We survey recent progress in calculating properties of the electron and hadrons within the basis light front quantization (BLFQ) approach. We include applications to electromagnetic and strong scattering processes in relativistic heavy ion collisions. We present an initial investigation into the glueball states by applying BLFQ with multigluon sectors, introducing future research possibilities on multi-quark and multi-gluon systems.This is a manuscript of an article published as Vary, James P., Lekha Adhikari, Guangyao Chen, Shaoyang Jia, Meijian Li, Yang Li, Pieter Maris et al. "Hadron Spectra, Decays and Scattering Properties Within Basis Light Front Quantization." Few-Body Systems 59, no. 4 (2018): 56. The final publication is available at Springer via DOI: 10.1007/s00601-018-1356-0. Posted with permission.</p
