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Most participants of the Third Hermann Minkowski Meeting on the Foundations of Spacetime Physics held in Hotel Sandy Beach, Albena, Bulgaria (11-14 September 2023) - picture taken by Vladimir Petev (Front office manager of Hotel Sandy Beach)

Registration desk in the morning of the first day of the meeting (from left) - Katherine Peil-Kauffman (Founding Director of EFS International) and Svetla Petkova (Minkowski Institute Press); in front of the registration desk - Stuart Kauffman (University of Pennsylvania)

Registration desk in the morning of the first day of the meeting - 2

Minkowski Institute Press book exhibition

Welcome Remarks by Vesselin Petkov (Minkowski Institute, Montreal)

Welcome Remarks - picture taken by Katherine Peil Kauffman

Orfeu Bertolami (Universidade do Porto Rua do Campo Alegre)

Ovidiu Cristinel Stoica (Horia Hulubei National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Department of Theoretical Physics)

Patrick Das Gupta (Department of Physics and Astrophysics, University of Delhi)

Seokcheon Lee (Sungkyunkwan University)

Piotr Ogonowski (Kozminski University)

Durmuş Demir (Sabancı University)

Raghvendra Singh (Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Homi Bhabha National Institute)

Asher Yahalom (Center for Astrophysics, Geophysics, and Space Sciences (AGASS), Ariel University)

Tomohiro Matsuda (Laboratory of Physics, Saitama Institute of Technology)

Sanjeeda Sultana (Department of Mathematics, Amity University Kolkata)

Daniel Grimmer (University of Oxford)

Damian Luty (Poznań University of Economics)

Bruce M. Boman (Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Delaware)

Valentin Boyanov (CENTRA, Departamento de Física, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa)

Sebastian Murk (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology)

Vesselin Petkov (Minkowski Institute, Montreal)

Stuart Kauffman (University of Pennsylvania)

Archan S. Majumdar (S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences)

Andrzej Radosz (Department of Quantum Technologies, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology)

Annachiara Piubello (Department of Mathematics, University of Miami)

Eric Ling (Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Copenhagen)

Guido J.M. Verstraeten (Satakunta University of Applied Sciences)

Robert Monjo (Departament of Algebra, Geometry and Topology, Complutense University of Madrid)

Panel Discussions

Panel Discussions - picture taken by Katherine Peil Kauffman

During question period - picture taken by Katherine Peil Kauffman

After a talk - picture taken by Katherine Peil Kauffman

Coffee break 1

Coffee break 2

Coffee break 3

Coffee break 4 - picture taken by Katherine Peil Kauffman

Piotr Ogonowski (left) and Damian Luty

Albena morning - picture taken by Katherine Peil Kauffman

Another Albena morning - picture taken by Katherine Peil Kauffman

Adding pictures in progress (if you have taken pictures during the meeting, please send them to minkowski2023@minkowskiinstitute.org)

A very successful conference (in terms of both stimulating environment and high quality of practically all talks) ended with a trip to Cape Kaliakra (Black Sea):

On our way to Cape Kaliakra - picture taken by Katherine Peil Kauffman

Cape Kaliakra - aerial view

Cape Kaliakra

Cape Kaliakra

Cape Kaliakra - picture taken by Katherine Peil Kauffman

Cape Kaliakra

Cape Kaliakra - picture taken by Katherine Peil Kauffman

Cape Kaliakra

Cape Kaliakra - picture taken by Katherine Peil Kauffman

Cape Kaliakra - picture taken by Katherine Peil Kauffman

Cape Kaliakra

Cape Kaliakra - Sebastian Murk

Cape Kaliakra - picture taken by Katherine Peil Kauffman

Cape Kaliakra Restaurant - picture taken by Katherine Peil Kauffman

Cape Kaliakra - Karolina and Andrzej Radosz

Cape Kaliakra - Cristi Stoica (left) and Svetla Petkova

Cape Kaliakra - Svetla and Vesselin Petkov - picture taken by Cristi Stoica

Returning to Hotel Sandy Beach - picture taken by Katherine Peil Kauffman

Adding pictures in progress (if you have taken pictures during the trip, please send them to minkowski2023@minkowskiinstitute.org)

Katherine Peil Kauffman kindly shared the pictures she took during the meeting. Thank you Katherine!

Sea view from a hotel room

From left: Kamen Dechev (Hotel Manager), Svetla Petkova and Mirena

Reception - Kaloyan

Hotel Sandy Beach entrance

Restaurant - excellent choices of food

Restaurant bar - Petar

Restaurant - picture taken by Katherine Peil Kauffman

Restaurant - picture taken by Katherine Peil Kauffman

Restaurant - picture taken by Katherine Peil Kauffman

Katherine Peil Kauffman and Stuart Kauffman

Mineral water source at ~400m from Hotel Sandy Beach

Content of the mineral water

There is a swimming pool with (the same) mineral water in Hotel Dobrudja at ~100m from Hotel Sandy Beach - picture taken by Katherine Peil Kauffman

Svetla and Vesselin Petkov swimming in the pool with mineral water