SCS2026 Conference Program and Schedule  

FRIDAY, JUNE 5

6:30 PM – 10:00 PM:  Registration Desk Open  (Living Room, 1st floor of Conference Center Lodging = Building E on map)

6:30 PM – 7:30 PM:  DINNER (Dining Hall = Building B on map)  (Buffet. Food served until 7:30 PM.)                       

8:00 PM – 10:00 PM:  OPENING RECEPTION & POSTER SESSION I (Dining Hall)  Open Bar and snacks (7:30 to 9:30). Poster Session begins at 8:30 PM and ends at 10:00 PM.

SATURDAY, JUNE 6

7:00 AM – 7:45 AM:  Saturday Mass (Optional)  (Chapel, 2nd floor of Conference Center Lodging = Building E)   

7:45 AM – 8:45 AM:  BREAKFAST  (Dining Hall = Building B)                                                                                  

8:45 AM – 9 AM:  Welcoming remarks  (Conference Center, Room 202 = Building D)

[All lectures are in Room 202 of the Conference Center = Building D.  All breaks between talks are in Room 202 as well as in the break room on 1st floor of the Conference Center.]

9:00 AM:  Lecture:  "The Anatomy of a Conversion: Nicolaus Steno and the Search for Certainty in the Scientific Revolution"  Nuno Castel-Branco (University of Oxford)

9:50 AM:   Break

10:10 AM:  Lecture:  "Trustworthy Scientific Inference in the Age of AI"  James Carzon (Carnegie Mellon University)

10:40 AM:  Lecture:  "Rekindling the Great Chain of Being in the Age of AI"  Ziyuan Meng (Quincy University)

11:10 AM:  Break

11:25 AM - 11:55 AM:  Lecture:  "The Mathematical and Philosophical Revolution Launched by Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem" Gregory F. Johnson 

12 Noon – 1:00 PM:  LUNCH  (Dining Hall)

1:15 PM:  Lecture:  "The Evolution of Sexual Reproduction and Differentiation" James J. Lee (University of Minnesota)

2:05 PM:  Break                                                                                                                              

2:20 PM:  Lecture:  "The Biology of Human Nature and Human Individuation" Maureen L. Condic (Catholic University of America) 

3:10 PM:  Break: 

3:25 PM:  Lecture:  "John Henry Newman, New Doctor of the Church: His Vision of the University and the Place of the Sciences" Ignasi Rosell (Universidad CEU Cardenal Herrera)

3:55 PM:  Lecture:   "The Spanish Chapter of SCS" Enrique Solano Márquez (Centro de Astrobiología)

4:25 PM:  Break

4:40 PM:  Lecture:  "How the Universe Will End" Robert J. Scherrer (Vanderbilt University)

5:30 PM – 6:30 PM:  COCKTAIL HOUR  (Dining Hall)  (Open Bar)                                                  

6:30 PM – 8:00 PM:  CONFERENCE BANQUET (Dining Hall)                                                         

8:00 PM – 10:00 PM:  SOCIALIZING & POSTER SESSION II (Dining Hall) (The bar will reopen from 8:00 to 9:00.) Poster Session begins at 8:30 PM.

SUNDAY, JUNE 7

8:00 AM - 9:00 AM:  CONFERENCE MASS  (Chapel, 2nd floor, Conference Center Lodging)

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM:  BREAKFAST (Dining Hall)

[All lectures are in Room 202 of the Conference Center. All breaks between talks are in Room 202 as well as in the break room on 1st floor of the Conference Center.] [CHECKOUT from Lodging at 9:00 AM. Room keys not needed for meals after that.]

10:00 AM:  Lecture:  "Jesuit Science" Adam D. Hincks, SJ (University of Toronto)

10:50 AM:  Break  

11:10 AM:  Lecture: "Gregor Mendel in Brno and Vienna: An On-site Perspective" Berta Moritz

11:40 AM:  Break:

11:55 PM:  Lecture: "Faith, Science, and the Imagination" Michael V. Tripepi (Hillsdale College)

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM:  LUNCH (Dining Hall)        

1:30 PM - 2:30 PM:  2024 SCS Membership Meeting  (Room 202, Conference Center)

2:30 PM:   Conference ends