
1st Electronic Conference on Universe
Part of the Electronic Conference on Universe series
22–28 Feb 2021
Quantum Field Theories, High Energy Physics, Compact Objects, General Relativity and Gravitation, Black Holes, Dark Matter and Dark Energy, Deep Space Probes
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Conference Closed
ECU 2021 has been closed successfully with 76 accepted proceedings and 4 live sessions and 1 Satellite Workshop. We would like to take this opportunity to express our appreciations to all the participants for their contributions and all the chairs and committee members for their excellent work.
We are in the process of electing for the Best Paper Awards and the Best Presentation Award. Winners will be announced on the conference website.
The journal Proceedings will publish all conference papers free of charge, and we will inform you once we start publication process.
List of accepted submissions (76)
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sciforum-042409 | Gravitational Collapse in 4D-Einstein Gauss-Bonnet Gravity | , , , , | N/A | N/A |
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We investigate the gravitational collapse of a gravitational bounded object constituted of dust cloud and dark energy. We considered the the effects of homogenous and isotropic fluid on newly suggested 4D limit for Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity(EGB) (For detail about EGB gravity, arXiv:1905.03601v3). For this purpose, we consider the gravitational collapse of gravitational object made of dust cloud ρDM in the background of dark energy, p = wρ with (w < −1/3). We illustrate that the procedure is qualitatively equivalent to the scenario of theory of Einstein for the collapse of the gravitational object composed of homogeneous dust. Further, we consider the collapse for dark energy by considering the equation of state p = wρ to find that black hole also may form in EGB case, which predict that end state of gravitational collapse in EGB case is consistent with results carried out in pure Einstein’s gravity theory. We have discussed two separate case, first, gravitational collapse of dust cloud in the context of EGB, in the second case, gravitational collapse of dark energy in EGB background. It is found that, gravitational collapse leads to formation of black hole in both cases. It is also worth mentioning that, end state of gravitational collapse in EGB context is same as in pure Einstein's gravity. Here, in this study dark matter refer to dust cloud, a matter with zero pressure. |
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sciforum-037373 | Existence and Stability of Static Spherical Fluid Shells in a Schwarzschild-Rindler-anti-de Sitter Metric | , , | N/A | N/A |
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Shells of matter sources with zero thickness play an important role in both electromagnetism and general relativity. They provide a useful laboratory for the exploration of new phenomena while at the same time they approximate smooth solutions such as domain walls . Thin shells are also useful in describing gravitational collapse or in constructing spherically symmetric vacuum solutions that avoid the presence of singularities. We demonstrate the existence of static, stable and thin spherical fluid shells in the Schwarzschild-Rindler-anti-de Sitter (SRAdS) spacetime. This provides us with an alternative to the well-known gravastar geometry where the stability emerges due to the combination of the repulsive forces of the interior de Sitter space with the attractive forces of the exterior Schwarzschild spacetime. In constrast, when it comes to the SRAdS spacetime, the repulsion that leads to stability of the shell comes from a negative Rindler term while the Schwarzschild and anti-de Sitter terms are attractive. We demonstrate the existence of such stable spherical shells for three cases of fluid shells with the appropriate equations of state, i.e. vacuum shell, stiff matter shell, and dust shell. To do so, we also identify the metric parameter conditions that need to be satisfied in order to have shell stability in each case. The vacuum stable shell solution in the SRAdS spacetime is consistent with previous studies by two of the authors that demonstrated the existence of stable spherical scalar field domain walls in the SRAdS spacetime. |
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sciforum-041895 | Second Order Glauber Correlation of Gravitational Waves using the LIGO observatories as Hanbury Brown and Twiss detectors | , | N/A |
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In this paper the second order Glauber correlation of a simplified gravitational wave is investigated, using parameters from the first signal detected by LIGO. This simplified model spans the inspiral, merger, and ringdown phases of a black hole merger and was created to have a continuous amplitude, so there is no discontinuity between the phases. This allows for a trivial extraction of the intensity, which is necessary to determine the correlation between detectors. The two LIGO observatories can be used as detectors in a Hanbury Brown and Twiss interferometer for gravitational waves, these observatories measure the amplitude of the wave, so these measurements were used as the basis of the simplified model. The signal detected by the observatories is transient and is not consistent with chaotic or steady electromagnetic waves and thus the second order Glauber correlation function was calculated to produce physically meaningful results. A correlation was also calculated using a sine-Gaussian model in hopes to describe the waveform in an even simpler model. To find correlations that are consistent with applications to electromagnetic waves weighting functions for both models were studied in the integral equations for the Glauber correlation functions. The relationship between the transient and chaotic signals of both waveforms and their respective correlation functions was also examined. The second order Glauber correlation functions are a measure of intensity interference between independent detectors and has proven to be useful in both optics and particle physics. It has also been used in theoretical studies of primordial gravitational waves. The correlations can be used to define the degrees of coherence of a field, characterize multi-particle processes, and assist in image enhancement. |
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sciforum-042529 | Interactive applications to teach the Einstein's Energy-Momentum-Mass relation in the secondary school. |
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Two Geogebra-based interactive applications to teach the Special Relativity Energy-Mass-Momentum relation are presented. They are useful tools to visualise from a geometrical perspective the mathematical relation, thus helping students facing calculus difficulties to understand the beauty of this equation. They also give students the opportunity to carry out explorations and come to conclusions. They allow us to inquire the meaning of the p/E ratio for particles with different masses and energies, to discover that a system with a given finite mass and increasing energy travels at a speed approaching a finite value. Even the relativistic meaning of the mass of a system of particles can be addressed with these applications. Students can discover that the relativistic mass is different from the mere sum of the masses of the system, that is always greater than or equal to the sum of the masses, that it depends on the momenta directions, that is equal to the sum of the masses if all the particles of the system are at rest. Since these concepts are crucial for the understanding of how particles are discovered in Particle Physics, the two applications open the way to introduce students to the main aspect of modern research in Nuclear and Accelerators Physics. |
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sciforum-042629 | New perspectives for multifrequency GW astronomy: strong gravitational lensing of GW | N/A | N/A |
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Direct detection of gravitational waves was for a long time a holy grail of observational astronomy. The situation changed several years ago with the first ever laboratory detection of gravitational wave signal on the Earth (GW150914), showing once again that Einstein was right. Now, successful operating runs of LIGO/Virgo gravitational wave detectors, resulting with numerous detections of gravitational wave signals from coalescing double compact objects (mainly binary black hole mergers) with the first evidence of coalescing binary neutron star system, elevated multimessenger astronomy to the unprecedented stage. Double compact objects (binary black hole systems, mixed black hole-neutron star systems and double neutron star systems) are the main targets of future ground based and space-borne gravitational wave detectors opening the possibility for multifrequency gravitational wave studies and yielding very rich statistics of such sources. This, in turn, makes possible that certain, non-negligible amount of double compact objects will have a chance of being strongly lensed. In this presentation I will discuss new perspectives for future detections of gravitational wave signals in the case of strong gravitational lensing. First, the expected rates of lensed gravitational wave signals will be presented. Multifrequency detections of lensed gravitational wave events, will demand different treatment at different frequencies, i.e. wave approach vs. geometric optics approach. I will discuss new possibilities emerging from such multifrequency detections. |
ECU 2021 Live Sessions Information
During the e-conference, four live sessions have been scheduled. We have invited some speakers to share their latest research. Also, a number of excellent submissions have been selected, and these works will be presented during the live sessions by the authors. During each live session, the participants will have the chance to ask questions in the “open for discussion” section.
The live sessions are free for authors. The authors who submit submissions to ECU 2021 will have priority for the registration (with no extra cost) to the live online sessions with our keynote speakers. If it is not completely full, the registration will be opened for unregistered participants.
ECU 2021 Live Sessions Programs
22 February 2021
Session 1
Date: 22 February 2021
Time: 05:00pm (CET) | 11:00am (EDT) | 12:00pm (CST Asia)
Speaker |
Presentation Topic |
Time (CET) |
Invited Speaker Daniel Whiteson, University of California |
Teaching Physics with Comics |
05:00pm – 05:30pm |
Open for Discussions |
05:30pm – 05:50pm |
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Short Break |
05:50pm – 06:00pm |
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Invited Speaker Ute Kraus, University Hildesheim |
General Relativity in Secondary School |
06:00pm – 06:30pm |
Open for Discussions |
06:30pm – 06:50pm |
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Short Break |
06:50pm – 07:00pm |
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Discussion of Submissions from Sessions |
07:00pm – 08:00pm |
23 February 2021
Session 2
Date: 23 February 2021
Time: 03:00pm (CET) | 09:00am (EDT) | 10:00pm (CST Asia)
Speaker |
Presentation Topic |
Time (CET) |
Session Chair Gonzalo J. Olm, University of Valencia & CSIC |
Short Introduction |
03:00pm – 03:05pm |
Invited Speaker Parampreet Singh, Louisiana State University |
Singularity Resolution in Loop Quantized Black Holes and the Role of Quantization Prescriptions |
03:05pm – 03:35pm |
Invited Speaker Diego Rubiera-García, Complutense University of Madrid |
Regular Black Holes in Ricci-based Gravities and Their Astrophysical Signatures |
03:35pm – 04:05pm |
Invited Speaker Nicolas Sanchis Gual, University of Aveiro |
Black Holes in Numerical Relativity: Recent Results |
04:05pm – 04:35pm |
Select Presentations from Sessions Antonio Gallerati |
New non-extremal and BPS hairy black holes in gauged N = 2 and N = 8 supergravity |
04:35pm – 04:50pm |
Select Presentations from Sessions Ana Bokulić |
Immersing the Schwarzschild black hole in test nonlinear electromagnetic fields |
04:50pm – 05:05pm |
Invited Speaker Apurva V. Oza, University of Bern |
Evaporation of the First Known Exoplanets Orbiting the Pulsar PSR B1257+12 |
05:05pm – 05:25pm |
25 February 2021
Session 3
Date: 25 February 2021
Time: 08:00am (CET) | 02:00am (EDT) | 03:00pm (CST Asia)
Speaker |
Presentation Topic |
Time (CET) |
Invited Speaker Jackie Bondell, ARC Centre of Excellence for Dark Matter Particle Physics |
Blast Off to the Virtual Universe: Using Interactive Virtual Reality to Bring Physics to the Secondary Classroom |
08:00am – 08:30am |
Invited Speaker David Blair, ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery |
Science without Paradigm Clashes - a Seamless Einsteinian Curriculum from K-12 |
08:30am – 09:00am |
Open for Discussions |
09:00am – 09:20am |
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Short Break |
09:20am – 09:30am |
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Invited Speaker Julia Woithe, European Organization for Nuclear Research |
The Potential, Challenges and Opportunities of Introducing High-School Students to Modern Physics: Lessons Learned from Particle Physicsl |
09:30am – 10:00am |
Discussion of Submissions from Sessions |
10:00am – 11:00am |
26 February 2021
Session 4
Date: 26 February 2021
Time: 03:00pm (CET) | 09:00am (EDT) | 10:00pm (CST Asia)
Speaker |
Presentation Topic |
Time (CET) |
Session Chair Paolo Giacomell, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare |
Future Colliders for Particle Physics |
03:00pm – 03:30pm |
Invited Speaker Marco Scodeggio, INFN Ferrara/Università degli Studi di Ferrara |
Physics with Future Leptonic Colliders |
03:30pm – 04:00pm |
Invited Speaker Ilaria BALOSSINO, INFN Ferrara - IHEP Beijing |
Detectors for Future Large Leptonic Colliders |
04:00pm – 04:30pm |
Select Presentations from Sessions Pasquale Bosso |
Position in models of quantum mechanics with a minimal length |
04:30pm – 04:45pm |
Select Presentations from Sessions Igor Dremin |
Positronia’ clouds in Universe |
04:45pm – 05:00pm |
Select Presentations from Sessions Joey Contreras |
Modified Commutators vs Modified Operators in a Quantum Gravity minimal length scale |
05:00pm – 05:15pm |
ECU 2021 Live Session Prerecorded Presentation
Invited Speaker
Jackie Bondell, ARC Centre of Excellence for Dark Matter Particle Physics
Topic: Blast Off to the Virtual Universe: Using Interactive Virtual Reality to Bring Physics to the Secondary Classroom
Invited Speaker
Julia Woithe, European Organization for Nuclear Research
Topic: The Potential, Challenges and Opportunities of Introducing High-School Students to Modern Physics: Lessons Learned from Particle Physicsl
ECU 2021 Recordings
22 February 2021
Live Session 1
23 February 2021
Live Session 2
24 February 2021
Satellite Workshop
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25 February 2021
Live Session 3
26 February 2021
Live Session 4
ECU 2021 Satellite Workshop Program
The Satellite Workshop "Developing A.D.Sakharov Legacy in Cosmoparticle Physics" is organized on the platform of Virtual Institute of Astroparticle physics http://viavca.in2p3.fr/site.html with the use of Zoom:
https://cern.zoom.us/j/4420940189?pwd=LzVjQlYra0NQVVFqb3d6czRKYW1Ydz09
Meeting ID: 442 094 0189
and the successive program
Date: 24 February 2021
Time: 09:00am (CET) | 03:00am (EDT) | 04:00pm (CST Asia)
Speaker |
Presentation Topic |
Time (CET) |
Session chair Maxim Khlopov, Université de Paris |
Multimessenger probes for new physics in the light of A.Sakharov's legacy in cosmoparticle physics |
09:00am – 09:40am |
Invited Speaker Sergei V. Ketov, Tokyo Metropolitan University |
Inflation, primordial black holes and induced gravitational waves from modified supergravity |
09:40am – 10:25am |
Invited Speaker A.Addazi |
Dark Matter Multi-Messenger Searches |
10:25am – 11:05am |
Short Break |
11:05am – 11:30am |
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Submission from session Ashok Singal |
Solar System Peculiar Motion from Mid Infra Red Quasars and Implications for the Cosmological Principle |
11:30am – 12:00am |
Submission from session Orchidea Maria Lecian |
Effects of baryon-antibaryon annihilation in the evolution of antimatter domains in baryon asymmetrical Universe |
12:00am – 12:20am |
Submission from session Arnab Chaudhuri |
Balancing asymmetric dark matter with baryon asymmetry by sphaleron transitions |
12:20am – 12:40am |
Invited Speaker Konstantin Zioutas, University of Patras |
The dark universe is not invisible |
12:40am – 01:20pm |
Lunch Break |
01:20pm – 02:20pm |
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Submission from session Ivan Debono |
Constraints on features in the inflationary potential from future cosmic shear and galaxy clustering data |
02:20pm – 03:00pm |
Submission from session Tatyana Shestakova |
On A.D.Sakharov's hypothesis of cosmological transitions with changes in the signature of the metric |
03:00pm – 03:30pm |
Submission from session Timur Bikbaev |
Dark atom solution for the puzzles of direct dark matter search |
03:30pm – 03:50pm |
Submission from session Anastasia Kirichenko |
Probe for the matter origin: cosmic anihelium nuclei from a globular cluster of antimatter in the Galaxy |
03:50pm – 04:10pm |
Break |
04:10pm – 05:00pm |
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Submission from session Albino Hernandez - Galeana |
Fermion masses and mixing within a SU(3) family symmetry model with five sterile neutrinos |
05:00pm – 05:30pm |
Submission from session Gilles Cohen-Tannoudji |
The realization of some cosmological gedanken experiments seems to favor the ideas of Sakharov |
05:30pm – 06:00pm |
Invited Speaker D.Fargion |
Astrophysical or Atmospheric Charmed signal in Icecube? |
06:00pm – 06:15pm |
Open for Discussion |
06:15pm – 07:00pm |
Welcome from the Chair
Dear Colleagues,
As Editor-in-Chief of the journal Universe (ISSN 2218-1997), it is my honor to invite you to join the 1st International Electronic Conference, Universe 2021: 1st Electronic Conference on Gravitation, Cosmology, Field Theory, High Energy Physics, and Astronomy, from 22 to 28 February 2021, which will enable you to share and discuss your most recent findings with the worldwide community of scientists and researchers in these fields.
At this point of restricted travel and personal contact, it is a pleasure to still be able to collaborate electronically via this online venue. This internet conference is designed to allow you to present your research to colleagues and to interact as fully as possible with all those involved in it. I also hope you will meet old friends and make new ones here. There will be many fascinating papers to spark everyone’s interest.
I hope this conference will bring together major contributions at the forefront of research in the fields of gravitation, cosmology, field theory, high energy physics, and astronomy, and I am confident that yours will be among them. Universe 2021 will make your presentation accessible to hundreds of researchers worldwide, with active engagement of the audience in question and answer sessions and discussion groups that will take place online.
Submitted abstracts will be reviewed by the conference committee. The authors of accepted contributions will be invited to produce an extended abstract for the conference proceedings along with a slide presentation of their work. Following the conference, outstanding contributions will be invited to be submitted for publication in the main journal.
The conference has been divided into ten themes. Please submit your articles as soon as possible, indicating which theme you think best fits your submission.
Session 1: General Relativity and GravitationSession 2: Quantum Field Theories
Session 3: Black Holes
Session 4: Dark Matter and Dark Energy
Session 5: High Energy Physics
Session 6: Compact Objects
Session 7: Deep-Space Probes
Session 8: The Universe of Andrei Sakharov
Session 9: Teaching Relativity and Modern Physics in General
Sessions 10: Posters
Thank you for your kind attention.
We look forward to welcoming you at this exciting meeting online.
Best regards,
Prof. Dr. Lorenzo Iorio
Conference Secretariat
Ms. Danielle Yao
Ms. Rainy Han
MDPI Branch Office, Beijing, China
E-Mail: [email protected]
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Call for Submissions
The 1st Electronic Conference on Gravitation, Cosmology, Field Theory, High Energy Physics, and Astronomy (Universe 2021) will be held online from 22 to 28 February 2021. This event enables researchers of astronomy sciences and space sciences to present their research and exchange ideas with their colleagues without the need to travel. All proceedings will be published on the conference homepage in open access format.
Through this event, we aim to cover the following topics:
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General Relativity and Gravitation
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Quantum Field Theories
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Black Holes
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Dark Matter and Dark Energy
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High Energy Physics
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Compact Objects
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Deep-Space Probes
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The Universe of Andrei Sakharo
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Teaching relativity and modern physics in general
The conference will be completely free of charge—both to attend and for scholars to upload and present their latest work on the conference platform. There will also be the possibility to submit selected papers, free of charge, to the Special Issue of the journal Universe (ISSN 2218-1997; Impact Factor: 1.752 (JCR 2019)). The submitted manuscripts should comprise at least 50% additional, new, and unpublished material as compared to the published ECU 2021 proceedings paper.
Universe 2021 offers you the opportunity to participate in this international, scholarly conference without having the concern or expenditure of travel—all you need is your computer and access to the Internet. We would like to invite you to “attend” this conference and present your latest work.
Abstracts (in English) should be submitted by 20 November 2020 4 January 2021 online at https://www.sciforum.net/login. For accepted abstracts, the full paper can be submitted by 15 January 2021 1 February 2021. The conference itself will be held 22–28 February 2021.
We hope you will be able to join this exciting event and support us in making it a success. Universe 2021 is organized and sponsored by MDPI, a scholarly open access publisher based in Basel, Switzerland.
Paper Submission Guidelines
For information about the submission procedure and preparation of full presentations, please refer to the Instructions for Authors.
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Conference Chairs

Ministero dell' Istruzione, dell' Università e della Ricerca (M.I.U.R.)-Istruzione. Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society (F.R.A.S.) Viale Unità di Italia 68, 70125, Bari (BA), Italy
He received his precollege and college education in Bari, Italy, obtaining a degree in physics from the University of Bari in 1997. In 2002, he earned the Ph.D. Degree in physics from the Department of Physics "Michelangelo Merlin", the University of Bari, where he also completed his postdoctoral studies. He currently holds a permanent position at the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research (M.I.U.R.) as a physics teacher in secondary schools since 2007. He is currently qualified at M.I.U.R. both as an Associate Professor and Full Professor for Astronomy, Astrophysics, and Earth and Planetary Physics, and for Theoretical Physics of the Fundamental Interactions, respectively. His research activity, started in 1999 after he published his first article in a peer-reviewed journal, is currently in the field of gravitational physics, in particular, experimental/observational tests of general relativity and modified models of gravity in several astronomical and astrophysical scenarios, and their theoretical interpretation. So far, he has published more than 220 articles in peer-reviewed journals. According to the SAO/NASA ADS database, his h-index is, at present, 40, with over 3550 citations (self-citations excluded). Some papers of him attracted the attention of certain international scientific magazines. So far, he has received 34 requests by foreign students of international academic institutions as supervisor of their Ph.D. and/or post-Doc research activity. He has acted as a referee for several international research institutions like the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the European Space Agency (ESA), the Swiss National Science Foundation, the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), the National Research Foundation (NRF), South Africa, the former Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (PPARC), the National Center for Science and Technology Evaluation (NCSTE) of Kazakhstan, and the Czech Science Foundation (GACR). He received an invitation on behalf of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
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Sessions Chairs

Prof. Dr. James A. Isenberg
Department of Mathematics, Fenton Hall, University of Oregon, Oregon, USA
Session 1. General Relativity and Gravitation
Mathematical Relativity; Geometric Heat Flow; Nonlinear Wave Equations; Momentum maps and classical field theory
[email protected]

Prof. Dr. Gerald B. Cleaver
Department of Physics and Center for Astrophysics, Space Physics & Engineering Research, Baylor University, Waco, USA
Session 2. Quantum Field Theories
string landscape; string cosmology; Horava-Lifshitz cosmology; trans-Planckian physics
[email protected]

Prof. Dr. Herbert W. Hamber
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, USA
Session 2. Quantum Field Theories
Theoretical Particle Physics, Statistical Mechanics, Quantum Gravitation, Mathematical Physics
[email protected]

Prof. Dr. Gonzalo J. Olmo
Department of Theoretical Physics & IFIC – University of Valencia & CSIC, Valencia, Spain
Session 3. Black Holes
black holes; singularities; quantum fields in curved space-time; inflation; modified gravity; Palatini formalism; stellar structure models; compact objects
[email protected]

Prof. Dr. Antonio Padilla
School of Physics & Astronomy for Astronomy, University Park, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
Session 4. Dark Matter and Dark Energy
dark energy; dark matter; particle physics; gravity; cosmological constant problem
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Dr. Paolo Giacomelli
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Bologna, Italy
Session 5. High Energy Physics
Experimental High Energy Particle Physics; Higgs Physics; Standard Model of Particle Physics; Search for New Particles; Large Hadron Collider; Particle Detectors; Future Lepton Colliders
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Prof. Dr. Lijing Shao
Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Peking University, Beijing, China
Session 6. Compact Objects
Tests of gravity theories; Gravitational waves; Pulsars and neutron stars; Astrophysical studies of dark matter; Black hole spacetime; Precision tests of fundamental physics; Bayesian data analysis and statistics
[email protected]

Prof. Dr. Giacomo Tommei
Department of Mathematics, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Session 7. Deep-Space Probes
Celestial mechanics and astrodynamics; Orbit determination; Space missions; Radio Science; Experimental gravity
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Dr. Daniele Durante
Sapienza University of Rome, Roma, Italy

Prof. Dr. Maxim Yu. Khlopov
1. National Research Nuclear University "Moscow Engineering Physics Institute". 2. Virtual Institute of Astroparticle Physics, Université de Paris, Paris, France. 3. Laboratory for cosmoparticle studies of Structure and Evolution of Galaxy, Institute of Physics, Southern Federal University, Rostov on Don, Russia.
Session 8. The Universe of Andrei Sakharov
cosmoparticle physics; cosmology and particle physics; physics of dark matter and the early universe; physics beyond the standard model
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Prof. Dr. Matteo Luca Ruggiero
Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy
Session 9. Teaching Relativity and Modern Physics in General
relativity; relativistic theories of gravity; experimental gravity
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Dr. Magdalena Kersting
Department of Teacher Education and School Research, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
Session 9. Teaching Relativity and Modern Physics in General
physics education; science education; general relativity; embodied cognition
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Invited Speakers

University of California, Irvine, United States
Teaching Physics with Comics
Particle Physics; Experimental High Energy Physics
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ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (formerly Australian International Gravitational Research Centre), Australia
Science without paradigm clashes - a seamless Einsteinian curriculum from K-12
[email protected]

University Hildesheim, Hildesheim, Germany
General relativity in secondary school
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European Organization for Nuclear Research, Geneva, Switzerland
The potential, challenges and opportunities of introducing high-school students to modern physics: lessons learned from particle physics.
[email protected]

ARC Centre of Excellence for Dark Matter Particle Physics,
Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery
Blast Off to the Virtual Universe: Using Interactive Virtual Reality to Bring Physics to the Secondary Classroom
[email protected]

Singularity resolution in loop quantized black holes and the role of quantization prescriptions
quantum gravity; cosmology
[email protected]

Regular black holes in Ricci-based gravities and their astrophysical signatures
modified gravity; black holes; cosmology; stellar structure models
[email protected]

Black holes in numerical relativity: recent results
numerical relativity; gravitational waves; black holes; compact objects
[email protected]

INFN Ferrara/Università degli Studi di Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy
Physics with future leptonic colliders
particle physics, future circular collider, international linear collider, Z factory, Higgs factory, BSM physics
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Detectors for future large leptonic colliders
particle physics, detector development
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University of Bern, Hochschulstrasse 6, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
Evaporation of the first known exoplanets orbiting the pulsar PSR B1257+12
exomoons; atmospheric escape; icy bodies; exoplanet atmospheres
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Conference Committee

Astrocent, Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland,
National Centre for Nuclear Research, Warsaw, Poland
Dark matter in the Universe; Elementary particle solutions of the dark matter puzzle; "New physics" models beyond the Standard Model; Supersymmetric models and methods of their experimental tests; Higgs bosons in supersymmetric models; Anomalous magnetic
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Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Moscow, Russia,
Bogoliubov Laboratory of Theoretical Physics, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia
classical and quantum gravity; cosmology; early universe; dark energy; black holes; quantum field theory in curved space–time
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Physics Department (DFNSR), Università degli Studi Guglielmo Marconi, Rome, Italy,
Associated to the National Institution for Nuclear Physics (INFN), Naples, Italy
high energy particle physics; high energy calorimetry; higgs physics; kaon physics; quark physics; gauge theories; standard model; gas detectors
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NIKHEF, Amsterdam, The Netherlands,
Lorentz Institute f. Theoretical Physics, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
Classical and quantum gravity; general relativity, gravitational waves; supergravity, canonical gravity; cosmology, inflation and dark energy; neutrinos and cosmic rays; world-line supersymmetry, quantum field theory
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Physics Department, Baylor University, Texas, USA;,
Physics Department, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece
dark energy formulation; modified theories of gravity; inflationary cosmology; brane cosmology; observational cosmology
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Theoretical Particle Physics and Cosmology Group, Department of Physics, King’s College London, London, UK
Astro-particle Physics; Cosmology; Quantum Gravity Phenomenology; tests of fundamental space-time symmetries
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School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel,
ATLAS experiment, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
Experimental High Energy Particle Physics. LHC Physics. Higgs and searches for Physics Beyond the Standard Model, Searches for Dark Matter. Searches for Long Lived Particles
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Laboratoty Universe and Theories, UMR 8102 CNRS, Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University, Meudon, France
cosmological physics; numerical cosmology; large scale structure formation; scalar-tensor and modified gravity theory; backreaction and inhomogeneous universes
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National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute), Moscow, Russian Federation
Data Analysis; Elementary Particle Physics; Experimental Particle Physics; Particle Physics; Quantum Physics; Fractal Dimension; High Energy Physics; Particle; High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Heavy Ions
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LPTHE-CNRS-UPMC, Paris, France,
Albert Einstein Center-ITP, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
quantum field theory; particle physics phenomenology; quantum gravity; cosmology; string theory
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Bogoliubov Laboratory of Theoretical Physics, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia
quantum field theory; standard model; radiative corrections; cosmology; general relativity; spontaneous symmetry breaking
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Dipartimeno di Fisica, Universita' degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata", Rome, Italy,
INFN, Rome, Italy
nuclear and subnuclear physics; astroparticle physics; underground physics; detectors developments
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Institute of Astrophysics and Space Sciences, Science Faculty of the University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
modified gravity; dark energy; cosmology; dark matter; black holes; energy conditions; causal structure of spacetime
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Zu Chongzhi Center for Mathematics and Computational Sciences, Duke Kunshan University, Kunshan, China
Modified gravity theories; construction and tests; gravitational lensing; gravitational waves
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Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa
cosmology; dark energy; extensions of general relativity; exact solutions in general relativity; dynamical systems applied to cosmology; inhomogeneous cosmology; structure formation; cosmic microwave background anisotropies; relativistic astrophysics
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Department of Physics, College of Science, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman
High Energy Physics (Theory) -Gravitational physics-Information Theory
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Radboud University Nijmegen, Astrophysics and Particle Physics (IMAPP), Nijmegen, Netherlands
quantum gravity; asymptotic safety; quantum field theory in curved space-time; black holes; theoretical cosmology; renormalization group techniques
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INFN (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare), Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
theoretical physics; condensed matter; biophysics; physical chemistry; nanoscience and nanotechnology; nanocarbon based composites; biomedical applications
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Departament FQA and Institute of Cosmos Sciences (ICCUB), Univ. de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
vacuum energy, dark matter, dark energy, inflation, particle physics and cosmology, general relativity, tests of gravity, variation of fundamental constants
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Depto. Física Teórica & IFIC,Centro Mixto Universidad de Valencia & CSIC, Valencia, Spain
quantum gravity; black holes; Hawking radiation; Cosmology; inflation; modified theories of gravity; Palatini formalism; field theory; wormholes
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Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
cosmology; black holes; two-time physics (2T-Physics); string field theory (SFT)
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Mathematical Sciences and STAG Research Center, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
holographic dualities; quantum field theory; string theory; general relativity; cosmology; black holes
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School of Physical and Chemical Sciences, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
general relativity; inhomogeneous cosmology; averaging problem; backreaction
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Department of Astronomy and Theoretical Physics, Lund University, Sweden
subatomic physics; astronomy; astrophysics and cosmology; grand unification; Higgs physics; supersymmetry; electroweak physics; beyond the standard model; composite models; physical vacuum; quasiclassical gravity; cosmic inflation models; heavy ion collis
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Department of Physics, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, Georgia, USA
theoretical particle physics; top quark production; perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics; soft-gluon resummation; higher-order corrections; Higgs, W and Z boson production
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Centre for Astrophysics of the University of Porto (CAUP), Porto, Portugal
cosmology; structure formation; cosmic defects; dark energy; dark matter; varying fundamental couplings; modified gravity
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String theory (compactification, 2D conformal field theory; cosmology, phenomenology; dualities; "geometric engineering"; low energy effective description; strings at finite temperature); supergravity; supersymmetry; braneworlds; M-theory
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Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
physics of astrophysical compact objects including accretion disks and outflows/jets; astrophysical fluid dynamics; nuclear astrophysics; field theory in curved spacetime; general relativity and gravitation
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School of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
string theory and quantum field theory; high-energy physics; theoretical and observational cosmology
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QCD phase diagram; lattice QCD; quark-gluon plasma; heavy ion collisions; hot and dense strongly interacting matter
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Department of Physics & Astronomy, Dartmouth College, Hanover, USA
theoretical cosmology; cosmological constant problem; baryogenesis; cosmic inflation; structure formation; singularity resolution; quantum fields in curved spaces; string cosmology; quantum gravity; string theory; modified theories of gravity; loop quantu
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Dipartmento Interateneo di Fisica "M. Merlin", Università di Bari, Bari, Italy
particle detectors; gaseous detectors; nuclear and subnuclear physics; astroparticle physics; resistive plate chambers; gas electron multipliers
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Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
inflation; dark energy; dark matter; alternative gravity theories; cosmological perturbation; string cosmology; braneworld cosmology; black hole thermodynamics; holographic principle; test of gravity
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Quantum Field Theory; Aharonov-Bohm Effect; General Relativity; Cosmology; Particle Physics; Composite Models for Leptons; Theories of Magnetic Charge; Brane-World Models; Proton Spin Puzzle; Models for Dark Energy and Dark Matter; Exact Solutions in Yang
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Department of Physics, King's College London, London, UK
noncommutative spectral geometry; string/M-theory cosmology; loop quantum cosmology; group field theory; gravitational waves; cosmic (super)strings
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Superdense matter; Neutron stars, quark stars, supernovae and gamma-ray bursts; General relativity
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Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Mississippi, USA
astrophysics physics and astronomy physics; gravitational waves physics; high energy physics physics; relativity and cosmology physics; theoretical physics
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Relativistic heavy ion physics; multiparticle dynamics; quark gluon plasma; early universe
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gauge/gravity duality; string theory; quantum properties of black holes; physics of strong interactions; supergravity
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(Covariant) Integral quantization, Specially with POVM and coherent states; Covariant integral quantization of cosmological models; Foundations of quantum physics; Deformation of standard probability distributions and related entropies; Quantum field theo
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collider physics; weak flavor-dynamics (CP violation, heavy sterile neutrino); the phenomenology of the Beyond the Standard Model; the experimental side of particle physics; Monte Carlo computer simulations
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Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, Ohio, USA
experimental cosmology
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quantum gravity; quantum cosmology; foundations of quantum mechanics
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Instructions for Authors
Submissions should be done by the authors online by registering with www.sciforum.net, and using the "Start New Submission" function once logged into system.
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Scholars interested in participating with the conference can submit their abstract (about 150-300 words covering the areas of manuscripts for the proceedings issue) online on this website until 20 November 2020 4 January 2021.
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The Conference Committee will pre-evaluate, based on the submitted abstract, whether a contribution from the authors of the abstract will be welcome in Universe 2021. All authors will be notified by 31 December 2020 13 January 2021 about the acceptance of their abstract.
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If the abstract is accepted for this conference, the author is asked to submit his/her manuscript, optionally along with a PowerPoint (only PDF) and/or video presentation of his/her paper, until the submission deadline of 15 January 2021 1 February 2021.
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The manuscripts and presentations will be available on the Universe 2021 homepage for discussion and rating during the time of the conference 22–28 February 2021.
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Accepted papers will be published in the Proceedings of the conference and selected papers are recommended to submit an extended version of the proceeding papers to the Universe Special Issue, free of charge. The extended papers should be prepared on the instructions for authors of Universe. ( https://www.mdpi.com/journal/universe/instructions)
Structure of Proceedings Paper
Manuscripts for the proceedings issue must have the following organization:
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Title
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Full author names
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Affiliations (including full postal address) and authors' e-mail addresses
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Abstract
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Keywords
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Introduction
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Methods
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Results and Discussion
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Conclusions
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Acknowledgements
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References
Manuscripts should be prepared in MS Word and should be converted to the PDF format before submission. The publication format will be PDF. There is no page limit on the length, although authors are asked to keep their papers as concise as possible.
Microsoft Word
Authors must use the Microsoft Word template to prepare their manuscript. Using the template file will substantially shorten the time to complete copy-editing and publication of accepted manuscripts. Manuscript prepared in MS Word must be converted into a single file before submission. Please do not insert any graphics (schemes, figures, etc.) into a movable frame which can superimpose the text and make the layout very difficult.
Manuscript Preparation
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Paper Format: A4 paper format, the printing area is 17.5 cm x 26.2 cm. The margins should be 1.75 cm on each side of the paper (top, bottom, left, and right sides).
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Formatting / Style: Papers should be prepared following the style of Universe 2020 template. The full titles and the cited papers must be given. Reference numbers should be placed in square brackets [ ], and placed before the punctuation; for example [4] or [1-3], and all the references should be listed separately and as the last section at the end of the manuscript.
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Authors List and Affiliation Format: Authors' full first and last names must be given. Abbreviated middle name can be added. For papers written by various contributors a corresponding author must be designated. The PubMed/MEDLINE format is used for affiliations: complete street address information including city, zip code, state/province, country, and email address should be added. All authors who contributed significantly to the manuscript (including writing a section) should be listed on the first page of the manuscript, below the title of the article. Other parties, who provided only minor contributions, should be listed under Acknowledgments only. A minor contribution might be a discussion with the author, reading through the draft of the manuscript, or performing English corrections.
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Figures, Schemes and Tables: Authors are encouraged to prepare figures and schemes in color. Full color graphics will be published free of charge. Figure and schemes must be numbered (Figure 1, Scheme I, Figure 2, Scheme II, etc.) and an explanatory title must be added. Tables should be inserted into the main text, and numbers and titles for all tables supplied. All table columns should have an explanatory heading. Please supply legends for all figures, schemes and tables. The legends should be prepared as a separate paragraph of the main text and placed in the main text before a table, a figure or a scheme.
For further enquiries please contact the Conference Secretariat.
Presentation Slides
Authors are encouraged to prepare a presentation in PowerPoint, to be displayed online along with the Manuscript. Slides, if available, will be displayed directly in the website using Sciforum.net's proprietary slides viewer. Slides can be prepared in exactly the same way as for any traditional conference where research results can be presented. Slides should be converted to the PDF format before submission so that our process can easily and automatically convert them for online displaying.
Video Presentations
Authors are also encouraged to submit video presentations. The video will be uploaded to Sciforum. The video should be no longer than 12 minutes and be prepared with the following formats,
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The video should be submitted via email before 15 January 2021.
We also invite you to participate in our webinars to present your research. If you are interested in it, please do not hesitate to contact us at [email protected], the speakers of webinars will be selected from the applicants. The details of webinars and speaker list will be announced by 20 December 2020.
Presentation of Posters
Posters will be available on this conference website during and after the event. Like papers presented on the conference, participants will be able to ask questions and make comments about the posters. Posters that are submitted without paper will not be included in the proceedings of the conference.
Potential Conflicts of Interest
It is the authors' responsibility to identify and declare any personal circumstances or interests that may be perceived as inappropriately influencing the representation or interpretation of clinical research. If there is no conflict, please state here "The authors declare no conflict of interest." This should be conveyed in a separate "Conflict of Interest" statement preceding the "Acknowledgments" and "References" sections at the end of the manuscript. Financial support for the study must be fully disclosed under "Acknowledgments" section. It is the authors' responsibility to identify and declare any personal circumstances or interests that may be perceived as inappropriately influencing the representation or interpretation of clinical research. If there is no conflict, please state here "The authors declare no conflict of interest." This should be conveyed in a separate "Conflict of Interest" statement preceding the "Acknowledgments" and "References" sections at the end of the manuscript. Financial support for the study must be fully disclosed under "Acknowledgments" section.
Copyright
MDPI, the publisher of the Sciforum.net platform, is an open access publisher. We believe that authors should retain the copyright to their scholarly works. Hence, by submitting a Communication paper to this conference, you retain the copyright of your paper, but you grant MDPI the non-exclusive right to publish this paper online on the Sciforum.net platform. This means you can easily submit your paper to any scientific journal at a later stage and transfer the copyright to its publisher (if required by that publisher).
Event Awards
To acknowledge the support of the conference esteemed authors and recognize their outstanding scientific accomplishments, the best papers and best speakers will be selected by the members of the scientific committee. The Award will consist of 500 Swiss Francs and a free featured paper. We look forward to posting your contributions.
The Awards
Number of Awards Available: 2
The Best Poster Award is established to recognize the scientific merit exhibited in poster preparation and presentation.Number of Awards Available: 2
The Best Speaker Award is given exclusively to the invited speakers of ECU 2021.Terms and Conditions:
Best Poster Award
The Best Poster Award is given for the poster judged to make the most significant contribution to the conference. There will be two winners selected for this award, the winners will be scholars in an early stage of her/his career (within seven years of appointment to an independent position) .
Best Speaker Award
Two best speakers will be selected by the Scientific Committee after evaluation of all selected talks presented during the conference. The winners will be selected from the videos uploaded through our submission system.
Relevant Special Issues
Selected Papers from the 1st International Electronic Conference on Universe (ECU 2021)
Guest editors: James A. Isenberg, Gerald B. Cleaver, Lijing Shao, Gonzalo J. Olmo
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2021.
Dear Colleagues,
The 1st International Electronic Conference on Universe (ECU 2021) will be held from 22 to 28 February 2021 (https://ecu2021.sciforum.net), verifying the great interest of the related community in this Conference Series.
During the event, a large number of excellent contributions covering key areas of opportunities and challenges will be presented. More specifically, the following areas were covered:
- General relativity and gravitation;
- Quantum field theories;
- Black holes;
- Dark matter and dark energy;
- High energy physics;
- Compact objects;
- Deep-space probes;
- The Universe of Andrei Sakharov;
- Teaching Relativity and Modern Physics in General
This Special Issue welcomes selected papers from the ECU 2021 that promotes and advances the exciting and rapidly changing field.
Submitted contributions will be subjected to peer review and—upon acceptance—will be published with the aim of rapidly and widely disseminating research results, developments, and applications.
Submitted manuscripts should be:
- Title and Abstract should be substantially different with that of conference paper, so that they can be differentiated in various databases.
- 50% new data should be added to make it a real and complete journal paper.
- The conference proceeding should be mentioned and discussed in the introduction section.
- Conference paper link should be provided in the cover letter.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Prof. Dr. James A. Isenberg
Prof. Dr. Gerald B. Cleaver
Prof. Dr. Lijing Shao
Prof. Dr. Gonzalo J. Olmo
Guest Editors
To access the full list of open Special Issues, please click here.
Sponsors and Partners
We are currently accepting applications for awards, sponsorships and media partnerships from related organizations.
EUC 2021 offers a range of sponsorship packages on a first-come, first-served basis, which have been designed to maximize the sponsoring organisations’ exposure during the event and offer a positive return on investment.
For more information, please contact [email protected].
Best Speaker Award (2*500 CHF)
Best Poster Award (2*500 CHF)
Media Partnership (0 CHF)
Organizers
Media Partners
S1. General Relativity and Gravitation
Session Chair
Prof. Dr. James A. Isenberg, Department of Mathematics, University of Oregon. https://pages.uoregon.edu/isenberg/
S2. Quantum Field Theories
The QFT Committee welcomes the submission of abstracts on any topics related to the latest research and developments in the field. Related topics include but are not limited to: field theory of scalars, spinors, vectors, and higher rank tensors; abelian gauge fields and quantum electromagnetics; non-abelian gauge fields; weak interactions; strong interactions; standard model of physics; unified field theory; grand unified field theory; supersymmetric field theory; perturbative field theory; non-perturbative field theory; Feynman diagrams; conformal field theory; string field theory; continuous random fields; spontaneous symmetry breakdown; statistical field theory of many-body systems; spacetime symmetries; internal symmetries; the vacuum; renormalization; and (dynamical) Casimir effect.
Session Chairs
Prof. Dr. Gerald B. Cleaver, Department of Physics and Center for Astrophysics, Space Physics & Engineering Research, Baylor University. https://www.baylor.edu/physics/index.php?id=68540
Prof. Dr. Herbert W. Hamber, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California at Irvine, Irvine CA 92717-4575, USA.
S3. Black Holes
Session Chair
Prof. Dr. Gonzalo J. Olmo, Departamento de Física Teórica and IFIC, Centro Mixto Universidad de Valencia - CSIC. Universidad de Valencia. https://www.uv.es/olalgon/publico/CV.html
S4. Dark Matter and Dark Energy
S5. High Energy Physics
Session Chair
Dr. Paolo Giacomelli, INFN - Sezione di Bologna, Viale Berti Pichat 6/2, 40127 Bologna. http://www.bo.infn.it/~giacomel/
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S6. Compact Objects
In this session, we will discuss various aspects related to compact objects (e.g., white dwarfs, neutron stars, and black holes) in astrophysics and fundamental physics. Relevant topics include the following:
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Observational aspects of compact objects
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Underlying theories for compact objects
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Formation of compact objects in astronomy
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Stellar and binary evolution
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Accretion theories in the presence of compact objects
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Radiative phenomena from compact objects
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Astrophysical environments for compact objects
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Dynamical behaviors of compact objects in dense stellar environments
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Astroparticles and compact objects
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Gravitational waves from compact objects
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Usefulness of compact objects in Cosmology
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Multiband and multimessenger aspects of compact objects
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Compact objects and new fundamental particles/fields
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Compact objects in alternative gravity theories
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Compact object mimickers
Session Chair
Dr. Lijing Shao, Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Peking University. https://friendshao.github.io
S7. Deep-Space Probes
The space age is about 63 years old, but the exploration of the other bodies of the solar system and beyond has only just begun. Many space missions, in addition to making significant technological progress, have obtained extremely important scientific results, and many others are being studied to understand the secrets of our solar system and test the fundamental physical principles.
In this session, we would like to highlight all research related to space missions and fundamental physics tests. Contributions on missions under study, operational missions, and missions already finished are welcome. Relevant topics include the following:
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Fundamental physics, tests of General Relativity, and alternative theories of gravitation in space;
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Future missions: concepts, data simulations, and scientific goals;
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Observations of solar system bodies and galaxies;
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Science of inner planets;
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Science of outer planets;
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Science of planets’ moons;
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Science of minor bodies;
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Technology for space probes.
Session Chairs
Prof. Dr. Giacomo Tommei, Department of Mathematics, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Dr. Daniele Durante, Sapienza University of Rome, Roma, Italy
S8. The Universe of Andrei Sakharov
In 2021, we will commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Andrei D. Sakahrov, and UNESCO has nominated this year A.D. Sakharov year. The paper "Cosmoparticle Physics as Cross-Disciplinary Science" was the last in the list of Sakharov's publications, so studies of the fundamental relationship of cosmology and particle physics further developed his scientific legacy.
Sakharov conditions in baryosynthesis, Sakharov oscillations in CMB, and Sakharov enhancement in dark matter annihilation are but a few examples of A.D. Sakharov’s legacy in the modern theory of the Universe. The aim of this session is to discuss the place and prospects of the development of Sakharov's legacy in studies of the mutual relationship of the bases of modern particle physics and cosmology, as well as the nontrivial features of its indirect physical, cosmological, and astrophysical probes. Such features involve but are not limited to models of the very early Universe and their observational signatures, physics of dark matter, and its direct and indirect probes, as well as to a wide range of models beyond the standard models of particle physics and cosmology and their effects.
Keywords: cosmology; particles physics; astroparticle physics; cosmoparticle physics; BSM models; dark matter; inflation; baryosynthesis; supergravity; extra dimensions
Session Chair
Prof. Dr. Maxim Yu. Khlopov, President of Center for Cosmoparticle physics "Cosmion" and Full Professor of National Research Nuclear University "Moscow Engineering Physics Institute", Director of Virtual Institute of Astroparticle Physics, Université de Paris, CNRS, Astroparticule et Cosmologie, F-75013 Paris, France, Principal Researcher, Director of Laboratory for cosmoparticle studies of Structure and Evolution of Galaxy, Institute of Physics, Southern Federal University, Rostov on Don, Russia
S9. Teaching Relativity and Modern Physics in General
General relativity describes the interplay between the geometry of space-time and its matter and energy content; together with quantum mechanics, on which the standard model of particle physics is based, they represent a best understanding of our universe and of fundamental interactions. Both theories have their roots in the works published by Einstein in his miraculous year, 1905: accordingly, we may refer to modern physics as Einsteinian physics. General relativity and quantum mechanics, besides having an outstanding importance for science, influence our everyday life because of their impact on our technology, such as, for instance, GPS and mobile devices. Despite all this, the Newtonian concepts of space and time, which are in conflict with the modern physics approach, are still largely taught in schools worldwide.
In this session, we will discuss the necessity and possibility of teaching Einsteinian ideas across Years K–12, to give students a better awareness of the modern understanding of our universe. Contributions addressing good practices in teaching modern physics from primary to secondary schools are welcomed.
Session Chairs
Prof. Dr. Matteoluca Luca Ruggiero, Politecnico di Torino
Dr. Magdalena Kersting, Department of Teacher Education and School Research, University of Oslo
S10. Posters
All researchers were encouraged to present their findings in a separate poster. As for papers presented at the conference, participants will be able to ask questions and make comments about the posters. Posters can be presented without an accompanying proceedings paper and will be available online on this website during and after the e-conference. However, they will not be added to the proceedings of the conference.