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NOTE: Registration is open and arriving abstracts (emailed to 2020conference@minkowskiinstitute.org) will be considered until there are available slots in the conference program.

The Scientific Organizing Committee invites papers from physicists, philosophers of physics and philosophers on any topic related to the nature and ontology of spacetime. As there is no main theme of the sixth spacetime conference a number of special sessions have been suggested by colleagues: Nature of time - Flow of time; Becoming (continuation of the Special Session on Becoming and the panel discussion at the Second Hermann Minkowski Meeting on the Foundations of Spacetime Physics on Wednesday, May 15, 2019 Is spacetime a real (physical) four-dimensional entity or a mathematical concept? Open Questions in Spacetime Physics The controversy over Relativistic Mass The problem with the gravitational energy-momentum pseudotensor in general relativity - should we have a closer look at the fact that the mathematical formalism of general relativity does not yield a proper tensor of the gravitational energy-momentum? What is the difference between matter and geometry in general relativity, semi-classical gravity, and quantum gravity? Do Black Holes Actually Exist? Is there a conflict between relativity and quantum mechanics? Quantum Gravity: Where do we stand? Please let us know at 2020conference@minkowskiinstitute.org if you are interested in participating in some of these sessions. Or suggest another special session. Depending on the number of colleagues participating in a special session, we plan to publish a volume with the talks presented at the session, which will include constructive criticism and the replies of the authors. In addition to talks and poster sessions, special coffee hours will be included in the program to stimulate more informal discussions among the participants. For this reason we encourage interested colleagues to attend the conference even if they do not plan to give a talk or present a poster.

A volume with selected talks will be published (the papers will be peer-reviewed).

Students may be offered a registration discount if financially possible. Graduate students interested in attending but concerned about cost should submit an abstract and will be contacted before the registration deadline if a discount is possible.