4 - 7 June 2018  ♦  Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico

The International Association for Relativistic Dynamics (IARD) hosted its 11^th biennial meeting in Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico 4 - 7 June 2018, in cooperation with Instituto Politécnico Nacional. The conference sessions took place at Hotel El Español in central Mérida.

IARD 2018 marks the association's 20^th year of activity since its founding at the 1998 meeting.

Ten 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, Galileo Galilei Institute for Theoretical Physics (GGI) in Florence, Italy, again at UConn, and in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

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 Instituto Politécnico Nacional for its support in hosting IARD 2018.

Conference Proceedings

The organizing committee cordially invites all IARD 2018 participants to submit a manuscript for proceedings, which will appear online in Journal of Physics: Conference Series. Submissions may present significantly expanded discussions of the work described in the conference talk. All manuscripts will undergo external peer review before acceptance. Larry Horwitz will again serve as editor-in-chief.

The deadline for manuscripts is 30 October 2018.

Please note: Manuscripts may be submitted to proceedings@iard-relativity.org. We will provide reviewers' comments at the earliest convenience. Manuscripts for review do not require any special formatting. PDF files are preferred. Papers accepted for publication must be prepared using the Journal of Physics style sheets, available for LaTeX and Word. A generic LaTeX document may be easily converted to the required format by declaring the JPCS document class in the file header. However experience has shown that conversion of a general Word document to JPCS format can be somewhat daunting. We strongly recommend that Word users begin a new document for submission employing the JCPS template for Word from the outset. Information for authors, including the LaTeX class file and Word template file, is available at http://conferenceseries.iop.org/content/authors. IARD 2018 participants are encouraged to submit a manuscript for the proceedings, even if related work is in preparation for publication elsewhere. Under the IOP license agreement, authors are not required to transfer the copyright in their manuscripts to Journal of Physics: Conference Series. Instead authors grant Institute of Physics a license to use the copyright to reproduce and distribute the manuscript. This means that authors retain the copyright in the published work while granting the journal appropriate permissions required to make the paper available online. A re-written and extended version of the paper may be published in another journal. Authors should read the Institute of Physics Proceedings Licence on the IOP website.

Further details will be posted soon.

Questions regarding the proceedings (including help with document formatting) may be sent to martin@multinet.net.il.

International Advisory Committee

Stephen Adler
Institute for Advanced Study, USA

Itzhak Bars
University of Southern California, USA

Gordon Baym
University of Illinois, USA

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