COST Action MP1405 "Quantum Structure of Spacetime"

III. Annual Workshop : Quantum Spacetime '18

19 - 23 February 2018, Sofia, Bulgaria

Thracian Gold Treasures from National History Museum and National Museum of Archaeology, Sofia, Bulgaria

Scope and Topics: This workshop will address various aspects of noncommutative geometry (NCG) as covered by the COST Action MP1405 "Quantum Structure of Spacetime (QSpace)":

Connection of NCG with realistic phenomenological models, including the Standard Models of Particle Physics and Cosmology
New constructions of fields, matter and quantum spacetimes in NCG
Connections between NCG and other models of gravity

Invited speakers: Lilia Anguelova, Irina Arefeva, Paolo Aschieri, Gia Dvali, Veselin G. Filev, Ben Hoare, Kiril Hristov, Alex Kehagias, Eleanor Knox, Gianni Landi, Renate Loll, Shahn Majid, Ruben Minasian, Elena Moretti, Viatcheslav Mukhanov, V. Parameswaran Nair, Daniele Oriti, Michele Ronco, Ingo Runkel, Marcus Sperling, Guglielmo Tino, Patrizia Vitale, Jan Vysoky, Konrad Waldorf

Schedule of Talks and Events

Registered Talks

List of Participants

Exhibition: Women of Mathematics

Artistic competition

Poster

Timetable:

Sunday,	February 18:	Arrival
Monday,	February 19:	Meeting begins in the morning
Wednesday,	February 21:	Meeting of MC : 9 - 12 am (Sofia time = GMT+2)
Friday,	February 23:	Meeting ends in the afternoon
Saturday,	February 24:	Departure

Conference Site:
The Workshop will take place at lecture hall "Panorama" of Best Western hotel Expo (next to Inter Expo Center (IEC), Sofia).
Address: Bul. Tsarigradsko shose 149, Sofia 1784.
It is four stops by Metro from Sofia Airport at Metro stop "Inter Expo Center - Tsarigradsko shose"

Travel information:

The most convenient way to travel from abroad is by plane to Sofia airport. As Sofia is the capital of Bulgaria it is connected with Europe's major cities by daily regular flights.
Detailed local travel information will be given later.

Accommodation

Registration is closed. (deadline was 31 December 2017)
Registered participants may contact the Local Organizing Committee via e-mail: QST_18@inrne.bas.bg, and other given below.

International Organizing Committee:

Paolo Aschieri, John Barrett, Vladimir Dobrev, Branislav Jurco, Olaf Lechtenfeld (Chair), Fedele Lizzi, Emil Nissimov, Mairi Sakellariadou, Martin Schlichenmaier, Harold Steinacker, Richard Szabo, George Zoupanos

Local Organizing Committee:

V.K. Dobrev (Chair), S.J. Pacheva (Co-Chair), V.I. Doseva, A. Ganchev, K.K. Marinov, D.T. Nedanovski, E.R. Nissimov, V.B. Petkova, T.V. Popov, D.R. Staicova, M.N. Stoilov, S.T. Stoimenov

Address for correspondence:
Prof. V.K. Dobrev
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy
72 Tsarigradsko Chaussee
1784 Sofia
Bulgaria

Phone: +359 2 979 5530
Fax: + 359 2 9753619
E-mail: QST_18@inrne.bas.bg, qst-18@abv.bg, dobrev@inrne.bas.bg, vkdobrev@yahoo.com,
Vladimir.Dobrev@cern.ch (back-up)
WWW: http://theo2.inrne.bas.bg/~dobrev/QST-18.htm

Previous Workshops of COST Action MP1405

II. Annual Workshop
30.1-3.2.2017, Porto, Portugal

I. Annual Workshop
7-11.2.2016, Zakopane, Poland