The special sessions aim to deeepen the discussions about 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.
Invited talks:
Gian Paolo Beretta (UNIBS, Italy)
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 (CSH, Austria)
Thermodynamics of structure-forming systems
Invited talk:
Edgar Roldan (ICTP, Italy)
Gambling Carnot Engine
Invited talk:
Mohammad Reza Ejtehadi (SUT, Iran)
TBA
Invited talk:
Péter Ván (HUN-REN Wigner RCP, Hungary)
Challenges in non-equlibrium thermodynamics