2017 Conference Schedule
Friday, April 21:
Arrival and registration
8:00 PM Reception and Poster Session I.
Saturday, April 22:
7:00 Mass: St. James Chapel, the Archbp. Quigley Center
8:00 Breakfast A continental breakfast will be provided to participants who do not purchase their own breakfast at either the hotel or local restaurants.
8:45 AM Welcoming remarks (Prof. Stephen M. Barr, Univ. of Delaware, President of the SCS)
9:00 Keynote Lecture: "The Origin and Evolution of Universes" -- Prof. John D. Barrow (Univ.of Cambridge)
10:00 break.
10:15 Invited Lecture: "The Origin and Evolution of Habitable Worlds" --- Prof. Karin I. Öberg (Harvard Univ.)
11:15 break
11:30 "Medieval Ideas of the Multiverse" --- Prof. J. Christopher Clemens (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
12:00 Lunch
1:15 "The Origin of Evolution: The Interplay of Order and Contingency" --- Prof. Daniel Kuebler (Franciscan University of Steubenville)
1:45 "Process Information: A Novel Communication Theory with Applications to Evolutionary Biology" --- Dr. Erick Chastain (Rutgers University)
2:15 break
2:30 Invited Lecture: "Why Only Us: the origin of human language" -- Prof. Robert Berwick (MIT)
3:30 break
3:45 "Science in the Light of the Christian View of the Human Person" --- Fr. Joachim Ostermann, O.F.M., Ph.D. (Franciscan Friars of Canada)
4:15 "The Catholic Scientist in the Secular World: What is the meaning of our vocation and how does it distinguish us?" --- Dr. Marisa March (University of Pennsylvania)
4:45 break
5:00 St. Albert Award Lecture: "To Find God in All Things: Grandeur in an Evolutionary View of Life" -- Prof. Kenneth R. Miller (Brown University)
6:00: Cocktails
6:30: Dinner
8:00: Banquet Address: Br. Guy Consolmagno, Director of the Vatican Observatory
Sunday, April 23:
8:00 Conference Mass: St James Chapel, The Archbp. Quigley Center
9:00 breakfast
10:00 Invited Lecture: "Georges Lemaitre's Contributions to Cosmology" --- Prof. Robert Scherrer (Vanderbilt University)
10;30 "Are Probabilities Essential to Inferring Design?" --- Prof. Robert C. Koons (University of Texas at Austin)
11:00 Poster Session II
12:00 Lunch
1:00 Membership Meeting
2:00 Closing remarks
2:15 Conference ends
