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Space and Time 1908-2023

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.

In addition to talks, special free-discussion time (after 16:00 in the afternoon) is included in the program to stimulate more informal discussions among the participants. For this reason we encourage interested colleagues to attend the meeting even if they do not plan to give a talk.

Abstracts should be emailed to minkowski2023@minkowskiinstitute.org. They will be reviewed and notification of acceptance will be sent usually a week after the submission. All presentations will be in-person only.

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).

So far colleagues have also suggested to include the following sessions in the conference program (if we receive enough relevant abstracts):

• Conformal invariance
• Dark matter and dark energy
• Modified gravity
• Nature of spacetime singularities
• Nature of black holes
• Open questions in spacetime physics
• Relativistic mass
• Spacetime modifications in the near-horizon region: Yey or Nay?