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Conference program
Welcome reception-dinner - from 19:00 to 21:00 on May 12, 2019 in the main restaurant of hotel Laguna Garden (second floor) at ~130 m from the beach. Thursday, May 16, 2019, 14:30-16:00 - As a small "Thank you" members of the committees, session chairs, colleagues, who attended more than one meeting organized by the Minkowski Institute, will be invited to Restaurant "Ciel Bleu" on the 17th floor of Hotel Dobrudja in Albena for discussions, coffee and delicious Garash torta. 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.
TalksTalks - 25 min + 5 min questions
8:30 - Registration 9:20 - 9:30 Welcome Remarks Chair: Tsvetan Vetsov (Department of Physics, Sofia University) 9:30-10:30 - Jerzy Kijowski (Center for Theoretical Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences), The essence of gravity theory and the Einstein's ``greatest mistake''10:30-11:00 - Marko Sossich and Sasa Ilijic (Department of Applied Physics, University of Zagreb), The covariance principle of torsion based theories of gravity 11:00-11:30 - Coffee break and free discussions 11:30-12:00 - Reinoud Jan Slagter (Astronomisch Fysisch Onderzoek Nederland and University of Amsterdam), Conformal invariance: the missing symmetry in general relativity theory?; Slides 12:00-12:30 - Yakov Itin (Hebrew U. Jerusalem & Jerus. Coll. Technology), Different faces of teleparalelism 12:30-14:00 - Lunch 14:00-16:00 - Free discussions Chair: Yakov Itin (Hebrew U. Jerusalem & Jerus. Coll. Technology) 16:00-16:30 - Matthias Lienert (Fachbereich Mathematik, Eberhard-Karls-Universitaat), Relativistic QM as a Theory of Wave Functions on Configuration Spacetime 16:30-17:00 - Alexander R. H. Smith (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Dartmouth College), Quantum clocks in Minkowski space 17:00:17:30 - Coffee break and free discussions 17:30-18:00 - Dwight Vincent (Physics Department, University of Winnipeg), Minkowski and the Multiverse 18:00-18:30 - Riccardo Manzotti (IULM University, Milan), The Mind-Object Identity and Special Relativity
Chair: Reinoud Jan Slagter (Astronomisch Fysisch Onderzoek Nederland and University of Amsterdam) 9:30-10:00 - Tim R. Morris (STAG Research Centre & Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton), Perturbatively renormalizable quantum gravity 10:00-10:30 - Tom McClain (Department of Physics and Engineering, Washington and Lee University), Obstacles to the quantization of general relativity using symplectic structures; Slides 10:30-11:00 - Alexander Y. Yosifov (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Shumen University), Quantum corrections to the general relativistic description of the near-horizon region of a Schwarzschild black hole 11:00-11:30 - Coffee break and free discussions 11:30-12:00 - Zoltan Keresztes (Department of Theoretical Physics, University of Szeged) and Balazs Mikoczi (Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics, Wigner RCP H-1525 Budapest), The evolutions of spinning bodies moving in rotating black hole spacetimes; Slides 12:00-12:30 - Tsvetan Vetsov (Department of Physics, Sofia University), Thermodynamic manifolds and stability of black holes in various dimensions; Slides 12:30-14:00 - Lunch 14:00-16:00 - Free discussions Chair: Armin Nikkhah Shirazi (Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) 16:00-16:30 - Ruben Arjona (Instituto de Fisica Teoorica (IFT) UAM-CSIC, Madrid, Spain), Unravelling the effective fluid approach for Modify Gravity and Dark Energy models; Slides 16:30-17:00 - Alexander Franklin Mayer, Minkowski's foundations of spacetime physics and SDSS data motivate reassessment of ΛCDM cosmology 17:00:17:30 - Coffee break and free discussions 17:30-18:00 - Konstantin G. Zloshchastiev (Institute of Systems Science, Durban University of Technology), Resolving cosmological singularity problem in a logarithmic superfluid theory of physical vacuum
Special Session on Becoming Chair: Jerzy Kijowski (Center for Theoretical Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences) 9:30-10:00 - Joe Cosgrove (Providence College), Simultaneity without Cosmology 10:00-10:30 - Vesselin Petkov (Minkowski Institute, Montreal), Can there be Becoming in Spacetime? 10:30-11:00 - Peter Ludlow, Minkowski Spacetime Diagrams and Interperspectival Content 11:00-11:30 - Coffee break and free discussions 11:30-12:00 - Barry Dainton (University of Liverpool), Panpsychism and Universal Becoming 12:00-12:30 - Ognyan Oreshkov (Université libre de Bruxelles), On the time-reversal (a)symmetry of quantum theory 12:30-14:00 - Lunch 14:00-16:00 - Free discussions Special Session on Becoming 16:00-17:00 - Panel Discussion 17:00:17:30 - Coffee break and free discussions 17:30-18:00 - Daniel Martinez (Aix-Marseille Université), Planck Stars and LQG Transition - Slides
Chair: Dwight Vincent (Physics Department, University of Winnipeg) 9:30-10:00 - R. Saar and S. Groote (University of Tartu), Lorentz-Minkowski zero mass 10:00-10:30 - G. N. Ord (Department of Mathematics, Ryerson University), The Equivalence Of Inertial Frames And Wave-Particle Duality In Quantum Mechanics 10:30-11:00 - Mohammed Sanduk (Faculty of Engineering and Physical Science, University of Surrey), Is the spacetime an emergent phenomenon? 11:00-11:30 - Coffee break and free discussions 11:30-12:00 - Bruce M. Boman (Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Delaware), Transition State Spacetime 12:00-12:30 - Jan Pilotti, How Minkowski could have discovered six dimensional spacetime 12:30-13:00 - Armin Nikkhah Shirazi (Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor), Lorentz Transformations and Existence in Minkowski Spacetime; Slides 13:00-14:00 - Lunch 14:00-16:00 - Free discussions
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