The Future of Theoretical Physics & Cosmology: Celebrating Stephen Hawking’s 60th Birthday

Preface List of contributors 1. Introduction Part I. Popular Symposium: 2. Our complex cosmos and its future Martin J. Rees 3. Theories of everything and Hawking's wave function of the Universe James B. Hartle 4. The problem of space-time singularities: implications for quantum gravity? Roger Penrose 5. Warping spacetime Kip Thorne 6. 60 years in a nutshell Stephen W. Hawking Part II. Spacetime Singularities: 7. Cosmological perturbations and singularities George F. R. Ellis 8. The quantum physics of chronology protection Matt Visser 9. Energy dominance and the Hawking?llis vacuum conservation theorem Brandon Carter 10. On the instability of extra space dimensions Roger Penrose Part III. Black Holes: 11. Black hole uniqueness and the inner horizon stability problem Werner Israel 12. Black holes in the real universe and their prospects as probes of relativistic gravity Martin J. Rees 13. Primordial black holes Bernard Carr 14. Black hole pair creation Simon F. Ross 15. Black holes as accelerators Steven Giddings Part IV. Hawking Radiation: 16. Black holes and string theory Malcolm Perry 17. M theory and black hole quantum mechanics Joe Polchinski 18. Playing with black strings Gary Horowitz 19. Twenty years of debate with Stephen Leonard Susskind Part V. Quantum Gravity: 20. Euclidean quantum gravity: the view from 2002 Gary Gibbons 21. Zeta functions, anomalies and stable branes Ian Moss 22. Some reflections on the status of conventional quantum theory when applied to quantum gravity Chris Isham 23. Quantum geometry and its ramifications Abhay Ashtekar 24. Topology change in quantum gravity Fay Dowker Part VI. M Theory and Beyond: 25. The past and future of string theory Edward Witten 26. String theory David Gross 27. A brief description of string theory Michael Green 28. The story of M Paul Townsend 29. Gauged supergravity and holographic field theory Nick Warner 30. 57 varieties in a NUTshell Chris Pope Part VII. de Sitter Space: 31. Adventures in de Sitter space Raphael Bousso 32. de Sitter space in non-critical string theory Andrew Strominger 33. Supergravity, M theory and cosmology Renata Kallosh Part VIII. Quantum Cosmology: 34. The state of the universe James B. Hartle 35. Quantum cosmology Don Page 36. Quantum cosmology and eternal inflation A. Vilenkin 37. Probability in the deterministic theory known as quantum mechanics Bryce de Witt 38. The interpretation of quantum cosmology and the problem of time J. Halliwell 39. What local supersymmetry can do for quantum cosmology Peter D'Eath Part IX. Cosmology: 40. Inflation and cosmological perturbations Alan Guth 41. The future of cosmology: observational and computational prospects Paul Shellard 42. The ekpyrotic universe and its cyclic extension Neil Turok 43. Inflationary theory versus the ekpyrotic/cyclic scenario Andrei Linde 44. Brane (new) worlds Pierre Binetruy 45. Publications of Stephen Hawking Index.

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