Alternative Gravities and Fundamental Cosmology

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue will gather together works presented at the conference “Alternative Gravities and Fundamental Cosmology” (Altecosmofun'21), which will take place in Szczecin, Poland, 6–10 September, 2021. This is the fifth of the fundamental cosmology conferences organized by the Cosmology Group at the University of Szczecin (after Cosmofun’2005, Grasscosmofun’09, Multicosmofun’12, Varcosmofun'16). The conference was originally planned for September 2020, but because of the pandemic, it was shifted and rescheduled to be held online one year later.

The task of the conference is to bring together specialists dealing with many modifications of Einstein’s general relativity—something we call “alternative gravities”. The number of theories which go beyond Einstein is growing, and this growth is motivated by the mystery of dark energy, the phenomenology of quantum gravity, and fundamental theories such as superstring, Brane, and M-theory. This conference is aimed towards all them, and participants who want to exchange current ideas on these topics are strongly encouraged to participate. Renowned specialists in the field have confirmed their attendance. Among them is Paul C.W. Davies, Astrid Eichhorn, Lavinia Heisenberg, Alexei Starobinsky, and many others have confirmed their attendance. The program of the conference will contain four invited plenary morning sessions and five contributed paper afternoon sessions. In addition, a special Doctoral Students Session during which students will be able to present and discuss actively their research will be held one morning.

This Special Issue of Universe will contain longer review articles by invited speakers, as well as selected by the Scientific Committee, short papers from contributed and student sessions speakers.

For more information about the conference, see: https://indico.cern.ch/event/873762

Prof. Dr. Mariusz P. Dąbrowski
Dr. Adam Balcerzak
Dr. Vincenzo Salzano
Guest Editors

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