Graduate School – Professional Development – Ethics Spire – Fall 2014
Monday, January 12, 2015 – McKenna 100-104
Contact the Instructor: Melinda Gormley, Ph.D. • gormley.6@nd.edu • (574) 631-5017…
This semester the HPS Reading group will pursue a selection of readings concerning statistical methods, their uses in the different areas of science, and issues thereby raised.
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Prof. Peter Middleton explores genetic variation at the borders of science, culture, and metaphysics. He will draw on a recent poem and novel that display a drive to understand genetic information in terms of development and environment that is also evident in biological and medical research into epigenetics. He discusses different molecular biological models of epigenetic change focusing on how both epistemological and cultural consequences of new scientific developments likely to affect body, identity, and culture. He reflects on the uses of folk poetry to articulate hopes and fears about genetic disorders, and how para-literary texts create a backdrop against which literary aesthetics can be understood. …
Graduate students interested in all aspects of the medical humanities are invited to take part in this informal working group. The group will meet monthly to discuss issues in various disciplines associated with the humanistic study of medicine (as well as how we define those fields). The primary goal of the group is to gather medical humanists on campus and form a community of scholars who can share anything from research to advice to the state of their field. …
The probabilistic revolution. Discussion led by Tom Stapleford…
All Dual-Degree students (and those in the process of signing up for the program) are invited to a welcome back reception. Come say hello, have some food, and share your ideas with the Reilly Center as we plan the next semester of DD events! …
Statistical inference. Discussion led by John Slattery.…
What does it mean to be an ethical leader? What can leaders do to promote an organizational culture that prioritizes ethical conduct and outcomes and resists the everyday pressures of self-interested short-term thinking? Join us for a conversation exploring the role of ethics in leadership and learn about new leadership training opportunities for graduate students at Notre Dame. …
The cult of statistical significance. Discussion led by Monica Solomon…
Criticisms of randomized controlled trials. Discussion led by Bohang Chen.…
Genomics and teh integration of data-science and biology and teh reshaping of medical and biological categories. Discussion led be Sarah Naramore…
Big Data and (medical) Risk, or Big Data and the transformation of Sciene. Discussion led by Louisa Mitchell.…
Genomics and digital convergence. Discussion led by Michelle Marvin.…
Evidence Based Medicine. Discussion led by Lane DesAutels…
Selection Meeting for next semester.…
More information coming soon!
John J. Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values
30th Anniversary Celebration
For more information on the conference, see reilly.nd.edu/reilly30
Friday, March 20
Afternoon: Arts & Letters/Engineering Dual-Degree Student and Alumni Event…
Keynote Lecture, Reilly 30th Anniversary Conference
Ryan Calo, UW School of Law
The Past, Present, and Future of Robotic Regulation
Robots have been with us for some time, largely hidden away from daily life. Today robots are leaving the factory and the battlefield and entering our hospitals, hotels, highways, and skies. This talk addresses how the law has addressed robots in the past, how the law is addressing drones, driverless cars, and other robots today, and how law and legal institutions might address this transformative technology going forward.…
For more information on the conference, see reilly.nd.edu/reilly30
Saturday March 21
Morning – ND Conference Center (McKenna 100-104 confirmed for 8 AM-5 PM)
Philosopher of science Kristen Intemann, from Montana State University, will be speaking at Kristin Shrader-Frechette's invitation, on Monday March 23, 2015 at 4:45 pm in Malloy 200. All are welcome.
“The tangled web of values and evidence in public health policy disagreements”…
Lawrence Principe, Professor of Chemistry and the Humanities, to Explore Myth of War Between Science and Religion
The College of Science, the History and Philosophy of Science Graduate Program, and the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study (NDIAS) are pleased to announce a jointly-sponsored public lecture by Lawrence Principe, Professor of Chemistry, Drew Professor of the Humanities, and Director of the Singleton Center for the Study of Premodern Europe at Johns Hopkins University, titled “…
HPS Speaker, Dan Geary, Trinity College of Dublin…
Title and abstract forthcoming…
"Relativistic Causality and Local Disentanglement in Quantum Field Theory"
Entanglement between distant quantum systems poses two outstanding problems in philosophy of quantum mechanics. First, the ensuing non-local correlations seem to entail a conflict with relativistic causality, namely the requirement that no causal process can propagate faster than light. That raises a threat of inconsistency with Einstein’s theory of Special Relativity. Second, the presence of entanglement undermines the possibility of achieving a division of the microscopic world into independent subsystems. In this talk, I will discuss these problems within the framework of algebraic relativistic quantum field theory. I will begin by distinguishing between two formulations of relativistic causality: that is, no superluminal signaling and no superluminal propagation of matter and energy carried by a field. I will then argue that the condition of Local Primitive Causality guarantees that quantum fields cannot propagate faster than light; furthermore, I will show how one can prove a no-superluminal-signaling theorem in terms of the notion of local operations. Finally, I will address the question whether a quantum field system can be isolated from its entanglement with other spacelike separated systems by acting on it by means of a local operation: in particular, I will demostrate that local disentanglement can be achieved in relativistic quantum field theory, thereby fulfilling a necessary condition for the mutual independence of microscopic subsystems. …
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Students from the ND course "The Ethics of Emerging Weapons Technologies" will present their research on nuclear and non-lethal weapons, cyber- and bio-weapons, big data and other surveillance technologies, soldier enhancement, and robots and autonomous systems.…
All Reilly Fellows are welcome to join us for our Spring Fellows meeting. Please check your e-mail for an agenda. …
An NSF-funded PhD student training program in socially-engaged science and engineering research and leadership
More information here. …
Learn more about SRR here. …
