Day 1: 2nd December | ||
2-2.15pm | Joe Silk | Introduction |
2.15-3.15pm | Nick Bostrom | Problems and Paradoxes in Anthropic Reasoning |
3.15-4.15pm | Christopher Smeenk | Bayesian Anthropics |
4.15-4.45pm | Coffee Break | |
4.45-5.45pm | Nima Arkani-Hamed | Naturalness and It’s Discontents: Why Is there a Macroscopic Universe? |
Day 2: 3rd December | ||
2-3pm | Nick Bostrom | The Diverse Applications of Anthropics |
3-4pm | Nima Arkani-Hamed | Space-Time, Quantum Mechanics and the Multiverse |
4-4.30pm | Coffee Break | |
4.30-5.30pm | Jean-Philippe Uzan | Fundamental constants, physics and cosmology |
7pm onwards | Conference Dinner at St Anne’s College 56 Woodstock Road Oxford OX2 6HS followed by a 15 min talk given by Nima Arkani-Hamed . | |
Day 3: 4th December | ||
2-3pm | Christopher Smeenk | Predictions in Eternal Inflation |
3-4pm | Jean-Philippe Uzan | Observational constraints on the variation of the fundamental constants |
4-4.30pm | Coffee Break | |
4.30-5.30pm | Round Table; Concluding Remarks |