Name: GeomGravX: 10 Years of Geometric Foundations of Gravity and eXtensions (in Tartu)
Start: 2026-06-29T09:00:00+03:00
End: 2026-07-03T16:05:00+03:00
Location: Physicum, University of Tartu

GeomGravX: 10 Years of Geometric Foundations of Gravity and eXtensions (in Tartu)

from Monday, 29 June 2026 (09:00) to Friday, 3 July 2026 (16:05)

Monday, 29 June 2026

09:00 Opening words

09:00 - 09:15
Room: A106
09:15 Mariam Bouhmadi-López: TBA: Modified Gravity or Dark Energy as the Drivers of the Late-Time Acceleration of the Universe?
Modified Gravity or Dark Energy as the Drivers of the Late-Time Acceleration of the Universe?
09:15 - 10:05
Room: A106
Contributions

09:15 Modified Gravity or Dark Energy as the Drivers of the Late-Time Acceleration of the Universe? - Mariam Bouhmadi-López (University of the Basque Country)
10:05 Coffee break/poster viewing
Coffee break/poster viewing
10:05 - 10:35
10:35 Aneta Wojnar: Wave Phenomena Across Scales as Tests of Gravity: The FuSe CA24101 Initiative
10:35 - 11:25
Room: A106
Contributions

10:35 Wave Phenomena Across Scales as Tests of Gravity: The FuSe CA24101 Initiative - Aneta Wojnar (University of Wroclaw)
11:25 Konstantinos Dialektopoulos: Primordial Black Holes as cosmic expansion accelerators
11:25 - 11:50
Room: A106
Contributions

11:25 Primordial Black Holes as cosmic expansion accelerators - Konstantinos Dialektopoulos (University of Malta)
11:50 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
11:50 - 13:30
13:30 Monday Parallel A1
13:30 - 15:10
Room: A106
Contributions

13:30 Francesca Spinato: Canonical and non-canonical symmetries in f(R) cosmology

13:55 Margarida Lima: Non–Minimally Coupled Weyl Connection Gravity: Cosmological Perturbations

14:20 Mahmoud Hashim: Clustered unified dark sector cosmology

14:45 Orest Hrycyna: Two Structually unstable FLRW models and a new non-hyperbolic de Siter attractor
Monday Parallel B1
13:30 - 15:10
Room: A101
Contributions

13:30 Michal Stano: Static Spherically Symmetric Black Holes in regularised 4D Einstein-scalar-Gauss-Bonnet theory

13:55 Peter Mészáros: Properties of generalized Schwarzschild spacetimes with extra dimensions

14:20 Mindaugas Karciauskas: Primordial Black Holes from Resonances in the Running-Mass-Inflation Model

14:45 Adel Awad: Thermodynamics and Phase Structure of Dyonic Taub-NUT-AdS Spaces
15:10 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:10 - 15:50
15:50 Monday Parallel A2
15:50 - 17:30
Room: A106
Contributions

15:50 Ilaria Andrei: Cosmology and Inflation with Torsion and Nonmetricity

16:15 Daniel Račko: Evolution of superhorizon perturbations in early Universe with anisotropic solid remnant

16:40 Sotirios Karamitsos: Temperature and Diffusivity in Frame-Invariant Scalar-Tensor Gravity

17:05 Adrián Casado-Turrión: Dissipative Phenomena in Scalar-Tensor Inflation
Monday Parallel B2
15:50 - 17:30
Room: A101
Contributions

15:50 Lucy Zheng: Space-time structure and phenomenology of Cartan Khronon theory

16:15 Stylianos Papadopoulos: Gravitational Instantons and Chiral Reduction in Spin(4) Gauge theory of space-time.

16:40 Priidik Gallagher: A practical guide to unifying the Khronon

17:05 Mehraveh Nikjoo: Emulator-Assisted Investigation of Left-Right Symmetric Higgs Inflation
18:30 Reception

18:30 - 19:30
Tuesday, 30 June 2026

09:15 David Mota: Cosmological Probes of Gravity Beyond General Relativity

09:15 - 10:05
Room: A106

10:05 Coffee break/Poster viewing
Coffee break/Poster viewing
10:05 - 10:35
10:35 Saeed Rastgoo: A GUP-inspired quantum black hole: the static and rotating cases, and their phenomenology
10:35 - 11:00
Room: A106
Contributions

10:35 A GUP-inspired quantum black hole: the static and rotating cases, and their phenomenology - Saeed Rastgoo (University of Alberta)
11:00 Manuel Hohmann: Gravity actions and symmetry breaking using Clifford algebras
11:00 - 11:25
Room: A106
Contributions

11:00 Gravity actions and symmetry breaking using Clifford algebras - Manuel Hohmann (University of Tartu)
11:25 Fernando Izaurieta: One Lagrangian to rule them all
11:25 - 11:50
Room: A106
Contributions

11:25 One Lagrangian to rule them all - Fernando Izaurieta (Universidad San Sebastián)
11:50 Group photo

11:50 - 11:55

11:55 Lunch break
Lunch break
11:55 - 13:30
13:30 Tuesday Parallel A1
13:30 - 15:35
Room: A106
Contributions

13:30 Filippo Contino: Vacuum stability in Geometric Trinity of Gravity

13:55 Sebastian Schuster: Geometric Foundations in and beyond Gravity—The Perspective of Particle Detector Models

14:20 Jakob Palmkvist: The algebraic structure of gravity

14:45 Armin van de Venn: Information Geometry from Divergences

15:10 Tomi Koivisto: More on the physical foundations of geometry
Tuesday Parallel B1
13:30 - 15:35
Room: A101
Contributions

13:30 Sebastian Brezina: The teleparallel gravity and Noether's second theorem

13:55 Carmen Ferrara: Primary constraints of newer general relativity

14:20 Dario Sauro: 3+1 decomposition and Hamiltonian analyses in symmetric teleparallel theories

14:45 Lehel Csillag: On the inverse problem of calculus of variations for autoparallels

15:10 Joakim Flinckman: Gravity beyond a single metric: Ghost-free interactions of spin-2 fields
15:35 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:35 - 15:50

15:50 Poster session

15:50 - 17:20

17:45 Short Excursion at Old Observatory

17:45 - 18:15

18:15 Public Lecture at Old Observatory: Ginevra Braga - From Questions to Discoveries: How AI Can Support Scientific Research
Ginevra Braga - From Questions to Discoveries: How AI Can Support Scientific Research
18:15 - 19:00
Room: Old Observatory, Tartu
Wednesday, 1 July 2026
09:15 Will Barker: Next-generation model-building for torsion and non-metricity
09:15 - 10:05
Room: A106
Contributions

09:15 Next-generation model-building for torsion and non-metricity - Will Barker (Czech Academy of Sciences)
10:05 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:05 - 10:35
10:35 María-José Guzmán: Numerical relativity and hyperbolicity in teleparallel gravity
10:35 - 11:00
Room: A106
Contributions

10:35 Numerical relativity and hyperbolicity in teleparallel gravity - Maria Jose Guzman (University of Tartu, Estonia)
11:00 Martin Krššák: Teleparallel regularization of the gravitational action
11:00 - 11:25
Room: A106
Contributions

11:00 Teleparallel regularization of the gravitational action - Martin Krssak (Comenius University in Bratislava)
11:25 Christian Pfeifer: Unified field theories from cotangent bundle geometry: The Einstein Maxwell Equations
11:25 - 11:50
Room: A106
Contributions

11:25 Unified field theories from cotangent bundle geometry: The Einstein Maxwell Equations - Christian Pfeifer (University of Bremen, ZARM)
11:50 Lunch break
Lunch break
11:50 - 13:30

13:30 Conference Trip

13:30 - 19:30
Thursday, 2 July 2026
09:05 Kristina Giesel: TBA: Gravitationally induced decoherence: From theoretical models to applications in neutrino oscillations
Gravitationally induced decoherence: From theoretical models to applications in neutrino oscillations
09:05 - 10:05
Room: A106
Contributions

09:15 Gravitationally induced decoherence: From theoretical models to applications in neutrino oscillations - Kristina Giesel
10:05 Coffee break/Poster viewing
Coffee break/Poster viewing
10:05 - 10:35
10:35 Vojtech Pravda: Charged asymptotically flat and asymptotically (A)dS black holes in quadratic gravity
10:35 - 11:00
Room: A106
Contributions

10:35 Charged asymptotically flat and asymptotically (A)dS black holes in quadratic gravity - Vojtech Pravda (Institute of Mathematics of the Czech Academy of Sciences)
11:00 Damianos Iosifidis: Lagrangian dynamics and Regge-like trajectories for microstructured test bodies
11:00 - 11:25
Room: A106
Contributions

11:00 Lagrangian dynamics and Regge-like trajectories for microstructured test bodies - Damianos Iosifidis
11:25 Nassim Bozorgnia: Imprints of the Large Magellanic Cloud on the Milky Way dark matter halo
11:25 - 11:50
Room: A106
Contributions

11:25 Imprints of the Large Magellanic Cloud on the Milky Way dark matter halo - Nassim Bozorgnia
11:50 Lunch break
Lunch break
11:50 - 13:30
13:30 Thursday Parallel A
13:30 - 15:10
Room: A106
Contributions

13:30 Diego Molina: Maxwellian gravity and the cosmological constant

13:55 Justin Feng: Event horizon termination and the emergence of Lorentz signature

14:20 Philip Schwartz: Weyl-type theorems in Galilei and Carroll geometry

14:45 Pietro Isaia: A Variational Framework for Linearised Theories
Thursday Parallel B
13:30 - 15:10
Room: A101
Contributions

13:30 Miguel Zilhão: Exploring the Dynamics of Hairy Black Holes with Numerical Relativity

13:55 João Luís: Oscillating images from dark matter scalar solitons

14:20 Hanna Liis Tamm: Polarimetric imprints of exotic compact objects

14:45 Ujjwal Agarwal: Locally Rotationally Symmetric Spacetimes in Einstein-Cartan Theory and Their Classification
15:10 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:10 - 15:50

15:50 Panel discussion

15:50 - 17:05
Room: A106

19:00 Conference dinner

19:00 - 20:30
Friday, 3 July 2026

09:30 Morning coffee
Morning coffee
09:30 - 10:00

10:00 Ginevra Braga: AI--Assisted Exploration: DHOST Theories without Quantum Ghosts: Ginevra Braga
Ginevra Braga
10:00 - 10:25
Room: A106

10:25 AI discussion

10:25 - 12:25
Room: A106

12:25 Closing words

12:25 - 12:30
Room: A106

13:00 Lunch break
Lunch break
13:00 - 14:15

14:30 Free discussion
Free discussion
14:30 - 15:00