8th International
Conference
Science
and Scientist
2020
20 - 22 December, 2020
www.scienceandscientist.org/conference/2020
Program (All Times IST)
20th Dec. 2020
21st Dec. 2020
22nd Dec. 2020
| Auspicious Invocation |
 Sriman Krishna Keshava Prabhu (Philosophy Student at Stockton University, NJ, USA; Serving Assistant, Princeton Bhakti Vedanta Institute of Spiritual Culture and Science, NJ, USA) (4:30-4:35 PM) |
| Welcome Address By
Conference Chair |
 Sripad Bhakti Madhava Puri Maharaja, Ph.D. (Serving Director, Princeton Bhakti Vedanta Institute of Spiritual Culture and Science, NJ, USA) (4:35-4:45 PM) |
| Address By Guest of honour |  Srila Bhakti Nirmal Acharya Goswami Maharaja (Śrī Chaitanya Sāraswat Maṭh’s Present-Sevāite-Āchārya) (4:45-4:50 PM) |
| Address By Guest of honour |  Brian J. Ford (Fellow of Cardiff University & President Emeritus of Cambridge Society for the Application of Research, Cambridge University, UK) (4:50-4:55 PM) |
| Address By Chief Guest |  V. M. Tiwari, Ph.D. (Director, CSIR-National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad, India) (4:55-5:00 PM) |
| Vote of Thanks |  M. Chandrasekharam, Ph.D. (Sr. Principal Scientist, CSIR-IICT, Hyderabad, President IGNA) (5:00-5:05 PM) |
Keynote Speech (5:05-6:00 PM)
| Unity of Thought and Empirical Knowledge | Sripad Bhakti Madhava Puri Maharaja, Ph.D. (Serving Director, Princeton Bhakti Vedanta Institute of Spiritual Culture and Science, NJ, USA) Talk: 5:05-5:45 PM Q/A: 5:45-6:00 PM |
 S. R. Bhatt, Ph.D. (Chairman, Indian Philosophy Congress Chairman & Asian-African Philosophy Congress; National Fellow, Indian Council of Social Science Research, Government of India; Former Chairman, Indian Council of Philosophical Research; Former Professor & Head, Department of Philosophy, University of Delhi) |
Session Chair |
Session: Transcending the Illusionary Concept of Reality (6:00-8:30 PM)
| Malign Mechanicals and the Denied Reality of the Sentient Cell | Brian J. Ford (Fellow of Cardiff University & President Emeritus of Cambridge Society for the Application of Research, Cambridge University, UK) Talk: 6:00-6:40 PM Q/A: 6:40-6:50 PM |
| Transcending the Illusion of Subject-Object /Mind-Body Dichotomy through Vedic view of Teleological Unity in Organic Whole |  Bhakti Niskama Shanta, Ph.D. (Gen. Secretary, Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Institute of Spiritual Culture and Science, Bengaluru, India) Talk: 6:50-7:30 PM Q/A: 7:30-7:40 PM |
| Microbes at the Limit of Life |  Hans-Peter Grossart, Ph.D. (Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Müggelseedamm 310, 12587 Berlin, Germany) Talk: 7:40-8:20 PM Q/A: 8:20-8:30 PM |
 J. Scott Jordan, Ph.D. Professor and Chair Director, Institute for Prospective Cognition, Dept. Psychology, Illinois State University, USA |
Session Chair |
| Accessing Deeper Structures of Reality Through a Unified Consciousness |  David Lorimer (Chair, Galileo Commission, Programme Director, Scientific and Medical Network, United Kingdom) Talk: 4:30-4:50 PM Q/A: 4:50-5:00 PM  Athena Despoina Potari, Ph.D. (Fellow of Center for Hellenic Studies (CHS), Harvard University, USA; Doctor of Philosophy, University of Oxford) Talk: 5:00-5:20 PM Q/A: 5:20-5:30 PM  Joan Walton, Ph.D. (Senior Lecturer, School of Education/Ph.D. Supervisor York St John University, United Kingdom) Talk: 5:30-5:50 PM Q/A: 5:50-6:00 PM Panel Discussion on the Session: 6:00-6:30 PM |
 Bhakti Vijnana Muni, Ph.D. (President, Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Institute of Spiritual Culture and Science, Bengaluru, India) |
Session Chair |
Session: Beyond Subject-Object Duality (6:30-8:30 PM)
| Ontological Position of Personality - Why science is unable to comprehend the concept of Person | Bhakti Vijnana Muni, Ph.D. (President, Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Institute of Spiritual Culture and Science, Bengaluru, India) Talk: 6:30-7:00 PM Q/A: 7:00-7:10 PM |
| Transcending the Subject Object Dualiy | S. R. Bhatt, Ph.D. (Chairman, Indian Philosophy Congress Chairman & Asian-African Philosophy Congress; National Fellow, Indian Council of Social Science Research, Government of India; Former Chairman, Indian Council of Philosophical Research; Former Professor & Head, Department of Philosophy, University of Delhi) Talk: 7:10-7:40 PM Q/A: 7:40-7:50 PM |
| Science and Being: Closing the Epistemic Gap | J. Scott Jordan, Ph.D. (Professor and Chair Director, Institute for Prospective Cognition, Dept. Psychology, Illinois State University, USA) Talk: 7:50-8:20 PM Q/A: 8:20-8:30 PM |
Bhakti Niskama Shanta, Ph.D. (Gen. Secretary, Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Institute of Spiritual Culture and Science, Bengaluru, India) |
Session Chair |
| Mindfulness: The science of exploring mind-body interactions to fight disease and improve holistic health |  Sundeep Mishra, M.D. (Professor of Cardiology, All Indian Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India) Talk: 4:30-4:55 PM Q/A: 4:55-5:00 PM |
| Spirit Manifests Itself in Humans Through Tangible Heart Pulsations and Activates of Primary and Secondary Senses |  Tina Lindhard, Ph.D. (Psychology, Consciousness Studies, International University of Professional Studies (IUPS), Maui, Hawaii, USA) Talk: 5:00-5:25PM Q/A: 5:25-5:30 PM |
| Mind-Body
relationship from a Ayurvedic Perspective |
 Deba Prasad Dash, M.D. (Ay.) (Retd. Professor & Head, Dept. Panchakarma, Gopabandhu Ayurveda College, Puri, Odisha, India) Talk: 5:30-5:55PM Q/A: 5:55-6:00 PM |
 Medicharla Venkata Jagannadham, Ph.D. (Professor, School of Life Sciences Central University, Hyderabad, India) |
Session Chair |
Session: Life and Consciousness (6:00-8:00 PM)
| The Process of Subject-Object Cognition in Gaudiya Vaisnava Theology |  Sripad Bhakti Kamal Tyagi Maharaja (Serving Devotee Scholar, Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math, Nabadwip, India) Talk: 6:00-6:25 PM Q/A: 6:25-6:30 PM |
| How Do Animals Understand Their Requirements and Manifest Social Behavior? | Medicharla Venkata Jagannadham, Ph.D. (Professor, School of Life Sciences Central University, Hyderabad, India) Talk: 6:30-6:55 PM Q/A: 6:55-7:00 PM |
| Reconstructing Dualism: Consciousness Beyond Cartesianism |  Ranjan K. Panda, Ph.D. (Professor, Dept. Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology - Bombay, India) Talk: 7:00-7:25 PM Q/A: 7:25-7:30 PM |
| The Impersonal Study of Reality in the form of Atoms and Molecules Cannot Help Us to Understand the Organic Unity that We Find in Life |  Sumangala Devi Dasi, Ph.D. (Researcher, Department of Hydrology, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India) Talk: 7:30-7:55 PM Q/A: 7:55-8:00 PM |
 Vaidya Jayathirtha Rao, Ph.D. (CSIR-Emeritus Scientist: Organic Chemistry Division II/Crop protection Chemicals) |
Session Chair |
Session: Different Perspectives on Consciousness (8:00-9:40 PM)
| Yoga Science Models for Consciousness Research |  B.V.K. Sastry (Founder President, Yoga-Samskrutam Univesity, Sarasota, Florida, USA) Talk: 8:00-8:15 PM Q/A: 8:15-8:20 PM |
| Life, Matter and Consciousness: A Vedic Perspective |  Suvasini Devi Dasi, Ph.D. (Ph.D. in Physics from University of Bristol, U.K.; Serving Devotee Scholar, Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math, Ireland) Talk: 8:20-8:35 PM Q/A: 8:35-8:40 PM |
| A Meaningful Cure for the Ramifications of Cartesian Substance on Modern Science and Society | Sriman Krishna Keshava Prabhu (Philosophy Student at Stockton University, NJ, USA; Serving Assistant, Princeton Bhakti Vedanta Institute of Spiritual Culture and Science, NJ, USA) Talk: 8:40-7:55 PM Q/A: 8:55-9:00 PM |
| The Subjective/Objective Dichotomy and the Evolution of Life and Consciousness |  Carl Johan Calleman, Ph.D. (Worked as a Senior Researcher at the Department of Environmental Health, University of Washington, Seattle; Served as an expert on chemical carcinogens for the IARC/WHO.) Talk: 9:00-9:15 PM Q/A: 9:15-9:20 PM |
| Education
Must Include the Study of Spiritual Self to Uplift the Human
Civilization |
 Prasanna Kumar Mahapatra, Ph.D. (Secretary, Teeka Foundation; Lecturer, Education Department, Salipur Autonomous College, Odisha) Talk: 9:20-9:35 PM Q/A: 9:35-9:40 PM |
Ranjan K. Panda, Ph.D. (Professor, Dept. Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology - Bombay, India) |
Session Chair |
Concluding Session (9:40-10:00 PM)