Schedule and Venue
11 (Mon) - 14 (Thu) May 2026
Maskawa Hall, Maskawa Building for Education and Research, Kyoto University, Japan
Scope
This workshop is organized on the occasion of the visit to Japan by Leticia Cugliandolo, a member of the International Advisory Committee (IAC), and her husband Jorge Kurchan. Both are recipients of numerous prestigious awards, including the Lars Onsager Prize. The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers in statistical physics from Japan, France, East Asia, and India, in order to facilitate the exchange of ideas and promote new collaborative research. To this end, we have broadly solicited contributions in nonequilibrium statistical physics, including active matter, soft matter, mathematical physics, machine learning, quantum thermodynamics, and stochastic thermodynamics.
We have invited more than 25 speakers. While we have intentionally included a relatively large number of speakers based in Japan—particularly from the Kansai area—there are nevertheless 11 invited speakers of non-Japanese nationality, making this a genuinely international meeting. The Japanese speakers have also been carefully selected, including two recipients of the Nishina Memorial Prize, and we have succeeded in assembling a broad and representative group of researchers in nonequilibrium physics. As a result, this workshop offers an excellent opportunity to obtain an overview of the current state of the field and to discuss its future directions.
Invited Speakers
Leticia F. Cugliandolo (Sorbonne University)
Jorge Kurchan (École Normale Supérieure)
Pik-Yin Lai (National Central University)
Jae Sung Lee (KIAS)
Leihan Tang (Westlake University )
Limei Xu (Peking University)
Mahesh Bandi (OIST)
Simone Pigolotti (OIST)
Tridib Sadhu (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)
Sumilan Banerjee (Indian Institute of Science)
Hal Tasaki (Gakushuin University)
Masahito Ueda (University of Tokyo)
Kazumasa A Takeuchi (University of Tokyo)
Ken Funo (University of Tokyo)
Yoshihiko Hasegawa (University of Tokyo)
Tomohiro Sasamoto (Institute of Science Tokyo)
Ryo Hanai (Institute of Science Tokyo)
Takashi Mori (Keio University)
Hajime Yoshino (Osaka University)
Kyogo Kawaguchi (RIKEN)
Hiroyasu Tajima (Kyushu University)
Shinichi Sasa (Kyoto University)
Keiji Saito (Kyoto University)
Andreas Dechant (Kyoto University)
Marie Tani (Kyoto University)
Kiyoshi Kanazawa (Kyoto University)
Registration Deadline
March 31st, 2026
Sponsors
Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics
