Workshop Schedule

31 May - 1 June, 2026
AUBG’s Elieff Center for Education and Culture, Sofia
Time Speaker Topic
Sunday May, 31
10:00 − 10:40 Richard Kerner Sorbonne University

"A ℤ3-symmetric Quantum Chromodynamics"
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10:40 − 11:20 Ognyan KounchevIMI, BAS ”Harmonic Analysis on Dirac-Klein Quadric”
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11:20 - 11:40 | Coffee Break
11:40 - 12:20 Mahmut ElbistanBilgi University ”Symmetries of Exact Plane Gravitational Waves”
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12:20 - 13:00 Vesselin FilevIMI, BAS "Meson spectra from global Anti-de Sitter space"
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13:00 - 15:00 | Lunch
15:00 - 15:40 Cem YetismisogluIstanbul Medipol University ”Odd Generalizations of Supersymplectic Manifolds and Dynamical Discrete Systems”
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15:40 - 16:20 Keremcan DoganGebze University ”Exceptional Drinfel’d Algebroids and Rackoids”
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16:20 - 16:50 | Coffee Break
16:50 - 17:30 Federica MuscolinoUniversity of Milano-Bicocca ”Two times physics and Freudental Triples ”
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17:30 - 18:20 John Baez (via ZOOM)University of California, Riverside ”The Standard Model gauge group from octonions”
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Monday, June 1
10:00 - 10:40 Alessio MarraniUniversity of Hertfordshire ”Time as the simplest Jordan algebra”
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10:40 - 11:20 Kiril HristovSofia University ”Supersymmetric partition functions from equivariant characteristic classes”
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11:20 - 11:40 | Coffee Break
11:40 - 12:20 Mustafa MullahasanogluBogazici University

”Superconformal Index of Quiver Mechanics with
D(2, 1; α) Symmetry”
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12:20 - 13:00 Valdemar TsanovIMI, BAS

”Geometry of Entanglement” See Abstract

13:00 - 14:20 | Lunch
14:20 - 15:00 Misha ShkolnikovIMI, BAS

"Three scales at Self-Organized Criticality" See Abstract

15:00 - 15:40 David Broadhurst(via ZOOM)Open University, UK

"Zeta values and Lambert series in quantum field theory" See Abstract