Schedule of Talks

MONDAY

8:30 AM - Michael Duff, Lee C. Bollinger and Shirley Neuman

Opening Remarks

9:00 AM - Peter Higgs (Edinburgh)

My life as a boson: The story of "the Higgs"

10:00 AM - BREAK

10:30 AM - Joseph Silk (Oxford)

The dark side of the universe

11:30 PM - Robert Kirshner (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA)

Evidence for cosmic acceleration from supernovae

12:30 - 2:00 PM - LUNCH

2:00 PM - Lev Okun (ITEP)

Vacuum as seen from Moscow

3:00 PM - BREAK

3:30 PM - James Hartle (Santa Barbara)

Spacetime quantum mechanics

4:30 PM - Spacetime Art - Bryan Rogers

Introduction to the Spacetime Art Exhibit

TUESDAY

9:00 AM - John Bahcall (IAS)

Solar Neutrinos: Where we are, where we are going

10:00 AM - BREAK

10:30 AM - Mary K. Gaillard (Berkeley)

Progress in weakly coupled string phenomenology

11:30 AM - Alexander Polyakov (Princeton)

Gauge invariant words and the fifth dimension

12:30 - 2:00 PM - LUNCH

2:00 PM - John Schwarz (Caltech)

Anomaly cancellation: A retrospective from a modern perspective

3:00 PM - BREAK

3:30 PM - Jacob Bekenstein (Jerusalem)

The case for discrete energy levels of a black hole

WEDNESDAY

9:00 AM - Shing-Tung Yau (Harvard)

Geometry and spacetime

10:00 AM - BREAK

10:30 AM - Paul Steinhardt (Princeton)

Colliding branes and the origin of the hot big bang

11:30 AM - Arthur Jaffe (Harvard)

Twists and supersymmetry

12:30 PM - Conference Trip to Detroit Institute of Arts

05:30 PM - return from trip

06:30 PM - Conference Banquet

Banquet speaker: Sheldon Glashow (Boston University)

THURSDAY

9:00 AM - Helen Quinn (SLAC)

The symmetry, or lack of it, between matter and antimatter

10:00 AM - BREAK

10:30 AM - Stanley Deser (Brandeis)

Gravity's century: 1901-2001

11:30 AM - Isadore Singer (MIT)

Geometry in physics tomorrow

12:30 - 2:00 PM - LUNCH

2:00 PM - Alan Guth (MIT)

Eternal Inflation: Successes and Questions

3:00 PM - BREAK

3:30 PM - Bruno Zumino (Berkeley)

Nonabelian gauge theories on noncommutative spaces

8:00 PM - Public Lecture - Martinus Veltman (Michigan)

Very Elementary Particle Physics

FRIDAY

9:00 AM - Paul Frampton (UNC)

Spontaneous CP violation

10:00 AM - BREAK

10:30 AM - Wendy Freedman (Carnegie Observatories)

Cosmological parameters

11:30 AM - Andrei Linde (Stanford)

Inflation and string cosmology

12:30 - 2:00 PM - LUNCH

2:00 PM - Michael Turner (Chicago)

Cosmology 2001

3:00 PM - BREAK

3:30 PM - Martinus Veltman (Michigan)

Why do we need a linear collider?