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 organized 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

Organizer:
Péter Ván (HUN-REN Wigner RCP, Hungary) & Gian Paolo Beretta (Università di Brescia, Italy)

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

Thermodynamics of long-range interacting systems

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

Panelists: Fabio Franchini (Institut Ruđer Bošković, Croatia), Stefano Iubini (CNR, Italy), Emma King (Universitat des Saarlandes, Germany), Valerio Pagni (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)

Stochastic thermodynamics in physics and beyond

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

Panelists: Cai Dieball (MPI MPG, Germany), 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

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

Panelists: Marcus Huber (TUW & IQOQI, Austria), Gonzalo Manzano (IFISC, Spain)

New horizons in continuum mechanics

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

Panelists: Arkadi Berezovski (TalTech, Estonia), Vito Dario Camiola (University of Catania, 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

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

Panelists: Dinis O. Abranches (CICECO, Portugal), Cyril Furtlehner (Universite Paris-Saclay, France), Sebastian Goldt (SISSA, Italy), Christian Maes (KU Leuven, Belgium), Pietro Rotondo (Unipr, Italy)

Thermodynamics in high energy physics

Organizers:
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)