38th Max Born Symposium in celebration of Andrzej Pękalski's 80th birthday

38th Max Born Symposium "Crossing Frontiers in Science: a Physicist's Approach" is organized in celebration of prof. Andrzej Pękalski's 80th birthday to honour his contribution to interdisciplinary applications of statistical physics. Andrzej Pękalski was the founder and head of the UNESCO Chair of Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Wroclaw. He has spent over 50 years of his scientific carrier not only investigating various types of complex systems (from magnetism, through neural networks and anomalous diffusion, to social and biological systems) but also integrating the interdisciplinary scientific community. The subject of this Symposium does therefore not only reflect Andrzej Pękalski's scientific interest but most importantly the main idea he has taught us for years - some problems can be solved only when one looks at them from a wider, interdisciplinary perspective. The Symposium will focus mainly on the theory of phase transitions and critical phenomena, equilibrium and non-equilibrium statistical physics and its interdisciplinary applications, mainly in social sciences, economy and biology.

Expected number of participants: 50

Notable attendees:

• Marcel Ausloos (University of Leicester, UK)
• Michel Droz (Université de Geneve, Switzerland)
• Stanisław Cebrat (University of Wrocław, Poland)
• Ryszard Kutner (University of Warsaw, Poland)
• Dale Huckaby (Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, USA)
• Joseph Indekeu (KU Leuven, Belgium)
• Paulo Murilo de Oliveira (Universidade Federal da Integraçao Latino-Americana, Brasil)
• Andrzej Pękalski (University of Wrocław, Poland)
• Ingve Simonsen (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway)
• Eugene Stanley (Boston University, Boston, USA)
• Dietrich Stauffer (University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany)
• Józef Sznajd (INTiBS PAN, Wrocław, Poland)
• Haim Taitelbaum (Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel)

Director: Katarzyna Sznajd Weron (Department of Theoretical Physics, Faculty of Fundamental Problems of Technology, WUST)

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