Conference Programme

The conference began on Wednesday 4 January 2012 with an evening reception at CMS. The scientific conference ran for 3 days, starting on Thursday 5 January 2012. On Sunday 8 January 2012 there was a Public Symposium at Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge.

This is the final programme (it can be downloaded in PDF format here). There was a video relay room for local University members, but the talks were also webcasted live. Archived streams are now available - please click on the talk titles below to view videos of the talks.

Videos of the lectures at the Public Symposium can be viewed on the Public Symposium website. All Symposium lectures were webcasted live and recorded.

	Scientific Conference at Centre for Mathematical Sciences				Public Symposium at Lady Mitchell Hall
Time/Date	Wednesday, 4 Jan	Thursday, 5 Jan	Friday, 6 Jan	Saturday, 7 Jan	Sunday, 8 Jan
9:30		Welcome and Introduction at 9:30
9:40		Frank Wilczek. Time Crystals (PDF, MOV)	Bruce Allen. The Einstein@Home search for gravitational waves and neutron stars (PDF, MOV)	Simon Ross. Holography and black holes (PDF)
10:20		Renata Kallosh. N=8 supergravity (PDF, MOV)	Hermann Nicolai. Consistent Kaluza Klein universes from maximal supergravity (PDF)	James Sparks. The Nuts and Bolts of AdS/CFT (PDF)
11:00		Coffee
11:30		Juan Maldacena. The constraining power of higher spin symmetry (PDF, MOV)	Michael Green. Scattering Amplitudes in String and Field Theory (PDF, MOV)	Harvey Reall. Black holes and extra dimensions (PDF, MOV)
12:10		Gary Gibbons. Conformal Symmetry and Scaling Limits of Black Holes (PDF)	Andrew Strominger. Microscopic Realization of the dS/CFT Correspondence	Gary Horowitz. Instability of Anti-de Sitter Spacetime (PDF, MOV)	Doors open at 13:00
12:50		Lunch			Welcome at 14:00
14:00		David Spergel. The State of the Universe: 380,000 Years After the Big Bang (PDF, MOV)	Raphael Bousso. The State of the Multiverse (PDF)	Thomas Hertog. A new twist on the no-boundary state (PDF)	Martin Rees: 14:10 From planets to universes
14:40		Daniel Eisenstein. Dark Energy and Cosmic Sound (PDF, MOV)	Andrei Linde. Inflation in supergravity and string theory (PDF)	Shing-Tung Yau. Quasi Local Mass and Momentum in General Relativity (PDF)	Saul Perlmutter: 14:55 Supernova, Dark Energy and the Accelerating Universe
15:20		Tea			Tea break: 15:45
16:00		Alan Guth. Eternal Inflation and Its Implications (PDF)	Neil Turok. The Big Crunch/Big Bang Transition (PDF, MOV)	James Hartle. The State of the No Boundary Wave Function (PDF, MOV)	Kip Thorne: 16:25 Black Holes: A New Golden Age
16:40		Luis Lehner. Black holes & membranes: observables & surprises? (PDF, MOV)	Alexander Vilenkin. Did the universe have a beginning? (PDF)	NONE	Stephen Hawking: 17:15 A Brief History of Mine
Evening	Registration & Reception at 18:30; Buffet Dinner at 19:00	Drinks Reception at Gonville & Caius at 19:00	Reception and Banquet (King's College) at 19:15	Conclusion of Scientific Conference at 17:20

Here are the notes from the Conference and the Symposium, taken and kindly provided by Prof Don Page, for those who would like to read a personal account of the events.