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Conference programOnly laptops and projectors for the presentations will be available. If you are not bringing your laptop, make sure that your presentation is in PowerPoint (Windows) or PDF; there will be no Mac laptop for KeyNote files. If your presentation is created by using LibreOffice, OpenOffice or any other software, make sure that you convert it to one of the two formats supported at the meeting.
The Welcome reception is from 19:00 to 21:00 on May 14, 2017 in the main restaurant of hotel Laguna Garden (second floor) at ~130 m from the beach. The Goodbye reception is from 19:00 to 21:00 on May 18, 2017 in the main restaurant of hotel Laguna Garden
8:30 - Registration 9:15 - 9:30 Welcome Remarks Chair: Archil Kobakhidze (University of Sydney) 9:30-10:00 - Jerrold Franklin (Temple University), Rigid body motion in special relativity10:00-10:30 - D. N. Coumbe (Niels Bohr Institute), A minimal extension of the Lorentz transformations 10:30-11:00 - Wei-Tou Ni (University of Shanghai for Science and Technology), Ultrahigh-Precision Empirical 'Derivation' of the Minkowski Metric from the Spacetime Structure 11:00-11:30 - Coffee break and free discussions 11:30-12:00 - Reinoud Jan Slagter (Astronomisch Fysisch Onderzoek Nederland and University of Amsterdam), Evidence of Cosmic Strings by Observation of the Alignment of Quasar Polarization Axes 12:00-12:30 - Vesselin G. Gueorguiev (Institute for Advanced Physical Studies), The Role of Time for Reparametrization-Invariant Systems 12:30-13:00 - Available slot (speaker unable to attend) 13:00-14:00 - Lunch 14:00-16:00 - Free discussions on the beach or around the swimming pool Chair: Vesselin G. Gueorguiev (Institute for Advanced Physical Studies) 16:00-16:30 - Garnet Ord (Ryerson University), Can Minkowski Spacetime See Quantum Superposition? 16:30-17:00 - Fabrizio Pinto (Izmir University of Economics), Dispersion forces as probes of spacetime fluctuations: Epistemology, theory, strategies for laboratory detection, and prospects for experiments in space 17:00:17:30 - Coffee break and free discussions 17:30-18:00 - Ivan Gutierrez-Sagredo (Universidad de Burgos), Poisson-Minkowski spacetimes and Poincare Drinfel'd doubles 18:00-18:30 - Available slot (speaker unable to attend)
Chair: Carlos Frajuca (Sao Paulo Federal Institute) 9:30-10:00 - Jerzy Kijowski (Center for Theoretical Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences), Universality of the Einstein theory of gravitation 10:00-10:30 - Naresh Dadhich (Inter-University Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics), Understanding General Relativity after 100 years: a novel perspective 10:30-11:00 - Tichomir Tenev, Mark Horstemeyer (Mississippi State University), The Mechanics of Spacetime - A Solid Mechanics Perspective on the Theory of General Relativity 11:00-11:30 - Coffee break and free discussions 11:30-12:00 - Yakov Itin (Hebrew U. Jerusalem & Jerus. Coll. Technology), Friedrich W. Hehl (U. Cologne & U. Missouri, Columbia), Yuri N. Obukhov (Nuclear Safety Inst., RAS, Moscow), Premetric gravity 12:00-12:30 - Dmitri Vassiliev (University College London), A non-geometric interpretation of Lorentzian spin structure 12:30-13:00 - Mohammed Sanduk (University of Surrey), Is the flat spacetime related to a kinematical structure? 13:00-14:00 - Lunch 14:00-15:30 - Free discussions on the beach or around the swimming pool Chair: Gijs Leegwater (Erasmus University Rotterdam) 15:30-16:00 - S. Dell'Agnello, E. Ciocci, S. Contessa, G. Delle Monache, R. March, M. Martini, C. Mondaini, L. Porcelli, L. Salvatori, M. Tibuzzi, G. Bellettini, M. Maiello (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare - Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (INFN-LNF)), D. Currie (University of Maryland), J. Chandler (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), G. Bianco (International Laser Ranging Service (ILRS) & Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI)), R. Vittori (INFN-LNF & ASI) G. Esposito, E. Battista (INFN-Naples), The Moon and Mars as Test Bodies for General Relativity 16:00-16:30 - D. A. Konkowski (Department of Mathematics, U.S. Naval Academy), Classical and Quantum Singularities in "Cut-and-Pasted" Minkowski Spacetime 16:30-17:00 - Ahmad ALBadawi (Al-Hussein Bin Talal University), The Dirac equation in Schwarzschild mass coupled to a Stationary Electromagnetic Field 17:00:17:30 - Coffee break and free discussions 17:30-18:00 - Carlos Frajuca (Sao Paulo Federal Institute), Francisco Yastami Nakamoto, Givanildo Alves dos Santos and Fabio da Silva Bortoli, Gravitational Waves Propagation through the Stochastic Background of Gravitational Waves 18:00-18:30 - Archil Kobakhidze (University of Sydney), Exploring quantum space-time with gravitational waves
Chair: Christopher Duston (Merrimack College) 9:30-10:00 - Dennis Dieks (Utrecht University), Time Coordinates versus Clock Readings: Einstein's Struggle with Background Independence and General Covariance 10:00-10:30 - Tian Yu Cao (Boston University), The Meaning of Background Independence and the nature of spacetime 10:30-11:00 - Vesselin Petkov (Minkowski Institute, Montreal), Minkowski's Program of Geometrizing Physics and General Relativity 11:00-11:30 - Coffee break and free discussions 11:30-12:00 - Nadja Magalhaes (Federal University of Sao Paulo), Gravity, time and motion 12:00-12:30 - Marc Holman (University of Western Ontario), Alternatives to General Relativity and the Nature of Gravitation 12:30-13:00 - Available slot (speaker unable to attend) 13:00-14:00 - Lunch 14:00-16:00 - Free discussions on the beach or around the swimming pool Chair: Tichomir Tenev (Mississippi State University) 16:00-16:30 - Available slot (speaker unable to attend) 16:30-17:00 - Gijs Leegwater (Erasmus University Rotterdam), When GHZ meet Wigner's Friend: Does unitary single-world quantum mechanics necessarily violate Lorentz symmetry?
17:00:17:30 - Coffee break and free discussions 17:30-18:00 - Josephine Papst (indexicals - Centre of Philosophy, Theory of Science, and Theory of Art), On Hermann Minkowski's scientific methods of discovery and the ontology of the substantial point or the Weltpunkt and the Weltlinien 18:00-18:30 - Available slot (speaker unable to attend)
Chair: Reinoud Jan Slagter (Astronomisch Fysisch Onderzoek Nederland and University of Amsterdam) 9:30-10:00 - Christopher Duston (Merrimack College), Branched Covering Spaces and Partition Functions in Quantum Gravity 10:00-10:30 - Paul G. N. de Vegvar (SWK Research), Causality, locality, commutatively deformed general relativity, and dark matter: A journey to the classical-quantum spacetime frontier and back 10:30-11:00 - Marco de Cesare (King's College London), Bouncing cosmologies and accelerated expansion from quantum gravity condensates 11:00-11:30 - Coffee break and free discussions 11:30-12:00 - Petar Pavlovic (Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Hamburg), Cyclic cosmology in modified gravity 12:00-12:30 -Aizhan Myrzakul (Eurasian National University), Hojman Symmetry Approach for Modified Chaplygin Gas Cosmological Model 12:30-13:00 - Masoud Ghezelbash (University of Saskatchewan), Recent developments in the holography of black holes and conformal field theories 13:00-14:00 - Lunch 14:00-16:00 - Free discussions on the beach or around the swimming pool Chair: Fabrizio Pinto (Izmir University of Economics) 16:00-16:30 - Myrzakulov Ratbay, Yerzhanov Koblandy, Gulnur Bauyrzhan (Eurasian International Center for Theoretical Physics and Eurasian National University), F(R,T,X,\phi) cosmology via Noether symmetry 16:30-17:00 - Marko Sossich and Sasa Ilijic (University of Zagreb), Compact objects in torsion-based extended theory of gravity 17:00-17:30 - Coffee break and free discussions 17:30:18:00 - Miroslaw J. Kubiak, The Four-Dimensional Spacetime with the Mass Density
18:00:18:30 - Hou Y. Yau (FDNL Research), Gravitational Field of a Thin Shell with Fictitious Oscillations
 
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