IWARA2026 - 12th International Workshop on Astronomy and Relativistic Astrophysics First Announcement https://indico.global/event/16048/ Mexico City, August 31 – September 4, 2026
This event is the twelfth in a series of meetings that bring together scientists working in gravitation, cosmology, astroparticle physics, nuclear physics, and related fields. As in previous years, the IWARA2026 meeting sessions will consist of invited lectures and contributions, poster sessions, and will address, among other topics, recent advances in the following areas:
• General relativity and gravitation
• Gravity and the unification of fundamental interactions
• New directions for general relativity
• Theoretical and observational cosmology
• Dark energy and dark matter
• Gravitational waves
• Quantum gravity and quantum cosmology
• Black hole physics and astrophysics
• Inflation
• First instants of the Universe
• Cosmic microwave background radiation
• First stars, hypernovae, and faint supernovae in the Universe
• White dwarfs, neutron stars and pulsars
• Gamma-ray emission in the Universe
• High energy cosmic rays
• Strange matter and strange stars
• High-energy cosmic neutrinos
• Blazars
• Magnetic fields in the Universe
INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE:
• Aurora Pérez Martínez – ICIMAF, Cub
• Benno Bodamann - ICRANet/UFRGS, Brazil
• Carlos Javier Solano Salinas - UNI, Peru
• Cesar Zen Vasconcellos – ICRANet, UFRGS, Brazil
• David Alvarez Castillo - JINR, Dubna
• David Blaschke – University of Wroclaw, Poland
• Dimiter Hadjimichef - UFRGS, ICRANet/UFRGS, Brasil
• Dorota Rosinska – Univ. Warsaw, Poland
• Elena Bratkovskaya – GSI, Germany
• Felix Mirabel - UNLP, Argentina
• Fridolin Weber – SDSU, USA
• Gabriela González - LIGO, USA
• Gustavo Gil - UFRGS, Brazil
• Gustavo Romero – IAR, Argentina
• Horst Stoecker – FIAS, Germany
• Hugo Pérez Rojas - ICIMAF, Cuba
• Joerg Aichelin – SUBATECH, France
• Jorge Horvath – IAG, Brazil
• Jorge Rueda - ICRANet, Italy
• José de Freitas Pacheco - OCA, France
• Luciano Rezzolla – FIAS, Germany
• Luis Ureña-López - Universidad de Guanajuato, México
• Magno Machado - UFRGS, Brasil
• Mariana Vargas – UNAM, México
• Milton Rojas Gamarra - UNSAAC, Perú
• Moises Raseira - UNIPAMPA, Brasil
• Peter Hess – UNAM, México
• Remo Ruffini – ICRANet, Italy
• Ricardo González Felipe – ISEL & CFTP/IST, Portugal
• Rodrigo Sacahui - USAC, AGF, Guatemala
• Steven Gullberg – University of Oklahoma, USA
• Thomas Boller – Inst. Max Planck, Germany
• Tonatiuh Matos – Cinvestav, México
• Tsvi Piran - HUJ, Israel • Ullisses Barres - CBPF, Brasil
• Veronica Dexheimer – Kent State Univ., USA Local Organizing Committee
LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
• Tonatiuh Matos (chair), Cinvestav, tonatiuh.matos@cinvestav.mx
• Tula Bernal, UAChapingo, tbernalm@chapingo.mx
• Argelia Bernal, UGto. bernal.a@ugto.mx
• Alberto Vázquez, ICF-UNAM, javazquez@icf.unam.mx
• Gabriela Piccinelli, FES-UNAM, itzamna@unam.mx
* Peter Otto Hess, ICN-UNA;, hess@nucleares.unam.mx
VENUE:
IWARA2026 VENUE IWARA2026 will take place in Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados, located in the north of Mexico-City, Av. Politécnico 2508, Col. San Pedro Zacatenco, Alc. Gustavo A. Madero, 07010, CDMX, México.
SPONSORS:
• Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados – Cinvestav • Secretaría de Ciencias, Humanidades, Tecnología e Innovación - SECIHTI
• Universidad Autónoma de Chapingo – UAChapingo • Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México ICN-UNAM
• Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana – UAM
• Universidad de Guanajuato – UG
• Instituto de Ciencias Físicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México ICF-UNAM
