# ICE Launching Conference **Entity class:** Founding conference **Title:** The Sciences, the Humanities, the Future **Dates:** September 30–October 1, 2016 ## Definition The **ICE Launching Conference** inaugurated the [[wiki/Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Engagement|Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Engagement]] at Dartmouth. It joined free will, neuroscience, philosophy, cosmology, multiverse theory, art, memory, memetics, alien life, science communication, theology, and interdisciplinarity in one program. ## Participants and contributions - [[wiki/K. C. Cole|K. C. Cole]] — science and public meaning. - [[wiki/Seth Lloyd|Seth Lloyd]] — “A Turing Test for Free Will.” - [[wiki/Paul Davies|Paul Davies]] — extraterrestrial intelligence and cosmic context. - [[wiki/Maria Popova|Maria Popova]] — memory, memetics, art, and science. - [[wiki/Marcelo Gleiser|Marcelo Gleiser]] — institute framing and moderation. - [[wiki/Adina Roskies|Adina Roskies]] — free will in the age of neuroscience. - [[wiki/Rebecca Goldstein|Rebecca Goldstein]] — scientists and philosophers as intellectual partners. - [[wiki/Mary-Jane Rubenstein|Mary-Jane Rubenstein]] — God and the multiverse. - [[wiki/Alan Lightman|Alan Lightman]] — physicist–novelist interface. - [[wiki/William Storrar|William Storrar]] — instituting interdisciplinarity. - [[wiki/Phil Hanlon|Phil Hanlon]] — Dartmouth institutional welcome. ## Relationships - **host:** [[wiki/Dartmouth College|Dartmouth College]]. - **parent program:** [[wiki/Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Engagement|Dartmouth ICE]]. - **concept:** [[wiki/Two Cultures|Two Cultures]] and [[wiki/Convergence Research|Convergence Research]]. - **disambiguation route:** [[wiki/ICE|ICE disambiguation]]. ## Sources / Provenance - [ICE — Launching Conference](https://www.ice.dartmouth.edu/conference) - [ICE — Conference archive](https://www.ice.dartmouth.edu/ice-launching-conference-day-1)