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Résumé: The past half-decade has seen an increasing interaction between combinatorialists, probabilists, computer scientists and theoretical physicists concerned broadly with the study of "probability theory on graphs" or "statistical mechanics on graphs". The programme will build on this cross-fertilisation.

Résumé: 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.

Résumé: The conference will cover the following topics:

A) Foundations, theoretical aspects and mathematical formalism of statistical physics

B) Connection with information theory and mathematical statistics

C) Applications (classical and quantum physical systems, dynamical systems, transport theory etc)

D) Application of statistical methods beyond physics (biophysics, econophysics, social systems, networks, traffic flow, etc)

The conference will be organized in sessions dealing with general aspects and fundamental problems of statistical physics. Mini symposia will cluster talks dedicated to special topics. The conference will include also a poster session devoted to general and special topics of statistical physics.

Résumé: The aim of FQMT'08 is to create a bridge between the fields of modern condensed matter physics, quantum optics and statistical physics and the quickly developing field of foundations of quantum physics.

The conference will address quantum physics and non-equilibrium quantum statistical physics. The systems considered will be mainly of nanoscale size. The main task of the conference is to contribute to the uncovering of possible phenomenological ("quantum thermodynamical") laws governing the behaviour of nanoscale systems, providing a better understanding and insight into the problems and interpretations of quantum physics based upon the methods of condensed matter physics and quantum optics.

The interdisciplinary character of the conference will be supported by choice of key speakers who, apart from their specializations, are not only able to report specific results within their fields, but are also able to discuss the state of the art of their fields from the standpoint of broader perspective of overlap with other fields.

Résumé: The 20th ICCT will cover a broad scope of issues related to chemical thermodynamics, both experimental and theoretical. The conference will be opened by two introductory general lectures. One will be devoted to the actual theoretical problems in chemical thermodynamics as seen from a physicist point of view and the other one to the recent and prospective industrial applications of chemical thermodynamics.

The scientific programme will host symposia and workshops ranging from classical subjects such as molecular energetics, through ionic liquids and supercritical phase equilibria up to the most recent topics, such as thermodynamic approach to nanotechnologies and nanodevices and environmental thermodynamics.

Résumé: The 20th ICCT will cover a broad scope of issues related to chemical thermodynamics, both experimental and theoretical. The conference will be opened by two introductory general lectures. One will be devoted to the actual theoretical problems in chemical thermodynamics as seen from a physicist point of view and the other one to the recent and prospective industrial applications of chemical thermodynamics

Résumé: Fluid dynamics is a broad and interdisciplinary field, with applications that touch almost every aspect of our daily lives. Because of the complexity of the subject and its many applications, it is also challenging and exciting. The aim of this School is to present an introduction to its principles, and to discuss some of its applications in atmospheric, geophysical, astrophysical, and laboratory flows. Recent developments in each area will also be discussed.

The School is intended primarily for graduate students of physics and other disciplines related to the field of fluid dynamics, although advanced undergrad students and postdocs are also encouraged to participate.

A satellite workshop on "New Perspectives in Turbulence" will be held on the same dates. Time will be available for discussions of posters and for short conferences.

Résumé: This multidisciplinary international conference provides a forum for the researchers, scientists and practitioners from all over the world to exchange information, to present new information, and to discuss the future directions and priorities in the areas of transport phenomena. Transport phenomena include the flow of fluids, heat and mass, electricity, neutrons and particles.

Résumé: Essentially all aspects of nuclear research, development and applications will be considered appropriate for this conference focusing on new materials, new results and recent developments in the thermo-chemistry and thermo-physics of nuclear materials.

Résumé: The 7th EUROMECH Fluid Mechanics Conference will be held at the University of Manchester, organised by the School of Mathematics and the Manchester Institute of Mathematical Sciences. The conference aims to provide an international forum for the exchange of information of all aspects of fluid mechanics, including instability and transition turbulence, multi-phase and non-Newtonian flows, bio-fluid mechanics, reacting and compressible flows, numerical and experimental methods, as well as applications.

Résumé: The Institute of Computational Fluid Dynamics was founded in 1983 by Bill Morton and Mike Baines. This year is its 25th anniversary and to celebrate we are holding a two day meeting at the University of Oxford on 15th & 16th September 2008. The meeting will consist of invited talks together with a celebratory 3-course dinner in New College on the evening of 15th September.

Résumé: The aim of ICNAAM 2008 is to bring together leading scientists of the international Numerical and Applied Mathematics community and to attract original research papers of very high quality. Topics to be covered include all the research areas of Numerical Analysis and Computational Mathematics and all the research areas of Applied and Industrial Mathematics. ICNAAM is one of the biggest annual events in the field of the numerical analysis involving hundreds of scientist from the whole world.

Résumé: 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.

Résumé: Topics of interest include fundamentals of statistical physics, fluctuation phenomena, Brownian motion, entropy and other measures of information, complexity, granular material, structured and complex fluids, chaos and pattern formation, fluid dynamics, synchronization, complex networks, biological physics, neural networks, time series analysis, interdisciplinary physics, dynamics of social systems, and econophysics.

Résumé: We are at the dawn of the nanotechnology era, where scientific and technological advancements in many fields strongly demand the investigation of problems involving small or multiple scales. In such problems, the hydrodynamic theory is often invalid, and one has to apply the more fundamental laws of physics, such as kinetic theory (Boltzmann equation), molecular dynamics (Newton’s second law or the Liouville equation), or even quantum mechanics (Schrodinger equation). This requires the development of new mathematical and computational methods for physical laws at these scales, or a mixture of them, which is facilitated by the improvements of modern computers. Mathematical understanding of the scaling limit from one scale to another plays an important role, and interweaves with the development of new multiscale computational methods. This program will focus on the mathematical analysis, computational challenges and new applications of quantum and kinetic transport theory. It will invite both senior leading figures and young researchers in these directions. Besides applied mathematicians, special attention will be paid to invite researchers in other fields in science and engineering, representing academic, national lab and industrial research.

Résumé: 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

Résumé: Fluid Structure Interaction 2009 is the fifth conference in this successful series, which provides a forum for the presentation of new ideas and the latest work in the specialised field of fluid structure interaction. The principal aim of this conference is to promote international exchange of information and knowledge of fluid structure interaction problems, giving experts from different application fields the opportunity to interact with one another and to provide valuable cross breeding of ideas and techniques.

Résumé: Together with turbulence, multiphase flow remains one of the most challenging areas of computational mechanics and experimental methods and numerous problems remain unsolved to date. This conference aims to bring together modellers, computational scientists and experimentalists to share experiences, successes, new methodologies and in general to promote the advancement of this important area of fluid mechanics.