The special sessions aim to deeepen the discussions on the groundbreaking research in the field of thermodynamics and to foster active interactions between the participants. A special session consists of two invited talks followed by several contributed talks on a specified session topic. The special sessions to be held as a part of the JETC 2025 are listed below.
Special Sessions
Thermodynamics of small systems
Invited speakers
Gian Paolo Beretta (Italy)
University of Brescia
Defining the Euler free energy (or should we call it Hill free energy?):
A general stable-equilibrium property, non-trivial for small-systems
Jan Korbel (Austria)
Complexity Sciences Hub Vienna
Thermodynamics of structure-forming systems
Stochastic and information thermodynamics
Invited speaker
Édgar Roldán (Italy)
ICTP
Gambling Carnot Engine
Physics of life
Invited speaker
Mohammad Reza Ejtehadi (Iran)
Sharif University of Technology
Crossing the Potential Barriers
Non-equilibrium thermodynamics
Invited speaker
Péter Ván (Hungary)
HUN-REN Wigner RCP
Challenges in non-equlibrium thermodynamics