Stephen Hawking
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                                          Stephen at Cambridge

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                                          Stephen is currently Director of Research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology,  University of  Cambridge.  This position means that he is based in the Department of Applied  Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, or DAMTP. He is
                                          also the head of the  General Relativity group within DAMTP. The work of the many academics and  students has been described within the GR home pages. The  members of the group have  also put together a series of public pages,  in an attempt to explain their work. Stephen is also the principle investigator for the COSMOS National Cosmology
                                          Supercomputer
                                          .  Stephen has also been Lucasian Professor for Cambridge, a prestigious title that boasts Isaac Newton and Charles Babbage amongst its previous holders. 

                                          Among the most important people to both Stephen and his work are the  PhD students he supervises. At
                                          present they are: Tim Clunan, Ricardo Monterro, Alex Kaus and Hui Yao. During his time at Cambridge Professor Hawking has written a large number of publications. The best on-line way to read the most recent publications by Professor Hawking, or his colleagues, is by logging onto SLAC SPIRES HEP Search  site at http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/hep/ and  entering "Find author Hawking".