2001: A Spacetime Odyssey
- A lecture on colliding branes and the origin of the hot big bang by Paul Steinhardt.
- http://pauli.physics.lsa.umich.edu/w/arch/som/sto2001/Steinhardt/real/

A Cyclic Universe
- An article from Sky & Telescope on the ekpyrotic universe model.
- http://skytonight.com/news/3306021.html?page=1&c=y

Branes for Relativists
- The purpose of this manuscript is to provide a pedagogical account of the brane technology so that the relativists can use branes in their study.
- http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0108046

Searching for Extra Dimensions
- A one page article on the search for evidence of higher dimensions.
- http://d0server1.fnal.gov/users/gll/public/edpublic.htm

Brane Cosmology
- The aim of these lectures is to give a brief introduction to brane cosmology
- http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0202044

A Recycled Universe
- A scientific american article on the brane-world models of the Universe
- http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=000C55B5-C29B-1CDA-B4A8809EC588EEDF

Cosmology in a Brane Universe
- This lecture presents the cosmological models with extra dimensions that have been recently elaborated, which assume that ordinary matter is confined on a surface, called brane, embedded in a higher dimensional spacetime.
- http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0301022

The Cyclic Universe
- An informal introduction to the models of the universe which use higher dimension branes.
- http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0204479

A Workshop on the Ekpyrotic Universe
- The purpose of this workshop will be to offer the opportunity to discuss issues such as the connection with M-theory and cosmological perturbations in the ekpyrotic scenario.
- http://wwwlapp.in2p3.fr/~lesgourg/EKPY/ekpy.htm

Brane-Storm Challenges Big Bang Theory
- A popular physics explanation of the ekpyrotic model of universe creation
- http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/astronomy/bigbang_alternative_010413-1.html