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abstract: During the last few years, various new developments have taken place in the field of quantum integrable systems. One of the major issues that stand out is the exact description of correlation functions. Important progress has been made in the long distance asymptotics for correlation functions in integrable spin chains. Understanding the short distance structure has advanced, and exact formulas have been derived for dynamical and finite temperature cases. Progress on correlation functions and form factors resulted in direct applications to condensed matter systems. In integrable quantum field theory, important works have been done for the vacuum expectation values of local fields, theory of Q-operators and its relation to ODE and classical integrable systems. Aside from these `traditional' topics, the emerging role of integrable systems in various other fields has been revealed, often in a quite unexpected manner. The relevant topics range over such diverse areas as the AdS/CFT correspondence, quantum entanglement, combinatorics, integrable stochastic processes and growth models.

abstract: The conference objective is to address the state-of-the-art knowledge in the field of heat transfer and fluid flow in microscale. Recent development of industrial applications like microelectronics, laser systems, micro-heat exchangers, micro-devices (sensors and actuators), and power MEMS have led to studies dealing with microscopic behaviour of thermal phenomena. The Conference intends to provide a forum for scientists from academia and people from industry to present and discuss recent advances in their research on thermal phenomena in micro scale.

abstract: Statistical mechanics provides the formalism of Gibbsian ensembles for computing properties of equilibrium systems from a knowledge of the microscopic interactions between the constituent particles. Our understanding of nonequilibrium situations is less satisfactory. In the field of interacting stochastic particle systems nonequilibrium questions are studied in simplified models that are amenable to mathematically rigorous analysis. This workshop brings together researchers from interacting stochastic systems and related areas to survey recent successes and to map out promising future directions