Mini-symposia

The mini-symposia are a traditional special feature of the JETC series, which aim to address the most emergent questions in the field of thermodynamics and to set up promising future research directions. A mini-symposium is organised as a plenary panel discussion with short talks by experts on a given topic followed by a longer public discussion between the panelists and the audience. The mini-symposia to be held as a part of the JETC 2025 are listed below.

Foundations and philosophy of thermodynamics

Organisers:
Péter Ván (HUN-REN Wigner RCP, Hungary) & Gian Paolo Beretta (University of Brescia, Italy)

Panelists: Frédéric Barbaresco (Thales Land & Air Systems, France) , Ralph V. Chamberlin (Arizona State University, USA) , Karl Heinz Hoffmann (TU Chemnitz, Germany) , Paolo Maria Mariano (University of Florence, Italy) , Jakob Yngvason (ESI, Austria) , Michael te Vrügt (University of Mainz, Germany)

Thermodynamics of long-range interacting systems

Organisers:
Andrea Trombettoni (UniTS, SISSA and INFN, Italy) & Alessandro Campa (Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Italy)

Panelists: Stefano Iubini (CNR, Italy) , Emma C. King (Saarland University, Germany) , Valerio Pagni (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)

Stochastic thermodynamics in physics and beyond

Organisers:
Jan Korbel (CSH, Austria) & Édgar Roldán (ICTP, Italy)

Panelists: Debraj Das (SISSA, Italy) , Rosalba Garcia Millan (King’s College London, UK) , Artemy Kolchinsky (ICREA, Spain), Sarah Loos (University of Cambridge, UK), Ken Sekimoto (PSL University, France)

Quantum thermodynamics and quantum information theory

Organiser:
Časlav Brukner (IQOQI, University of Vienna, Austria)

Panelists: Maximilian Lock (IQOQI Vienna, Austria), Gonzalo Manzano (IFISC, Spain), Petr Jizba (FNSPE-CTU, Czech Republic)

New horizons in continuum mechanics

Organisers: Antonio Sellitto (University of Salerno, Italy) & Vito Antonio Cimmelli (University of Basilicata, Italy)

Panelists: Arkadi Berezovski (TalTech, Estonia) , Paolo Maria Mariano (University of Florence, Italy) , Francesco Oliveri (University of Messina, Italy) , Vittorio Romano (University of Catania, Italy) , Michele Sciacca (University of Palermo, Italy) , Federico Zullo (University of Brescia, Italy)

Thermodynamics of learning

Organisers:
Beatriz Seoane (UCM, Spain) & Aurélien Decelle (UPM, Spain)

Panelists: Dinis O. Abranches (CICECO, Portugal), Cyril Furtlehner (Universite Paris-Saclay, France), Christian Maes (KU Leuven, Belgium), Pietro Rotondo (University of Parma, Italy)

Thermodynamics in high energy physics

Organisers:
Trambak Bhattacharyya (UJK, Poland) & Airton Deppman (University of São Paulo, Brazil)

Panelists: Maciej Rybczyński (UJK, Poland) , Leonardo Tinti (UJK, Poland), Sushanta Tripathy (Lund University, Sweden)