, Philosophy, UNC Greensboro
<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">• Holger Lyre, Philosophy, Magdeburg University
<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">• Daniel Neider, Computer Science, TU Dortmund University
<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">• Darrell P. Rowbottom, Philosophy, Lingnan University Hong Kong
<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0cm;vertical-align:baseline">
<span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">• Emily Sullivan, Philosophy, Utrecht University<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Submission Guidelines</span></b></span><span class="eop"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0cm;vertical-align:baseline">
<span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">We invite abstracts of up to
<b>500 words</b> for presentations of approximately 30 minutes, followed by 15 minutes of discussion. Submissions should include the title of the presentation and the abstract.</span></span><span class="eop"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0cm;vertical-align:baseline">
<span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Please submit your abstract in PDF format via mail, including your name and affiliation, to
</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"><a href="mailto:udnn.abstracts@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#467886">udnn.abstracts@gmail.com</span></span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">
</span><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">by
<b>January 31<sup>st</sup>, 2025</b>. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by
<b>March 31<sup>st</sup>, 2025</b>.</span></span><span class="eop"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0cm;vertical-align:baseline">
<span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">For inquiries, please contact the organizers at
</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"><a href="mailto:udnn.ht@tu-dortmund.de" target="_blank"><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#0563C1">udnn.ht@tu-dortmund.de</span></span></a></span><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">.</span></span><span class="eop"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">We look forward to receiving your contributions!</span></span><span class="eop"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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