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The Hermann Minkowski Meetings on the Foundations of Spacetime Physics, organized by the Minkowski Institute, bring together experts on spacetime physics and its foundations. The Scientific Organizing Committee hopes that these meetings will become one of the preferred biennial forums for reporting research results and having fruitful discussions with colleagues.

The Third Hermann Minkowski Meeting on the Foundations of Spacetime Physics will commemorate the 115th anniversary of Minkowski's 1908 world-view-changing lecture "Space and Time," which presented the novel ideas of the spacetime structure of the world and the four-dimensional physics of spacetime. In addition to technical papers on any aspect of spacetime physics, papers on closely related topics, including on conceptual issues of spacetime physics, will be also welcome.

Also, there will be a special session (if relevant abstracts are submitted) on how Hermann Minkowski, had he been alive in 1915, might have reformulated Einstein's general relativity by employing his program of geometrizing physics: whether gravitational phenomena can be fully accounted for by the non-Euclidean geometry of spacetime without the need to assume that gravitation is a physical interaction; in 1921 Eddington mentioned this possibility explicitly - "gravitation as a separate agency becomes unnecessary" (A. S. Eddington, The Relativity of Time, Nature 106, 802-804, 17 February 1921).