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This is a joint GR-QFT seminar, to celebrate in advance the 90th birthday of Roger Penrose later in the summer, comprising 9 talks on conformal cyclic cosmology. The provisional schedule is as follows:
11:00 Roger Penrose (Oxford, UK) : The Initial Driving Forces Behind CCC
11:10 Paul Tod (Oxford, UK) : Questions for CCC
11:20 Vahe Gurzadyan (Yerevan, Armenia): CCC predictions and CMB
11:30 Krzysztof Meissner (Warsaw, Poland): Perfect fluids in CCC
11:40 Daniel An (SUNY, USA) : Finding information in the Cosmic Microwave Background data
11:50 Jörg Frauendiener (Otago, New Zealand) : Impulsive waves in de Sitter space and their impact on the present aeon
12:00 Pawel Nurowski (Warsaw, Poland and Guangdong Technion, China): Poincare-Einstein expansion and CCC
12:10 Luis Campusano (FCFM, Chile) : (Very) Large Quasar Groups
12:20 Roger Penrose (Oxford, UK) : What has CCC achieved; where can it go from here?