Thursday 27 June 2024
Day dedicated to conferences
8:30-9:15
▪️ Welcoming participants
9:15-9:30
▪️ Introduction by Goéric Timmermans, President of the Convivial Planet association, and  Dr. Nahla Dhib (HÉTIS/LARIIS)
9:30-10:00
▪️What is a number? Sociology and history of numerical practices by Olivier Martin, Professor at Université Paris Cité and researcher at CERLIS (CNRS)
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10:00-10:30

▪️ Understanding Long-Term Poverty Trends in Belgium Through Integrated Data Analysis by Anna Mergoni, FWO PhD Fellow KULeuven      
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10:30-11:00
▪️ Break
11:00-11:30
▪️  Construction of a composite indicator to measuring the performance of education systems  by Giovana D’Inverno, Assistant Professor of Quantitative Methods (RTDb), University of Pisa
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11:30-12:00
▪️  What is a Mathematical Model? The example of Markov chains with income to model
microcredit by Francine Diener, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics from the J.A. Dieudonné Laboratory Université Cote d’Azur
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12:00-12:30
▪️  Mathematical modeling of insect populations for precision farming practices by Luca Rossini, Ph.D in Ecological Modelling
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12:30-13:30
▪️ Lunch break (zero-waste, local and organic catering Freddy met curry)
13:30-14:00
▪️  Multiregional macroeconomic modelling at the Federal Planning Bureau: the HERMREG model by Didier Baudewyns, Macroeconomist, Expert and Project Coordinator at the Federal Planning Bureau
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14:00-14:30
▪️  Methodologies for the energy communities diversity : example of MAMCA by Maria Luisa Lode, postdoctoral researcher VUB
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14:30-15:00
▪️  Sustainable development goals: translation in Wallonia and measuring progress by Natacha Zuinen, Head of Sustainable Development Unit, Secretariat General – Walloon Public Service
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15:00-15:30
▪️  Topology and geometry for tomorrow’s economy  by Gaël Giraud, Mathematician  and  economist,  Senior  researcher CNRS
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15:30-16:00
▪️Sustainability metrics in BRICS: evaluating performance  through green finance data  by Majid Sameti, Research  Fellow in Economics, HETIS (Nice)
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16:00-16:30
▪️ Break
16:30-17:00

▪️  The gift economy as a starting point to explore alternative narratives and practices in philanthropy and beyond by Zdena Middernacht, Ph.D senior research consultant and co-director at Organisation Development Support
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17:00-17:30

▪️What controls for AI systems in personalised medicine? by Noémi Bontridder, Researcher at the Centre for Research in Information, Law and Society (CRIDS) at the University of Namur
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17:30
▪️ Closing message by Goéric Timmermans and  Dr. Nahla Dhib
Friday 28 june 2024
 Day dedicated to workshops introduced by conferences
8:30-9:15
▪️ Welcoming participants
9:15-9:30
▪️ Introduction by Frank Deconinck, co-director of the Brussels Institute for Advanced Studies (BRIAS) 
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9:30-10:00
▪️  Evaluation models for teaching and research systems by Antoine Bodin, Trainer and researcher in didactics  and evaluation
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10:00-10:30
▪️  How can we link data science and social participation? How can we democratise quantitative approaches in the field of social intervention? by Julien Scheepers, Director of the Laboratoire de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Intervention Sociale, Hetis Nice
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10:30-11:00
▪️ Break
11:00-11:30
▪️  Reimagining society through new mathematical abstractions: reactions as a possible language model by Evo Busseniers, mathematician and researcher at the Leo Apostel Centre (VUB)
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11:30-12:00
▪️ New models for monetary economics, by 
Goéric Timmermans, consultant in sustainable development and finance and Nahla Dhib, economist and mathematician
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12:00-13:00
▪️ Lunch break
13:00-17:00
▪️ Transdisciplinary workshop

Next seminar: Brussels, Thursday 3 and Friday 4 July 2025.

Contact : Goéric Timmermans (Convivial Planet ASBL) et Evo Busseniers (VUB).

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