Registration, talks, and coffee breaks
will all be in the Oak Room of the Indiana Memorial Union.
This page last updated May 11, 2017
FRIDAY MAY 12, 2017
08:00-08:40
Welcome and coffee
08:40-09:00
Opening remarks
Elizabeth Housworth, Chair, Mathematics Department
David Baxter, Chair, Physics Department
Mike Snow, Director, IUCSS
Alan Kostelecky, Physics Department
Friday morning session 1
chaired by
Miguel Angel Javaloyes Victoria (Murcia)
09:00-09:30
Zhongmin Shen (IUPUI)
Ricci curvature tensors in Finsler geometry
09:30-10:00
Brett Altschul (South Carolina)
Quantum field theories in different kinds of spaces
10:00-10:30
Coffee
Friday morning session 2
chaired by
Neil Russell (Northern Michigan)
10:30-11:00
Alan Kostelecky (Indiana)
Lorentz violation and Finsler geometry
11:00-11:30
Erasmo Caponio (Bari Polytechnic)
Finsler spacetimes with a timelike Killing vector field
11:30-12:00
Jose David Vergara (UNAM)
Lorentz violation and momentum-dependent metrics
12:00-14:00
Lunch
Friday afternoon session 1
chaired by
Jim Davis (Indiana)
14:00-14:30
Wolfgang Ziller (U Penn)
Finsler metrics with constant positive flag curvature
14:30-15:00
Volker Perlick (Bremen)
A general redshift formula in Finsler spacetimes
15:00-15:30
Jay Tasson (Carleton)
Lorentz violation in gravity and geometric constraints
15:30-16:00
Coffee
Friday afternoon session 2
chaired by
Jinfeng Liao (Indiana)
16:00-16:30
Panayiotis Stavrinos (Athens)
Lorentz violation and Finsler cosmology
16:30-17:00
Neil Russell (Northern Michigan)
Classical lagrangians and Lorentz violation
17:00-17:30
Michael Duff (Imperial)
How fundamental are fundamental constants?
20:00-22:00
Dessert social,
President's Room
Faculty Club,
Indiana Memorial Union
SATURDAY MAY 13, 2017
08:30-9:00
Coffee
Saturday morning session 1
chaired by
Paul Kirk (Indiana)
09:00-09:30
Xin Li (CAS, Beijing)
Finsler geometry: a viable link to modified gravity
09:30-10:00
Don Colladay (New College)
De-singularization of Finslerian varieties
10:00-10:30
Coffee
Saturday morning session 2
chaired by
Chris Judge (Indiana)
10:30-11:00
Miguel Angel Javaloyes Victoria (Murcia)
Finsler spacetimes and cone structures
11:00-11:30
Matt Mewes (Cal Poly)
Lorentz-Violating Dispersion Relations
11:30-12:00
Euclides Silva (UF Cariri)
A nonlinear dynamics for the scalar field in Randers spacetime
12:00-14:00
Lunch
Saturday afternoon session 1
chaired by
Yuri Bonder (UNAM)
14:00-14:30
Sergiu Vacaru (Iasi)
Exact black hole and cosmological solutions with modified dispersion and quasiperiodic structure in Finsler like theories on (co) tangent Lorentz bundles
14:30-15:00
Marco Schreck (UF Maranhao)
Classical lagrangians and Finsler structures of the nonminimal Standard-Model Extension
15:00-15:30
Marco Letizia (SISSA)
Deformed relativity symmetries and Finsler geometry
15:30-16:00
Coffee
Saturday afternoon session 2
chaired by
Jay Tasson (Carleton)
16:00-16:30
Charalampos Markakis (Illinois)
Ideal magnetohydrodynamic flows as geodesics in Finsler spaces
16:30-17:00
Ralf Lehnert (IUCSS)
Physics applications for Finsler b space