Galileo Galilei Institute for Theoretical Physics (GGI)  ♦  Florence, Italy
29 May - 1 June 2012

The International Association for Relativistic Dynamics (IARD) hosted its 8^th biennial meeting at The Galileo Galilei Institute for Theoretical Physics (GGI) in Florence (Firenze), Italy, from 29 May to 1 June 2012.

IARD 2012 marks the association's 14^th year of activity since its founding at the 1998 meeting.

Seven previous meetings took place 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.

IARD 2010 was held in conjunction with a workshop on Relativistic Quantum Information, including a joint session on RQI-N.

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 Proceedings

The Proceedings of IARD 2012 appear in Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Volume 437.

Academic Sponsors

The International Association for Relativistic Dynamics (IARD) gratefully acknowledges the generous support of INFN - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare.

International Advisory Committee

Stephen Adler
Institute for Advanced Study, USA

Itzhak Bars
University of Southern California, USA

Gordon Baym
University of Illinois, USA

Jacob Bekenstein
Hebrew University, Israel

Fred Cooper
Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA

Bei-Lok Hu
University of Maryland, USA

Werner Israel
University of Victoria, Canada

E.V. Shuryak
Stony Brook University, USA

L.S. Schulman
Clarkson University

William Unruh
University of British Columbia, Canada

Conference Venue

The conference will take place in the main auditorium (Aula A).

There are two projectors in the auditorium but no PC. We will provide a laptop to display Adobe PDF and Microsoft PowerPoint presentations.

Conference Program