Welcome from the Chair

Dear Colleagues,

After the very successful 2021 and 2023 editions, it is my honour to invite you to join the 3rd International Online Conference on Universe (IOCU 2026), to be held from 4 to 6 March 2026, CET, online, which will enable you to share and discuss your most recent findings with the global community of scientists and researchers in these fields.

It is a pleasure to still be able to collaborate electronically via this online venue. This internet conference is designed to allow you to present your research to colleagues and interact as fully as possible with all those involved in it. I also hope that you will meet old friends and make new ones here. There will be many fascinating papers to spark everyone’s interest.

I hope that this conference will bring together major contributions at the forefront of research in the fields of gravitation, cosmology, field theory, high-energy physics, quantum mechanics, astrophysics and astronomy, etc., and I am confident that yours will be among them. IOCU 2026 will make your presentation accessible to hundreds of researchers worldwide, with active engagement of the audience in question-and-answer sessions and discussion groups that will take place online.

Submitted abstracts will be peer-reviewed by the conference committee. After the conference, authors of accepted contributions are welcome to submit a full proceedings paper (4–8 pages), which will be published free of charge in the Physical Sciences Forum. Following the conference, selected contributions will be invited to be submitted for publication in the journal Universe (ISSN: 2218-1997, Impact Factor: 2.5) with a 20% discount on the publication fee.

In recognition of the valuable contributions of the conference’s distinguished authors and their exceptional scientific achievements, we are excited to announce that the conference will be presenting four awards, including the Best Oral Presentation Awards and Best Poster Awards. Each winner will receive a certificate and a prize of CHF 300.

We look forward to seeing you at this exciting event!

Best regards,
Prof. Dr. Lorenzo Iorio

Ministero dell’Istruzione e del Merito, Bari, Italy