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NOTE: Registration is open and arriving abstracts (emailed to 2024conference@minkowskiinstitute.com) will be considered until there are available slots in the conference program.

Arrival: September 15, 2024
Departure: September 20, 2024

For information on how to get from the Varna airport to Albena see section "Taxi from Varna Airport to Albena" in the link Useful Information on the left.

Only a laptop and a projector 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.

Talks (in-person only) - 30 min + 15 min questions

Monday, September 16, 2024

9:00 - Registration

9:25 - 9:30 Welcome Remarks

Chair: Nikola Pirovski (Laboratory of Anthropology, Stara Zagora, Bulgaria)

10:15-11:00 - Andrzej Radosz, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, If homogeneous and isotropic Universe is infinite, then ...

11:00-11:30 - Coffee break and discussions

11:30-12:15 - Bruce M. Boman, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Delaware, Origin of the Universe - Asking the Right Questions

12:30-14:00 - Lunch

Chair: Kyley Ewing (Cape Breton University)

14:00-14:45 - Calin Galeriu, Military Technical Academy "Ferdinand I", Bucharest, Romania, affiliated member of Minkowski Institute, The illusion of acceleration in the retarded Lienard-Wiechert electromagnetic field

14:45-15:15 - Coffee break and discussions

15:15-16:00 - Panel Discussion on Open Questions in Spacetime Physics

Tuesday, September 17, 2024

Chair: Prakash Bhat

9:30-10:15 - Tuomas Pernu, University of Eastern Finland, Spacetime Symmetries and the Problem of Free Will

10:15-11:00 - Kyley Ewing, Cape Breton University, Time, Free Will, and Responsibility

11:00-11:30 - Coffee break and discussions

11:30-12:15 - Zixuan Liu, Husserl-Archive of University of Cologne, How Time Flies: On the Velocity and Subjectivity of Temporal Flow

12:30-14:00 - Lunch

Chair: Hou Yau (San Francisco State University)

14:00-14:45 - Nikola Pirovski, Laboratory of Anthropology, Stara Zagora, Bulgaria, The Human as a Time Structure

14:45-15:15 - Coffee break and discussions

15:15-16:00 - Panel Discussion on Becoming and the Nature of Time

Wednesday, September 18, 2024

Chair: Zixuan Liu (Husserl-Archive of University of Cologne)

9:30-10:15 - Kyley Ewing, Cape Breton University, Fragments of Time

10:15-11:00 - Hou Yau, San Francisco State University, Proper Time Oscillator

11:00-11:30 - Coffee break and discussions

11:30-12:15 - Vesselin Petkov, Minkowski Institute, Montreal, Minkowski's actual and intended contributions to spacetime physics

12:30-14:00 - Lunch

Chair: Calin Galeriu (Military Technical Academy "Ferdinand I", Bucharest)

14:00-14:45 - Panel Discussion on the Nature of Spacetime

14:45-15:15 - Coffee break and discussions

15:15-16:00 - Panel Discussion on the Nature of Spacetime (continued)

Thursday, September 19, 2024

Chair: tba

9:30-10:15 - Lan Fu, China Astronaut Research and Training Center, The Models of Primary Particles

10:15-11:00 - Charlie Dawson, A Spacetime Model that Makes the Wave Function Real

11:00-11:30 - Coffee break and discussions

11:30-12:15 - Prakash Bhat, MatterSpaceTime (MST) Theory

12:30-14:00 - Lunch

Chair: Charlie Dawson

14:00-14:45 - Panel Discussion on the Nature of Gravitation

14:45-15:15 - Coffee break and discussions

15:30 - Excursion to Cape Kaliakra - see pictures in the second half of this page

If needed - Guidelines for Session Chairs: APS; IMRA

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