Scientific Events Photo Gallery:

Some photos of scientifically-based talks, physics conferences, scientific research presentations, and other noteworthy events. Note that photos of health-related events can be found separately in the "Healing Fairs" photo gallery. Click on the links (in red) to read more about each person or group.

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Owen Flanagan speaks at UBC Mar 29, 2010 as part of of HECC's Green College Lecture Series. He gave a public lecture on "The Really Hard Problem" (how are consciousness and meaning possible in a purely material world?), and met with groups of graduate students to discuss how evolutionary cognitive science can be used to enrich our study of culture, religion, philosophy, and literature.

Ara Norenzayan gives a guest lecture on the scientific/evolutionary origins of religion called "Why We Believe" to second year students at UBC, Vancouver, March 23, 2010, as part of the UBC-Ritsumeikan joint exchange program.

Jen helps out at the Integrating Science and the Humanities conference at UBC, September 26-29, 2008. This unprecedented conference was hosted by Edward Slingerland (HECC) and attracted internationally renown scholars like Stephen Pinker (shown in black with Jen), who was named one of Time Magazine's 100 most influential people in the world (2004) and one of Prospect and Foreign Policy's 100 top public intellectuals (2005), as well as other greats like Shaun Nichols and Stephen Stich (both shown above at centre), Richard Shweder (shown in last photo, with Edward Slingerland), David Sloan Wilson, Harvey Whitehouse, and Dan Sperber.

Masaru Emoto speaks at Unity Church in Vancouver, BC, Aug 16, 2008. The crystal in the centre photo was the result of exposing water to a customized scent sample called "Reiki Spirit". At the end of the presentation we did an experiment together, saying "Thank you" and "We love you" to Vancouver tap water. Volunteers then did a "taste test" to determine if the prayed-for water sample tasted different from the un-prayed-for water sample. The results will be posted online in about three weeks at masaru-emoto.net

Victor Chan (left) introduces Dan Siegel (right) at the Ridge Theatre June 18, 2008, as part of the ongoing Dalai Lama Centre for Peace and Education lecture series initiative. Dr. Diegel's talk, "The Mindful Brain: Shaping Our Neural Circuits to Cultivate Well-Being", was about the newly discovered overlap in the fields of developmental psychology, neuro-biology, and mindfulness meditation. [read article]

Jen with Dr. David Ng and 2001 Nobel Prize Winner in Physics Dr. Carl Wieman. Jan 12, 2008. Dr. Ng and Dr. Wieman offered tips on how to both teach and learn scientific topics more effectively, in the hope of one day making science understandable, useful, and interesting to a large fraction of the population.

Mathtieu Richard, "The World's Happiest Man" and French interpreter for the Dalai Lama, speaks about Neuroscience and Meditation at UBC Mar 9 2007. The third photo shows a monk hooked up to hundreds of brain-wave sensors. [related research paper]

Merrie Bakker (right) introduces Carolina Markolin Ph.D (left), who gave a talk about German New Medicine as part of the Friday Morning Breakfast Talks series sponsored by The Healing Journal (at the Vancouver Unitarian Church, Jan 19, 2007).

Jen and Sir Roger Penrose of Oxford at his lecture during the Unruh-Wald Fest at UBC Aug 18, 2006 (1 - top left). (2) Dr. Robert Wald introduces Sir Roger Penrose. (3 - 4) Sir Roger Penrose lecturing. (5) Even after the lecture, Dr. Bill Unruh just can't get enough Penrose.

Jen and Rupert Sheldrake, Phd at UBC Robson Square July 20, 2006.

David Suzuki signs his autobiography before his talk at Vancouver's St. Andrews Wesley Church May 14, 2006.

Showcase and Emergence Conferences at UBC May 2005. Featured here is (1) the UBC Longhouse, (2) a Panel Discussion on "Quantum Mechanics: Dreams & Reality" [ read article about this panel discussion] inside the Longhouse (Gabe Aeppli, Bob Clark, Gerard Milburn, Hari Manoharan, Hirosi Ooguri, and George A Sawatzky), (3) 1977 Nobel Prize in Physics Winner Phillip Anderson (left) and PITP Director Philip Stamp (right), (4) Philip Anderson, speaking on "Emergence and the Theory of Everything", Anderson also participated in a Panel Discussion on "What are the Fundamental Questions of Physics?" with Paul Davies, Kathryn Moler, Mannque Rho, and Lenny Susskind, (5) Leonard Susskind, who was supposed to give us a lecture on "The Cosmic Landscape: String Theory and the Illusion of Intelligent Design", but switched his topic at the last moment, (6) Paul Davies giving his public lecture, (7) Paul Davies.

Jen and1999 Nobel Prize in Physics Winner Gerard 't Hooft at his talk about sub-atomic theory May 11, 2005 at UBC. His lecture kicked off the 5-day Showcase Conference at UBC. At the conference, he also participated in a Panel Discussion about "The Theory of Everything?" [read article about this Panel Discussion] with Lisa Randall, John Schwarz, Bill Unruh, Robert Wald, and Stephen Shenker, and gave a lecture on "Holographic Mapping of the Standard Model onto a Black Hole Horizon".

Jen and Joseph Chilton Pearce at The Haven Institute's 2nd International Symposium in Vancouver April 1-2, 2005. At left, Joseph speaks about the biology of the heart-mind (read PART I / PART II - coming soon).

Dr. Masaru Emoto talks at the Ridge Theatre Feb 10, 2005

Jen and 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics Winner Frank Wilczek at UBC November 10 2004 in his first public appearance in Canada since winning the Nobel prize. Showing how quarks interact, he endeavored to explain how “the physical world as we observe it might be the embodiment of only a few deeply hidden secrets”.

Jen and 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics Winner Anthony J. Leggett at UBC March 10 2004. He focussed on how Quantum Mechanics applies to "real life". [read related article]

Jennifer and Masuro Emoto - 2003; Emoto's presentation of Vancouver BC's water before and after prayer [read related article].

Jennifer and Rupert Sheldrake in Vancouver Sunday July 27, 2003 [read related article].