BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//CERN//INDICO//EN BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:XXXVIII International Workshop on High Energy Physics and Field Th eory “Current issues in gravitation and cosmology” DTSTART:20261124T065000Z DTEND:20261126T150000Z DTSTAMP:20260606T190300Z UID:indico-event-976@indico.ihep.su CONTACT:hepft2026-questions@ihep.ru\;roman.ryutin@ihep.ru\;roman.riutin@gm ail.com DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Vladimir Petrov (logunov ihep)\, Roman Riutin (IHEP) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLogunov Institute for High Energy Physics (Protvino\, M oscow region\, Russia) of National Research Centre "Kurchatov Institute" is organizing the XXXVIII International Workshop on High Energy Physics an d Field Theory “Current issues in gravitation and cosmology"\, November 24-26\, 2026.\nThe purpose of this Workshop is to highlight and review the most pressing problems in gravitation and cosmology\, dark matter and dar k energy\, gravitational waves. Presentation and discussion of issues in g eneral quantum field theory and relevant historical\, philosophical and me thodological aspects are envisaged. Hopefully\, this will allow to get fre sh information on progress in these fields and to provide an active discus sion both of results and problems.\n \nTo this end the workshop will cons ist of  invited talks only\nand a 1-hour discussion session after each wo rking day with a summary from the discussion leader will be arranged.\n\n  Dear Colleagues\,\nWe kindly ask you to submit the abstract of your talk (at least in a condensed form) via this web-page (or via e-mail\, in ca se of problems). \nThis would help us to arrange the program and the corre sponding discussions in advance.\n\nTopics to be discussed\n●      Ge neral relativity\, generalizations and alternatives\n●      Black hol es. Gravitational waves\n●      Higher spins and gravitation\n\nWis hes to speakers\n\nAs one can see from the program\, our Workshop concerns various fields sometimes very different from each other\, both conceptual ly and in technical terminology. \nThat is why we would like to avoid exce ssive diversification and to try to preserve to a certain extent the unity of the high energy physics community.\nIn this regard\, we would like to ask all speakers\, if possible\, to kindly avoid\, if possible\, details t hat are understandable only to a narrow circle of deeply involved experts   and to make the presentation simpler and clearer (thus more interesting !)  to a wider circle of participants.\nWe also believe that it would be of great importance to give\, at least in a concise way\, the conceptual m otivation of your subject.\n\n   We are aware that this task can be rath er difficult\, so in no way the above wishes are mandatory and  every spe aker is\, certainly\, free to deliver her/his talk according to  her/his own desire and convenience.\n\nWishes to discussion leaders\n\nIt is assum ed that each session will end with a general discussion (near one hour).\n The discussion is led by the discussion leader. \nThe first part is assume d to be devoted to additional questions which bear a conceptual character\ , which are collected by technical coordinators and then sent to the disc ussion leader. It is meant that during the talk time only technical short questions not bearing a conceptual character are admitted.  This is regu lated by the chairperson.\nIn the second part the discussion leader is ask ed to give a brief summary of the session's reports and a brief descriptio n of the most important unresolved problems related to the topic of the se ssion.\nThe allocation of time for discussion and summary is  left to the discretion of the discussion leader.\nAdditional wishes to discussion lea ders:The hour of discussion is divided into three parts.1. Conceptual ques tions to speakers of the session(s) from theaudience.2. A short summary fr om the discussion leader for each of the talks ofthe session(s).3. General summary of the state of affairs and prospects.Topic(topics) - at the choi ce of the discussion leader\, but relevant to at least one talk of the ses sion(s).The distribution of time among the above parts is at the choice of the presenter.\n\n\nStructure of the workshop\n\nParticipation will be av ailable both in person and online.\nSpeakers by invitation only.\nTwo sess ions with 4-5 invited talks of 35 minutes duration and 5 minutes forquesti ons (additional time is possible by request) and debates of a current char acter after each talk will be arranged every day.\nIn the evening one hour will be devoted to moderated open discussion of relevant general problems .\nPoster sessions are possible for young participants (graduates and post graduates) as everyday last 40-min sessions.\nOnly registered participant s can follow the sessions and take part in the discussions. \nThe first st ep is to register in the indico system  https://indico.ihep.su/register/\ nNext\, the system will send a link to confirm the email.\nAfter that\, yo u can log in to the indico system with the login you received and registe r for the conference.\n\nProceedings of the workshop will be published in Physics of Elementary Particles and Atomic Nuclei of the Joint Institute f or Nuclear Research (JINR\, Dubna) \n\nThe session summaries are envisage d to be placed jointly in the arXiv (hep-ph).\n\nIMPORTANT DATES\n\nNovemb er 1\, 2026 - end of abstract submission\nNovember 23\, 2026 - end of regi stration of speakers\nNovember 24\, 2026 - start of the Workshop\n\n\nPart icipation\nParticipation with review talks is by invitation of the Organiz ing Committee.\nIn the case of a proactive request the decision is made by the Organizing Committee.                                  \nThe sessions will be online by appropriate software a nd also in person.\nThere is no registration fee.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://i ndico.ihep.su/event/976/ URL:https://indico.ihep.su/event/976/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR