The Symposium will include 15 hour-long talks over two and one half days summarizing the current status of inflation.
| Friday January 29 |
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| Welcome | 8:45 AM | ||
| Prologue | |||
| The Longer View (from above) | Martin Rees | Cambridge | 9:15 AM |
| break | 10:15 AM | ||
| How Does Inflation Work? | |||
| Models and Connections to Particle Physics | Alan Guth | MIT | 10:30 AM |
| The Transition from Inflation to Radiation | Rocky Kolb | Fermilab/Chicago | 11:30 AM |
| lunch | 12:30 PM | ||
| Inflation and Quantum Cosmology | Stephen W. Hawking | Cambridge | 2:00 PM |
| Is the Universe Flat? | |||
| Inflation and the Global Structure of the Universe | Andrei Linde | Stanford | 3:00 PM |
| break | 4:00 PM | ||
| Measuring Omega with Type Ia Supernovae | Robert Kirshner | Harvard | 4:30 PM |
| Stephen Hawking Public Lecture | Arie Crown Theatre | 8:00 PM | |
| Saturday January 30 |
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| Weighing the Matter in the Universe | Marc Davis | Berkeley | 8:45 AM |
| break | 9:45 AM | ||
| Inflation and Dark Matter | |||
| Dark Matter from the Early Universe | John Ellis | CERN | 10:30 AM |
| More Exotic Possibilities | Paul Steinhardt | Princeton | 11:30 AM |
| lunch | 12:30 PM | ||
| Inflation, Structure Formation and the Cosmic Background Radiation |
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| Theoretical Perspective | J. Richard Bond | CITA/Toronto | 2:00 PM |
| Galaxy Formation and High-z | Charles Steidel | Caltech | 3:00 PM |
| break | 4:00 PM | ||
| Testing Inflation with Large-Scale Structure | Josh Frieman | Fermilab/Chicago | 4:30 PM |
| Banquet Dinner | Adler Planetarium | 6:00 PM | |
| Galleries open | 6:15 PM | ||
| StarRider show | 6:30 PM | ||
| Dinner | 7:15 PM | ||
| Sunday January 31 |
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| Which Cold Dark Matter Model? | Michael Turner | Chicago/Fermilab | 9:30 AM |
| break | 10:30 AM | ||
| Epilogue | |||
| The Longer View (from below) | P. James E. Peebles | Princeton | 11:00 AM |
You must register to attend.