Third Bulletin:  Program, and Role of Participants.

Dear Participant in the Kavli-CERCA Conference:

Attached below you will find the intended program for the meeting,
arrived at following lengthy discussions among the organizers and
feedback from a number of outside individuals.  As we promised, the
format of this conference is quite different from a standard meeting.
Over one half of the meeting will involve panels and open discussion.
This is in line with our intent to encourage discussion and debate
while exploring important outstanding questions in cosmology, particle
physics, and astrophysics.  Each session will generally involve one or
two short talks, followed by panel discussions, with a moderator for
each session.

It is the aim of the organizers that all invited participants should
be encouraged to actively and dynamically discuss topics throughout
the conference.  We are striving for an informal atmosphere where
participants feel free to introduce and explore new ideas.  The number
of participants has been deliberately limited so that such interaction
is possible.

In order for the conference to be successful, everyone should be
prepared to play an active role, in coordination with other
colleagues.  Conference organizers will be in touch with the
moderators of each session to discuss in detail the general issues
that might be discussed, and we will charge each of the moderators to
contact their panel members to coordinate the framework of their
presentations. Moderators will be charged with making some brief
opening remarks to frame the overall discussion, choosing the order of
speakers, fielding questions, monitoring time, etc.  They will also
present a slide listing a series of questions to help guide the
discussion. Panelists will be asked to prepare SHORT statements, with
perhaps one or two slides, relating to the theme of that panel, in
coordination with the session moderator.  Note that fully half of the
panel discussion time allotment will involve open discussion among all
participants.  The goal of the talks, and panel presentations should
be to set the stage for, and in some cases no doubt, to provoke the
discussions to follow.  We would like to foster lively interactions
and the exchange of ideas, not a series of individual statements.

We realize that this is a gamble, and that the success of the meeting
will depend strongly on the abilities of the participants to work
within this framework, but we are confident that if we are successful,
the meeting will help clarify in all our minds what are the key issues
that might drive the future of our field.

We look forward to an interesting and entertaining time together in
October.  During the first week of October we will send out a final
bulletin, with any revisions in the program, and logistics associated
with arrival, maps, etc.  Note that you should have already received
emails asking about participation in a number of events, including the
orchestra concert at Severance Hall, and Steven Weinberg's public
lecture on October 9th.

Lawrence Krauss, for the Organizing Committee.

latest version of the conference program: 
  http://www.phys.cwru.edu/events/kavli_cerca/program.txt