Lecture series
Lorenzo Fatibene: Conservation laws in relativistic theories and gauge natural theories
- Noether symmetries
- Natural and gauge-natural bundles
- Natural/gauge-natural symmetries
- Superpotentials in relativistic/gauge-natural theories
Salvatore Capozziello: Metric-affine theories of gravity and extensions/modifications of General Relativity
- Metric-affine theories
- Why extending/modifying General Relativity?
- Geometric objects
- Tetrads and spin
- Cartan structure equations
- Spin connection
- Lorentz group and algebra
- The Geometric Trinity of Gravity: Lagrangians, field equations, and solutions. Extending the Geometric Trinity of Gravity
- Summary
- Open problems
Zbynek Urban: Variational principles in mechanics and field theory
- Jets and contact elements as underlying structures, ideal of contact forms
- Variational sequences, Lepage forms, and the inverse problem of the calculus of variations
- Local and global aspects of variational principles
- Noether-type symmetry theoremss
- Applications in geometric mechanics and field theory
Workshop Lectures
- Jan Brajerčík (University of Presov, Slovakia)
- Marián Fecko (Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia)
- Manuel Hohmann (University of Tartu, Estonia)
- Martin Krššák (Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia)
- Robert Wolak (Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland)
- Aneta Wojnar (University of Wroclaw, Poland)
Poster session
Any participant can present a poster on their current work related to the school topics.
Social Program
A tour of the historical center of Brasov will be organized on Monday (August 17), in the afternoon. An excursion in the surroundings of Brasov and a conference dinner will be organized (precise dates to be announced).
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