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THURSDAY MARCH 13, 2025
Opening session
chaired by
Alysson Ferrari (UF ABC)
08:45-09:00
Welcoming Remarks
Mark Messier, Chair, Physics Department
Mike Snow, Director, IUCSS
Ralf Lehnert, IUCSS
09:00-09:25
Robert Bluhm (Colby)
Backgrounds and Explicit Breaking
09:25-09:50
Yu-Xiao Liu (Lanzhou U)
Black-Hole Solutions in Bumblebee Gravity
09:50-10:15
Albin Nilsson (CTPU-CGA)
A New Perturbative Black-Hole Solution and Constraints on Explicit Diffeomorphism Breaking in Gravity
10:15-10:40
Dhruba Jyoti Gogoi (Moran Coll)
Violation of Hod's Conjecture
in Einstein Gauss-Bonnet Bumblebee Theory of Gravity
10:40-11:00
Break
Thurday morning session 2
chaired by
Agnes Roberts (IUCSS)
11:00-11:25
Rui Xu (Tsinghua U)
FLRW Cosmology in a Bumblebee Gravity Model
11:25-11:50
Jay Tasson (Carleton)
Gravitational Waves in the SME
11:50-12:15
Ali Ovgun (Eastern Mediterranean)
Lorentz-Violation Effects on Bumblebee Black-Hole Shadows: Insights From EHT Data and Deflection Angles
12:15-12:40
Neil Russell (Northern Michigan)
SME-Based Limits on Torsion and Nonmetricity
12:40-14:00
Break
Thurday afternoon session
chaired by
Yunhua Ding (Ohio Wesleyan)
14:00-14:25
Brett Altschul (South Carolina)
Gravitational Distortions as Sources of Vacuum Cerenkov Radiation
14:25-14:50
Marco Schreck (UF Maranhao)
Hamiltonian Formulation for Explicit and Spontaneous Spacetime-Symmetry Violations
14:50-15:15
Albert Petrov (UF Paraiba)
Dynamical Lorentz-Symmetry Breaking in a Scale-Free Theory of Gravity
15:15-15:40
Carlos Reyes (U Bio-Bio)
Explicit Backgrounds in Cosmology
FRIDAY MARCH 14, 2025
Friday morning session 1
chaired by
Ali Ovgun (Eastern Mediterranean)
08:35-09:00
Alan Kostelecky (Indiana)
Gravitational Aspects of Lorentz Violation
09:00-09:25
Shu-Xu Yi (IHEP)
Constraining Theories Beyond GR with GW and Multi-Messenger Observations: The Propagation Effects
09:25-09:50
Tao Zhu (Zhejiang U Technol)
Constraints on Lorentz and Parity Violations in Gravity with Gravitational Waves
09:50-10:15
Umananda Dev Goswami (Dibrugarh U)
Lorentz-Symmetry Violation and Cosmological Implications
10:15-10:40
Dongfeng Gao (Chinese Academy)
Constraining the Spin-Gravity Coupling Effects With Atom Interferometers
10:40-11:00
Break
Friday morning session 2
chaired by
Jay Tasson (Carleton)
11:00-11:25
Zhi Xiao (NCEP U)
Some Preliminary Results on the Asymptotic Behavior of Lorentz-Violating Photon Fields
11:25-11:50
Salvatore Capozziello (U Naples)
Resonant Graviton-Photon Transitions With Cosmological Stochastic Magnetic Field
11:50-12:15
Hollis Williams (U Warwick)
Lorentz-Violating Pseudovectors in Effective Field Theories for Quantum Gravity
12:15-12:40
Quentin Bailey (Embry Riddle)
Recent Work on Spontaneous Lorentz-Symmetry Breaking and Black-Hole Physics
12:40-14:00
Break
Friday afternoon session
chaired by
Nathan Sherrill (Hannover U)
14:00-14:15
Samy Aoulad Lafkih (SYRTE)
Gravitational Waves in the Presence of Lorentz-Invariance Violations
14:15-14:30
Joao dos Santos (UF Maranhao)
Hamiltonian Formulation of Modified Gravity with Spontaneous Spacetime-Symmetry Violation
14:30-14:45
Cesar Riquelme (U Bio-Bio)
Explicit and Spontaneous Background Fields in Modified Gravity
14:45-15:00
Ivan Perez (CINVESTAV)
Probing Discrete Symmetries in Lorentz-Violating Scenarios: Gravitational Effects
15:00-15:15
Facundo Lopez and Owen Zhang (Carleton)
Complete-Coverage Searches for Lorentz Violation in the Minimal Matter Sector
15:15-15:30
Caitlyn Holl and Will Lankenau (Carleton)
Extending the Breadth of SME Searches in the Muon Sector
15:30
Ralf Lehnert (IUCSS)
Closing Remarks