Welcome to the 9th International Conference on Micro-Pattern Gaseous Detectors, MPGD2026. This year's edition will be hosted by the Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics at the Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic, from August 30 to September 4, 2026.
Following an already long series of very exciting and proficuous gatherings which started in Crete, Grece (2009) and continued in Kobe, Japan (2011), Zaragoza, Spain (2013), Trieste, Italy (2015), Philadelphia, USA (2017), La Rochelle, France (2019), Rehovot, Israel (2022) and Hefei, China (2024), we are pleased to