Dear Collegues,
We invite you to take part in our conference “Multiverse and Fundamental Cosmology” which will take place in Szczecin, Poland from 10th till 14th of September 2012. This is the third event in the series of fundamental cosmology conferences organized by our cosmology group in Szczecin (previous were Cosmofun’2005 and Grasscosmofun’09).
This time the task of the conference is to bring together specialists in fundamental cosmology (superstring, brane and M-theory), quantum cosmology and dark energy and the specialists dealing with the multiverse concept (variation of fundamental constants, decoherent histories, superstring landscape etc.). It is planned that the invited lectures and short contributions will be published in a conference proceedings. The organizer is the Cosmology Group of the University of Szczecin and collaborators are the Polish Physical Society, the Copernicus Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Krakow, and the National Centre for Nuclear Research in Swierk.
Invited speakers are:
Martin Bojowald, Univ. Penn State, USA
Robert R. Caldwell, Dartmouth College, Hanover, USA
Paul C.W. Davies, Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science, Arizona St. Univ., USA
Michael Heller, Copernicus Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, Krakow, Poland
Jerzy Jurkiewicz, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
Claus Kiefer, Univ. Cologne, Germany
Anthony Lasenby, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, UK
Renate Loll, Univ. Utrecht, The Netherlands
Carlos J.A.P. Martins Univ. Porto, Portugal
David Polarski, Univ. Montpellier, France
Alexei Starobinsky, Lebedev Institute, Moscow, Russia
Shinji Tsujikawa Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo, Japan
Jean-Philippe Uzan, IAP, Paris, France
Alexander Vilenkin, Tufts University, USA
We encourage you to register early through our server (http://cosmo.fiz.univ.szczecin.pl) by filling in a registration form and submitting it to a conference address: mcosmo12[AT]wmf.univ.szczecin.pl.
Looking forward to seeing you in Szczecin.
With compliments,
Mariusz P. Dabrowski (Organizing Committee chair)