8 - 11 June 2026  ♦  Howard University

The International Association for Relativistic Dynamics (IARD) will host its 15^th biennial meeting at Howard University.

Conference sessions will take place on the Howard campus.

IARD 2026 marks the association's 28^th year of activity since its founding at the 1998 meeting.

Fourteen 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, and IARD 2026 was held at Aalto University in Helsinki.

The Proceedings of IARD 2024 appear at https://iopscience.iop.org/issue/1742-6596/2987/1.

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.

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. Details of abstract submission to be announced.

Registration

Registration information for IARD 2026 to be announced.

Conference Program

To Be Announced

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