StatPhys25 Announcement Web STATPHYS25, the 25th International Conference on Statistical Physics of the International Union for Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) is to be held in Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, from July 22 to 26, 2013. Welcome Message In the STATPHYS tradition, starting in Florence, Italy, in 1949, this Conference is aimed at providing a current overview of the general field of Statistical Physics and to foster interaction among all scientists involved in all research topics in this area. The community of research scientists in Statistical Physics meets every three years at the STATPHYS Conferences, organized under the sponsorship of the IUPAP. These are the largest general meetings in Statistical Physics and the occasion when both the latest advances of this science in its traditional domain and new developing trends in other related fields are examined. Recent STATPHYS meetings were held at Cairns, Australia (2010), Genova, Italy (2007), Bangalore, India (2004), Cancun, Mexico (2001), Paris, France (1998), Xiamen, China (1995), Berlin, Germany (1992), and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (1989). The organizers have provided assurance that STATPHYS25 will be conducted in accordance with IUPAP principles as stated in the ICSU-Document "Universality of Science" (sixth edition, 1989) regarding the free circulation of scientists for international purposes. In particular, no bona fide scientist will be excluded from participation on the grounds of national origin, nationality, or political consideration unrelated to science. Topics 11 . General and mathematical aspects of statistical physics thermodynamics, rigorous results, exact solutions, random matrices, stochastic field theory, information theory, optimizations, etc. 2. Phase transitions and critical phenomena equilibrium and nonequilibrium 3. Nonequilibrium processes driven systems, transport theory, relaxation and response dynamics, random processes, anomalous diffusion, fluctuation theorems, large deviations, etc. 4. Soft matter polymers, gels, liquid crystals, microemulsions, foams, membranes, colloids, granular materials, etc. 5. Fluids and interfacial phenomena molecular and ionic fluids, metastable liquids, hydrodynamic instabilities, turbulence, growth processes, wetting, surface effects, films, crystals, confined systems, etc. 6. Nonlinear dynamics dynamical systems, chaos (classical and quantum), pattern formation, chemical reactions, etc. 7. Quantum systems strongly correlated electrons, cold atoms, graphene, soft quantum matter, mesoscopic quantum phenomena, fractional quantum Hall effect, low dimensional quantum field theory, quantum phase transitions, quantum information and entanglement, etc. 8. Disordered and glassy systems percolation, spin glasses, structural glasses, jamming, glass transition, algorithmic problems, SAT, etc. 9. Biophysics and biologically motivated problems molecular motors, dynamics at the scale of the cell, spatio-temporal organization in biological systems, biological membranes, biopolymer folding, genomics, biological networks, evolution models, evolutionary game theory, etc. 110. Interdisciplinary topics in statistical physics networks and graphs, applied networks, econophysics, social phenomena, traffic flow, etc. Conference Venue STATPHYS25 will take place in Seoul, Korea, within the campus of Seoul National University Seoul National University Address: Gwanak-ro, Gwanak-gu, Seoul 151-742, Korea, Tel: (I-Office) + 82-2-880-4447, Fax: +82-2-880-4449, Website: http://en.snu.ac.kr/ Organizing Committee Chair Doochul Kim Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Korea Vice-Chair Hyunggyu Park Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Korea Moo Young Choi Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University, Korea Seunghwan Kim Department of Physics, Postech, Korea Youngah Park Department of Physics, Myongji University, Korea Secretary Byungnam Kahng Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University, Korea Local Organizing Committee Chair Byungnam Kahng Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University, Korea Members Kwang-Il Goh Department of Physics, Korea University, Korea Meesoon Ha Department of Physics Education, Chosun University, Korea Dong-Uk Hwang Division of Computational Sciences in Mathematics, National Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Korea Hawoong Jeong Department of Physics, KAIST, Korea Beom Jun Kim Department of Physics, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea Hyungtae Kook Department of Physics, Kyungwon University, Korea Nam-Kyung Lee Department of Physics, Sejong University, Korea Deok-Sun Lee Department of Natural Medical Sciences and Department of Physics, Inha University, Korea Jae Dong Noh Department of Physics, University of Seoul, Korea Hyuk Kyu Pak Department of Physics, Pusan National University, Korea Su-Chan Park Department of Physics, The Catholic University of Korea, Korea Juyeon Yi Deparmtent of Physics, Pusan National University, Korea Soon-Hyung Yook Department of Physics, Kyunghee University, Korea Steering Committee Chair Stefano Ruffo Dipartimento di Energetica, Università di Firenze, Italy Denis Bernard Laboratoire de Physique Théorique, cole Normale Supérieure, France Hans Werner Diehl Fakultt für Physik, Universitt Duisburg-Essen, Germany Fabian H.L. Essler Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford, UK Hans J. Herrmann Computational Physics, ETH Zürich, Switzerland Byungnam Kahng Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University, Korea Doochul Kim Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Korea Michael Lssig Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universitt zu Kln, Germany Lu Yu Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Hidetoshi Nishimori Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Hyunggyu Park Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Korea Itamar Procaccia Department of Chemical Physics, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel Boris I. Shraiman Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Henk van Beijeren Institute of Theoretical Physics, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Royce Zia Department of Physics, Virginia Tech, USA IUPAP C3 Commission Chair Stefano Ruffo Dipartimento di Energetica, Università di Firenze, Italy Vice Chair Lu Yu Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Secretary Hans Werner Diehl Fakultt für Physik, Universitt Duisburg-Essen, Germany Members Paul Woafo Laboratory of Modeling and Simulations in Engineering and Biological Physics, University of Yaoundé I, Cameroon Jean-Francois Joanny Physicochimie Curie, Institut Curie, France Rahul Pandit Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, India Mohammad Reza Ejtehadi Department of Physics, Sharif University of Technology, Iran Itamar Procaccia Department of Chemical Physics, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel Masaki Sano Department of Physics, The University of Tokyo, Japan Henk van Beijeren Institute of Theoretical Physics, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Maxi San Miguel IFISC, Campus Universitat Illes Balears, Spain Hans J. Herrmann Computational Physics, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Julia M. Yeomans Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford, UK Beate Schmittmann Department of Physics, Virginia Tech, USA International Advisory Committee A. AHARONY Beer Sheva, Israel K.E. GUBBINS Raleigh, USA F. RITORT Barcelona, Spain G. AHLERS Santa Barbara, USA S. HAVLIN Ramat-Gan, Israel A. ROBLEDO Mexico DF, Mexico M. AIZENMAN Princeton, USA H.J. HILHORST Orsay, France T. SASAMOTO Chiba, Japan A.-L. BARABASI Boston, USA C.-K. HU Taipei, Taiwan S. SASTRY Bangalore, India M.C. BARBOSA Porto Alegre, Brasil C. JARZYNSKI College Park, USA F. SCHMID Mainz, Germany M. BARMA Mumbai, India M.H. JENSEN Copenhagen, Denmark E.D. SIGGIA New York, USA R.P. BEHRINGER Durham, USA H. JEONG Daejeon, Korea Y. Sinai Princeton, USA W. BIALEK Princeton, USA Y. KAFRI Haifa, Israel G. SLADE Vancouver, Canada K. BINDER Mainz, Germany B. KAHNG Seoul, Korea H. SPOHN Munchen, Germany G. BIROLI Saclay, France I. KANTER Ramat-Gan, Israel H.E. STANLEY Boston, USA L. BOCQUET Lyon, France M.W. KIM Daejeon, Korea S. STRINGARI Trento, Italy J. CARDY Oxford, UK V.E. KRAVTSOV Trieste, Italy B. TADIC Ljubljana, Slovenia M.E. CATES Edinburgh, UK J. KRUG Koln, Germany H. TAKAYASU Tokyo, Japan C. CHAMON Boston, USA A. KUPIAINEN Helsinki, Finland L.-H. TANG Hong Kong, China S. CILIBERTO Lyon, France D. LANGEVIN Orsay, France P. TARAZONA Madrid, Spain M.G. COSENZA Merida, Venezuela J.L. LEBOWITZ Piscataway, USA M.M. TELO da GAMA Lisbon, Portugal L.F. CUGLIANDOLO Paris, France Y. LEVIN Porto Alegre, Brasil E. TIRAPEGUI Santiago, Chile C. DASGUPTA Bangalore, India R. LIPOWSKY Potsdam, Germany L.A. TURSKI Warsaw, Poland J. de GIER Melbourne, Australia R.N. MANTEGNA Palermo, Italy W. van SAARLOOS Leiden, Netherlands T. DEGUCHI Tokyo, Japan D. MARENDUZZO Edinburgh, UK A. VESPIGNANI Bloomington, USA B. DERRIDA Paris, France J. MARRO Granada, Spain B.-H. Wang Hefei, China D. DHAR Mumbai, India M. MEZARD Orsay, France J.-S. WANG Singapore, Singapore R. DICKMAN Belo Horizonte, Brasil G. MUSSARDO Trieste, Italy H.S. WIO Santander, Spain J.-P. ECKMANN Geneva, Switzerland B. NIENHUIS Amsterdam, Netherlands T. XIANG Beijing, China R. EVANS Bristol, UK P.A. PEARCE Melbourne, Australia A.P. YOUNG Santa Cruz, USA G. FALKOVICH Rehovot, Israel L. PIETRONERO Roma, Italy K.Y.M. WONG Hong Kong, CHina P.J. FORRESTER Melbourne, Australia M. PARRINELLO Lugano, Switzerland D.H. ZANETTE Bariloche, Argentina D. FRENKEL Cambridge, UK L.P. PITAEVSKII Trento, Italy R. ZECCHINA Torino, Italy E. FREY Munchen, Germany V.L. POKROVSKI College Station, USA H. ZHOU Beijing, China P. GASPARD Brussels, Belgium H.A. POSCH Wien, Austria A. Zippelius Goettingen, Germany R. GOLESTANIAN Oxford, UK V.B. PRIEZZHEV Dubna, Russia T.S. GRIGERA La Plata, Argentina Z. RACZ Budapest, Hungary Conference Secretariat PEOPLE-X Inc., 1F Haeoreum Bldg., 748-5 Yeocksam-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul 135-925, Korea Tel +82-2-566-6031, 6033 Fax +82-2-566-6087 statphys25@statphys25.org National Advisory Committee Changrim Ahn Ewha Woman's University Mahn Won Kim KAIST Je-Geun Park Seoul National University Yun Kyu Bang Chonnam National University Sangrak Kim Kyonggi University Jeong-Man Park Catholic University Min-Chul Cha Hanyang University Sang-Yoon Kim Kangwon Nationl University Kwon Park KIAS Iksoo Chang Pusan National University Seyong Kim Sejong University Young-Jai Park Sogang University Kee Joo Chang KAIST Soo Yong Kim KAIST Gyung Moo Shim Chungnam National University Han-Yong Choi Sungkyunkwan University Yong Baek Kim KIAS Kwang-Sup Soh Seoul National University Je-Young Choi Younngdong University Youngtae Kim Ajou University Young-Woo Son KIAS Jungzae Choi Keimyung University Yup Kim Kyunghee University Wokyung Sung Postech Mu-Yong Choi Sungkyunkwan University Hyearn-Maw Koo Chungnam National University Chung In Um Emeritus, Korea University Tae-Soo Chon Pusan National University Chulan Kwon Myongji University S.-R. Eric Yang Korea University Jean Soo Chung Chungbuk National University Kyung-Hoon Kwon KBSI Han Woong Yeom Postech Kyu-Kwang Han Pai Chai University Sook-Il Kwon Emeritus, Seoul National University Kyu Hwang Yeon Chungbuk National University Seung Kee Han Chungbuk National University Eok Kyun Lee KAIST Sang-Hoon Yi Inje University Jongbae Hong Postech Hu-Jong Lee Postech Byung-Gook Yoon Ulsan University Changbong Hyeon KIAS Hyun Cheol Lee Sogang University Jaejun Yu Seoul National University Jisoon Ihm Seoul National University Jae-Woo Lee Inha University Peter Fulde ex officio, President of APCTP Hyeong-Chai Jeong Sejong University Jooyoung Lee KIAS Taeyoung Ha ex officio, Acting Director of NIMS Woo Hyung Kang Emeritus, Korea University Jysoo Lee KISTI Dae-Im Kang ex officio, President of Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science Zheong Gou Khim Seoul National University Kong-Ju-Bock Lee Ehwa Woman's University Jae Hyun Kim ex officio, President of Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology Bongsoo Kim Changwon National University Koo-Chul Lee Emeritus, Seoul National University Myung-Hwan Kim ex officio, Dean of College of Natural Sciences, Seoul National University Chang Sub Kim Chonnam National University Kyoung Jin Lee Korea University Myeun Kwon ex officio, President of National Fusion Research Institute Chilmin Kim Sogang University Sang Bub Lee Kyungpook National University Duckhwan Lee ex officio, President of the Korean Chemical Society Chul Koo Kim Yonsei University Seung Joo Lee Emeritus, Dongguk University Ki Bong Lee ex officio, Chair of the Condensed Matter Physics Division of the KPS In-Mook Kim Korea University Soon Chil Lee KAIST Seung Jong Lee ex officio, President of National Research Foundation of Korea Jae Hwa Kim Gangneung-Wonju National University Sung Jong Lee Suwon University Se-Jung Oh ex officio, President of Institute for Basic Science Jai Sam Kim Postech Byung Il Min Postech Joon Taik Park ex officio, President of the Korea Basic Science Institute Jin Min Kim Soongsil University Hie Tae Moon KAIST Sung-Chul Shin ex officio, President of the Korean Physical Society Jong Jean Kim Emeritus, KAIST Kyungsun Moon Yonsei University Dong Youp Suh ex officio, President of the Korean Mathemetical Society Ki Sik Kim Inha University Tae Won Noh Seoul National University Jeong Weon Wu ex officio, Chair of the Applied Physics Division of the KPS Kyungsik Kim Pukyong National University Suhk Kun Oh Chungbuk National University The Boltzmann Medal The Boltzmann Medal was instituted by the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) Commission on Statistical Physics to honour outstanding achievements in Statistical Physics. The next award will be awarded during the STATPHYS25 meeting. The award, consisting of a gilded medal, honours outstanding achievements in statistical physics. The recipient should be a scientist who has not received the Boltzmann Medal or Nobel Prize before. Nominations for the award should be sent to Stefano Ruffo (stefano.ruffo@unifi.it), the Chairman of the C3 Commission of the IUPAP, before September 1st, 2012. The nominations must be accompanied by a description of the work of the nominee consisting of at least one and no more than two typed pages, including a list of no more than a dozen key publications by the nominee. Nominations for a joint award to two scientists, preferably for related work, are acceptable. Previous winners of the Boltzmann Medal are: 1975 K.G. Wilson 1977 R. Kubo 1980 R.J. Baxter 1983 M.E. Fisher 1986 D. Ruelle and Y. Sinai 1989 L.P. Kadanoff 1992 J. Lebowitz and G. Parisi 1995 S.F. Edwards 1998 E. Lieb and B. Widom 2001 Berni J. Alder and Kyozi Kawasaki 2004 E. G. D. Cohen and H. E. Stanley 2007 Kurt Binder and Giovanni Gallavotti 2010 John Cardy and Bernard Derrida Young Scientist Award in Statistical Physics The Young Scientist Award in Statistical Physics has recently been established by the C3 Commission on Statistical Physics of the IUPAP. The Prize is aimed at recognizing outstanding achievements of scientists at early stages of their career in the broad field of Statistical Physics. Details of nomination procedure will be announced shortly. Previous winners of the Young Scientist Award are: 2007 Giulio Biroli and Tomohiro Sasamoto 2010 Davide Marenduzzo Satellite Meetings The 7th Cross-Strait Conference on Statistical Physics, 2013 (CSCSP7) Period: July 28 - 31, 2013 Venue: Qufu, Shandong, China website: to be announced · Organizers: Bing-Hong Wang (USTC) Xiaos-Song Chen (Vice Director , Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Science) Xiang-Mu Kong (Physics School, Qufu Normal University, Shandong) Chin-Kun HU (Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan) Contact: Professor B.-H. Wang (USTC) E-mail: bhwang@ustc.edu.cn Synopsis and scope: TBA List of invited speakers: TBA Beijing Satellite Meeting on "Non-Equilibrium Phenomena, Spin Glasses, and Algorithms" Period: July 29-31, 2013 Venue: Beijing, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China website: to be announced · Organizers: Fei Liu (Beihang University) E-mail: feiliu@buaa.edu.cn Lamberto Rondoni (Turin Polytechnical University) Email: rondoni@calvino.polito.it Leihan Tang (Beijing Computational Science Research Center) Haijun Zhou (Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Science) E-mail: zhouhj@itp.ac.cn Synopsis and Scope Complex systems and non-equilibrium phenomena are very active subfields of statistical physics research. This workshop will serve as a meeting point for researchers working on non-equilibrium physics (fluctuation relations, glassy dynamics and jamming, ...) and spin glasses and algorithms (message-passing procedures, inference, stochastic search processes, ...). It also aims at stimulating communications and exchanges between Chinese statistical physics workers and international experts. StatPhysHK: Statistical Physics and Computational Neuroscience Period: July 17-19, 2013 Venue: Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong website: http://ias.ust.hk/program/201307/index.html