The conference is dedicated to the various approaches to gravity that venture beyond the basic formalism of general relativity, i.e., the description in terms of a massless metric field in Riemannian geometry derived from the Einstein-Hilbert action. The topics will range from the foundational issues to the applications in cosmology, gravitational waves, black holes, and other objects.
The topics under discussion include for instance:
- Extensions of general relativity (metric-affine gravity, Poincare gauge gravity, scalar/vector/tensor gravity, teleparallel gravity, massive gravity, bi-metric gravity, etc);
- Phenomenology of extended gravity (black holes, ordinary/neutron/boson/grava stars, gravitational waves, cosmology, dark energy, dark matter, galaxies, early universe etc);
- Beyond Lorentzian geometry in classical and quantum gravity (doubly/deformed relativity, standard model extension, Hamilton geometry, Finsler geometry, etc).
Workshop on computer algebra in gravity
The last day of the conference is planned for hands on tutorial workshops on using computer algebra in gravity theory calculations, focussing on free specialized software packages Cadabra and SymPy (tensor).
The plenary speakers include:
- Salvatore Capozziello (Napoli)
- Che-Yu Chen (Tokyo)
- Dražen Glavan (Prague)
- Kirill Krasnov (Nottingham)
- Antonino Marciano (Shanghai, Frascati)
- Nicoleta Voicu (Brasov)
- Thomas Złośnik (Gdansk)
Acknowledgements
This conference is supported by the Estonian Research Council through the Center of Excellence TK202 "Foundations of the Universe" and the grants PRG2608, PSG910, MOB3JD1233, as well as by the Institute of Physics, University of Tartu. The organisers are grateful to the University of Tartu Asia Centre for a travel grant supporting the visit of invited speaker Che-Yu Chen.
