The Fine-Tuned Universe – A New Cosmology

29 - 31 October 2025

Andreas Burkert, Stephan Paul

Week 1
Wed 29/10/2025
Time Session
9:00 - 10:00

Welcome & Kaffee

10:00 - 10:30

The Degree of Fine-Tuning in our Universe

Fred C. Adams

10:30 - 11:00

Discussion

11:00 - 11:30

Chance Would Be a Fine Thing

Erik Curiel

11:30 - 12:00

Discussion

12:00 - 14:00

Lunch

14:00 - 14:30

# Building a habitable planet

Til Birnstiel

14:30 - 15:00

Discussion

15:00 - 15:30

Universe, Cosmos, Creation: Philosopical Questions and Religious Interpretations

Willem B. Drees

15:30 - 16:00

Discussion

16:00 - 16:20

Kaffee

18:30 - 22:30

Speakers Dinner

Thu 30/10/2025
Time Session
9:00 - 10:00

Kaffee

10:00 - 10:30

Fine-tuning for abiogenesis

Paul Rimmer

10:30 - 11:00

Discussion

11:00 - 11:30

An Exemplary Planet: Earth, Life, and the Fine-tuning of the Universe

Olivia Judson

11:30 - 12:00

Discussion

12:00 - 14:00

Lunch

15:30 - 16:30

Kaffee & Discussions

16:30 - 17:00

Fine-tunings in nuclear physics

Ulf-Gerrit Meißner

17:00 - 17:30

Discussion

17:30 - 18:00

Reality's Template: Arguments for a fundamental order of reality

Jessica Frazier

18:00 - 18:30

Discussion

18:30 - 20:30

Catered Social Event

Fri 31/10/2025
Time Session
9:00 - 10:00

Kaffee

10:00 - 10:30

Fundamental Physics Versus (Seemingly) Fine Tuned Universe

Georgi Dvali

10:30 - 11:00

Discussion

11:00 - 11:30

Regine Schulz (LMU/HAWK Hildesheim)

11:30 - 12:00

Discussion

12:00 - 14:00

Lunch

14:00 - 16:00

Andreas Burkert and Stephan Paul : Summary and Discussions

16:00 - 16:20

Kaffee

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