Saturday, April 27

9:00am-11:45am Scientific Symposium (Session Chair: Avadh Saxena, LANL)

9:00 Welcome
John Engen, CEO of the New Mexico Consortium
Avadh Saxena, LANL
9:05 Plenary - "The End of Physics?"
Paul Davies, Arizona State University
9:50 "Tabletop Experiments for Quantum Cosmology"
Fumika Suzuki, LANL
10:15 Plenary - "Before the Big Bang"
Laura Mersini-Houghton, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
10:55 "What's Inside a ‘Black Hole’ and How Would We Know?"
Emil Mottola, New Mexico Consortium & University of New Mexico
11:20 Round table Q&A

Lunch break

1:00pm-2:25pm Stephen Hawking & The Universe

Welcome
Gordon Freedman, National Laboratory for Education Transformation
Executive Producer of the 1991 documentary film “A Brief History of Time”
Welcome
Prof. Kip Thorne, California Institute of Technology (Emeritus)
Welcome
Profs. Marcia and George Rieke, University of Arizona
On behalf of the James Webb Space Telescope
Yá’át’ééh shitxaa’ Yàdiłhxił
Prof. DezBaa’, Northern New Mexico College
Memories of Stephen Hawking
Malcolm Perry
Laura Mersini-Houghton
Paul Davies
Thomas Hertog
Memories of Stephen Hawking and making the film
Gordon Freedman

2:30pm THE FILM – “A Brief History of Time”

Q&A with Gordon Freedman on the film itself, the cast, and behind the scenes

4:45pm-5:30pm Lobby Reception and book signing event

Authors will be signing copies of their books in the lobby of SALA.
The books featured are: “What’s Eating the Universe? And Other Cosmic Questions” by Paul Davies
“Before The Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe and What Lies Beyond” by Laura Mersini-Houghton
”On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking’s Final Theory” by Thomas Hertog
“The Warped Side of Our Universe: An Odyssey through Black Holes, Wormholes, Time Travel, and Gravitational Waves” by Kip Thorne and Lia Halloran
“A Brief History of Time” by Stephen Hawking [author not present for signing]
“The Grand Design” by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow [author not present for signing] Books are available at Samizdat Bookstore or will be available to purchase in the SALA lobby during the event.

Break for dinner

7:30pm-8:45pm Evening Session

Welcome
John Engen, CEO of the New Mexico Consortium
Welcome and Remarks
Anna Llobet, Chair-Elect of the J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Committee
The JROMC is co-sponsoring the evening lecture.
Remarks & Introduction of the Speaker
Thom Mason, Director of Los Alamos National Laboratory
"On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking’s Final Theory"
Thomas Hertog, Institute for Theoretical Physics, KU Leuven, Belgium
Q&A with Thomas Hertog

9:00pm–11:00pm Stargazing

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9:00 Stargazing with local Astronomers, PEEC, Pajarito Astronomers in Spirio Field in Overlook Park, White Rock. Viewing begins after 8:50 when it will be dark enough.
11:00 Stargazing ends

Sunday, April 28

10:30am-11:45am Morning Session

Panel Discussion on the State of the Universe and How to Communicate Big Science to the Public.


TOPICS: Big unanswered questions about the Universe, astrophysics since Stephen Hawking, more Q&A from talks on Saturday.


Participants:
Cosmic Frontiers Speakers: Thomas Hertog, Laura Mersini-Houghton, Malcolm Perry, Paul Davies, Gordon Freedman, Emil Mottola
Lisa Danielson, Director of the Center for Space & Earth Science, LANL
Chris Fryer, Director of the Center for Nonlinear Studies, LANL
Galen Gisler, J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Committee, PEEC, former LANL
Sharon Sessions, Chair of the Dept. of Physics, New Mexico Tech
Yoli Pedraza, New Mexico State University, NASA Solar System Ambassador

Lunch break

1:00pm-2:25pm Stephen Hawking & The Universe

Welcome
Gordon Freedman, National Laboratory for Education Transformation
Executive Producer of the 1991 documentary film “A Brief History of Time”
Welcome
Prof. Kip Thorne, California Institute of Technology (Emeritus)
Welcome
Profs. Marcia and George Rieke, University of Arizona
On behalf of the James Webb Space Telescope
Welcome
DezBaa’, Northern New Mexico College
Memories of Stephen Hawking
Malcolm Perry
Laura Mersini-Houghton
Paul Davies
Thomas Hertog
Memories of Stephen Hawking and making the film
Gordon Freedman

2:30pm THE FILM – “A Brief History of Time”

Q&A with Gordon Freedman on the film itself, the cast, and behind the scenes

4:45pm-5:30pm Lobby Reception

Monday, April 29

Malcolm Perry gives LANL Director's Colloquium, "Black Hole Enigma"
1:10-2:30pm, LANL Physics Auditorium, Hosted by Avadh Saxena

Tuesday, April 30

Special Seminar by Gordon Freedman, "Stephen Hawking, the Popularization of Science and the STEM Pipeline"
10:00-11:00am, at Center for Nonlinear Studies (CNLS), LANL
Hosted by Avadh Saxena, LANL