AT4 - Metric Affine Gravitational Theories in 4-Dimensions

Session Programme

Chairman: J. G. Pereira

15:00 - 15:40 Quadratic Metric-Affine Gravity
Dmitri Vassiliev - UK

15:40 - 16:00 Scalar Field and Nonsingular Cosmology within Gauge Theories of Gravity
Gregory Vereshchagin - Republic of Belarus

16:00 - 16:20 On non-Riemannian Geometry of Helium Superfluids
Luiz Carlos Garcia de Andrade - Brazil

16:20 - 16:40 On Source Coupling and the Teleparallel Equivalent to GR
Lau Loi So - Taiwan

16:40 - 17:10 Break

17:10 - 17:30 Quasilocal Center-of-Mass for Teleparallel Gravity
James M. Nester - Taiwan

17:30 - 17:50 Non-Abelian Teleparallelism as an Extended Gauge Theory: a Geometrical View
Ana Lúcia Barbosa - Brazil

17:50 - 18:10 The Vacuum Energy Density in the Teleparallel Equivalent of General Relativity
José W. Maluf - Brazil

18:10 - 18:30 Doing without the Equivalence Principle
Ruben Aldrovandi - Brazil

18:30 - 18:50 Teleparallel Gravity: Global Formulation and Quantum Effects
José G. Pereira - Brazil