Dear Collegue,

This is the second announcement for the

GRASSMANNIAN CONFERENCE IN FUNDAMENTAL COSMOLOGY (Grasscosmofun'09), Szczecin (Poland), 14-19.09.2009

which is to celebrate a bicentennial of birth of Hermann Guenter Grassmann who used to live in Szczecin in the 19th century.

Details: http://cosmo.fiz.univ.szczecin.pl

The early registration deadline is the 15th of June. Late registration is 31st of July. We encourage you to register and to submit abstracts for selection to oral presentations.

Schedule: morning - plenary sessions; afternoon - 2 parallell sesions

Preliminary programme see: http://cosmo.fiz.univ.szczecin.pl/?q=node/77

Conference publication will be in a special volume of the "Annalen der Physik" (Berlin).

Invited speakers include:

John D. Barrow, Univ. Cambridge, UK Martin Bojowald, Univ. Penn State, USA Robert R. Caldwell, Dartmouth College, Hanover, USA (to be confirmed) Michael Heller, Copernicus C. for Interdisciplinary Studies, Krakow, Poland Nemanja Kaloper, Univ. of California at Davis Claus Kiefer, Univ. Cologne, Germany Marek Kowalski, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany Anthony Lasenby, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, UK Renate Loll, Univ. Utrecht, The Netherlands Hermann Nicolai, Albert Einstein Institute, Golm, Germany David Polarski, Univ. Montpellier, France Alexei Starobinsky, Landau Institute, Moscow, Russia Alexander Zheltukhin, Kharkov Institute of Physics and technology

Contact: gcosmo09@wmf.univ.szczecin.pl tel. +48 91 444 12 48 fax: +48 91 444 12 26

We are looking forward to seeing you in Szczecin!

With best regards from the OC,

Mariusz P. Dabrowski (chairman)