ESP Biography



DIOGO PINTO DE BRAGANÇA, Stanford Physics PhD student




Major: Physics

College/Employer: Stanford

Year of Graduation: 2016

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Brief Biographical Sketch:

I am from Lisbon, Portugal, and I graduated in Physics at IST, University of Lisbon.
I am interested in general relativity, cosmology, dark matter, neuroscience and philosophy (Aristotle and Aquinas).
I play tennis, the guitar, soccer and I love to go to the beach.



Past Classes

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H6633: Science and Faith - where the conflict really is in Splash Fall 2018 (Dec. 01 - 02, 2018)
How do science and religion see each other? Is there a fundamental conflict? Do they interfere in each other? In this course, we review the history of science and analyze how its relationship with religion was, namely with the Roman Catholic Church. We will talk about medieval science, Galileo and the Inquisition, the conflict thesis, the influence of the Jesuits, the Big Bang theory, genetics and evolution, and we end up talking about the two great philosophical assumptions of science and how they relate to Christianity. Cheers! PS: the true duration of the course is 1:00, the rest is for questions and for a surprise


H6240: Science and Faith - where the conflict really is in Splash Spring 2018 (May. 05 - 06, 2018)
How do science and religion see each other? Is there a fundamental conflict? Do they interfere in each other? In this course, we review the history of science and analyze how its relationship with religion was, namely with the Roman Catholic Church. We will talk about medieval science, Galileo and the Inquisition, the conflict thesis, the influence of the Jesuits, the Big Bang theory, genetics and evolution, and we end up talking about the two great philosophical assumptions of science and how they relate to Christianity. Cheers! PS: the true duration of the course is 1:00, the rest is for questions and for a surprise


H6099: Science vs Church: conflict, cohabitation or symbiosis in Splash Fall 2017 (Nov. 11 - 12, 2017)
How do science and religion see each other? Is there a fundamental conflict? Do they interfere in each other? In this course, we review the history of science and analyze how its relationship with religion was, namely with the Roman Catholic Church. We will talk about medieval science, Galileo and the Inquisition, the conflict thesis, the influence of the Jesuits, the Big Bang theory, genetics and evolution, and we end up talking about the two great philosophical assumptions of science and how they relate to Christianity. See you there! Diogo Bragança - Physics PhD student