International Association for
Relativistic Dynamics

IARD 2020

The 12th Biennial Conference on Classical and Quantum Relativistic Dynamics of Particles and Fields

1 – 4 June 2020 Virtual Meeting Online

Welcome from the Chairs

Petr Jizba, Conference Chair

Martin Land, IARD President

We are pleased to welcome everyone to IARD 2020, the 12th biennial meeting of the International Association for Relativistic Dynamics.

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 general theoretical approaches in field theory, manifestly covariant approaches to classical mechanics, quantum theory, and statistical mechanics, general relativity, classical and quantum gravity, and to explore applications in such areas as high energy spectroscopy, quark-gluon plasmas, scattering and particle decay, cosmology, gravitational waves, and relativistic quantum information.

IARD 2020 was planned in two stages:

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In this virtual meeting, we have organized talks into sessions covering related topics. For each session, you will find a list of speakers, a link to their presentation, a short bio, links to associated references, and a forum for discussion of the papers. We will also facilitate video-conference sessions for those interested.

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The physical meeting at Czech Technical University in Prague, was originally planned for June and postponed to September. Given the continued restrictions on travel and on indoor events, we are forced to cancel the physical meeting for 2020.

Preparations have begun to host IARD 2022 in Prague.

IARD 2020 marks the association's 22nd year of activity since its founding at the 1998 meeting.

Eleven 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.

Conference Overview

The IARD 2020 Virtual Meeting is envisioned as an online discussion of the research reports found in the Conference Program. Click on any talk to find the abstract, lecture slides, notes, recorded talks, and other material. A Zoom videoconference will be open during the meeting for these conversations (details for connection to be announced soon by email to participants only). Questions and comments can also be sent by email to iard_2020@iard-relativity.org or directly to author's by contact information found on the lecture page.

Sessions and times: Talks are assigned to virtual sessions, divided between North America and Europe/Asia according to the location of the speakers. Each presentation is allocated a time for focused discussion, and in a few specified cases, the talk will be given live over Zoom at that time.

The sessions are listed here in real-time chronological order. Session times (coordinate times) are referred to Boston Time (GMT-4:00) for North America or to London Time (GMT+1:00) for Europe/Asia.

On each day, between the last session in Europe/Asia and the first session in North America, there is time for a Virtual Coffee Break, for general conversation.

Conference Program

IARD 2020 Physical Meeting Czech Technical University in Prague

The physical meeting at Czech Technical University in Prague, was originally planned for June and postponed to September. Given the continued restrictions on travel and on indoor events, we are forced to cancel the physical meeting for 2020.

Preparations have begun to host IARD 2022 in Prague.

International Organizing Committee

  • Gonzalo Ares de Parga

    Instituto Politécnico Nacional

  • Tepper L. Gill

    Howard University, USA

  • Lawrence P. Horwitz

    Bar Ilan University, Israel

    Tel-Aviv University, Israel

  • Martin C. Land

    Hadassah College, Jerusalem

  • James O'Brien

    Springfield College, USA

Conference Proceedings

As in previous years, the Proceedings of IARD 2020 participants will appear in Journal of Physics: Conference Series.

The deadline for full manuscripts has been extended to 31 February 2021.

All participants are encouraged 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.

Information for authors, including templates for LaTeX and Word, citation guides, the IOP proceedings licence, and proceedings peer review policy are available at https://publishingsupport.iopscience.iop.org/author-guidelines-for-conference-proceedings.

The Proceedings of IARD 2018 appear in Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Volume 1239

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