The event will take place in Yerevan from August 31st to September 4th, 2026.

The subject of the workshop is modern field theory with a focus on higher spin theories and connected research areas. The aim is to provide an opportunity to interested researchers from all parts of the world to meet in person and discuss recent progress.

Higher spin gauge theories sit at the crossroads of modern QFT, string theory, holography and scattering amplitudes. Their underlying gauge symmetry may provide a clue to the finiteness of quantum gravity and possibly give rise to a string-like phase after being spontaneously broken. Higher spin systems find applications in condensed matter systems, cosmology and black hole physics, and provide instances of flat space holography where both sides of the correspondence are relatively explicit. In addition, they are closely related to various areas of modern mathematics such as deformation quantization, PDE geometry, conformal and twistor geometry, and algebraic topology.