A Debate in Cosmology - The Multiverse

The purpose of this meeting is to provide a forum for scientists from various fields to discuss, debate, and stimulate progress on one of the emerging fundamental areas of theoretical physics -- the idea that our observable universe is part of a multiverse.

This conference is a collaborative effort between Columbia University, Perimeter Institute and University of North-Carolina-Chapel Hill, and is the second of a series of meetings aimed at stimulating progress in outstanding topics in theoretical physics. The first meeting in this series focused on the Origin of the Arrow of Time and was held at the New York Academy of Sciences last October.

This conference is co-sponsored by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Participants:

Justin Khoury, Perimeter Institute
Laura Mersini-Houghton, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Hilary Greaves, Oxford University
Brian Greene, Columbia University
David Albert, Columbia University
Andy Albrecht, University of California-Davis
Tom Banks, UC-Santa Cruz, Rutgers University
Paul Davies, Arizona State University
James Hartle, University of California-Santa Barbara
Gordon Kane, University of Michigan
Lev Kofman, CITA
Lee Smolin, Perimeter Institute
Rudy Vaas, University of Giessen