Workshop on "Cosmological Frontiers in Fundamental Physics"

 

Brussels, 13-16 May 2009

The workshop is part of a series organized jointly by the International Solvay Institutes, APC (Université Paris VII, Paris) and the Perimeter Insitute (Waterloo, Canada).

 

Scientific Committee

 

Organizing Committee

 
Pierre Binétruy (Université Paris VII, France)   Ben Craps (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
Ben Craps (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)   Thomas Hertog (Université Paris VII, France)
Marc Henneaux (Solvay Institutes, Bruxelles, Belgium)   Peter Tinyakov (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)
Thomas Hertog (Université Paris VII, France)   Michel Tytgat (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)
Gary Horowitz (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)      
Shamit Kachru (Stanford University, USA)      
Justin Khoury (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA)      
Juan Maldacena (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA)      
Valery Rubakov (Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia)      
Neil Turok (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Canada)      

 

List of Invited Speakers

Pierre Binétruy (Université Paris VII, France)
Matthias Blau (Universität Bern, Switzerland)
Thibault Damour (IHES, Bures-sur-Yvette, France)
Jan de Boer (Universiteit van Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
Gia Dvali (CERN, Genève, Switzerland)
Gary Horowitz (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
Renata Kallosh (Stanford University, USA)
Justin Khoury (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA)
Elias Kiritsis (University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece)
Eiichiro Komatsu (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)
Andrei Linde (Stanford University, USA)
Liam McAllister (Cornell University, Ithaca, USA)
Viatcheslav Mukhanov (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany)
Hermann Nicolai (Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik, Golm, Germany)
Fernando Quevedo (Cambridge University, UK)
Simon Ross (Durham University, UK)
Savdeep Sethi (The University of Chicago, USA)
Paul Steinhardt (Princeton University, USA)
Sandip Trivedi (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India)
Neil Turok (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Canada)
Erik Verlinde (Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

 

  • Solvay Colloquium: 12 May - Eiichiro Komatsu (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)
  • Location
ULB-Campus Plaine-Building NO - 5th Floor - Salle Solvay
Metro line 5 direction "Herrmann Debroux" - Station "Deta"
  • Registration

Only registered participants will be allowed to attend.
Registration is no longer possible.

  • Fee
There is no registration fee.
  • Accommodation

Hotel reservations must be made directly by the participants. The following link might be useful: Hotels in Brussels.
Hotels that we often use for our visitors are: Hôtel Opéra - Hôtel Arlequin - Hôtel Saint-Nicolas - Fondation Universitaire.

 

Support from Solvay S.A., the Belgian "Loterie Nationale - Nationale Loterij", the "Communauté française de Belgique", the "Vlaamse Regering" and the "Fondation David et Alice Van Buuren" is gratefully acknowledged.

Updated on 6 April 2009