180-Minute Symposium

180-062

Origins and Endings: From the Beginning to the End of the Universe

Session Start/End Time:

Monday, Feb 16, 2009, 9:30 AM -12:30 PM

HRC Columbus KL

Over the past decade, our view of both the possible origin and the ultimate fate of the universe have dramatically changed. This session will review how cutting-edge current research is shedding light on both of these cosmic questions and in fact how they may be related. In so doing, they are giving us a new sense of our planet's place in the universe. Subjects will include cosmic microwave background probes, gravity waves, dark matter, dark energy, the anthropic principle, and multiverses.

Organized by:

Lawrence M Krauss, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

Presentations:

  Symposium Organizer--Lawrence M. Krauss, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

  Moderator--Angela Olinto, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

  Eternal Inflation, the Early Universe, and the Multiverse--Alan Guth, MIT, Cambridge, MA

  The Cosmic Microwave Background: Progress and Prospects--John Carlstrom, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

  Gravitational Waves as a Probe of the Early Universe--Scott Dodelson, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, IL

  The Search for WIMPs in the Galactic Halo: the Quest to Detect the Dark Matter--Daniel Akerib, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH

  Our Miserable Future--Lawrence M. Krauss, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ