<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span class="">Dear Colleagues,<br class=""></span><span class=""><br class=""></span><span class="">The seventh spacetime conference will commemorate the 115th anniversary of the publication (in 1909) of Minkowski's 1908 world-view-changing lecture "Space and Time," which presented the novel ideas of the spacetime structure of the world and the four-dimensional physics of spacetime. It is organized by Minkowski Institute (Montreal) and will be held in the famous Black Sea resort "Albena" (near Varna, Bulgaria) from 16 to 19 September 2024:<br class=""></span><span class=""><br class=""></span><span class=""><a href="https://minkowskiinstitute.com/conferences/2024/" class="">https://minkowskiinstitute.com/conferences/2024/</a></span><span class=""><br class=""></span><span class=""><br class=""></span><span class="">The Scientific Organizing Committee invites papers from physicists, philosophers of physics and philosophers on any topic related to the nature and ontology of spacetime. Suggestions for special sessions on specific topics are welcome. We hope there will be sufficient interest in a special session to mark the 160th anniversary of the birth of Hermann Minkowski (1864-2024) "Minkowski's actual and intended contributions to spacetime physics."<br class=""></span><span class=""><br class=""></span><span class="">Extended abstracts of between one and two pages should be emailed to <a href="mailto:2024conference@minkowskiinstitute.com" class="">2024conference@minkowskiinstitute.com</a> by 1 June 2024. Submissions will be reviewed and notification of acceptance will be sent by 15 June 2024. </span><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">To have a better idea of where the conference will be held, you can have a look at pictures taken during the third Minkowski Meeting last September (also held in Albena):<br class=""><br class=""><a href="https://minkowskiinstitute.com/meetings/2023/pictures.html" class="">https://minkowskiinstitute.com/meetings/2023/pictures.html</a></div><div class=""><span class=""><br class=""></span><span class=""><br class=""></span><span class=""><b class="">Scientific Organizing Committee:</b><br class=""></span><span class="">Valia Allori (University of Bergamo)<br class=""></span><span class="">James Binkoski (Dartmouth College)<br class=""></span><span class="">Carolyn Brighouse (Occidental College, Los Angeles)<br class=""></span><span class="">Karen Crowther (University of Oslo)<br class=""></span><span class="">Nina Emery (Mount Holyoke College and UMass Amherst)<br class=""></span><span class="">Robert Geroch (University of Chicago)<br class=""></span><span class="">John B. Manchak (University of California, Irvine)<br class=""></span><span class="">Vesselin Petkov (Minkowski Institute, Montreal)<br class=""></span><span class="">James Read (University of Oxford)<br class=""></span><span class="">Carlo Rovelli (Centre de Physique Théorique de Luminy, Marseille, France)<br class=""></span><span class="">Anguel Stefanov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)<br class=""></span><span class=""><br class=""><br class=""></span><span class="">On behalf of the Scientific Organizing Committee,<br class=""></span><span class=""><br class=""></span><span class="">Vesselin Petkov<br class=""></span><span class="">Minkowski Institute<br class=""></span><span class="">Montreal, Canada<br class=""></span><span class=""><a href="https://minkowskiinstitute.com" class="">https://minkowskiinstitute.com</a><br class=""></span><span class=""><a href="mailto:vpetkov@minkowskiinstitute.com" class="">vpetkov@minkowskiinstitute.com</a><br class=""></span><span class="">Personal page: <a href="http://vesselinpetkov.com/" class="">http://vesselinpetkov.com/</a></span></div></body></html>