University of Connecticut (UConn)  ♦  Storrs, CT, USA
9 - 13 June 2014

The International Association for Relativistic Dynamics (IARD) hosted its 9^th biennial meeting at The University of Connecticut (UConn) Storrs, CT, USA, 9 - 13 June 2014.

IARD 2014 marks the association's 16^th year of activity since its founding at the 1998 meeting and took place in conjunction with a conference on PT symmetry.

Eight previous meetings were held in Houston, Texas, Bar Ilan University in Tel Aviv, Israel, Howard University in Washington DC, Saas Fee, Switzerland, the University of Connecticut in Storrs, CT, Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, Greece, and Hualien, Taiwan, and Galileo Galilei Institute for Theoretical Physics (GGI) in Florence, Italy.

The goal of these meetings is to bring together researchers from diverse fields whose interests involve relativistic dynamics, both classical and quantum. The conference program aims to present recent developments in the abstract theoretical aspects of general approaches in quantum field theory, conformal field theories and string theories, manifestly covariant approaches to classical mechanics, quantum theory, and statistical mechanics, general relativity, classical and quantum gravity, and explore application in such areas as high energy electron spectroscopy, quark-gluon plasma generation in heavy ion collisions, general high energy scattering and particle decay, cosmology, gravitational waves, and relativistic quantum information.

IARD would like to express its gratitude to the University of Connecticut and to Nora Berrah, head of the Department of Physics, for hosting IARD/PT 2014.

We also express our appreciation to Philip Mannheim for his efforts as chair of the organizing committee, and to committee members James O'Brien and Ronald Mallet. At the IARD business meeting, James O'Brien was elected IARD Vice President. We are grateful to outgoing Vice President Ronald Mallet who has graciously offered to continue supporting the organization.

Conference Proceedings

The Proceedings of IARD 2014 appear in Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Volume 615.

International Advisory Committee

Stephen Adler
Institute for Advanced Study, USA

Itzhak Bars
University of Southern California, USA

Gordon Baym
University of Illinois, USA

Jacob Bekenstein
Hebrew University, Israel

Fred Cooper
Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA

Bei-Lok Hu
University of Maryland, USA

Werner Israel
University of Victoria, Canada

Luca Lusanna
National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN)

E.V. Shuryak
Stony Brook University, USA

L.S. Schulman
Clarkson University

William Unruh
University of British Columbia, Canada

Conference Program