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- Sunday 6th January:
- 6.00-8.00 pm: Evening reception and registration,
sponsored by Cambridge University Press
- Monday 7th January:
- 9.30-10.30 am Morning Coffee
Welcome  
- Cosmological singularities
- 10.30 am: George Ellis - Cosmological singularities and perturbations
- 11.00 am: Matt Visser - The quantum physics of chronology protection
- Classical black holes
- 11.30 am: Brandon Carter - Uniqueness theorems and black hole thermodynamics
- 12.00 pm: Werner Israel - Black hole uniqueness and the inner horizon stability problem
- 12.30-2.00 pm: Lunch
- 2.00 pm: Martin Rees - The evidence for astrophysical black holes
- 2.30 pm: Kip Thorne - The quest for gravitational waves from black holes
- Primordial black holes
- 3.00 pm: Fay Dowker - Topology Change in Quantum Gravity
- 3.30 pm: Bernard Carr - Primordial black holes
- 4.00-4.30 pm: Afternoon tea
- 4:30 pm: Raphael Bousso - Inflation and Primordial Black Holes
- 5.15 pm: Simon Ross - Black Hole Pair Creation
- 5.45 pm: Ian Moss - Zeta functions and Anomalies
- 6.15 pm: Steve Giddings - Black Holes at Colliders
- 6.45 pm: Finish
- Tuesday 8th January:
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- Euclidean quantum gravity
- 10:15 am: Gary Gibbons - Euclidean quantum gravity: The view from 2002
- 11:00-11.30 am: Morning coffee
- Global issues in quantum gravity
- 11.30 am: Gerard 't Hooft - Holography has its Price, or, How does God play Dice?
- 12.30-2.00 pm: Lunch
- Hawking radiation and information loss
- 2.00 pm: Gary Horowitz - Understanding black hole entropy
- 2.45 pm: Malcolm Perry - Black Holes and String Theory
- 3.15-4.00 pm: Afternoon tea
- 4.00 pm: Andy Strominger - De Sitter Space, Conformal Invariance and Holography
- M-Theory and beyond
- 4.45 pm: Edward Witten - Future Prospects
- 5.30 pm: Finish
- Wednesday 9th January
- 9.45 am: Morning Coffee
- M-Theory and beyond, continued
- 10.30 am: Michael Green - String theory
- 11.00 am: Paul Townsend - The Story of M
- 11.30 am: Chris Pope - Special Holonomy and Gravitational Instantons
- 12.00 pm: Nick Warner - AdS/CFT correspondence
- 12.30-2.00 pm: Lunch
- 2.00 pm: Renata Kallosh - Supergravity, M-theory and Cosmology
- 2.45 pm: David Gross - String theory
- 3.15 pm: Joseph Polchinski - M-theory
- 3.45 pm: Leonard Susskind - Stephen Hawking and the
holographic principle
- 4.15-4.45 pm: Afternoon tea
The Conference Mug Revealed
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Quantum cosmology and the no-boundary proposal
- 4.45 pm: Jim Hartle - The State of the Universe
- 5.15 pm: Don Page - Quantum cosmology
- 5.45 pm: Alex Vilenkin - An alternative view of quantum cosmology
- 6.15 pm: Finish
- Thursday 10th January
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Quantum cosmology and the no-boundary proposal, Continued
- 9.30 am: Bryce De Witt - Probability in the Deterministic Theory Known as Quantum Mechanics
- 10.00 am: Jonathan Halliwell - The interpretation of quantum cosmology and the problem of time
- 10.30-11.00 am: Morning Coffee
- 11.00 am: Peter D'Eath - What local supersymmetry can do for quantum cosmology
- Cosmology
- 11.30 am: Jim Bardeen - The origin of cosmological perturbations
- 12.00 pm: Alan Guth - Inflation and cosmological perturbations
- 12.30-2.00 pm: Lunch
- 2.00 pm: Pierre Binetruy - Braneworlds
- 2.30 pm: Neil Turok - Before the big bang
- 3.00 pm: Paul Shellard - The Observational and Computational Prospects
- 3.20 pm: Andrei Linde - Inflation and creation of matter in the Universe
- 3.50-4.20 pm: Afternoon tea
Presentation
- 4.20 pm: Alexei Starobinski - Higher derivative inflation and stochastic inflation
- 5.05 pm: Roger Penrose - Gravitational singularities and cosmic censorship
- 7-7.45 pm: Drinks Reception
- 7.45 pm: Conference Banquet at St John's College*
*Please notify us in advance of special dietary requirements
- Friday 11th January
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Stephen Hawking 60th
Birthday Symposium
This workshop has been made possible primarily through
the generous support of PPARC,
the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council.
The opening night reception is sponsored by Cambridge
University Press.
Other sponsors for the workshop can be found on the
sponsors page.
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