Abstract:
As part of its continuing support for the organization of Discussion Meetings in
frontier areas of science and engineering, the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced
Scientific Research hosted a 3-day meeting titled ‘Big Bang and Alternative
Cosmologies: A Critical Appraisal’ during January 1997. Support was also received
from the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Pune,
and from the Mehta Research Institute, Allahabad.