The 15^th Biennial Conference on Classical and Quantum Relativistic Dynamics of Particles and Fields

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.

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

 
 

IARD Mission Statement

The purpose of the Association is to facilitate the acquisition and dissemination of knowledge about research programs in classical and quantum relativistic dynamics of particles and fields.

Links to IARD Conference Pages

9-11 February 1998	Houston, Texas, USA
26-28 June 2000	Tel Aviv, Israel
24-26 June 2002	Washington, DC, USA
12-19 June 2004	Saas Fee, Switzerland
12-14 June 2006	University of Connecticut, USA
22-26 June 2008	Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece
30 May - 1 June 2010	National Dong Hwa University, Hualien, Taiwan
29 May - 1 June 2012	Galileo Galilei Institute for Theoretical Physics, Firenze, Italy
9-13 June 2014	University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA
6-9 June 2016	Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
4-7 June 2018	Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico
1-4 June 2020	Online
6-9 June 2022	Prague, Czech Republic
3-6 June 2024	Helsinki, Finland