9th AISSQ Conference on
The Role of Spirituality in the Age of Science and Technology
IIT Kharagpur
October 30- November 1, 2015
Ninth AISSQ Conference (AISSQ-2015) themed, ‘Role of Spirituality in the age of Science and Technology’, held during October 30 – November 1, 2015 was hosted at IIT Kharagpur. The conference was inaugurated by His Excellency Sri K. N. Tripathy, (the then) Governor of West Bengal, and graced by many dignitaries, which includes Prof. Souvik Bhattacharya, Vice-Chancellor, BITS Pilani, (the then) Officiating Director, IIT Kharagpur; G. Satheesh Reddy, Advisor, Defense Ministry; Sri B. D. Mundhra, Chairman Emeritus, Simplex Infrastructures Limited; and Sri H. P. Kanoria, Chairman, SREI Foundation, Kolkata.
The conference featured brilliant and vivacious sessions with lectures delivered by highly-esteemed academicians interested in the field of science and spirituality interface, which includes Prof. Christoph Benzmüller, Freie University, Berlin, Germany; Prof. Chandra Wickramasinghe, Director, Buckingham Centre for Astrobiology, UK; Prof. P. B. Sharma, Former Vice Chancellor, AMITY University, Gurgaon etc. The conference hosted a National Level Students’ Essay Competition on “Contributions of Ancient India to Science”, allowing the winners to present their essays content during the event.
Conference Poster
The Role of Spirituality in the Age of Science and Technology
The eternal quest to understand the self, cosmos, and the ultimate reality and their purpose is a reflection of mature human creative and philosophical capabilities. While empirical human inquiries manifest as mathematics, physics, life sciences, chemistry, cosmology, etc., subjective aspects of the quest are thoroughly addressed in philosophy, ethics, moral values, psychology, etc. The most fundamental spiritual quest culminates in the following five questions: Who am I?; Why am I suffering; How can I prosper; What is the eternal goal of life? and How can one attain the eternal goal of life? A subjective projection of scientific quest also opens the paradigm to these absolute jewel questions. While spirituality asserts upon the fundamental existence of God and the most sublime quest associated to the purpose of the creation, scientific quest culminates in asserting upon the characteristic attributes of the ultimate reality.
IIT Kharagpur, West Bengal, India
October 30- November 1, 2015
Featured Videos
By eminent Speakers around the world
Vindication of Cosmic Biology and Future Prospects
Prof. Nalin Wikramasinghe
Director, Buckingham Centre for Astrobiology, UK
Experiments in Computational Metaphysics:
Godel's proof of God
Prof. Christoph Benzmuller
University of Luxembourg
Moments
Some memorable moments of conference
Book
Encompassing upon the finest aspects of scientific and spiritual quest, the present volume exhilarates readers to delve deeper into sublime knowledge associated to the meaning and purpose of life, nature of consciousness, ancient Indian science and technology, ethics, etc. Contributed by thoughtful and reputed scholars in diverse disciplines of science, technology, social sciences and the professional world, the volume of the 9th All India Students’ Conference on Science and Spiritual Quest (AISSQ), is a must for a curious and introspective reader.