OCTOBER 15 - 16, 2007

The conference will involve a concentrated focus of leading world experts from a wide range of perspectives on one of the most outstanding issues in cosmology and theoretical physics - why time unfolds with a definite orientation even though the underlying laws are time reversal invariant.

This meeting is first in a series aimed at stimulating progress on outstanding topics in theoretical physics.

• Click here to view the NYAS ebriefing
• Click here to download the Origin of Time's Arrow poster (PDF, 1.4MB).

Scientific Organizing Committee

Brian Greene, Columbia University
Justin Khoury, Perimeter Institute
Laura Mersini-Houghton, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Sponsors

Bahnson Fund
Foundational Questions Institute (FQXi)
National Science Foundation
New York Academy of Science
Perimeter Institute
UNC Chapel Hill

Participants

David Albert, Columbia University
Andreas Albrecht, UC Davis
Tom Banks, Rutgers/UC Santa Cruz
Fred Cooper, National Science Foundation
Gia Dvali, NYU
Gary Gibbons, Cambridge
Gary Horowitz, UC Santa Barbara
Leonard Parker, UW Milwaukee
Jorge Pullin, Louisiana State
Eva Silverstein, Stanford
Lee Smolin, Perimeter Institute
Max Tegmark, MIT
Robert M. Wald, Chicago