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MathPhys · Tashkent · 2026
The Regional Conference on Mathematical Physics has met since 1984, rotating between Turkey, Iran, Pakistan, Armenia and Georgia. The 15th edition is the first to be held in Central Asia.
1926 — 2026
2026 marks one hundred years since the birth of Professor Abdus Salam — Nobel Laureate, founder of ICTP, and a lifelong advocate for theoretical physics in the developing world. His conviction that scientific excellence knows no borders led directly to the creation of the Institute of Theoretical Physics in Tashkent, which began full operation in January 2026. Dedicating the 15th conference to his centenary is, for this community, a matter of gratitude.
The conference also celebrates the 80th birthday of Professor Asghar Qadir, a pillar of mathematical physics in the region and a presence in this series almost from its beginning.
Fifteen meetings across six countries. Two editions carry the names of colleagues the series lost.
The first meeting, arranged by a group of physicists from Iran and Turkey who had met at ICTP in Trieste.
The first edition officially called a Regional Conference, after Pakistan joined the rotation.
The region widens beyond the original three countries.
The first edition held in Central Asia.
The programme is advanced in level, bringing together invited experts, selected contributed talks, and postgraduate researchers.
Quark confinement and the spontaneous breaking of chiral symmetry — the two peculiarities of QCD that still resist a full account, and the structure of the QCD vacuum behind them.
Hadron properties and interactions in the nonperturbative regime, where models must stand in for calculations too costly to run directly on the lattice.
The behaviour of matter at densities and temperatures reached in compact objects and in heavy-ion collisions.
Condensed-matter theory and the nonlinear dynamics of ultracold quantum gases.
Nuclear processes in stars, compact-object physics, and gravitation — the strongest research tradition of the host institutes.
Elementary particle physics, nuclear physics, geophysics and astronomy, in cooperation between Central Asian groups and the wider community.
The Institute of Theoretical Physics was established at the National University of Uzbekistan on the initiative of this conference's organisers, with the support of the Uzbek government, and has been fully operating since January 2026. This is the first conference it organises — intended as the first of many, and as a step toward making Tashkent a working centre for theoretical physics in Central Asia.
Two continuing activities grow out of the meeting: a Conference and Contest of Young Scientists on Modern Problems of Theoretical Physics, and a standing seminar series on theoretical and mathematical physics.
Tashkent has been a centre of mathematics and astronomy since the era of al-Khwarizmi and Ulugh Beg. Today it hosts a growing community of theoretical physicists and a notably young generation of researchers.
Holding the conference here brings that community into direct contact with the international network the series has built over four decades — senior figures alongside emerging ones, with time set aside for the conversations that do not fit into a lecture.