Lecturers:

Jim Fleming
Jim Fleming (B.S. astronomy Penn State; M.S. atmospheric science Colorado State; Ph.D. history Princeton) is professor of science, technology, and society at Colby College, Maine. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Meteorological Society, founder and first president of the International Commission on History of Meteorology, and series editor of Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology. Jim's books include Meteorology in America, 1800-1870 (Johns Hopkins, 1990), Historical Perspectives on Climate Change (Oxford, 1998), The Callendar Effect (AMS, 2007), and Fixing the Sky (Columbia, 2010). His new research involves a history of the emergence of atmospheric science and a biography of the "wild spirit" we now call carbon dioxide.
http://www.colby.edu/profile/jfleming

Roman Frigg
Roman Frigg is a Reader (Associate Professor) in Philosophy at the London School of Economics, Director of the Centre for Natural and Social Science (CPNSS), and Co-Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Time Series (CATS) at LSE. He holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of London and MSc's both in theoretical physics and philosophy from the University of Basel, Switzerland. His main research interests are in general philosophy of science and philosophy of physics. He has published papers on scientific modelling, quantum mechanics, the foundations of statistical mechanics, randomness, chaos, complexity theory, probability, computer simulations, and climate modelling. Further information can be found on
www.romanfrigg.org.

Wendy Parker
Wendy Parker is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Ohio University. She received her Ph.D. in History and Philosophy of Science from the University of Pittsburgh. Her research focuses on the epistemology and methodology of computer simulation modeling, especially weather and climate modeling. She is particularly interested in how complex computer simulation models can be evaluated, how they can provide evidence for hypotheses about real-world target systems, and how they are used in "assimilating" traditional observational data. She is also interested in the roles of science in public policy. Her papers have appeared in a variety of journals, including Synthese, Philosophy of Science, and Studies in History & Philosophy of Modern Physics.
http://www.ohio.edu/people/parkerw/

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