6 - 9 June 2022  ♦  Czech Technical University in Prague

The International Association for Relativistic Dynamics (IARD) will host its 13^th biennial meeting at Czech Technical University in Prague.

Conference sessions will take place on the CTU campus, subject to Covid restrictions in place at the time. We plan to include an excursion and a conference banquet.

IARD 2022 marks the association's 24^th year of activity since its founding at the 1998 meeting.

Twelve 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, in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and in Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico. IARD 2020 was a significant success as an early virtual (online only) conference.

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.

Call for Papers

The International Association for Relativistic Dynamics invites all scholars to attend and participate in this conference, and to present a lecture at one of the plenary sessions. If you are interested in presenting at the conference, please submit a brief abstract of your planned talk to the program committee at the following email address:

abstracts@iard-relativity.org

The deadline for abstracts is 25 April 2022. The abstracts should not exceed 250 words. You will receive an email acknowledgement upon receipt of your abstract. Notification of the acceptance of your abstract and assignment to a paper session will be made by 1 May 2022.

Registration

Registration is open for IARD 2022 and will continue through the conference sessions.

The registration fee is € 300 (EUR), which covers participation in the conference, the excursion, the conference banquet and publication of the proceedings. The fee may also be paid as $330 (USD). Accompanying partners may participate in the excursion and the banquet for an additional fee of € 50 (EUR) which may be paid as $55 (USD). IARD cannot accept credit card payments. The fee may be paid in cash at the conference. The registration fee may be waived for students and in other special cases.
If you are interested in attending but have not prepared an abstract, the organizers will be most grateful if you would inform us by writing to abstracts@iard-relativity.org.

Accommodations

The following hotels are conveniently located for the conference venue: Parkhotel Praha   Veletržní 20, 170 00 Prague 7
  www.parkhotel-praha.cz
  Distance from venue: 2100 m (5 min. by tram no. 17)
  Single room 2520 CZK/night (approx. 97 USD)
  Double room 2688 CZK/night (approx. 104 USD)
President Hotel Prague   Náměstí Curieových 1/100, 110 00 Prague 1
  www.axxoshotels.com/the-president
  Distance from venue: 350 m (5 min. by walk)
  Single room 4480 CZK/night (approx. 173 USD)
  Double room 4760 CZK/night (approx. 183 USD)
Novoměstský Hotel   Řeznická 4, 110 00 Prague 1
  www.novomestskyhotel.cz
  Distance from venue: 1800 m (10 min. by trams no. 9 and 17 or 20 min. by walk)
  Single room N.A.
  Double room 1500 CZK/night (approx. 58 USD)

Conference Venue

The address of the conference venue is:

Czech Technical University
Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering
Břehová 78/7
115 19  Prague 1
Czech Republic

The meetings take place in Břehová building of the Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague (Street view)

The meeting venue can be seen from the top of a look-out tower on Old Town square.

This building is located in the very center of Prague (next to the Rudolfinum concert hall, Vltava river and very close to the Old Town square) and is easily reachable by public transport from any part of Prague.

Nearest metro station: Staroměstské náměstí (green line A)
Nearest tram stops: Staroměstské náměstí (lines 2, 13, 14, 17, 18) or Právnická fakulta
(line 17)

As for accessibility of the lecture halls, theses are on the ground floor and first floor (accessible both with starts and elevator).  As for the noon breaks, the lunches will be served in the form of buffet that will be served in the conference building.

Conference Program (still subject to change)

Abstracts

Proceedings

As in previous years, IARD 2022 participants will be invited to submit a manuscript for the conference proceedings. Submissions may present a significantly expanded discussion of the work described in the conference talk. All manuscripts will undergo external peer review before acceptance.

The Proceedings of IARD 2020 appear in Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Volume 1956.

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