3 - 6 June 2024  ♦  Aalto University

The International Association for Relativistic Dynamics (IARD) hosted its 14^th biennial meeting at Aalto University.

Conference sessions took place on the Aalto campus and included an excursion to Suomenlinna, a world heritage site, and a conference banquet.

IARD 2024 marks the association's 26^th year of activity since its founding at the 1998 meeting.

Thirteen 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. IARD 2022 took place in Prague at Czech Technical University.

The Proceedings of IARD 2022 appear at https://iopscience.iop.org/issue/1742-6596/2482/1.

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.

Conference Program

Highlighted Speaker Name Links to Abstract
Abstracts Page

Proceedings

As in previous years, IARD 2024 participants re invited to submit a manuscript for the conference proceedings, to appear in Journal of Physics: Conference Series.

Submissions may present a significantly expanded discussion of the work described in the conference talk. All manuscripts will undergo peer review before acceptance.

The deadline for submission to the proceedings is 30 September 2024.

Information for authors, including templates and guidelines for paper preparation, can be found at the JPCS site.

Please note: In order to expedite production of the Proceedings, all participants submitting a manuscript are asked to write peer reviews for two conference submissions in their field of expertise. We hope that this requirement will reduce the time necessary to get the Proceedings published. Having heard the talks at the conference, the review process should not pose an undue burden. Unless the reviewer wishes to correct a serious problem in a manuscript, the reviews need not be longer than a paragraph justifying a recommendation to accept or reject.

The Proceedings of IARD 2022 appear in Journal of Physics: Conference Series at https://iopscience.iop.org/issue/1742-6596/2482/1.

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

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

With deep sadness, IARD notes the passing of Werner Israel of University of Victoria, Canada, and gratefully recalls his support and encouragement.