Conferences

In June the Observatory sponsored a conference titled "Galaxy Disks and Disk Galaxies" held at the Pontifical Gregorian University in the very center of Rome. The meeting hosted 230 participants from 30 countries. Through 28 review papers, 35 invited talks, and approximately 180 posters, the astronomers presented the latest research on the structure, formation, and evolution of the Milky Way and other disk galaxies. They gave particular attention to the stellar and gaseous disk of the Milky Way; the global characteristics, morphology and dynamics of disks; the gaseous component; star formation; chemical evolution; interactions; and scaling laws, as well as galaxy formation and evolution from a theoretical and observational point of view. Social events included a visit to the Vatican Observatory and the Papal Villas at Castel Gandolfo followed by a buffet supper served on a terrace of the Papal Summer Residence, which houses the Vatican Observatory.

Together with the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences at Berkeley, California, the Vatican Observatory sponsored a meeting on "Quantum Physics and Quantum Field Theory," which was the last in a series of five conferences on the theme of   "Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action." The meeting was held at Castel Gandolfo from 25 June to 1 July with the participation of CORBALLY and COYNE. STOEGER's paper was discussed in his absence.

The 38th Summer Meeting of the Clavius Group of Mathematicians was organized by WHITMAN and held from 29 June to 3 August at the University of Notre Dame.

CARREIRA • Gave a paper on "Metaphysics and Science" at the International Congress on Metaphysics, Science, Culture and Religion, held in Rome 4-8 September as a prelude to the celebration of the Jubilee for University Professors and Administrators. • Made five presentations at the Congress on Miracles, Universidad Bolivariana de Medellin, Colombia. • Spoke on "The Concept of Matter and the Risen Body" at a symposium at the University of Munich.

CASANOVAS • Gave a lecture on Ferdinad Verbiest in Peking. • Presented a seminar on Christoph Scheiner at the Astronomisches Rechen-Institut, Heidelberg.

CONSOLMAGNO • Presented his work on "Meteorite Porosity and Asteroid Structure" at the following venues: Physics Department Seminar, Drexel University, Philadelphia; Sigma Xi Colloquium, St. Joseph's University, Philadelphia; Department of Geology, Michigan State University; Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore; Princeton University Interstellar Medium Seminar; Goshen College Physics Department, Goshen, Indiana; Krakow Observatory Weekly Seminar, Poland. • Was reelected to the organizing committee and appointed secretary of Commission 16 (Planets and Satellites) of the International Astronomical Union. • Continued his term as a member of the Committee of the Division for Planetary Sciences (DPS), American Astronomical Society (AAS), and took part in two meetings of the DPS Committee in Pasadena. He paid a site visit to the University of Michigan, which is bidding to host the 2002 Annual Meeting of the DPS, and a site visit to the University of Warwick, England, bidding to host the 2005 Annual Meeting. He also joined members of the DPS Committee in Washington, DC, on 18-19 April to met with Edward Weiler, Director of NASA Code S, and other officials at NASA Headquarters to discuss future prospects for the U.S. government's support for space science. At that time, the group also met with officials of the AAS, of the National Science Foundation, and with members of Congress. • Continued his work as chair of the organizing committee for the 2001 Annual Meeting of the International Meteoritical Society, to be held at the Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome. He met several times with various members of this committee, in Rome, Tucson, London, and Padua. • Participated in a meeting of the South Carolina State Board of Education, Columbia, South Carolina, as part of a delegation of religious and scientific leaders defending the inclusion of evolution and modern cosmology in the state school system. The board voted unanimously to accept the recommended K-12 science curriculum. • At the Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, served on a NASA panel to review planetary astronomy proposals and rank them for funding.  • Paid several working visits to the Natural History Museum, London; to Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK; to the State University of New York at Stony Brook; and to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge.

CORBALLY  •   Was reappointed President of the Institute on Religion in an Age of Science for the 2000-2001 year. He chaired council meetings in January at Winter Park, Florida, and in July at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and he chaired the annual meeting on Star Island, New Hampshire. • Presented a lecture on "Big Telescopes Now and in the Near Future" at the Vatican Observatory Foundation seminar on 24 February. • Represented the Vatican Observatory at the rededication of the Multiple Mirror Telescope on 20 May. • From 27 September to 1 October made a working visit to Iowa State University to collaborate with Dr. Alfred Kracher and to give a Physics and Astronomy Department Seminar on "The Vatican's Little-Big Telescope." While there, he also contributed to the seminar sponsored by the CTNS Science and Religion Course Program, Midwest Region, on Extraterrestrial Intelligence: Are We Alone?, talking on "Complexification and Evolution in the Scheme of Life." •   Joined the Board of the St. Albert the Great Forum at the Catholic Newman Center, University of Arizona.

COYNE • Served on the Advisory Board for The Cosmology Prize of The Peter Gruber Foundation. • Participated at the meeting "Humanity and the Cosmos" at Brock University, Ontario, Canada, and gave the keynote Thomas Aquinas Lecture. • Gave the inaugural Templeton Lecture at Methodist College, Durham, North Carolina. • Participated in the XII Symposium on the "Epistemology of the Natural Sciences" at Santa Mar¡a de la Armon¡a, Cobo, Buenos Aires, Argentina, and gave a lecture on "Our Knowledge of the Universe." • Gave the keynote lecture at the meeting on Naturalism organized by the Institute for Philosophy, Religion and the Life Sciences at Grand Canyon University in Phoenix, Arizona. • Taught the course Natural Sciences 102 during the Spring semester at the Department of Astronomy, University of Arizona. • Gave a talk at the National Institute for Science and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland, on "The Scientific Method and Religious Belief Systems." • Attended the three meetings of the Executive Council of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. • Also attended the annual meetings of the Governing Board of the International Center for Relativistic Astrophysics (Rome) and of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Institute for Scientific Exchange Foundation (Turin). • Paid a working visit to the Istituto Astron¢mico e Geof¡sico, University of SÆo Paulo, Brazil. • Gave a seminar on "Big Telescopes of the Future" at the Astronomical Observatory of Cordoba, Argentina. • Spoke on the thought of John Paul II with respect to the dialogue between science and faith at the inauguration of the Intercultural Forum of the John Paul II Cultural Center in Washington, DC. • Presented a paper on "A Brief History of the Age of the Universe" at a meeting on "The Faces of Time" held in Varenna, Italy, and a paper on "Origins and Creation" at the meeting, "First Steps in the Origin of Life in the Universe," held at the Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy. • Gave the introductory talk at the meeting on "The Far Future Universe: Eschatology from a Cosmic Perspective," sponsored by the Templeton Foundation and held at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. • Serves on the Coordination Committee of the European Science Foundation Project on Science and Human Values and met with the Committee at Strasbourg, France, and at Oxford, UK.

FUNES   • Gave seminars on the main results of his dissertation entitled 'Kinematics of the Ionized Gas in the Inner Regions of Disk Galaxies' to the following: Department of Astronomy, University of Padua, Italy; the National Optical Astronomy Observatories, Tucson, Arizona; Instituto de Astrofsica de Andaluca, Granada, Spain; Department of Physics, Pontificia Universidad Catolica, Santiago, Chile; Observatorio Astronmico de Cordoba, Argentina; Observatorio Astronmico, La Plata, Argentina. • Paid a working visit to the Calar Alto Observatory, Spain.

HELLER • Gave the following papers: "Dynamics without Time" and "Mathematics, the Language of Physics?" in Krakow, Poland; " The Faith in Rationality" in Rome; "From Quantum Mechanics to God" at Castel Gandolfo; "The Big Bang Singularity and Penrose" in Warsaw; "The Classical Singularity Problem– History and Current Research" in Valencia, Spain. • Presented the annual course on "Cosmology for Philosophers" at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Pontifical Academy of Theology in Krakow. • Supervised several masters and Ph.D. theses. • Was an editor for the Polish journal Zagadnienia Filozoficane w Naukce (Philosophical Questions in Science).

MAFFEO • Prepared a new, revised edition of In the Service of Nine Popes, his history of the Vatican Observatory. • Collaborated in the preparation of the French edition, translated by Fran‡ois Evain, S.J., of Galileo: For Copernicanism and for the Church by Annibale Fantoli. He had already worked on the preparation of the original Italian and of the English and Russian language editions and is currently helping to negotiate a Spanish edition.

STOEGER • Taught the "Science and Theology" course in the Molecular and Cellular Biology Department, University of Arizona, with Thomas Lindell and Martinez Hewlett in both the spring and fall semesters 2000. • Also taught the "General Relativity" course with John Cocke in the Astronomy Department, University of Arizona, in the fall semester 2000. • Convened and chaired the Theology and Natural Sciences continuing group session at the Catholic Theological Society of America meeting in San Jose, California. • Served as a consultant to the Princeton Center of Theological Inquiry at the Pastoral Theologians workshops in Redondo Beach, California, and in New Orleans. • Participated in a series of talks and discussions on Science and Theology at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, and gave a lecture on "Science, Evolution and Eschatology." • Gave a talk on Science and Eschatology at the general meeting of the Princeton Center of Theological Inquiry. • Gave the keynote address, "Cosmology and Geometry" at the Mathematics Appreciation Day in the Department of Mathematics, University of Arizona. • Spent October 2 to November 4 working on cosmology with George Ellis and his group in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. While there, he gave a seminar on "Restricted Test Functions and the Polarization of Photon and Graviton States."

WHITMAN • Continues to advise on financial matters to the Jesuit Social Center Presidente Kennedy in the city of Campinas in the state of SÆo Paulo, Brazil. He was present there for five weeks during the months of March and April.  

CARREIRA • Lectured on the "Origin of the Universe and the Origin of Life" at the University of Monterrey and at the University of Guadalajara in Mexico. • Also gave public lectures in Spain at the Universidad Autonoma, Madrid; at the State University in Barcelona, in Badajoz, and in San Sebastian. • He spoke to the Cleveland Astronomical Society on the "Anthropic Principle" and to the Northeast Geological Society meeting at Kent State University on the "Earth as a Habitable Planet."

CARUANA • Gave a talk entitled "Divine Omnipotence and Modern Science" at the Scuola Grande di S. Teodoro, Venice, as part of an ongoing cultural seminar organized by the Centro Pattaro di Venezia. • Spoke on "Galileo and the Church: A Reappraisal" to the Malta Astronomical Society at the University of Malta.

CONSOLMAGNO • In connection with the release of his book Brother Astronomer, gave readings and presentations at the following institutions: Einstein Planetarium, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.; the Stars Our Destination Bookstore, Chicago; Adler Planetarium, Chicago; the Book Revue Bookstore, Long Island, New York; Barnes and Noble, Madison, Wisconsin; Barnes and Noble, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania; the Tattered Cover Bookstore, Denver; Page One Books, Albuquerque; Book Expo America, Chicago; Barnes and Noble, Knoxville, Tennessee; Notre Dame University Bookstore, Notre Dame, Indiana. • Gave the following public lectures: Haverford (Pennsylvania) Township Community Recreation Center on "Walk Under the Full Moon"; Legatus, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, on "God, Astronomy, and the Search for Elegance"; St. Joseph's Preparatory School, Philadelphia, on "The Rift of Popular Culture"; Department of Geological Sciences, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, on "History of the Vatican Observatory"; Vatican Observatory Foundation Reception, Philadelphia, on "A Tour of the Solar System"; Chester County (Pennsylvania) Astronomical Society on "Turn Left at Orion"; Rittenhouse Astronomical Society, Franklin Institute of Science, Philadelphia on "Visitors from Another Planet–Collecting Meteorites in Antarctica"; Philadelphia Center for Religion and Science, Chestnut Hill College, Philadelphia, on "Astronomy and Religion, Science and Science Fiction: the Rift of Popular Culture"; SciTech Science Museum, Aurora, Illinois, on "Science and Religion: Is there a Conflict?"; Steward Observatory Public Night, University of Arizona, Tucson, on "Brother Astronomer, Adventures of a Vatican Astronomer"; Planetary Sciences Institute, Tucson, on "A History of the Vatican Observatory"; Sun City Astronomy Club, Oro Valley, Arizona, on "Searching for Meteorites in Antarctica"; Goshen College, Goshen, Indiana, on "Finding God in Creation"; Cranbrook Institute of Science, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, on "Science, Religion and the Rift of Popular Culture" and on "Religion and Science" to 500 middle-school students from Cranbrook and neighboring schools; Vatican Observatory Foundation at the Arizona Science Center, Phoenix, on "Brother Astronomer, Adventures of a Vatican Scientist"; Berchmanskolleg Hochschule f�r Philosophie, Munich, Germany, on "When Physics Meets Philosophy: The Role of World-Views in Science and Religion"; University of Krakow Program on Science and Religion on "When Physics Meets Philosophy: The Role of World-Views in Science and Religion." • Gave the following talks at the Duckon Science Fiction Convention, Chicago: "Visitors of Another Planet: Searching for Meteorites in Antarctica"; "Selling Space"; "Meteorites and Meteorwrongs"; "Stargazing for Children"; "Europa and Extrasolar Planets." • At the Chicon World Science Fiction Convention, Chicago, spoke on "Antarctica"; "Brother Astronomer"; "Settling Cold Worlds"; and "Asteroids and Comets." • Lectured at the Universe Semester Seminar of the Columbia University Biosphere 2, Oro Valley, Arizona.

CORBALLY  •   Visited the Sun City Astronomy Club on 2 March to talk on "The Lives and Personalities of Single Stars." • On 29 September contributed to an Iowa State University and CTNS sponsored public series on Extraterrestrial Life: Scientific and Human Implications with a lecture on "Talking about God and Extraterrestrials." • Spoke to Discovery Park's Astronomical Society about "The Vatican and Astronomy" on 12 October. • Hosted various visits to the VATT on Mt. Graham and to the Steward Observatory Mirror Laboratory.

COYNE • Spoke on "New Frontiers: The Search for Life in the Universe" at the Community Library of Misano Adriatico, Italy. • Delivered the dinner address to the Chicago Jesuit Companions. • Gave a talk on "The Sacred Cows of Science and Religion" to: Arizona Science Center, Phoenix, Arizona; Philosophy Seminar, Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome; Science and Religion Forum, Arizona State University West, Phoenix, Arizona; San Diego Science Center, California; Arizona Association of Engineers, Tucson; the Grace Museum of Abilene, Texas; Cultural Forum, Our Mother of Sorrows Church, Tucson, Arizona; Niles Memorial Lecture, St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York; the Mathematics and Mysticism class at the University of San Francisco; Spirit of the Senses seminar, Phoenix, Arizona; Diocesan Cultural Center, Reggio Calabria, Italy; Center for Intercultural Exchange, Lecco, Italy. • Presented a seminar on "God and the Big Bang" to the Brophy College Preparatory School, Phoenix, Arizona. • Gave a talk on "Faith, Reason and Pope John Paul II: Understanding Fides et Ratio" to the Catholic Newman Center, University of Toronto, Canada. • Spoke on "Animals in the Arizona Sky" at the Phoenix Zoo. • Presented a talk on "New Telescope Technology and the Vatican Telescope on Mt. Graham" to the Arizona Optics Association, Tucson, Arizona. • gave a public lecture on "The Search for Extrasolar Planets" at the Capitoline Museum for the lecture series "Beyond the Heavens" sponsored by the City of Rome and the Italian Astronomical Society   • Received visits in Tucson from astronomy groups from Brophy College Preparatory School, Phoenix, Arizona and Belem Jesuit School, Miami, Florida, and gave talks to them on the "Evolution of the Universe." • Received visits at Castel Gandolfo and gave talks to Legatus, a national association of business leaders in the United States.

FUNES • Spoke about galaxies to the students of the Collegio Antonianum, Padua, Italy, and to the children of a primary school at Piove di Sacco, Italy. • In Argentina, gave presentations to the general public in Cordoba and a series of lectures to the Philosophy Faculty of the Universidad del Salvador, San Miguel, as part of the Philosophy of Nature course. • Gave two talks to the students of middle and high school of the Colegio del Salvador, Buenos Aires, Argentina. In the same school gave a lecture to the general public with the title "Pilgrims in the Universe: Science and Faith."

HELLER • Gave various interviews to Polish media on science, philosophy and the relationship to theology. • Spoke on recent developments in cosmology during the "open door" days at the Physics Department of Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland.

STOEGER • Lectured on cosmology at the Santa Fe Community College Planetarium. • Spoke twice on cosmology at the Smithsonian Institution The New Astronomies Seminars in Tucson. • Addressed the Spiritual Directors of the Tucson Diocese on the topic, "God's Struggle to Create through the Evolutionary Process." • Gave a talk and led a discussion on "Religion and Science" at Kolbe House, the Catholic Chaplaincy at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. • Presented a session of the St. Albert the Great Forum on "Quantum Theory, Veiled Reality and Divine Action," at the Catholic Newman Center, University of Arizona. • Talked to the Youth Group at St. Mark's Parish, Tucson, on "Astronomy, Science and Christian Belief."

TERES • Presented the following talks to students, professors and other visitors in colleges and cultural centers of five cities in Hungary (Budapest, Szeged, Kecskemet, Felegyhaza, Vasarhely): "Effects of the Solar Activity on the Earth and Geomagnetic Field"; "The History and Research Work of the Vatican Observatory, from Rome to Arizona," illustrated with the film People with Long Eyes; "The star of Bethlehem and Our Historical Time Reckoning"; "The Big-Bang Model: Birth, Life and Death of the Universe"; "Natural Science and Theology: New Perspectives and Possibilities."

News Media Coverage

With the guidance of CORBALLY, Sky and Telescope published a feature article on the Vatican Observatory Summer Schools, "The World and the Universe Meet at Castel Gandolfo," by I. B. Joson and E. L. Aguirre in the May 2000 issue.

CONSOLMAGNO • Was a guest in Madison on the Wisconsin Public Radio show To The Best Of Our Knowledge and on the WKNX television newsmagazine program Live at Five in Knoxville; he also gave two cable television interviews in Long Island. • Interviews and articles about his book Brother Astronomer ran in the Philadelphia Inquirer (24 February); the New Scientist (25 March); the Chicago Tribune (4 April); Our Sunday Visitor (21 May); and the Chronicle of Higher Education (28 July). • Gave the following media interviews: with David Gibson for the Newark (NJ) Sunday Star Ledger (9 April); interviewed along with MAFFEO for Jubilee Radio, Radio Vaticana (21 July); with Susan Blackmore for BBC Radio 4 (18 August); with Canadian Science Fiction Cable Television (2 September); with Christina Hughes for Green Umbrella, Bristol, UK.

CORBALLY  • Provided interviews to the following journalists: Walter Goobar, Channel 13 TV in Argentina; Karin Mainview, John Paul II Cultural Center; Jim Erickson, Space.com; Stuart Becker, Eastern Arizona Courier; Christof Wolf and Godehard Bruntrup, German Jesuit TV; Mark Pendergrast, writing on "Mirrors"; Rex Graham, for Science & Spirit; Sandi Dolbee, religion and ethics editor for The San Diego Union-Tribune.   •   Hosted a visit to VATT for Overseas Film.   •   Answered news media questions from: Charles Petit, US News & World Report; Linda Hurst, Toronto Star; Tom Adams, Mentorn Barraclough Carey TV productions. • Was featured in a story, "God's Telescope," in Veja, a Brazilian national magazine.

COYNE • Provided interviews to the following journalists: David Malone of Mentorn Barraclough Carey for a three-part series, "Testing God," on BBC Channel 4 television; Mathias Schulenburg of DeutschlandRadio, Cologne, Germany; Kishi, Yuki, and Forzan of NHK, Japan Broadcasting Corporation for the program "Space Millennium"; Alexandre Vigne of Haute Terre, France for the program "Conquest of Space"; Olivier Mille of Artline Films, Paris, for the program "The Cities of God"; Marie-Pierre Olphand of Ciel et Espace, France; Luigi dell'Aglio, Avvenire, Italy; Einauda Medi, RAI 2, Italy; John Robbie of South African National Broadcasting. • Participated in the following television programs: "Filo d'Arianna" by Francesca Apollonio of RAI 2; "Le Frontiere dello Spirito" by Maria Cecilia Sangiorgi of RAI 5.

FUNES • Was featured in articles in the following newspapers: Corriere della Sera, Milan, Italy; Die Welt, Berlin, Germany; La Voz del Interior, Cordoba, Argentina; Revista Viva of Clarin, Buenos Aires, Argentina. • Provided interviews to the following radio stations: Radio Vaticana; Radio RAI Uno, Rome; Radio Espa¤a, Madrid, Spain; Cadena Caracol, Bogota, Colombia. • Was also interviewed by the following journalists: Magdalena Ruiz Guiaz, Canal 13, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Franco Foresta Marin, Corriere della Sera, Milan, Italy; Julio Arga¤araz, Clarin, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

MAFFEO • Provided an interview to Luise Wagner-Ross of Digital Drama, Germany.

International Meetings

During 2000 representatives of the Vatican Observatory took part in the following international meetings:

11-15 January: Atlanta, Georgia. 195th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society. RICHARD BOYLE, S.J. and CHRISTOPHER CORBALLY, S.J. gave papers.

10-14 April: Frascati, Italy. Meeting of the Italian Astronomical Society. JUAN CASANOVAS, S.J. was a member of the organizing committee and gave a paper.

12-13 April: Tarnow, Poland. The "Future and Unity," Ecumenical Symposium. MICHAEL HELLER served on the scientific organizing committee.

12-13 April: Paris, France. International Meeting in Science and Religion, hosted by The Universit‚ Interdisciplinaire de Paris and UNESCO. CHRISTOPHER CORBALLY, S.J. was an invited respondent.

14-19 April: Lyon, France. Eighth European Conference on Science and Theology. CHRISTOPHER CORBALLY, S.J. chaired a plenary session.

27-30 April: Tucson, Arizona. Twelfth Annual Meeting of the International Dark-Sky Association. CHRISTOPHER CORBALLY, S.J. participated.

11-12 May: Krakow, Poland. 6th Krakow School on Philosophy of Science: On Time. MICHAEL HELLER served on the scientific organizing committee and gave a paper.

23-25 May: Vatican City State. Jubilee for Men and Women from the World of Learning: The Human Search for Truth. MICHAEL HELLER gave a paper; GEORGE V. COYNE, S.J. participated.

12-16 June: Rome, Italy. Galaxy Disks and Disk Galaxies. JOS� FUNES, S.J. served on the organizing committee and gave two papers; RICHARD P. BOYLE, S.J., CHRISTOPHER CORBALLY, S.J., and GEORGE V. COYNE, S.J. participated and assisted the organizing committee.

25 June -1 July. Castel Gandolfo (Rome), Italy. Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action: Quantum Physics and Quantum Field Theory. MICHAEL HELLER gave a paper; GEORGE V. COYNE, S.J. and WILLIAM   R. STOEGER, S.J. served on the organizing committee; CHRISTOPHER CORBALLY, S.J. participated.

20-21 July: Warsaw, Poland. COSPAR Cosmological Symposium. MICHAEL HELLER gave a paper.

29 July-5 August: Star Island, New Hampshire. Annual Conference of the Institute on Religion in an Age of Science. CHRISTOPHER CORBALLY, S.J. participated and chaired the IRAS Council and annual meetings.

7-18 August: Manchester, England. International Astronomical Union, 24th General Assembly. RICHARD BOYLE, S.J. served on the nominating committee. GUY CONSOLMAGNO, S.J. served on the finance committee. CHRISTOPHER CORBALLY, S.J. served as national representative for Vatican City State; gave an invited paper at the special session on "Astronomy for Developing Countries"; served on the scientific organizing committee for the joint discussion on "Hipparcos and the Luminosity Calibration of the Nearer Stars"; was secretary for the meeting of the Working Group on Standard Stars (elected chairman); attended the meetings of Commission 45 (elected vice president) and Commission 46 (appointed national liaison); and advised on the scientific session of Commissions 29 and 45 on "Ultra Cool Dwarfs."

27-31 August: Chicago, Illinois. Meteoritical Society Annual Meeting. GUY J. CONSOLMAGNO, S.J. presented a paper.

18-22 September: Valencia, Spain. Historical Development of Modern Cosmology. MICHAEL HELLER gave a paper.

18-22 September: Trieste, Italy. EuroConference on First Steps in the Origin of Life in the Universe. GEORGE V. COYNE, S.J. gave a paper.

25-28 September: Varenna, Italy. International Seminar on "The Faces of Time." JUAN CASANOVAS, S.J. and GEORGE V. COYNE, S.J. gave papers.

29-30 September: Krakow, Poland. Images of the World: Science, Humanities, Arts. MICHAEL HELLER served on the scientific organizing committee and gave a paper.

22-27 October: Pasadena, California. Annual Meeting, Division for Planetary Sciences, American Astronomical Society. GUY J. CONSOLMAGNO, S.J. presented a paper.

2 November : London, England. Annual Meeting, Geochemistry Division, British Geological Society. GUY J. CONSOLMAGNO, S.J. presented a paper.

8-10 November: Padua, Italy. International Conference on Earth-Moon Relations. GUY J. CONSOLMAGNO, S.J. presented a paper.

10-13 November: Vatican City. "Science and the Future of Mankind," Jubilee Plenary Session of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. GEORGE V. COYNE, S.J. participated.

16 November: Oxford, UK. Coordination Committee meeting for "Science and Human Values," European Science Foundation. GEORGE V. COYNE, S.J. participated.