If you, like me were unable to secure tickets to the Origins Symposium featuring Dawkins, Krauss, Hawking and many more, watch it live via the web or tune into cable to catch a few portions on your coffee break :)
Friday April 3 (At ASU, Tempe Campus)
Live webcast. Also simulcast can be seen live on Cox Channel 116 and Quest Choice TV Channel 138 (ASUtv).
8:30 – 10:30 a.m. Workshop for Journalists: Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication
Forefront questions in Evolutionary Biology – Richard Dawkins
Forefront questions on the beginning of time – Lawrence Krauss
**11 a.m. – 1 p.m. Science Friday, Live from ASU, Katzin Concert Hall,** (Approximately 150 seats will be available for students, staff, faculty and the public, to be distributed on a first come first served basis. Once broadcast begins, no further seating will be made.)
Two Panels:
Physicists and the Origin of the Universe
Origins and Evolution of Life
1 – 2 p.m. Lunch with students from Barrett, The Honors College at ASU
2 – 5:30 p.m. Katzin Concert Hall, Session 1: Origins of the Universe, Multiverse, Physical Laws
2 p.m. Welcome: Sid Bacon, Lawrence Krauss
Frank Wilczek: The Big Questions
2:10 – 3:10 p.m. Panel 1: How Far Back Can We Go?
Moderator: Michael Turner
Steven Weinberg: How Can we probe inflation?
James Peebles: Is all well with the Universe?
Brian Greene: What can string theory do?
Lawrence Krauss: Are there fundamental theoretical limits?
Stephen Hawking: The Origin of the Universe
3:10 – 3:25 p.m. Break
3:25 – 4:20 p.m. Panel 2: Is Our Universe Unique, and how can we find out?
Moderator: Paul Davies
Andrei Linde: Inflationary multiverse and string theory landscape
Alan Guth: Eternal Inflation, Measures and Anthropics
David Gross: What is wrong with Anthropics
Sheldon Glashow: Is Particle Physics Over?
Alex Vilenkin: Mediocrity as a principle
4:20 – 5:25 p.m. Panel 3: New Windows on the Universe: What is knowable?
Moderator: Wendy Freedman
Barry Barish: LIGO and ILC: Which first? Which Best?
Adam Riess: Do Supernovae have anything else to tell us?
John Ruhl: Is the CMB a tool whose time is up?
John Mather: The Next Generation Space Telescope: So what?
Maria Spiropulu: The LHC: When will it work, what will it do?
Roger Blandford: The gamma ray sky
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