Introduction / Gary Gibbons and Paul Shellard

Part I. Popular Symposium. Our complex cosmos and its future / Martin Rees

Theories of everything and Hawking's wave function of the Universe James Hartle

The problem of spacetime singularities: implications for quantum gravity? / Roger Penrose

Warping spacetime / Kip Thorne

Sixty years in a nutshell / Stephen Hawking

Part II. Spacetime Singularities. Cosmological perturbations and singularities / George Ellis

The quantum physics of chronology protection / Matt Visser

Energy dominance and the Hawking-Ellis vacuum conservation theorem / Brandon Carter

On the instability of extra space dimensions / Roger Penrose

Part III. Black Holes. Black hole uniqueness and the inner horizon stability problem / Werner Israel

Black holes in the real universe and their prospects as probes of relativistic gravity / Martin Rees

Primordial black holes / Bernard Carr

Black hole pair creation / Simon Ross

Black holes as accelerators / Steve Giddings

Part IV. Hawking Radiation. Black holes and string theory / Malcolm Perry

M theory and black hole quantum mechanics / Joe Polchinski

Playing with black strings / Gary Horowitz

Twenty years of debate with Stephen / Leonard Susskind. Part V. Quantum Gravity. Euclidean quantum gravity: the view from 2002 / Gary Gibbons

Zeta functions, anomalies and stable branes / Ian Moss

Some reflections on the status of conventional quantum theory when applied to quantum gravity / Chris Isham

Quantum geometry and its ramifications / Abhay Ashtekar

Topology change in quantum gravity / Fay Dowker

Part VI. M Theory and Beyond. The past and future of string theory / Edward Witten

String theory / David Gross

A brief description of string theory / Michael Green

The story of M / Paul Townsend

Gauged supergravity and holographic field theory / Nick Warner

57 varieties in a NUTshell / Chris Pope

Part VII. De Sitter Space. Adventures in de Sitter space / Raphael Bousso

De Sitter space in non-critical string theory / Andrew Stominger with Alexander Maloney and Eva Silverstein

Supergravity, M theory and cosmology / Renata Kallosh

Part VIII. Quantum Cosmology. The state of the universe / James Hartle

Quantum cosmology / Don Page

Quantum cosmology and eternal inflation / Alexander Vilenkin

Probability in the deterministic theory known as quantum mechanics / Bryce De Witt

The interpretation of quantum cosmology and the problem of time / Jonathan Halliwell

What local supersymmetry can do for quantum cosmology / Peter D'Eath

Part IX. Cosmology. Inflation and cosmological perturbations / Alan Guth

The future of cosmology: observational and computational prospects / Paul Shellard

The ekpyrotic universe and its cyclic extension / Neil Turok

Inflationary theory versus the ekpyrotic/cyclic scenario / Andrei Linde

Brane (new) worlds / Pierre Binétruy

Publications of Stephen Hawking