'The State of the Universe' scientific conference and the public symposium were held in Cambridge UK, to celebrate the 70th birthday of Professor Stephen Hawking. The conference was hosted by the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology (DAMTP) at the Centre for

Stephen Hawking. A Brief History of Mine with introduction by Justin Rattner, Chief Technology Officer, Intel Corporation

Kip Thorne. Black Holes: A New Golden Age with introduction by Dr Nathan Myhrvold - CEO, Intellectual Ventures

Saul Perlmutter. Supernova, Dark Energy and the Accelerating Universe with introduction by Dr Eng Lim Goh - Chief Technology Officer, SGI

Lord Rees. From planets to universes. Introductory remarks: Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz - Vice-Chancellor, University of Cambridge

Raphael Bousso. The State of the Multiverse

Neil Turok. The Big Crunch/Big Bang Transition

Michael Green. Scattering Amplitudes in String and Field Theory

Hermann Nicolai. Consistent Kaluza Klein universes from maximal supergravity

Bruce Allen. The Einstein@Home search for gravitational waves and neutron stars

Andrew Strominger. Microscopic Realization of the dS/CFT Correspondence

Alexander Vilenkin. Did the universe have a beginning?

Andrei Linde. Inflation in supergravity and string theory

Shing-Tung Yau. Quasi Local Mass and Momentum in General Relativity

James Hartle. The State of the No Boundary Wave Function

Thomas Hertog. A new twist on the no-boundary state

Gary Horowitz. Instability of Anti-de Sitter

Harvey Reall. Black holes and extra dimensions

James Sparks. The Nuts and Bolts of AdS/CFT

Simon Ross. Holography and black holes

Luis Lehner. Black holes & membranes: observables & surprises?

Daniel Eisenstein. Dark Energy and Cosmic Sound

David Spergel. The State of the Universe: 380,000 Years After the Big Bang

Gary Gibbons. Conformal Symmetry and Scaling Limits of Black Holes

Juan Maldacena. The constraining power of higher spin symmetry

Alan Guth. Eternal Inflation and Its Implications