What Is Life? An Interdisciplinary Conference Celebrating the First Hebrew Edition of Schrödinger’s “Little Book”
Conference
10:00 | Gathering, coffee
10:30 | Opening remarks
Amit Schejter, Head of Young Family School for the Human Experience, BGU
Rona Aviram, BGU, and Gal Manella, Caltech; translators of “What is Life?”
10:45 | Ute Deichmann
Jacques Loeb Centre of History and Philosophy of Science, BGU
Schrödinger’s molecular gene: vision, context, and blind spots
11:05 | Addy Pross
Chemistry, BGU
Life’s Chemical Secret: The Origin of Purpose and Mind
11:25 | Barak Rotblat
Life sciences, BGU
What is identity?
11:45 | Break: light lunch
12:30 | Assaf Marron
Mathematics and computer science, Weizmann Institute of Science
Exercising “The Astonishing Gift of Drinking Orderliness from the Environment”: From the Kapitza Pendulum Effect to Evolution of Species
12:50 | Itay Marienberg-Milikowsky
Hebrew Literature, the Literary Lab, BGU
Intellectual Bravery Born of Signal Loss: Schrödinger, Auerbach, and Wartime Science Communication
13:10 | Daniel Chamovitz
President, BGU
Do plants know?
13:30 | Book fair, live music
14:00 | Daniel Nicholson
Philosophy, George Mason University
What is Life?: Revisited
14:45 | Concluding remarks
Photo by Iris Nesher
