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Conference program
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.
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) - 25 min + 5 min questions
9:00 - Registration 9:25 - 9:30 Welcome Remarks Chair: tba 9:30-10:00 - R. Asya Ciftci, McGill Univertsity, Geometry and Information: Dimensions, Metrics, and Constraints on Conventions10:00-10:30 - Anton Sverdlikov, University of Wuppertal, Event Structural Realism and Spacetime Metaphysics 10:30-11:00 - Coffee break and discussions 11:00-11:30 - Tian Yu Cao, Boston University, Twistor, Cohomology, Foundations of Physics 11:30-12:00 - Marcoen Cabbolet, Free University of Brussels, Analytical-philosophical aspects of a new approach to unification
12:30-14:00 - Lunch Chair: tba 14:00-14:30 - Zixuan Liu, Husserl-Archive of University of Cologne, How Time Flies: On the Velocity and Subjectivity of Temporal Flow 14:30-15:00 - Franco Manni, Liceo Scientifico Leonardo, What have different philosophical traditions to say about temporal thought? 15:00-15:30 - Coffee break and discussions 15:30-16:00 - Jan Pilotti, affiliated member of Minkowski Institute, Why is there no consensus about becoming and spacetime?
Chair: tba 9:00-9:30 - Andrzej Radosz, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, If homogeneous and isotropic Universe is infinite, then ... 9:30-10:00 - Saakshi Dulani (Johns Hopkins University) and Baptiste Le Bihan (University of Geneva), Baby Universes Need Parental Watch 10:00-10:30 - Anguel Stefanov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, affiliated member of Minkowski Institute, The post-paradigmatic character of contemporary cosmology 10:30-11:00 - Coffee break and free discussions
11:00-11:30 - Available slot 11:30-12:00 - Hou Yau, San Francisco State University, Proper Time Oscillator 12:30-14:00 - Lunch
Chair: tba 14:00-14:30 - Asher Yahalom, Center for Astrophysics, Geophysics, and Space Sciences (AGASS), Ariel University, The Minkowski Metric and Beyond 14:30-15:00 - 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 15:00-15:30 - Coffee break and discussions 15:30-16:00 - Dan Shanahan, Analogue Gravity and the de Broglie wave: a Missed Opportunity
Chair: tba 9:00-9:30 - Tuomas Pernu, University of Eastern Finland, Spacetime Symmetries and the Problem of Free Will 9:30-10:00 - Kyley Ewing, Cape Breton University, Time, Free Will, and Responsibility 10:00-10:30 - Nikola Pirovski, Laboratory of Anthropology, Stara Zagora, Bulgaria, The Human as a Time Structure 10:30-11:00 - Coffee break and discussions 11:00-11:30 - Kyley Ewing, Cape Breton University, Fragments of Time 11:30-12:00 - Bruce M. Boman, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Delaware, Origin of the Universe - Asking the Right Questions 12:30-14:00 - Lunch
Chair: tba 14:00-14:30 - Vesselin Petkov, Minkowski Institute, Montreal, Minkowski's actual and intended contributions to spacetime physics 14:30-15:00 - Swapnil Kumar Singh, B.M.S College of Engineering, Bangalore, affiliated member of Minkowski Institute, Minkowski's Four-Dimensional Continuum and Relativistic Plurality 15:00-15:30 - Coffee break and discussions 15:30-16:00 - Available slot
Chair: tba 9:00-9:30 - Lan Fu, China Astronaut Research and Training Center, The Models of Primary Particles 9:30-10:00 - Charlie Dawson, A Spacetime Model that Makes the Wave Function Real 10:00-10:30 - Prakash Bhat, MatterSpaceTime (MST) Theory 10:30-11:00 - Coffee break and discussions 11:00-12:00 - Stephane Beridze, Continuity or discreteness? Are the space and time continuous or discreteness? 12:30-14:00 - Lunch Chair: tba 14:00-15:00 - Panel Discussion on Open Questions in Spacetime Physics 15:10 - Excursion to Cape Kaliakra - see pictures in the second half of this page
The magic of Bulgarian nature in 3 minutes! There are two, among the many, must-see ancient archeological sites near Albena (part of the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage) - the National Archaeological Reserves Kaliakra and Yailata.
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