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There will be morning plenary sessions followed by the afternoon contributed talks sessions on 14-18.09.2009. A welcome coctail will take place on Monday evening (14.09.2009). An excursion is planned on Wednesday afternoon (16.09.2009). A conference dinner will be on Thursday evening (17.09.2009).
17.00-20.00 Registration at the ground floor of the Club "13 muz", Plac Żołnierza Polskiego 2
8.00-9.15 Registration at the ground floor of the Club "13 muz", Plac Żołnierza Polskiego 2
9.15-9.30 Conference Opening (Sala Kominkowa - "Fireplace Hall")
9.30-10.30 Plenary talk - Hermann Nicolai "Hidden Symmetries: from Grassmann to Maximal (N=8) Supergravity"
10.30-11.30 Plenary talk - Anthony Lasenby "Grassmann, Geometric Algebra and Cosmology"
11.30-12.00 Coffee break
12.00-13.00 Plenary talk - Alexander Zheltukhin "Dmitrij Volkov, Super-Poincaré Group and Grassmannian Variables"
13.00-15.00 Lunch break
15.00-16.20 Contributed talks - Session I
15.00-15.20 Laszlo Gergely; “3+1+1 dimensional covariant gravitational dynamics”
15.20-15.40 Artur Sergyeyev, “Complete set of commuting symmetry operators for the Klein-Gordon equation in generalized higherdimensional Kerr-NUT-(A)dS spacetimes”
15.40-16.00 Bogdan Dimitrov, “Algebraic geometry approach in gravity theory and new relations between the parameters in the type I lowenergy string theory action in theories with extra dimensions”
16.00-16.20 Walter Tarantino, “Flavour condensates in brane models and dark energy”
16.20-16.50 Coffee break
16.50-18.10 Contributed talks - Session I (contd.)
16.50-17.10 Janusz Garecki, “Superenergy, conformal transformations, and Friedman universes”
17.10-17.30 Alexei Toporensky, “Stable periodic solutions in a scalar field cosmology”
17.50-18.10 Adam Balcerzak, “Higher-order gravity braneworld models”
18.10-18.30 Mousavi Rasouli, “On the energy conditions in the noncompact Kaluza-Klein gravity”
19.00-21.00 Welcome Cocktail & visit to H.G. Grassmann exhibition (Książnica Pomorska Library, Podgórna 15/16 Street)
9.30-10.30 Plenary talk - Claus Kiefer "On the Avoidance of Classical Singularities in Quantum Cosmology"
10.30-11.30 Plenary talk - Marek Kowalski "Testing Dark Energy with Supernovae"
11.30-12.00 Coffee break
12.00-13.00 Plenary talk - John D. Barrow "Varying Constants"
13.00-15.00 Lunch break
15.00-16.20 Contributed talks - Session II
15.00-15.20 Włodzimierz Piechocki, “Nonstandard loop quantum cosmology”
15.20-15.40 Pouria Pedram, “On the initial condition in quantum cosmology”
15.40-16.00 Piotr Dzierżak, “Kasner model of the universe in terms of nonstandard loop quantum cosmology”
16.00-16.20 Evangelos Melas, “Towards canonical quantum gravity for geometries admitting maximally symmetric spaces”
16.20-16.50 Coffee break
16.50-18.10 Contributed talks - Session II (contd.)
16.50-17.10 Mariusz P. Dąbrowski, “Dark energy from timely and spatial singularities of pressure”
17.10-17.30 Przemysław Małkiewicz, “Propagation of extended objects across singularity of timedependent orbifold”
17.30-17.50 Ghodsi Hoda, “Sudden future singularity models”
17.50-18.10 Bogusław Broda, “Dark energy from quantum fluctuations”
9.30-10.30 Plenary talk - Renate Loll "Deriving spacetime from first principles"
10.30-11.30 Plenary talk - Michael Heller "A Noncommutative Friedman Cosmological Model"
11.30-12.00 Coffee break
12.30-15.00 Lunch break
16.00-19.00 Excursion by boat along the Szczecin port canals and lakes (grill catering on the board) - start from the passenger harbour at Bulwar Chrobrego
9.30-10.30 Plenary talk - Nemanja Kaloper "A natural framework for chaotic inflation"
10.30-11.30 Contributed talks - Session III
10.30-10.50 Arman Shafieloo, “Is cosmic acceleration slowing down?”
10.50-11.10 Masahiro Morikawa, “BoseEinstein condensation in the early universe”
11.10-11.30 Mikhail Katanaev, “Geometric theory of defects in solids”
11.30-12.00 Coffee break
12.00-13.00 Contributed talks - Session III (contd.)
12.00-12.20 Marek Szydłowski, “Whirlpool scenario of quintessence in the nonminimal scalar field cosmology”
12.20-12.40 Ivan Debono, “Weak lensing forecasts for dark energy, neutrinos and initial conditions”
12.40.13.00 Stefano Camera, “Weak lensing signal in unified dark matter models”
13.00-15.00 Lunch break
15.00-16.00 Contributed talks - Session IV
15.00-15.20 Yuri Shtanov, “Statistical anisotropy in the inflationary universe”
15.20-15.40 Aleksandar Rakic, “Tunneling and propagation of vacuum bubbles on dynamical backgrounds”
15.40-16.00 Boudewijn Roukema, “Some spaces are more equal than others”
16.00-16.30 Coffee break
18.00-19.30 Public talk "Big-Bang and the Creation of the Universe" by rev. prof. Michael Heller - Templeton Prize 2007 Laureate (Faculty of Theology, Papieża Pawła VI street, No 2) - in Polish
20.30-23.00 Conference dinner at the hotel "Willa-West-Ende", Wojska Polskiego 65 street
9.30-10.30 Plenary talk - Alexei Starobinsky "Mathematical and Physical Problems of f(R) Gravity and Cosmology"
10.30-11.30 Plenary talk - Salvatore Capozziello "The Initial Value Formulation of f(R) Gravity in the Metric-Affine Formalism"
11.30-12.00 Coffee break
12.00-13.00 Plenary talk - David Polarski "What is the Dark Energy Paradigm?"
13.00-15.00 Lunch break
15.00-16.20 Contributed talks - Session V
15.00-15.20 Leszek Sokołowski, “On the abuse of gravity theories in cosmology”
15.20-15.40 Mariafelicia De Laurentis, “f (R) gravity constrained by PPN parameters and stochastic background of gravitational waves”
16.00-16.20 Roman Juszkiewicz, “Nonlinear effects in the power spectrum normalization”
16.20-16.50 Coffee break
16.50-17.10 Contributed talks - Session V (contd.)
17.10-17.30 Wojciech Hellwing, “Galactic DM haloes in cosmology with longrange scalar DM interactions”
17.30-17.50 Jerzy Król, “(Quantum) gravity effects via exotic 4smoothness”
17.50.18.10 Babak Vakili, “Noether symmetric minisuperspace model of f (R) cosmology”
18.10 Final remarks and closing
11:00 - 19:30 Interdisciplinary Session devoted to Hermann Guenter Grassmann (Aula of the Mathematics and Physics Faculty, Wielkopolska street 15)
Participation in the interdisciplinary session (optional for "Grasscosmofun'09" participants) - requires an extra fee 100 PLN which can be paid directly at the conference desk.