Workshop
Interdisciplinary Workshop on the Foundations of Cosmology
January 15-16, 2019, 9:00AM
Abu Dhabi
Past Event
By Invitation
Interested scholars please contact nyuad.programs@nyu.edu
Recent developments in cosmology have raised a variety of deep and difficult questions. Should we expect cosmology to explain why the universe exists? Is our universe ‘fine-tuned’ for life? Existing cosmological models require extending current physical theories many orders of magnitude beyond the realm where they’ve been experimentally tested. What justifies such extrapolations? What evidence exists for competing cosmological theories and claims? Many of these questions lie at the interface of physics, mathematics, and philosophy.
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Recent developments in cosmology have raised a variety of deep and difficult questions. Should we expect cosmology to explain why the universe exists? Is our universe ‘fine-tuned’ for life? Existing cosmological models require extending current physical theories many orders of magnitude beyond the realm where they’ve been experimentally tested. What justifies such extrapolations? What evidence exists for competing cosmological theories and claims? Many of these questions lie at the interface of physics, mathematics, and philosophy.
- Federico Camia, Associate Professor of Mathematics, NYUAD
- Matthew Kleban, Associate Professor of Physics, NYU
- Kevin Coffey, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, NYUAD
- NYU Abu Dhabi Institute