Statistical Physics of Complex Systems: Recent Advances and Open Challenges
DIEP Workshop | 6th - 10th of July 2026 | Crete, Greece
Organizers: Deepak gupta, Tuan Minh Pham
Abstract
The workshop aims to bring together PhD students, postdoctoral researchers, and experts from a broad range of fields who are willing to exchange experience in addressing both fundamental and applied problems, and bridge cross-disciplinary approaches, paving the way toward understanding a wide range of complex systems.
Keynote speakers
Shoichi Toyabe
(Tohoku University, Japan)
Géza Ódor
(Research Institute for Technical Physics and Materials Science)
Kazumasa A. Takeuchi
(Tokyo University, Japan)
Daniel Maria Busiello
(University of Padova)
Etienne Fodor
(University of Luxembourg)
Wout Merbis
(UvA, Statistics Netherlands (CBS))
Jae Sung Lee
(KIAS, South Korea)
Rainer Klages
(Queen Mary University of London)
Mariangeles Ángeles Serrano
(Universitat de Barcelona)
Carlos A. Plata
(University of Sevilla)
Ada Altieri
(Université Paris Cité)
Kunihiko Kaneko
(Niels Bohr Institute)
John Bechhoefer
(Simon Fraser University, Canada)
Sosuke Ito
(Tokyo University)
Yongjoo Baek
(Seoul National University)
Martin Evans
(University of Edinburgh)
Satya Majumdar
(CNRS, LPTMS, Universite Paris-Sud, Orsay, France)
Supriya Krishnamurthy
(Stockholm University)
David A. Sivak
(Simon Fraser University, Canada)
Sanjib Sabhapandit
(Raman research Institute)
Invited speakers
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Rituparno Mandal, Raman Research Institute
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Dario Lucente, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”
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Fabrizio Olmeda, Institute of Science and Technology Austria
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Jaehyeok Jin, Columbia University, University of Chicago
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Sreekanth Manikandan, University of Gothenburg
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Jordi Pinero, Trinity College Dublin
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Fernando A N Santos, University of Amsterdam
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Tan Van Vu, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University
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Luca Cocconi, University of Cambridge
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Pedro Harunari, Aix-Marseille Université
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Ion Santra, KU Leuven
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Hildegard Meyer-Ortmanns, Bremen University
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Alexandre René, RWTH University
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Suvam Pal, IMSc, India
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Bart Cleuren, Hasselt University
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Ralf Eichhorn, NORDITA Stockholm
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David Saad, Aston University
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Michael te Vrügt, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Preliminary Program
Day 1, July 6th:
Chair: Jaehyeok Jin
14:00-14:30: Kunihiko Kaneko, Dimensional Reduction, Fluctuation-Response Relationship, and Multi-timescale Consistency in Evolution, Development, and Learning
14:30-15:00: Shoichi Toyabe, Information-thermodynamics analysis of a biological molecular machine in experiments
15:00-15:20: Michael te Vrugt, Collective dynamics of inertial active matter
15:20-15:40: Ralf Eichhorn, An artificial motor protein that walks along a DNA track
15:40-16:00: Fabrizio Olmeda, Self-similarity in the formation of the embryonic epigenome
16:00-16:30: Martin Evans, The Cost of Stochastic Resetting
16:30-17:00: Satya Majumdar, Large deviations in resetting Brownian motions
17:00-17:30: Coffee break
Chair: Sanjib Sabhapandit
17:30-18:00: Ada Altieri, Decoding emergent patterns in large microbial communities through the prism of disordered systems
18:00-18:30: Daniel Maria Busiello, Functional couplings for information propagation in multiscale interacting systems
18:30-19:00: Carlos A. Plata, Optimal harmonic confinement of a Brownian particle
19:00-19:20: Suvam Pal, Tuning competitive first-passage outcomes in anomalous diffusion via stochastic resetting
19:20-19:35: Veronica Sanz-Arque, Stochastic resetting with limited information ́
19:35-19:50: Francisco Javier Cao-Garc ́ıa, Ligand binding in crowded polymers
Day 2, July 7th:
Chair: Etienne Fodor
11:30-12:00: Sanjib Sabhapandit, Proxitaxis: An adaptive search strategy based on
proximity and stochastic resetting
12:00-12:30: Kazumasa A. Takeuchi, Various phases of active matter emerging from
bacteria and some future perspectives
12:30-12:50: Pedro Harunari, Stochastic excursions: Counting observables and noise
12:50-14:00: Lunch break
Chair: David A. Sivak
14:00-14:30: Supriya Krishnamurthy, Thermodynamic cost of finite-time (recurrent) erasure
14:30-15:00: Sosuke Ito, Oscillations, Thermodynamic Driving Forces, and Dissipation.
15:00-15:30: Yongjoo Baek, Inferring trajectory-level information flow from time-series data
15:30-16:00: Jae Sung Lee, Unified Hierarchy of Fluctuation-Response Identities and Inequalities in Nonequilibrium Markovian Dynamics
16:00-16:20: Dario Lucente, Thermal equilibrium with generalized time-reversal symmetry
16:20-16:40: Ion Santra, Still surprises of heat transport in harmonic crystals
16:40-17:00: Tan Van Vu, Geometric complexity in thermodynamics: A complexity unattainability principle
17:00-17:30: Coffee break
Chair: John Bechhoefer
17:30-17:50: Sreekanth Manikandan, Localizing Energy Dissipation in Cellular Processes
17:50-18:10: Luca Cocconi, Mechanosensing via inhibition of dissipation in a thermodynamically consistent active solid
18:10-18:30: Rituparno Mandal, Dense & Disordered Active Matter
18:30-18:50: Bart Cleuren, Sorting By Resetting
18:50-19:05: Atul Tanaji Mohite, Minimum Action Principle for Entropy Production Rate of Far-From-Equilibrium Systems
19:05-19:20: Javier Cristin, Magnetic-like model for chemotactic navigation in ants
19:20-19:35: Kevin Bilai Biloa, Optimal navigation in stochastic environments: insights from driven Brownian motion in disordered
Day 3, July 8th:
Chair: Luca Cocconi
11:30-12:00: John Bechhoefer, An information engine with high performance and efficiency
12:00-12:30: David A. Sivak, Thermodynamic geometry for control of stochastic systems
12:30-13:00: Etienne Fodor, Active thermodynamics: Work extraction and control theory
13:00-14.00: Lunch break
Chair: Dario Lucente
14:00-14:30: Mariangeles Angeles Serrano, Statistical mechanics of Random Hyperbolic Graphs
14:30-15:00: Geza ́ Odor, Fluctuation-dissipation of the Kuramoto model on fruit-fly connectomes
15:00-15:30: Wout Merbis, Sociohydrodynamics of polarization and segregation: large-scale spatial patterns in society where noise matters
15:30-16:00: Rainer Klages, Modeling the movements of organisms: Movement ecology meets active particles and anomalous diffusion
16:00-16:20: Fernando A N Santos, Interdependent Scaling Exponents in the Human Brain
16:20-16:40: David Saad, Random Feature Mapping for Optical Computing
16:40-17:00: Hildegard Meyer-Ortmanns, Mechanisms to induce metastable brain dynamics
17:00-17:30: Coffee break
Chair: Ralf Eicchorn
17:30-17:50: Jordi Pinero, Nonreciprocal Hopfield nets for the endothelial-mesenchymal transition: beyond the Waddington Landscape
17:50-18:10: Jaehyeok Jin, Predictive Fluctuating Hydrodynamics Simulations of Interacting Particles via Mesoscopic Coarse-Graining
18:10-18:30: Alexandre Rene, Computing moments for arbitrary microcanonical distributions over graphs
18:30-18:45: Euijoon Kwon, Fluctuations of information flow: exactly solvable cases
18.45-19.00: Antonio Patron Castro, Harnessing higher-dimensional fluctuations in an information engine
19.00-19.15: Regina Rusch, Characterizing the dynamics of driven Brownian particles in optical lattices
19.15-19.30: Andres Santos, The Mpemba effect in delayed cooling: The Descartes protocol
