Scientific Programme
Invited speakers:
- Eric A. Bergshoeff (VSI, Groningen University)
- Jose Luis Blazquez-Salcedo (University of Oldenburg)
- Robert H. Brandenberger (McGill University, Montreal)
- Ludwig Dabrowski (SISSA, Trieste)
- Marija Dimitrijević Ćirić (University of Belgrade)
- Predrag Dominis Prester (University of Rijeka)
- Laurent Freidel (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics)
- Kumar S. Gupta (Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata)
- Denjoe O'Connor (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies)
- Erik Plauschinn (LMU, Munich)
- Felix Rudolph (LMU, Munich)
- Mairi Sakellariadou (King's College London)
- Ivica Smolić (University of Zagreb)
- Harold C. Steinacker (University of Vienna)
- Thomas Strobl (Université Claude Bernard, Lyon)
- Richard J. Szabo (Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh)
- Dmitri Vassilevich (Universidade Federal do ABC, São Paulo, Brazil)
- Jean-Christophe Wallet (LPT, Orsay)
Topics include:
- Noncommutative and nonassociative spacetime structures
- Algebroid structures in field and string theories
- Matrix models
- Emergent gravity and emergent spacetime
- Holography and black holes
- Applications to Gravity and Cosmology