The Ian Ramsey Centre in collaboration with the International Society for Science & Religion

Invites to the 2010 conference on the theme of

God and Physics

and will celebrate the 80th birthday of John Polkinghorne

who will be a special guest

July 7th – 10th 2010

Conference sessions: Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Department of Physics

Reseidential accommodation: St Anne’s College, Oxford

Speakers: Nancy Cartwright (London School of Economics), Chris Isham (Imperial College, London), Philip Clayton (Claremont), Fraser Watts (Cambridge), Robert J. Russell (CTNS, Berkeley), Nicholas Saunders (London), Keith Ward (Oxford), Michael Welker (Heildelberg)

Conference Committee

Peter Harrison (ISSR, Oxford), John Brooke (ISSR, Cambridge),

Fraser Watts (ISSR, Cambridge), Chris Knight (IRC, Oxford), Mike Parsons (IRC, Oxford)

Contributed papers

Papers, which should be broadly relevant to the conference theme, should last no more than 20 minutes of a half-hour slot, allowing 10 minutes for discussion. Deadline for submission of abstracts is March 1st 2010. Further details

The conference will offer parallel sessions for 20-minute papers  (followed by a maximum of 10 minutes discussion).

Papers related to the work and interests of John Polkinghorne would be especially welcome.

TOPICS include, but are not restricted to, the following: Chaos and Time, Natural Theology and Modern Physics, Eschatology and Divine Action, The relationship between epistemology and ontology

ABSTRACTS of up to 200 words should be sent by email attachment in either Word or rtf format to [email protected] .

The subject line of the email must read: ABSTRACT – your name

The author(s) name(s), address and affiliation must be given at the start and up to six key words included at the end.

Closing date for submission of abstracts is 1st March 2010. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by April, 2010.