Abstract

The Vatican Study Week on “Cosmology and Fundamental Physics, October 2, 1981 to which S. Weinberg, D.W. Sciama, J.E. Gumn and S. W. Hawking and Ya. B. Zeldovich contrinuted is introduced. The introductory remarks by H.A. Brück are reproduced in full as well as a summary of Professor’s Hawing communication “The boundary conditions of the universe”.