SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY AND THE SEARCH FOR MEANING

In collaboration with the John Templeton Foundation

José Ignacio Latorre, Professor of Theoretical Physics, University of Barcelona; Dan Maoz, George S. Wise Professor, Tel Aviv University, School of Physics and Astronomy; Robert Gilbert, Professor of Biophysics, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford; Jennifer J. Wiseman, Senior Astrophysicist, Goddard Space Flight Center. Moderated by Brandon Vaidyanathan, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Institutional Flourishing Lab, The Catholic University of America

Can science awaken the desire for something greater—something beyond what science can measure or explain? In a world increasingly marked by fragmentation and the loss of an ultimate meaning, scientific inquiry proves to be an unexpected yet powerful tool for reopening profound questions about the sense of reality and of our presence within it. In this event, a diverse group of leading international scientists will share their human and scientific experience, engaging with questions that inevitably arise when one finds themselves “face to face” with a universe that never ceases to spark wonder and awe.