Academics at Jesuit Universities and Schools
AJUS Physics Bioethics Interest Group
Welcome to the newly established AJUS Physics Interest Group. This webpage will be expanded to contain up-to-date information about activities of the Group as well as items of shared interest. Click here for a list of the current participants. Please contact Dr. Michael Cherney at Creighton University (Omaha, USA) if you would like to join this AJUS Interest Group (mcherney@creighton.edu).
UPCOMING MEETINGS
Heartland Jesuit Physics Retreat
November 8 and 9, 2013, in Wyoming, IA, USA
Faculty and staff members from Physics Departments at Jesuit universities in the mid-western region of the USA have been holding a common retreat for about 10 years.
Participating institutions have included Loyola University of Chicago,
Marquette University, Creighton University, Rockhurst University, and
Saint Louis University. Discussion topics have ranged from General
Physics instruction to Advanced Labs to what distinguishes physics
departments at a Jesuit university from those at secular institutions.
Our next retreat will be November 8 and 9, 2013, in Wyoming, IA. This
year’s meeting will include a discussion of external funding
opportunities that are appropriate to a Jesuit liberal arts institution.
Anyone from a Jesuit university with an interest in this meeting should
feel free to contact Dr. Michael Cherney (mcherney@creighton.edu or
+1-402-280-3039).
For more info on this group, click on icons below.
PUBLICATIONS
For books on topics at the intersection of Jesuit higher education and the natural
sciences, click here and scroll down to "Jesuit Education - Natural Sciences."
OF INTEREST
The Pontifical Academic of Sciences
The PAS is the scientific academy of the Vatican, established in 1936 by Pope Pius XI. It seeks, amonsgt others, to promote the progress of the mathematical, physical and natural sciences and the study of related epistemological problems. The website contains, amonsgt others, links to many of its reports. Some examples of downloadable reports produced by this Pontifical Academy in the area of physics include:
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| I documenti vaticani del processo di Galileo Galilei (1611- 1741) [Documents on the Trial of Galileo] |
The Emergence of Complexity in Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Biology |
The Responsibibility |
Predictability in Science: Accuracy and Limitations |
The Far-Future Universe: Eschatology from a Cosmic Perspective |
Einstein, Galileo | W. Heisenberg: The nature of the elementary particles |
The Vatican Observatory
(With no less than 15
Jesuit physicists on aff !)
