This series of conferences started in 1985 in Maryland, USA. It brings together experimentalists and theorists every other year to review the status and progress in hadron spectroscopy, structure and related topics and to exchange ideas for future explorations.
Topics: Meson spectroscopy, Baryon spectroscopy, Exotic hadrons and candidates, Decays, production, and interactions, Structure functions, Hadrons in hot and nuclear environment, Nucleus with strange, charm and bottom flavors, Hadrons for physics beyond the standard model, Theoretical methods and analysis tools, New facilities, Applications and social contributions of hadron physics