SOCIETY OF CATHOLIC SCIENTISTS Second Annual Conference THE HUMAN MIND AND PHYSICALISM

June 8–10, 2018 • Washington, D.C. SCHEDULE OF EVENTS FRIDAY, JUNE 8 5–9 p.m. Arrival and Registration Heritage Hall, Father O’Connell Hall

8 p.m. Reception and Poster Session I Heritage Hall, Father O’Connell Hall

SATURDAY, JUNE 9 7 a.m. Mass St. Vincent de Paul Chapel

8 a.m. Breakfast Great Room, Edward J. Pryzbyla University Center Events until 6 p.m. in this room.

8:45 a.m. Benediction Cardinal Donald Wuerl, S.T.D. Archbishop of Washington, D.C. Welcoming Remarks 1:15 p.m. Stephen M. Barr, Ph.D. “Fifty Years Without Free Will” President of the Society of Catholic Scientists Aaron Schurger, Ph.D. French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM) 9 a.m. Keynote Lecture 2:15 p.m. “Arguments for the Immateriality of the Mind” Break Edward Feser, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Philosophy, Pasadena City College 2:30 p.m. “On the Question of Whether the Mind Can Be Mechanized” 10 a.m. Peter Koellner, Ph.D. Break Professor of Philosophy, Harvard University

10:15 3:30 p.m. “The Role of the Observer in Quantum Mechanics” Break Stephen M. Barr, Ph.D. Professor of Physics and Astronomy, 3:45 p.m. University of Delaware “Inside the Brain, Inside the Earth: The Work of Bl. Nicolaus Steno” 10:45 p.m. Andrew A. Sicree, Ph.D. Break Pennsylvania State University

11 a.m. 4:15 p.m. “Randomness in Quantum Phenomena” “Integral Ecology as a Restoration Valerio Scarani, Ph.D. of Man’s Proper Role in Creation” Principal Investigator, Center for Quantum Technologies, Kara D. Lamb, Ph.D. National University of Singapore Research Scientist, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, Colo. 12 p.m. Lunch 4:45 p.m. Break 5 p.m. 9:45 a.m. St. Albert Award Lecture “Poetic Naturalism Versus Non-Physical Reality” Title TBA Michael B. Dennin, Ph.D. Juan Martín Maldacena, Ph.D. Professor of Physics and Astronomy and Vice Provost Carl P. Feinberg Professor of Theoretical Physics, for Teaching and Learning, University of California, Irvine Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, N.J.

10:15 a.m. 6 p.m. “The Freedom of the Physical World: Are You a Machine?” Cocktails Heritage Hall, Father O’Connell Hall Craig S. Lent, Ph.D. Frank M. Freimann Chair Professor of Engineering and Professor of Physics, University of Notre Dame 6:30 p.m. Dinner Heritage Hall, Father O’Connell Hall 10:45 a.m. “Mind First: Why the Decoherence Program Entails Copenhagen Interpretation” 8 p.m. Organ Concert Javier Sánchez-Cañizares, Ph.D. Peter Latona, D.M.A. Professor, University of Navarra Director of Music Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception 11:15 a.m. Poster Session II

SUNDAY, JUNE 10 12:15 p.m. 8 a.m. Lunch Conference Mass St. Vincent’s Chapel 1 p.m. Membership Meeting 9 a.m. Breakfast 2:15 p.m. Great Room, Pryzbyla Center Conference Ends All events on Sunday in Pryzbyla Center Great Room. of Mind; Locke; The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism; Aquinas; Scholastic Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction; Neo-Scholastic Essays; and SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES Five Proofs of the Existence of God; is co-author of By Man Shall His Blood Be Shed: A Catholic Defense of Capital Punishment; and editor of The Cambridge Companion Stephen M. Barr to Hayek and Aristotle on Method and Metaphysics. Stephen M. Barr is Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Delaware and Director of its Bartol Research Institute. His area Peter Koellner of research is theoretical particle physics and cosmology. He received his Ph.D. Peter Koellner is Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University. He received from Princeton University in 1978. He was elected a Fellow of the American his Ph.D. from MIT in 2003. His main areas of research are mathematical logic, Physical Society in 2011 “for his original contributions to grand unified theories, specifically set theory, and philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of physics, CP violation and baryogenesis.” He is the author of Modern Physics and Ancient analytic philosophy, and philosophy of language. In 2008, he was awarded a Faith and The Believing Scientist: Essays on Science and Religion. He is President Kurt Gödel Centenary Research Prize Fellowship. Currently, he serves on the of the Society of Catholic Scientists. American Philosophical Association’s Advisory Committee to the Eastern Division Program Committee in the area of Logic. Michael B. Dennin Michael B. Dennin is Professor of Physics & Astronomy, Vice Provost for Teaching Kara D. Lamb and Learning, and Dean, Division of Undergraduate Education, at the University Kara D. Lamb is a Research Scientist at the Cooperative Institute for Research in of California at Irvine. His area of research is experimental condensed matter the Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colo. She received physics, especially of systems that are driven out of equilibrium and model her Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Chicago in 2015, where she studied systems for biological membranes. He received his Ph.D. in 1995 from UC Santa cirrus cloud microphysics. Her current research focuses on understanding Barbara, and is the recipient of many awards at UCI including the Outstanding/ the optical properties and atmospheric lifetime of black carbon aerosol using Inspirational Professor within School of Physical Sciences (1999), the Research observations from aircraft field campaigns and laboratory studies. Black carbon Innovation Award (1999), the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Fostering is an important short-lived climate forcer that contributes large uncertainties Undergraduate Research (2000), and the UCI Academic Senate Distinguished to our understanding of the climate system. Faculty Award for Teaching (2007). He is the author of Divine Science: Finding Reason at the Heart of Faith (2015). Craig S. Lent Craig S. Lent is the Frank M. Freimann Chair Professor of Engineering and Edward Feser Concurrent Professor of Physics at the University of Notre Dame. He received Edward Feser is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Pasadena City College. his Ph.D. in Solid State Physics in 1984 from the University of Minnesota. His He has been a Visiting Assistant Professor at Loyola Marymount University and field of research is in quantum devices and molecular-scale devices. The current a Visiting Scholar at the Social Philosophy and Policy Center at Bowling Green research of his group focusses on the fundamental theoretical limits imposed State University. He holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of California by physics on computing devices. For the past several years his group has been at Santa Barbara, an M.A. in religion from the Claremont Graduate School, and investigating these questions in the context of a new transistor-less paradigm a B.A. in philosophy and religious studies from the California State University known as Quantum-dot Cellular Automata (QCA), developed at Notre Dame at Fullerton. He is the author of many books, including On Nozick; Philosophy and now the subject of research worldwide. Juan Martín Maldacena Aaron Schurger Juan Martín Maldacena is the Carl P. Feinberg Professor of Theoretical Physics Aaron Schurger is principal investigator (chargé de recherche 1) with the French at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He received his Ph.D. in National Institute for Health and Medical Research (INSERM), based at the Physics in 1996 from Princeton University. His work focuses on quantum NeuroSpin Research Center near Paris. His research focuses on the neural gravity, string theory, and quantum field theory. Among his many discoveries signatures of subjective experience and the neural antecedents of self-initiated is the “AdS/CFT correspondence” between quantum gravity and quantum movement. He received Ph.D. in psychology and neuroscience at Princeton field theories, which has greatly advanced theoretical understanding of both. University. After that he worked as a postdoc at the NeuroSpin research center The 1997 paper in which he proposed this correspondence is the most cited in France and at the EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland. In 2013 Schurger was paper in the history of theoretical particle physics. Among the awards he has awarded the William James Prize from the Association for the Scientific Study received are the Fundamental Physics Prize (2012); the Pomeranchuk Prize of Consciousness (ASSC) and in 2015 was awarded the BMI-Kaloy prize from (2012); the Dirac Prize and Medal of the International Centre for Theoretical the Kaloy Foundation for his 2012 work on the role of spontaneous fluctuations Physics (2008); the Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics of in brain activity in self-initiated movement. In 2015, Schurger was awarded a American Institute of Physics and American Physical Society (2007); the grant from the European Research Council (ERC) to investigate spontaneous Edward A. Bouchet Award of the American Physical Society (2004); the Pius voluntary movement: how decisions-to-act emerge in the brain in the absence XI Medal (2002); the Sackler Prize in Physics (2000); and UNESCO’s Javed of an external imperative. Husain Prize for Young Scientists (1999). Andrew A. Sicree Javier Sánchez-Cañizares Andrew A. Sicree received his Ph.D. in Geochemistry and Mineralogy from Javier Sánchez-Cañizares is Professor in the Science, Reason and Faith group Pennsylvania State University in 1999. He currently teaches as an adjunct faculty (CRYF) at the University of Navarra. He received a Ph.D. in Physics in 1999 from member at Penn State University’s main campus, Penn State Harrisburg, St. the Autonomous University of Madrid and in Theology in 2005 from the Pontifical Francis University (in Loretto, Pa.), Harrisburg Area Community College, and Penn University of the Holy Cross. He has published in the areas of experimental Highlands Community College. Previously, he was director and curator of Penn condensed matter physics, foundations of quantum mechanics, philosophy of State University’s mineral museum, and has worked at the Carnegie Museum of science, science and religion, and theology. Natural History in Pittsburgh, the Savannah River National Lab in South Carolina and Los Alamos National Lab in New Mexico. He started the African Book Project: Valerio Scarani an on-going effort which has sent about 100,000 used books to “book-poor” Valerio Scarani is principal investigator at the Centre for Quantum Technologies nations in Africa and has worked as a volunteer lecturer, teaching computers at and Professor at the National University of Singapore. He received a Ph.D. in Strathmore University in Nairobi, Kenya. physics in 2000 from Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), working on NMR studies of magnetic nanostructures. From 2000 to 2007, he worked with Nicolas Gisin at the University of Geneva, becoming a leader in the fields of quantum information, quantum cryptography and Bell non-locality. He has pioneered “device-independent certification.” CAMPUS MAP SPONSORS