Meeting program - 7th International Conference Science and Scientist - 2019
PROGRAM OF SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE
SCIENCE AND SCIENTIST- 2019
Saturday,
June 15
08:30
– 9:30 AM |
Registration Setting up
Posters & Banners Mahaprasadam: Breakfast |
09:30
– 10:30 AM |
Auspicious
Lamping, Invocation, Inaugural Session & Press Conference Chief
Guest:
František Baluška, Ph.D. Group
Leader at the Institute of Molecular Cell Biology (IZMB), University of
Bonn, Germany Conference
Chair:
Sripad
Bhakti Madhava Puri Maharaja, Ph.D. Serving
Director, Bhakti Vedanta Institute of Spiritual Culture and Science,
Princeton, NJ, USA Host:
H.K.
Shah Founder,
World Vegan Vision, USA |
10:30
– 10:40 AM |
Herbal Tea break |
10:40
AM – 1:00 PM |
Plenary
Session: Cellular Sentience & Evolution of Consciousness Chair
& Speaker:
Subjective
Evolution of Consciousness Sripad
Bhakti Madhava Puri Maharaja, Ph.D. Serving
Director, Bhakti Vedanta Institute of Spiritual Culture and Science,
Princeton, NJ, USA From
Molecular Bioelectronics, via Cellular Sentience & Consciousness,
up to Plant Cognition & Intelligence František
Baluška, Ph.D. Group
Leader at the Institute of Molecular Cell Biology (IZMB), University of
Bonn, Germany Physics
Transcended: Cell Intelligence and the Nurture of Healing Brian
J. Ford Gonville
& Caius College, Trinity Street, Cambridge University, United
Kingdom |
1:00
– 2:00 PM |
Mahaprasadam: Lunch |
2:00
– 4:00 PM |
Session
2: Scientific Critique of Science Chair:
František
Baluška, Ph.D. Group
Leader at the Institute of Molecular Cell Biology (IZMB), University of
Bonn, Germany Consciousness
from Cells to Cosmos John
S. Torday, Ph.D. Prof.
Pediatrics & Ob/Gyn, Harbor-UCLA, Division of Neonatology;
Director, Guenther Laboratory for Cell-Molecular Biology, University of
California, USA Evolutionary
and Other Understandings of the Origin and Meaning of Life Michael
Reiss, Ph.D. Professor,
UCL Institute of Education, University College London United Kingdom Science
of a Living Universe John
J. Kineman, Ph.D. Senior
Research Scientist, Wessman Research Group, Cooperative
Institute for Research in Environmental Science, University of Colorado
Boulder, USA A
Comparative Study on Life and Consciousness Medicharla
V Jagannadham, Ph.D. Senior
Principal Scientist, CSIR-Centre for Cellular & Molecular Biology,
Hyderabad, India |
4:00
– 4:10 PM |
Mahaprasadam:
Snacks & Herbal Tea Break & Poster Session |
4:10
– 6:10 PM |
Session
3: Spiritual Biology Chair:
Brian J. Ford Gonville
& Caius College, Trinity Street, Cambridge University, United
Kingdom Life
is a Wild Story J.
Scott Jordan, Ph.D. Professor
and Chair Director, Institute for Prospective Cognition, Dept.
Psychology, Illinois State University, USA A
Scientific Critique to the Ontological View of an Organism as a Complex
Machine Marehalli
G. Prasad, Ph.D. Professor
Emeritus, Dept. Mech. Engg, Stevens Inst. Tech., Hoboken, NJ, USA 21st
Century Biology is Turning towards Wholistic and Sentient Concepts Bhakti
Vijnana Muni, Ph.D. President,
Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Institute of Spiritual Culture and Science, Bengaluru,
India There
Will Never be a Newton of the Blade of Grass Bhakti
Niskama Shanta, Ph.D. Gen.
Secretary, Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Institute of Spiritual Culture and
Science, Bengaluru,
India |
6:10
– 6:40 PM
6:40 – 7:00 PM |
Panel
discussion: Must Science Necessarily be Atheistic? Kirtan/
Cultural Program |
7:00
– 8:00 PM |
Mahaprasadam:
Dinner |
8:30
– 9:30 AM |
Mahaprasadam: Breakfast |
09:30
AM – 12:00 PM |
Session
4: Animal Rights and Veganism Chair
& Speaker: Gary L. Francione, Ph.D. Board
of Governors Professor, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Distinguished Scholar,
School of Law, Rutgers University NJ, USA Shrenik
G. Shah, M.D., PC President,
World Vegan Vision, USA Bob
Dibenedetto Founder,
Healthy Planet Preeti
Mehta, M.D. Gastroenterologist,
NY, USA Anil
Narang International
Vegan Advocate Uma
Swaminathan Writer
& Expert in Herbal Medicine Anthony
Dissen Chairman,
American Nutrition Ronald
Sartena Vegan
Enterpreneur
Freya
Dinshaw Founder,
American Vegan Society (Oldest-First Vegan Society, USA) |
12:00
– 1:00 PM |
Mahaprasadam:
Lunch |
1:00
– 4:00 PM |
Session
5: Dialogue Between Science, Religion, and Philosophy Chair:
Michael
Reiss, Ph.D. Professor,
UCL Institute of Education, University College London United Kingdom Pushing
Back the Frontiers of Knowing Joan
Walton, Ph.D. Senior
Lecturer, School of Education/Ph.D. Supervisor York
St John University, United Kingdom Science
as an Aspect of God Robert
M. Wallace, Ph.D. Author:
Hegel's Philosophy of Reality, Freedom and God, Cambridge Univ. Press Expansion
of Science by its Integration with Dharmic Concepts of Origin of Matter
and Evolution Bal
Ram Singh, Ph.D. Botulinum
Research Center, Dartmouth, Massachusetts, USA Why
Life Cannot be Seen as a Machine Working on Physical Laws Sumangala
Devi Dasi, Ph.D. Center
of Advanced Studies, North Campus, University
of Delhi, India Artificial
Intelligence Explains Why Life Comes only from Life Syamala
D. Hari, Ph.D.
Retired
from Lucent Technologies (formerly part of Bell Laboratories) as a
Distinguished Member of Technical Staff Neo-Semiotics
and the Shillongator: Complementary Models of the Universe Integrating
the Knowable and the Unknowable Sungchul
Ji, Ph.D.
Associate
Professor, Dept. Pharmacology and Toxicology, Ernest Mario School of
Pharmacy, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA |
4:00
– 4:30 PM |
Mahaprasadam:
Snacks &
Herbal Tea Break |
4:30
– 5:30 PM
5:30
– 6:30 PM |
Concluding
Session Kirtan/
Cultural Program
|
6:30
– 7:30 PM |
Mahaprasadam:
Dinner |