PROGRAM
| Thursday, Nov. 16, Morning session (Chairman: A. Uranga) | ||
| 10:30 | L. Ibáñez, A. González-Arroyo |
Opening |
| 10:40 | T. Banks (Rutgers U./U.C. Santa Cruz) |
The Problem of Initial Conditions in String Inspired Approaches to Cosmology: Evolution vs. Boltzmann's Brain (pdf) |
| 11:40 | Coffee | |
| 12:10 | E. Copeland (U. Nottingham) |
The Dynamics of Strings with Junctions (pdf) |
| 13:10 | Lunch | |
| Thursday, Nov. 16, Afternoon session (Chairman: M.A. Vázquez-Mozo) | ||
| 15:00 | J. Garriga (U. Barcelona) |
A Measure for the Multiverse ? (pdf) |
| 16:00 | Coffee | |
| 16:30 | E. Verlinde (U. Amsterdam) |
Emergent Space-time and Induced Gravity (ppt) |
| Friday, Nov. 17, Morning session (Chairman: J. García-Bellido) | ||
| 10:30 | H. Tye (Cornell U.) |
Brane Inflation : String Theory viewed from the Cosmos (pdf) |
| 11:30 | Coffee | |
| 12:00 | N. Kaloper (U.C. Davis) |
A Landscape of Modified Gravity (ppt) |
| 13:00 | Lunch | |
| Friday, Nov. 17, Afternoon session (Chairman: F. Quevedo) | ||
| 15:00 | S. Shenker (Stanford U.) |
Single Observer Measures for Old Eternal Inflation |
| 16:00 | Coffee | |
| 16:30 | Moderator: F. Quevedo (Cambridge U.) | Discussion |