INCO 796: Cosmology and Our View of the World
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Summaries of Spring Semester 2015
in Chronological Order:

1. Session 1: Introduction "How do we do science? Is there anything beyond science?"
   Lead: Thomas Davis, Willem deVries, Eberhard Möbius (1/20/2015)
   Summary #1. (no Summary)

2.   Session 1: Snow Day
   
   
3.   Session 3: Overview on Physical Cosmology
     Lead: Eberhard Möbius (2/3/2015)
     Summary #3. (no Summary)

4. Session 4: Mind and its Place in Nature
   Lead: Willem deVries (2/10/2015)
   Summary #4. (no Summary)

5. Session 5: Life as We Know it and its Evolution
   Lead: Thomas Davis (2/17/2015)
   Summary #5. (no Summary)

6. Session 6: What is Science? A philosophical overview
   Lead: LorraineWilson & Michael Dillman (2/24/2015)
   Summary #6. By John O'Brien

7. Session 7: Origin of the universe(s) – Laws, testability, and observability
   Lead: Greg Hilston (3/3/2015)
   Summary #7. By Nicholas Marcellino

8. Session 8: What are Dark Matter and Dark Energy? Do they exist?
   Lead: Jon Bower (3/10/2015)
   Summary #8. By Greg Hilston

9. Session 9: Anthropic Principle – Why is the universe as it is or is there a multiverse?
   Lead: Nicholas Marcellino (3/24/2015)
   Summary #9. By Michael Dilmann

10. Session 10: When, where, how did life start - How did it evolve
    Lead: Seth Goodnight & Randall Kezar (3/31/2015)
    Summary #10. By Lorraine Wilson

11.  Session 11: Do our modern skulls house stone-age minds?
    Lead: Lauren Maurice (4/7/2015)
    Summary #11. By Seth Goodnight
    
    
12.   Session 12: What is Consciousness?
      Lead: Chantal Surles (4/14/2015)
      Summary #12: By Jon Bower
    
    
13.  Session 13: Are we alone?
      Lead: John O'Brien (4/21/2015)
       Summary #13: By Chantal Surles
    
    
14.  Session 14: Aspects that we didn’t touch – Aspects that you liked the most
      Lead:Thomas Davis, Willem deVries, Eberhard Möbius (4/28/2015)
       Summary #14: By Lauren Maurice