Princeton University Princeton Center for Theoretical Science - Big Bang and Beyond Program Micro-Symposium

LONG PROGRAM 2008-2009: Big Bang and Beyond - Cosmic Singularities**: Is the big bang a beginning of space and time? Investigating different theories of the initial singularity and methods for exploring and distinguishing them. Confirmed Speakers: Gary Horowitz (UCSB), Abhay Ashtekar (Penn State), Thomas Hertog (AstroParticule et Cosmologie, Universite Paris), and Vijay Balasubramanian (University of Pennsylvania), James Hartle (UCSB), and more. **Note: If you are planning to attend, they request that you register in advance at: http://pcts.princeton.edu/pcts/bigbang/bigbang.html