The Speakers
John Mather
John Cromwell Mather is an astrophysicist, cosmologist and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate for his work on the Cosmic Background Explorer Satellite (COBE) with George Smoot.
In 2007, Time magazine listed Mather among the 100 Most Influential People in The World. In October 2012, he was listed again by Time magazine in a special issue on New Space Discoveries as one of the 25 most influential people in space.
William Daniel Phillips
Phillips is also a professor of physics of the University of Maryland College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences.
In 1997 he won the Nobel Prize in Physics together with Claude Cohen-Tannoudji and Steven Chu for his contributions to laser cooling, a technique to slow the movement of gaseous atoms in order to better study them, at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and especially for his invention of the Zeeman slower.
Jennifer Wiseman
Jennifer J. Wiseman is an astronomer and Senior Project Scientist on the Hubble Space Telescope.
Wiseman is also interested in science policy and public science outreach and engagement. She has served as a congressional science fellow of the American Physical Society, an elected councilor of the American Astronomical Society and a public dialogue leader for the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Robert Kaita
Dr. Robert Kaita is a physicist in the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) at Princeton University.
He has not only made outstanding contributions to the advancement of his disciplinary specialty through his research, he has often shared his perspectives on integrating a living faith and disciplinary excellence with groups on various campuses. He will be sharing some reflections on this journey of faith in the world of academia at the conference.
Eben Alexander
Eben Alexander III (born December 11, 1953) is an American neurosurgeon and author. Alexander left Harvard in 2001, citing frustration with "medical politics". In 2006, he relocated to Lynchburg, Virginia, where he conducted research on less invasive brain surgery techniques using focused X-rays and digital scannersIn 2008, he went under a medically-induced coma while being treated for meningitis. His book Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife (2012) describes his near-death experience while in the coma.[1] He asserts that the coma resulted in brain death, that consciousness is not only a product of the brain and that it can go on to an afterlife
Daniel Kuebler
Daniel Kuebler is Dean of the School of Natural and Applied Sciences and Professor of Biology at Franciscan University. (Ph.D. Molecular and Cell Biology 1999, UC Berkeley). His research involves studying adult stem cells in bone marrow and adipose tissue for use in orthopedic treatments. He teaches courses in evolution, cell biology, and science and faith. He is the co-author of The Evolution Controversy: A Survey of Competing Theories (Baker Academic, 2007), a scientific critique of the various theories of evolutionary thought, and is currently working on a book examining the integration of Catholic teaching and evolution.
Steve Barr
Stephen Matthew Barr is an physicist who is a professor emeritus of physics at the University of Delaware.[2] A member of its Bartol Research Institute, Barr does research in theoretical particle physics and cosmology. In 2011, he was elected Fellow of the American Physical Society, the citation reading "for original contributions to grand unified theories, CP violation, and baryogenesis.
He is also a practicing Catholic, writes and lectures frequently on the relation of science and religion
Andrew Bocarsly
Andrew Bruce Bocarsly (born April 23, 1954) is currently a professor at Princeton University, New Jersey. His primary research interests lie in physical inorganic chemistry.[1] He conducts research in electrochemistry, photochemistry, solids state chemistry, and fuel cells, and is known for his work on alternate energy solutions involving processes and materials for photo-reduction and electro-reduction
Michel Yves Bolloré
Michel Yves Bolloré, co-authors of book « God, the Science, the Evidence » with Olivier Bonnassies, he is passionate about science. They spent three years gathering information from researchers and scientists in order to offer you a collection of evidence supporting the existence of a creator God.
The book is a best-seller in France, and sold already 250 000 copies. This book is also translated is sevral languages.
Olivier Bonnassies
Olivier Bonnassies, co-authors of book « God, the Science, the Evidence » with Michel Yves Bolloré , he is passionate about science. They spent three years gathering information from researchers and scientists in order to offer you a collection of evidence supporting the existence of a creator God.
The book is a best-seller in France, and sold already 250 000 copies. This book is also translated is sevral languages.
Jean Staune
Jean Staune is a French philosopher of science and futurist, he has organized major conferences in more than fifteen countries, with international organizations such as UNESCO, on themes related to science, religion and culture. Secretary General of the Interdisciplinary University of Paris, he currently directs the "Sciences and the Quest for Meaning" center at the Mohammed VI Polytechnic University in Morocco. In the USA, he collaborated with the John Templeton Foundation, where he was a member of the Board of Advisors for nine years..
Marcus Gibson
Christophe-Marcus Gibson is the Director of the Princeton Initiative in Catholic Thought, a new academic program that aims to sponsor and organize a wide variety of high-caliber courses, lectures, seminars, and other offerings relating to Catholic thought.
His current research focuses on what Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas can still contribute to our understanding of the role passions play in human life at its best. He has taught philosophy courses at Princeton and Rutgers, and he teachs a freshman seminar at Princeton on happiness and human nature in the Catholic intellectual tradition.