Topics and topics committees

Topics

Committee

1. General and mathematical aspects
rigorous results, exact solutions, probability theory, stochastic field theory, phase transitions and critical phenomena at equilibrium, information theory, optimization, etc.

Giuseppe MUSSARDO (SISSA, Italy) -Chair
Yan V. FYODOROV (Queen Mary, University of London, UK)
Cristina TONINELLI (CNRS, University Paris 6 and 7, France)

2. Out-of-equilibrium aspects
driven systems, transport theory, relaxation and response dynamics, random processes, anomalous diffusion, fluctuation theorems, large deviations, out-of-equilibrium phase transitions, etc.

Hyunggyu PARK (Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Korea) -Chair
Ronald DICKMAN (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil)
Pierre GASPARD (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)

3. Quantum fluids and condensed matter
strongly correlated electrons, cold atoms, graphene, mesoscopic quantum phenomena, fractional quantum Hall effect, low dimensional quantum field theory, quantum phase transitions, quantum information, entanglement, Lüttinger liquid, spin liquid, etc.

Michel GINGRAS (University of Waterloo, Canada) -Chair
Frédéric MILA (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland)
Patrizia VIGNOLO (Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France)

4. Disordered and glassy systems
percolation, spin glasses, structural glasses, metallic glasses, jamming, glass transition, algorithmic problems, etc.

Andrea LIU (University of Pennsylvania, USA) -Chair
Hajime TANAKA (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Gilles TARJUS (CNRS and Université Pierre et Marie-Curie, France)

5. Biological physics
molecular motors, single and multicellular dynamics, bacteria, swimmers, spatio-temporal organization, biological membranes, biopolymer folding, genomics, biological networks, evolution models, evolutionary game theory, etc.

David BENSIMON (CNRS and ENS Paris, France) -Chair
Qi OUYANG (Peking University, China)
Monika RITSCH-MARTE (Medizinische Universität Innsbruck, Austria)

6. Soft matter
simple and complex fluids, active matter, molecular and ionic fluids,wetting, self-assembly, polymers, gels, liquid crystals, microemulsions, foams, membranes, colloids, granular materials, etc.

Luca CIPELLETTI (Université de Montpellier, France) -Chair
Francisco MELO (Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Chile)
Limei XU (Peking University, China)

7. Nonlinear physics
dynamical systems, chaos (classical and quantum), pattern formation, chemical reactions, hydrodynamic instabilities, turbulence (classical and quantum), etc.

George TSIRONIS (University of Crete, Greece) -Chair
Luca BIFERALE (University of Rome 'Tor Vergata', Italy)
Cristina MASOLLER (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain)

8. Interdisciplinary and complex systems
networks and graphs, epidemics, econophysics, social phenomena, traffic flow, ecology, etc.

János KERTESZ (Central European University, Hungary) -Chair
Alain BARRAT (CNRS and Aix Marseille Université, France)
Ginestra BIANCONI (Queeen Mary University of London, UK)