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”.
Keywords: Astrophysical Cosmology, S.W. Hawing, H.A. Brück, Boundary
conditions of the universe.
