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Media reports of the conference included articles in many international newspapers, as well as extensive coverage on the internet and on television. Weblinks to these articles will be provided in due course (see below for some listings). Here, however, we provide a link to an article in Science magazine by Gary Gibbons and Paul Shellard: Science Magazine Full Text (includes downloadable pdf)
The Stephen Hawking 60th Birthday Symposium on 11th January 2002 was a major media event and of considerable significance for the international profile of UK science. It followed a more technical scientific workshop with the same title, The Future of Theoretical Physics and Cosmology, held at DAMTP from 6th-10th January 2002 and which was also supported by PPARC. As well as the numerous print, radio and television organisations in attendance, a BBC Science team filmed all the popular lectures during the popular symposium to make a series of programmes based on these lectures. In addition, a feature to be aired shortly on {\it CBS 60 minutes} will include footage from the Symposium, so reaching a US audience typically around 18 million. The following list of newspaper articles and television reports gives an impression of the wider impact of the Symposium, but is by no means exhaustive. Articles in UK newspapers and magazines
Articles in international newspapers and magazines We had no means by which to monitor news reports overseas, but those which have come to our attention include a number of major newspapers:
Television and radio coverage in the UK
International television coverage International TV coverage is difficult to monitor but the meeting was reported on BBC World Service (8th January 2002). This, therefore, includes all affiliates such as the Star Network in Hong Kong and China. Video feeds from the BBC filming of the event were taken by a number of media organisations, so coverage was probably much wider. Forthcoming television programmes
Websites News of the symposium and workshop was communicated widely through Reuters and the Associated Press and was featured on a great number of online websites. Some prominent examples include:
BBC Science website - 11th January 2002 online lecture available in RealPlayer at: www.bbc.co.uk/science/space/spacepeople\_a-z/hawkinglecture.shtml The illustrated transcript of Professor Hawking's talk is available at: plus.maths.org/issue18/news/hawking60/ The Hawking 60th Birthday websites are under development, but they already include video and Powerpoint/OHP slides from all talks at the scientific workshop. The website for the technical meeting is: www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/stephen60/ The website for the popular symposium is: www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/stephen60 The preparation of proceedings from the meeting, including all the popular lectures, is now well underway and will be published in due course by Cambridge University Press.
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