Deformations of Spacetime Symmetries: Gravity, Group-Valued Momenta, and Non-Commutative Fields

Michele Arzano is a researcher in theoretical physics at the University of Naples "Federico II". He obtained his PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and has held positions at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Canada, at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at Utrecht University in the Netherlands and at "Sapienza" University of Rome in Italy. His research interests over the years have ranged from non-commutative field theory and deformed symmetries to quantum effects in curved spacetimes and black hole thermodynamics. More recently he has contributed to research on asymptotic symmetries in general relativity and conformal quantum mechanics.

Jerzy Kowalski-Glikman is a professor at the Institute of Theoretical Physics of the University of Wroclaw and at National Centre for Nuclear Research in Warsaw. He got his PhD in 1985 from the University of Warsaw and habilitation in 1994 from the University of Wroclaw and full professorship in 2002. His research interests include quantum gravity and quantum gravity phenomenology, non-commutative field theories, cosmology, and string theory. He is author of more than hundred research papers published on international peer reviewed journals.