STATPHYS25

Beijing Satellite Meeting on "Non-Equilibrium Phenomena, Spin Glasses, and Algorithms"

Period: July 01-05, 2013

Venue: Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Website: http://www.kitpc.ac.cn/?p=ProgDetail&id=CS20130701&i=main

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.

Stochastic Transport and Reaction Processes in Condensed Media

Period: July 07-12, 2013

Venue: Jeju Island, Korea

Website: http://plaza4.snu.ac.kr/~sy_lee

Organizers:: Sangyoub Lee (Seoul National University); Jaeyoung Sung (Chung-Ang University)
Contact:: Professor Sangyoub Lee; Department of Chemistry, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Korea; E-mail: sangyoub@snu.ac.kr; Phone: +82-2-875-4887; Fax: +82-2-889-1568; Professor Jaeyoung Sung; Department of Chemistry, Chung-Ang University, Seoul 156-756, Korea; E-mail: jaeyoung@cau.ac.kr; Phone: +82-2-820-5240; Fax: +82-2-825-5240
Synopsis and Scope:: Stochastic Transport and Reaction Processes in Complex Biological Systems, which is a satellite meeting of STATPHYS25 at Seoul, Korea, aims to facilitate academic interactions among scientists in the fields of stochastic chemical reactions and molecular transport processes in complex biological systems.
Partial list of Overseas Invited Speakers:: N. Agmon (Hebrew University, Israel); E. Barkai (Bar-Ilan University, Israel); M. V. Basilevsky (Russian Academy of Science, Russia); A. Burshtein (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel); J. Cao (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, U.S.A.); A. Doktorov (Institute of Chemical Kinetics and Combustion, Russia); O. Dudko (University of California, San Diego, U.S.A.); S. G. Fedorenko (Institute of Chemical Kinetics and Combustion, Russia); A. I. Ivanov (Volgograd State University, Russia); S. Jang (City University of New York, U.S.A.); Z. Konkoli (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden); N. Lukzen (Novosibirsk State University, Russia); A. Molski (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland); I. Oppenheim (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, U.S.A.); G. Oshanin (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France); J. B. Pedersen (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark); A. I. Shushin (Institute of Chemical Physics, Russia); A. Szabo (National Institute of Health, U.S.A.); M. Tachiya (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan); S. Traytak (Institute of Applied Mechanics, Russia); J. Wu (University of Science and Technology, China); H.-X. Zhou (Florida State University, U.S.A.); and more, to be confirmed.

Summer School on Soft Material Interfaces

Period: July 08-19, 2013

Venue: Changwon National University, Changwon, Korea

Website: http://nephys.pusan.ac.kr/ISBM/

Organizers:

Philip A. Pincus(UCSB), Mahn Won Kim(CWNU), Hyuk Kyu Pak(PNU), Bongsoo Kim(CWNU)

Registratin Deadline:

15th of May, 2013

Synopsis and Scope:

This Summer School in the tradition of other ICMR (International Center for Materials Research, http://www.icmr.ucsb.edu)-sponsored events will be one of the first of its kind in East Asia. The aims of the School include:

Providing basic grounding in the science associated with static and dynamic properties of soft interfaces including wetting, membranes, polymer surfaces, cell mechanics, gels, colloids, microemulsions, foams.
Providing an opportunity for participants from less developed societies to be introduced to modern concepts in soft condensed matter.

The School is being designed to have about 40 participants and approximately 10 lecturers (each giving 5-6 hour mini-courses). The participants will be advanced graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and junior faculty members (from developing countries). We expect about 1/3 of the participants will be from S. Korea, about 10 from developing countries, about 10 from other East Asia and Pacific Rim countries including approximately 5 from the US.

List of oversea invited lecturers:

"Membranes", by Robijn Bruinsma (UCLA)

"Dioblock Copolymers", by Kookheon Char (SNU)

"Charge Interactions", by Yong Suk Jho (APCTP)

"Microtubules", by Myung Chul Choi (KAIST)

"Neutron Applications", by Sung-Min Choi (KAIST)

"Interfaces and Emulsions", by Paul S. Clegg (Edinburgh)

"Active Viscous Hydrodynamics", by Ramin Golestanian (Oxford)

"Probing interfaces and interactions in biological and soft matter systems", by Songi Han (UCSB)

"Capillarity and Monolayer", by Mahn Won Kim (CWNU)

"Holographic Optical Techniques for the Study of Soft/Bio Matter", by Yong Guen Park (KAIST)

"Polymer Fundamentals", by Philip Pincus (UCSB)

"Polymers at Surfaces and Interfaces", by Matthew Tirrell (Chicago)

"Microemulsions: Fluids with Non-trivial Structure", by Michael Schick (UW)

"Single Molecules", by Tae Young Yoon (KAIST)

Contact:

- Dr. E. Grace Kim (local organizer)

Institute for Soft-Bio Matter Science, Changwon National University, Changwon, 641-773, Korea

E-mail: : isbm@changwon.ac.kr and uhkim@changwon.ac.kr

Phone: +82-55-213-2731, 2732

Fax: +82-55-213-2733

- Professor Philip A. Pincus

Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9530, USA

E-mail: fyl@mrl.ucsb.edu

Phone: 805-893-4685

Fax: 805-893-8797

- Professor Mahn Won Kim

Institute for Soft-Bio Matter Science, Changwon National University, Changwon, 641-773, Korea

E-mail: mahnwonkim@kaist.ac.kr

Phone: +82-55-213-2730

Fax: +82-55-213-2733

- Professor Hyuk Kyu Pak

Department of Physics, Pusan National University, Busan, 609-735, Korea

E-mail: hkpak@pusan.ac.kr

Phone: +82-51-510-2298

Fax: +82-51-513-7664

- Professor Bongsoo Kim

Department of Physics, Changwon National University, Changwon, 641-773, Korea

E-mail: bskim@changwon.ac.kr

Phone: +82-55-213-3426

Fax: +82-55-267-0264

Frontier of Statistical Physics and Information Processing
- Perspectives from Nonequilibrium Behaviors -

Period: July 11-14, 2013 (tentative)

Venue: Kyoto, Japan (tentative)

Website: http://www-adsys.sys.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/mohzeki/FSPIP/index.html

Organizers:

Chair:: Masayuki Ohzeki (Kyoto University); E-mail: mohzeki@i.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Vice-chair:: Takahiro Sagawa (Kyoto University); Kazumasa A Takeuchi (University of Tokyo); Muneki Yasuda (Tohoku University)

Program Committee:

Chair:: Jun Ohkubo (Kyoto University)
Physics:: Tomoyuki Obuchi (Osaka University); Yuki Sughiyama (University of Tokyo)
Information Science:: Takehisa Hasegawa (Tohoku University); Muneki Yasuda (Tohoku University)

Advisory committee:

Yoshiyuki Kabashima (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

Shin-ichi Sasa (Kyoto University)

Masaki Sano (University of Tokyo)

Kazuyuki Tanaka (Tohoku University)

Toshiyuki Tanaka (Kyoto University)

Contact:

Professor M. Ohzeki

Kyoto University

E-mail: scrtfspip2013@sys.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp

Synopsis and Scope:

Our conference aims at creating a novel viewpoint in the frontiers of information science and statistical physics, on the initiative of the young generation: a possible integration of information science on large dynamical problems and key ideas of statistical physics for out-of-equilibrium systems.

Going beyond the successful encounter of classical information science and equilibrium statistical physics, we shall gather and discuss recent techniques and ongoing developments of the two branches of science, both dealing with large and dynamically evolving systems.

Some key concepts will be
(1) information thermodynamics,
(2) stochastic processes with feedback control,
(3) modelling and experiments on fluctuating processes far from equilibrium,
(4) glassy systems and dynamic heterogeneity,
(5) machine learning and adaptations in dynamical situations,
(6) dynamics of complex networks,
(7) applications to life science and real-world problems.

As a STATPHYS25 satellite meeting, this conference will be the first international attempt of a series of workshops "Young Scientists Meeting on Statistical Physics and Information Processing" inspired by the same motivation, which have been organized by part of the committee and held so far in Japan with great success.

The present conference extends this stream to the world, providing an international occasion for young active researchers and experienced broad-minded scientists to exchange their ideas over the countries and disciplines, in the hope of forming this new direction of information science and statistical physics.

History of series of "Young Scientists Meeting on Statistical Physics and Information Processing":
Prior to this workshop, a series of meetings were held in Japan by young scientists working around statistical physics and information sciences, to provide places and times for interdisciplinary discussions by young people, with the aim of inspiring wider and deeper perceptions in themselves.

The first meeting of the series was held at Tokyo in March 2010, and was mainly consisting of students. The second one was planned to be held at Tokyo in March 2011, but was canceled due to a serious disaster, the Great East Japan Earthquake. Instead, a small meeting was held at Osaka, to express our indomitable will and to encourage peers all over the Japan. The third one was held at Kyoto in March 2012 with the support of Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, and became a big conference consisting of not only students but also many professional researchers. The success of this conference promotes further challenge of this series. The fourth meeting is going to be held in December 2012 at Tohoku University, to have wider communications with other disciplines including complex networks, applied mathematics, and mathematical finance.

Part of the committee of this STATPHYS25-satellite workshop are who have managed the above four meetings, thus in a sense this satellite can be regarded as the fifth one in the series. We expect further expansions and possibilities of the series in this workshop.

Perspectives in Nonlinear Dynamics 2013 (PNLD 2013)

Period: July, 15-18, 2013

Venue: Hyderabad, India

Website: http://pnld.uohyd.ac.in

International Advisory Committee:: Kazuyuki Aihara, Tokyo; J. K. Bhattacharjee, Allahabad; Paulien Hogeweg, Utrecht; B. Kahng, Seoul; Jurgen Kurths, Potsdam; M. Lakshmanan, Tiruchirapalli; Paul Newton, Los Angeles; Rajarshi Roy, College Park; K. R. Sreenivasan, New York; T. Vicsek, Budapest
Organising Committee:: Ravindra Amritkar, Ahmedabad; Hugues Chate, Saclay; Arul Lakshminarayan, Chennai; Matteo Marsili, Trieste; Adilson Motter, Evanston; Awadhesh Prasad, Delhi; Govindan Rangarajan, Bengaluru
Convenors:: Rama Govindarajan (TIFR, Hydebarad); Neelima Gupte (IIT Madras); Ram Ramaswamy (University of Hyderabad); Somdatta Sinha (IISER, Mohali); Sudeshna Sinha (IISER, Mohali)
The contact persons are :: -Sudeshna Sinha; Department of Physical Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Mohali Knowledge City, Sector 81, SAS Nagar, Manauli PO 140306, India; Email: sudeshna@iisermohali.ac.in, sudeshna@imsc.res.in; -Neelima Gupte; Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, Chennai, 600036., India; Email: gupte@physics.iitm.ac.in; Conference e-mail: pnld13@gmail.com
Themes:: 1) Theoretical and Mathematical aspects: Synchronisation, Bifurcations, Time- delay systems, Chaos,etc.; 2) Nonlinear Phenomena in Engineering Sciences and Applications; 3) Nonlinear Phenomena in Biological and Medical Sciences; 4) Nonequilibrium phenomena: Pattern formation, Collective dynamics, Active fluids, Abrupt phase transitions, Extreme events, etc.; 5) Complex and Multilayer Networks and their Applications: Communications, Traffic, Economics, Social phenomena, etc.; 6) Climate Modelling; 7) Quantum chaos; 8) Integrability
Speakers who have accepted:: V. Balakrishnan, Chennai; S. Bannerjee, Kolkata; I. Bose, Kolkata; A. Buchleitner, Freiburg; T. Carroll, Washington; H. Cerdeira, Sao Paolo; G. Casati, Como; H. Chate, Paris; M. Cross, Pasadena; N. Ganguli, Kharagpur; P. Goel, Pune; P. Guha, Kolkata; S. Jain, Mumbai; M. Jensen, Copenhagen; E. Kaniusas, Vienna; A. Lakshminarayan, Chennai; H. Levine, San Diego; C. Marchetti, Syracuse; N. Oullete, New Haven; R. Pandit, Bangalore; P. Perlekar, Hyderabad; G. Polavieja, Madrid; A. Prasad, Delhi; T. Prosen, Ljubljana; S. Ramaswamy, Hyderabad; M. Rao, Bangalore; M. Small, Perth; R.I Sujith, Chennai; K. Takeuchi, Tokyo; S. Thutupalli, Princeton

Bad Metal Mott Quantum Criticality

Period: July 15-19, 2013

Venue: APCTP, Pohang, Korea

Website: http://www.magnet.fsu.edu/mediacenter/seminars/apctp2013/index.html

Organizers:: Vladimir Dobrosavljevic (Florida); Ki-Seok Kim (Postech); Marcelo Rozenberg (Orsay); Kwon Park (KIAS); Jung Hoon Han (SKKU)
Contact:: Secretary Ki-Seok Kim; Department of Physics, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, Gyeongbuk 790-784, Korea; E-mail: tkfkd@postech.ac.kr; Phone: +82-54-279-2082; Professor Jung Hoon Han; Department of Physics, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 440-746, Korea; E-mail: hanjh@skku.edu; Phone: +82-31-290-5905
Synopsis and Scope:: The no-man's-land between the metal and the insulator has long puzzled experimentalist and theorists alike. Yet this is where a myriad of novel phases are found, starting from the discovery of cuprate superconductivity twenty five years ago, to manganites, ruthenates, iridates, heavy fermions, organic charge-transfer salts, and all the way to recently discovered iron pnictides and related compounds. Many if not most of exotic features of these materials have been linked to quantum criticality associated with the Mott metal-insulator transition in its many disguises. While experiments give strong hints of quantum critical behavior, its fundamental nature remains all but obvious, and many open questions still beg a convincing answer. Is such Mott quantum criticality possible to reduce to the familiar paradigm of static spontaneous symmetry breaking, or should more exotic mechanisms be invoked? Theoretical approaches ranging from conventional spin-fluctuation theories, to dynamical mean-field theory methods, to gauge theory formulations and topological field theories, and even holographic duality-ideas borrowed from superstring theory, have all been discussed. Despite more than twenty years of intense experimental and theoretical efforts, a clear understanding or a consensus what holds the key has not emerged yet. This workshop will address both the fundamental issues associated with this new type of phase transition, and its many consequences for material science and technology, including applications to systems such as Mottronics, various novel oxide hetero-structures, and many other areas. We plan to bring 30 invited speakers who will cover the most exciting discoveries in this field which have emerged in the last few years. This program will present a natural complement to the topics covered at the flagship StatPhys meeting, where more conventional phase transitions phenomena will be the focus. We also plan to make a concentrated effort to include the participation of appreciable number (30-50) of junior scientists (graduate students, postdocs, and early-career faculty members).
Partial list of invited speakers:: H. Alloul (LPS Orsay); Marc Gabay (LPS Orsay); Antoine Georges (Paris); Zenji Hiroi (ISSP); Nigel Hussey (Bristol); Harold Hwang (Stanford); Isao Inoue (AIST); Mark Jarrell (Louisiana State); Gun Sang Jeon (Ewha Womans University); K. Kanoda (Tokyo); Aharon Kapitulnik (Stanford); Norio Kawakami (University of Kyoto); Changyoung Kim (Yonsei University); Hyuntak Kim (ETRI); Yong Baek Kim (Toronto); Steve Kivelson (Stanford University); M. Kohno (NIMS); Y. Kohsaka (RIKEN); Gabriel Kotliar (Rutgers University); S. Kravchenko (Northeastern); S.-S. Lee (McMaster University); Yuji Matsuda (Kyoto University); Ross McKenzie (Australia); Eduardo Miranda (Campinas); S. Nakatsuji (Tokyo); Taewon Noh (Seoul National University); Philip Phillips (Urbana); Dragana Popovic (FSU MagLab); Subir Sachdev (Harvard University); Andres Santander (LPS Orsay); T. Senthil (MIT); Y. Tokura (University of Tokyo); Chandra Varma (UC Riverside); Zheng-yu Weng (Tsinghua University, Beijing); Hong Yao (Tsinghua University, Beijing); J. Zaanen (Leiden)

Physics of glassy and granular materials

Period: July 16-19, 2013

Venue: Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

Website: http://www2.yukawa.kyoto-u.ac.jp/ws/2013/pggm/index.html

Organizers:: Akira Furukawa (University of Tokyo); Takahiro Hatano (University of Tokyo); Hisao Hayakawa (Kyoto University, Chair); Kunimasa Miyazaki (University of Tsukuba); Michio Otsuki (Aoyama Gakuin University); Shin-ichi Sasa (University of Tokyo); Atsuko Shimosaka (Doshisha University); Toshitsugu Tanaka (Osaka University); Toshihiko Umekage (Kyushu Institute of Technology); Hajime Yoshino (Osaka University); Hajime Tanaka (University of Tokyo); Francesco Zamponi (CNRS, Paris); Stefan Luding (University of Twente); Corey O'Hern (Yale University)
Contact:: Professor Hisao Hayakawa; Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University,; Kitashirakawa Oiwakecho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan; E-mail: hisao@yukawa.kyoto-u.ac.jp; Phone: +81-75-753-7024
Synopsis and Scope:: The international workshop entitled "Physics of glassy and granular materials" will be held in July 16-19 at Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics ( YITP ), Kyoto University. The aim of this workshop is to exchange ideas on recent developments, and explore interactions among specialists who belong to two different communities, physics of glassy and granular materials. The symposium will be held at Yukawa Memorial Hall, YITP, Kyoto University as a satellite meeting of STATPHYS 25.
Partial list of overseas invited speakers:: Meheboob Alam (Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research); Robert P. Behringer (Duke University)*; Ludovic Berthier (University of Montpellier); Leticia Cugliandolo (LPTHE Jussieu); J.M.N.T. Gray (University of Manchester); Peter Harrowell (University of Sydney); Heinrich M. Jaeger (University of Chicago)*; Jorge Kurchan (ESPCI, Paris); Andrea Liu (University of Pennsylvania); Stefan Luding (University of Twente); Hernan Makse (City University of New York); Marc Mezard (LPTMS Orsay)*; Corey O'Hern (Yale University); Giorgio Parisi (University of Rome I, La Sapienza)*; Grzegorz Szamel (Colorado State University); Hajime Tanaka (University of Tokyo); Brian Tighe (Delft University of Technology); Francesco Zamponi (ENS, Paris); * not confirmed

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

Organizing Committee:: Chair: Wong, K. Y. Michael (Physics, HKUST); Co-chair: Zhou, Changsong (Physics, HKBU)
Members:: Ching, Emily S. C. (Physics, CUHK); Hu, Gang (Physics, Beijing Normal University); Huang, Jian-Dong (Biochemistry, HKU); Peng, H. Benjamin (Life Science, HKUST); Tang, Leihan (Physics, HKBU); Wu, Si (State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University)
Contacts:: - Mr. Linus See; Institute for Advanced Study; Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; Hong Kong, China; E-mail: linus@ust.hk; Phone: +85-2358-8424; Fax: +852-2719-6615; - Prof. K. Y. Michael Wong; Department of Physics; Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; Hong Kong, China; E-mail: phkywong@ust.hk; Phone: +852-2358-7480; Fax: +852-2358-1652
Synopsis and scope:: Understanding how the brain works is one of the top scientific challenges of this century. It is commonly believed that the functionalities of the brain reside distributively in the neural circuits formed by a large number of neurons interconnected by synapses. Statistical physics focuses on the study of the collective behaviors of many interacting elements, and has played a significant role in elucidating brain functions in the past few decades.

Traditionally, there have not been sufficient interactions between the statistical physicists who work on neural models and neurobiologists who work on neuroscience experiments. However, there is an increasing broad understanding of neural systems using various tools and models, including the statistical mechanics of complex energy landscapes, non-linear dynamics, the concepts of self-organized criticality and chaos, complex networks, and the relations between integrate-and-fire models and rate models, to name a few. There is also a dramatic upsurge in computational power to deal with large scale simulations of neural systems. On the side of neuroscience, experimental tools, such as electroencephalography, magnetic resonance imaging, fluorescent proteins, and fluorescence resonance energy transfer techniques, have opened up many neuroscience areas for exploration. On the application side, technological advances in human-machine interface and robotics have provided a powerful push for a deeper understanding of neural information processing.

The purpose of this conference is to bring together scientists from different backgrounds and hence facilitate an interdisciplinary dialog among them. We aim at reviewing recent progress in statistical physics and computational neuroscience, communicating the latest results and newly established methodologies among the participants, and identifying common themes and issues for further investigation. We believe the conference is very timely and can play a significant role in sharpening the issues for both theoretical and experimental communities in this challenging area.
List of invited speakers:: Guoqiang Bi (University of Science and Technology of China); Chi Keung Chan (Academica Sinica); Ying Shing Chan (University of Hong Kong); Steven Coombes (Nottingham University); Tomaki Fukai (RIKEN); David Hansel (Université René Descartes); Jufang He (Hong Kong Polytechnic University); Claus Hilgetag (Hamburg University); Gang Hu (Beijing Normal University); Zhaoping Li (University College London); Marcelo Magnasco (Rockefeller University); Masato Okada (University of Tokyo); Stefano Panzeri (Italian Institute of Technology and University of Glasgow); Barry Richmond (NIH); Mark van Rossum (University of Edinburgh); Xiaoqin Wang (Johns Hopkins University)

Financial Networks and Systemic Risk

Period: July 17‐19, 2013

Venue: Clock Tower Centennial Hall, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

Website: http://www.econophysics.jp/fnet13_kyoto/

Organizers:: Chair; Hideaki Aoyama, Kyoto University; Vice-chair; Guido Galdarelli (IMT Lucca); Hiroshi Yoshikawa, University of Tokyo
Members of the organizing committee:: Stefano Battison, ETZ Zurich; Yuichi Ikeda, Kyoto University; Hiroshi Iyetomi, University of Tokyo; Yoshi Fujiwara, University of Hyogo; Aki-hiro Sato, Kyoto University; Wataru Souma, Nihon University; Irena Vodenska, Boston University; Tsutomu Watanabe, University of Tokyo
Contact:: - Secretary Kiyomi Yokota (Kyoto University); E-mail: yokota@scphys.kyoto-u.ac.jp; Phone: +81-75-753-3823; Fax: +81-75-753-3886; - Professor Yoshi Fujiwara; Graduate School of Simulation Studies, University of Hyogo; 7-1-28 Minami, Minato-jima, Chuo-ku, Kobe 650-0047 Japan; E-mail: yoshi.fujiwara@gmail.com; Phone/Fax: +81-78-303-1976
Aims & Scope:: This conference is a satellite of STATPHYS 25, held in Seoul, Korea in July 2013. Stability of financial systems is an important issue in the current climate of high uncertainty for the future of global economy. In this environment, statistical physics offers new analytical approaches to study economic phenomena. Research efforts have recently been conducted on many aspects of global financial systems in Europe, Japan, United States as well as in other countries. Some studies show how economic and financial complex networks are interconnected, some develop network tools to measure risk propagation through these networks, yet some concentrate on data mining, spreading the wing of researchers who explore, analyze, and investigate wide range of global economic data available today. This conference intends to cover all these aspects, acting as a gathering place in the heart of Asia, the city of Kyoto.
Some of the Topics covered are:: Network Analysis Tools; Modeling and Simulations of Financial Networks; Data coverage and availability; Risk evaluation on various networks; Business cycles, crisis event analysis; Future tasks and prospects
List of Invited Speakers: (to be confirmed): Mauro Gallegati (Universita Politecnica delle Marche); Rosario Mantegna (Central European University); H. Eugene Stanley (Boston University); Alan Kirman (GREQAM in Aix-Marseille School of Economics); Frank Schweitzer (ETH Zurich); Didier Sornette (ETH Zurich)

BioComplex-Taiwan 2013:
2013 Taiwan International Workshop on Biophysics and Complex Systems

Period: July 17-20, 2013

Venue: Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

Website: http://phys.cts.nthu.edu.tw/actnews/content.php?Sn=95

Organizers:: C.K. Hu; Email: huck@phys.sinica.edu.tw; Applied Physics, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan

IEU Workshop on "Integrability & CFT"

Period: July 18-20, 2013

Venue: Institute for the Early Universe, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, S. Korea

Website: http://ieu.ewha.ac.kr/conference/integrabilityCFT

Participation for this workshop is by invitation only. Additional participants may be exceptionally accepted.

Computational Methods for Bio and Complex Systems

Period: July 18‐21, 2013

Venue: KIAS, Seoul, Korea

Website: to be announced

Organizer: Jooyoung Lee (KIAS)

Patterns & waves in populations of cells and active particles

Period: July 19‐20, 2013

Venue: Hana Square, Korea University, Seoul, Korea

Website: http://turing.korea.ac.kr/satellite

Organizers:: Kyoung J. Lee (kyoung@korea.ac.kr); Hugues Chate (hugues.chate@cea.fr)
Scope:: This small workshop will focus on some up‐to‐date issues regarding collective phenomena associated with interacting particles, which may lead to significant implications in physics as well as biology.
Invited Speakers:: I. Aronson (USA) aronson@lanl.gov; A. Bausch (Germany) abausch@ph.tum.de; H. Chate (France) hugues.chate@cea.fr; F. Julicher (Germany) julicher@pks.mpg.de (to be confirmed); K. Lee (Korea) kyoung@korea.ac.kr; J. Prost (France) jacques.prost@curie.fr; M. Sano (Japan) sano@phys.s.u‐tokyo.ac.jp; Y. Sumino (Japan) ysumino@auecc.aichi‐edu.ac.jp; J. Taillleur (France) Julien.Tailleur@espci.fr; L. Tang (Hong Kong) lhtang@hkbu.edu.hk; J. Yeomans (UK) j.yeomans1@physics.ox.ac.uk; H. Zhang (China) hepend_zhang@sjtu.edu.cn

International Meeting on "Inference, Computation, and Spin Glasses" (ICSG2013)

Period: July 28-30, 2013

Venue: Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

Website: http://www.sp.dis.titech.ac.jp/icsg2013

Organizers:: K. Hukushima (Tokyo U); J. Inoue (Hokkaido U); Y. Kabashima (Tokyo Inst. Tech.); T. Tanaka (Kyoto U); O. Watanabe (Tokyo Inst. Tech.)
Contact:: icsg2013-office@sp.dis.titech.ac.jp
Scope:: The close relationship between probability-based inference and statistical mechanics of disordered systems has been noted for some time. This relationship has provided researchers with a theoretical foundation in various fields of information processing for analytical performance evaluation and construction of efficient algorithms based on message-passing or Monte Carlo sampling schemes. The objective of this meeting is to offer a forum where concerned researchers can assemble and exchange information on the latest results and newly established methodologies, and discuss future directions of the interdisciplinary studies between statistical mechanics and information sciences.
Topics to be highlighted include:: Information and communication, Combinatorial optimization problems, Bioinformatics, Quantum information, Spin glasses, Other issues in research on disordered systems and information sciences
List of Speakers:: TBA

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

Statistical Physics of Quantum Matter

Period: July 28-31, 2013

Venue: Taipei, Taiwan

Website: http://www.iphys.nccu.edu.tw/QMworkshop2013

Organizers:: Yu-Cheng Lin (National Chengchi University); Ying-Jer Kao (National Taiwan University); Pochung Chen (National Tsing Hua University); Anders W. Sandvik (Boston University)
Contact:: Professor Yu-Cheng Lin; Email: yc.lin@nccu.edu.tw; Graduate Institute of Applied Physics, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan
Synopsis and Scope:: Interacting quantum many-body systems pose interesting and important challenges, both as fundamental condensed-matter physics problems and in the context of applications in quantum information theory. Recently, fruitful interactions between the two communities have led to progress on both fronts. The workshop will bring together condensed-matter and quantum-information theorists to discuss these recent advances in quantum statistical mechanics, novel methods as well as key applications. Topics include quantum Monte Carlo simulations, tensor-product states, novel quantum states and quantum phase transitions, entanglement, quantum dynamics, frustrated quantum magnets, and cold-atom systems.

Econophysics Colloquium 2013 & 2013 Asia Pacific Econophysics Conference: APEC 2013

Period: July 29-31, 2013

Venue: POSTECH (APCTP Headquarters), Pohang, Korea

Website: http://econophysics2013.postech.ac.kr

Organisers:: Chair: Seunghwan Kim (POSTECH); Secretary: Woo-Sung Jung (POSTECH)
Local Organizing Committee:: Hawoong Jeong (KAIST); Jaeseung Jeong (KAIST); Hyungtae Kook (Gachon University); Beom Jun Kim (Sungkyunkwan University); Kyungsik Kim (Pukyong National University); Okyu Kwon (National Institute for Mathematical Sciences); Jae Woo Lee (Inha University); Gabjin Oh (Chosun University); Seung-Woo Son (Hanyang University); Soon-Hyung Yook (Kyung Hee University)
Contact:: Professor Seunghwan Kim; Department of Physics, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang 790-784, Korea; E-mail: swan@postech.ac.kr; Phone: +82-54-279-2085; Fax: +82-54-279-3099; Professor Woo-Sung Jung; Department of Physics, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang 790-784, Korea; E-mail: wsjung@postech.ac.kr; Phone: +82-54-279-1263; Fax: +82-54-279-2694
Synopsis and Scope:: The annual colloquium, now in its ninth consecutive year, provides a platform for the presentation of interdisciplinary ideas from different communities, for instance economics and finance, physics, mathematics, biology, computer science, engineering, etc.

The main aim of this colloquium is to foster an open-minded, cross-fertilizing, and regular exchange of ideas among scholars and practitioners of the different fields in a friendly environment.
Partial list of overseas invited speakers:: H. Eugene Stanley (Boston University, USA); Tiziana Di Matteo (King's College London, UK); Rosario Nunzio Mantegna (University of Palermo, Italy); Sai-Ping Li (Academia Sinica, Taiwan); Misako Takayasu (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan); Taisei Kaizoji (International Christian University, Japan); Wei-Xing Zhou (East China University of Science and Technology, China); * to be updated

Mathematical Statistical Physics

Period: July 29-August 3, 2013

Venue: Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics (YITP), Kyoto, Japan

Website: http://www2.yukawa.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~mathstat/

Organizers:: H. Tasaki* (Gakushuin University); T. Deguchi* (Ochanomizu University); T. Hara (Kyushu University); H. Hayakawa** (YITP, Kyoto University); M. Oshikawa (ISSP, University of Tokyo); K. Sakai (University of Tokyo); T. Sasamoto (Chiba University); * co-chairs, ** secretary
Contact:: Professor Hal Tasaki; Gakushuin University; E-mail: mathstat@yukawa.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Synopsis and scope:: The meeting "Mathematical Statistical Physics" focuses on mathematical approaches to statistical physics. It will cover various studies on mathematical aspects of statistical physics including those based on exact solutions and those on rigorous methods. This meeting is officially a satellite meeting of STATPHYS 25, Seoul, Korea, July, 2013, as well as a registered YITP workshop supported by YITP.
Tentative list of overseas invited speakers:: M. Aizenman (Princeton); V. Bazhanov (Canberra); D. Bernard (Paris); A. Borodin* (MIT); P. Calabrese* (Pisa); J. Cardy* (Oxford); J. de Gier (Melbourne); B. Derrida* (Paris); F. Essler (Oxford); P. Fendley (Virginia); M. Jimbo (Tokyo); V. Korepin (Stony Brook); J. Lebowitz* (Rutgers); E.H. Lieb* (Princeton); J.M. Maillet (Lyon); B.M. McCoy (Stony Brook); B. Nachtergaele (UC Davis); C. Newman* (Courant); G. Slade (British Columbia); H. Spohn (Munich); * to be confirmed

STATPHYS25

Satellite Meetings Before STATPHYS25

Satellite Meetings After STATPHYS25