On Monday, March 24, there will be both a Gold Mass and a Public Lecture in Hillsdale, MI.

The Gold Mass will be at 5:00pm at St. Anthony’s (11 N Broad St, Hillsdale, MI 49242).

The Public Lecture will be at 8:00pm on the campus of Hillsdale College in Room 124 of Lane Hall (35 E College St, Hillsdale, MI 49242). The speaker is Dr. Christopher Lee from Los Alamos National Laboratory nuclear theory division, and its title is “Symmetry, Order and Providence in Creation.”

These events are sponsored by the Hillsdale Chapter of SCS.

Abstract of Lecture: It is often thought that modern cosmology and physics are incompatible with the account of creation in Genesis. I will present a personal reflection on what both channels of knowledge (reason/science and divine revelation) teach us about the created universe, and how they can be read/interpreted in a beautifully compatible way, and in fact shed light on one another and can deepen our appreciation and understanding of both. Together, the structured account of Creation in Genesis and the discoveries of modern physics and cosmology reveal to us the action of a Creator who endowed symmetry, mathematical elegance, and order upon the universe, which are signs of His action and His providence and love for His creation.

Bio of Speaker: Christopher Lee is a scientist and deputy group leader of the Nuclear & Particle Physics, Astrophysics & Cosmology Group in the Theoretical Division of Los Alamos National Laboratory, which he joined in 2012. He grew up in Portland, Oregon and graduated from Reed College in 2000, and received his PhD from Caltech in 2005. He did his postdoctoral research at the Institute for Nuclear Theory at University of Washington in Seattle, at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in California, and at the MIT Center for Theoretical Physics, before going to LANL. His research has been on the theory of Quantum Chromodynamics describing the strong force binding together protons and won a Department of Energy Early Career Research Award in 2015 for this research. He also has researched the origin of matter in the early universe and the role played by possible new particles beyond the currently known Standard Model of particle physics. He was also the founding President of the New Mexico Chapter of the Society of Catholic Scientists from 2019-2024, of which he remains an active board member.