It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the 5th International Conference on Holography and Applications 2026 (ICHA 2026), hosted in person at Damghan University, Iran. We are delighted to gather leading scientists, scholars, and innovators from around the world in the historic city of Damghan, where tradition, scientific curiosity, and cultural richness converge.

ICHA 2026 provides a unique platform for presenting cutting-edge research in holography and its applications.

We invite you to enjoy the cultural and historical heritage of Damghan, its warm hospitality, and the vibrant academic atmosphere of our campus.

On behalf of the Organizing Committee, we extend our heartfelt welcome to all participants and wish you a productive, inspiring, and memorable experience at ICHA 2026.

• Foundations of the Holographic Principle and AdS/CFT Correspondence

• Holographic aspects of Quantum Information and Quantum Computing

• Holography and Strongly Correlated Systems

• Holography and Cosmology

• Machine Learning for the Holographic Principle

• Afshar, Hamid Reza – Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran
• Bitaghsir Fadafan, Kazem – Shahrood University of Technology, Iran - Chair
• Haghani, Zahra – Damghan University, Iran
• Haghighat, Babak – Tsinghua University, China
• Lal, Shailesh – BIMSA (Beijing Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Applications), China
• Mohammad Reza Mohammadi Mozaffar– University of Guilan, Iran
• Raju, Suvrat – ICTS (International Centre for Theoretical Sciences), India
• Starinets, Andrei – University of Oxford, United Kingdom
• Tekin, Bayram – Bilkent University, Turkey
• Vahidinia, Mohammad Hassan – IASBS (Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences)

• Zahra Haghani - Damghan University, Iran- Chair

• Babak Khanbabaei - Damghan University, Iran

• Ahmad Naghidokht  - Damghan University, Iran

• Shahab Shahidi - Damghan University, Iran

• Morteza Tavakkoli  - Damghan University, Iran