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5th December 9.30-6.00 St Anne’s College, Oxford |
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| 9.30-9.50 am | Joe Silk | Introduction |
| 9.50-10.40 | George Ellis | The relation between Big Questions and technical questions in dealing with Anthropics in cosmology: data, questions, issues, and types of argument |
| 10.40-11.30 | Jesus Mosterin | Logical check-up of the anthropic, multiversal and fine-tuning arguments in cosmology |
| 11.30-11.50pm | Coffee break | |
| 11.50-12.40 | Andrew Liddle | The inflationary Universe |
| 12.40-13.10 | David Sloan Boltzmann brains | |
| 13.10-14.30 | Lunch | |
| 14.30-15.20 | Fay Dowker | A Historical Perspective on `Fine-Tuning’: Suggestions from Causal Set Cosmology |
| 15.20-16.10 | John Peacock | Un-natural Aspects of Standard Cosmology |
| 16.10-16.30 | Coffee break | |
| 16.30-17.20 | Bernard Carr | Fine-Tunings, Meta-Cosmology and the Limits of Science |
| 17.20-18.00 | Round table | |