Motivation and background: the Russian war of agression against Ukraine has led to the largest refugee crisis in Europe since WW2, and to very serious disturbances of scientific life in Ukraine. Male scientists below the age of 60 can not cross the state border without special permission, which is not always immediate to obtain. Ukraine has therefore, in addition to all other misfortunes of war, had to face an increased isolation of its scientific community. Read the EPS Statement (March 3, 2022).
The Statphys in Lviv satellite conference of Statphys29 is specifically intended to initiate new connections and broaden and deepen connections already made, and to allow statistical physicists in Ukraine to interact with international colleagues without leaving the country.
The Statphys in Lviv conference follows on an on-line European-Ukrainian conference organized in the framework of the Davydov Readings in December 2023, with the participation of several Board members of the EPS Statistical and Nonlinear Physics Division (EPS-SNPD), and on an upcoming in-person Sweden-Ukraine Conference: Theoretical and Computational Physics, at the Royal Academy of Sciences in Stockholm.
Sponsoring organizations: IUPAP through the Statphys29 regional committee as Statphys 29 satellite conference, KTH-Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm, Sweden), Institute for Condensed Matter Physics of the NAS of Ukraine (Lviv, Ukraine) and Bogolyobov Institute for Theoretical Physics of the NAS of Ukraine (Kyiv, Ukraine).
Format: Three full days (arrival day 0, conference days 1-3, departure day 4). Optionally the meeting may be shortened to two full days. Registered participants will be notified in due time.
Dates: June 30 - July 3, 2025
Location: Institute for Condensed Matter Physics of the NAS of Ukraine, Svientsitskii Str. 1, Lviv, Ukraine.
Accommodation: The recommended conference hotel is Hotel Atlas Delux which have rooms from 2700 UAH (60 EUR). If other accommodations are chosen, it is recommended to arrange through one of the larger international services such as Booking.com, Hotels.com or Airbnb.
Conference fee and conference dinner: there is a conference fee of 400 UAH (Ukrainian participants) and 50 EUR (foreign participants), to be paid in cash during registration at the venue. There is an additional conference dinner fee of 50 EUR, also to be paid in cash during registration at the venue.
Security situation: Every participant will travel to Lviv on his or her own responsibility. Relevant information and/or recommendations from a participant's state department and/or from reliable international news agencies should be taken into account. Flexibility as to change of plans is warranted.
Mode of organisation: Every participant arranges his or her travel and accommodation by himself or herself. Convenient modes of transportant to Lviv are by train or car from Warsaw or Krakow, Poland.
International committee:
Erik Aurell, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm (co-chair)
Larissa Brizhik, Bololyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyiv (co-chair)
Taras Bryk, Institute of Condensed Matter Physics of NASU, Lviv, Ukraine (co-chair)
Mats Larsson, Stockholm University, Stockholm
Pawel Horodecki, University of Gdansk
Karol Zyczkowski, Jagiellonian University, Krakow
Angelo Vulpiani, University of Rome ”La Sapienza”, Rome
Luca Gammaitoni, University of Perugia
