25th Marian Smoluchowski Symposium on Statistical Physics

The Marian Smoluchowski Symposium on Statistical Physics is a cyclic
scientific meeting organized annually in Poland since 1988. The
conference takes name after the famous Polish physicist who made huge
contributions in the natural science and foundation of statistical
physics.

The conference is traditionally organized under the patronage of the
Polish Academy of Art and Science, Mark Kac Center for Complex System
Research at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, and the consortium
of four other Polish academic institutions, i.e. the Institute of
Chemical Physics, Polish Academy of Science (Warszawa), Silesian
University of Technology (Gliwice), August Chełkowski Institue of
Physics, Silesian University (Katowice) and Wrocław University of
Technology. European Science Foundation was involved in preparation
and co-sponsoring of the symposium in the past within the program
PESC/STOCHDYN.

In 2012 the conference is organized and promoted with the assistance
of the Division of Statistical and Nonlinear Physics (SNP), a part of
the European Physical Society (EPS). The main mission of SNP is to
facilitate contacts between scientists through the organization of
meetings, conferences and workshops. It supports also and co-ordinates
all research activities in nonlinear and statistical physics.
Additionally, it seeks to promote the public understanding and
appreciation of statistical and nonlinear physics. The division offers
expertise and advice to other bodies of EPS, as well as to other
European institutions in the field of statistical and nonlinear
physics.

The program of the anniversary conference in 2012 is devoted to
Fluctuation Relations in Nonequilibrium Regime and will cover, among
others:

Fluctuation relations for entropy production in nonequilibrium
stationary states
Fluctuation relations and large deviation theory
Decoherence, chaos and quantum-classical correspondence
Diffusive processes and weak ergodicity breaking
Stochastic thermodynamics
Fluctuation-dissipation relation in fluids, granular media, nano-
and biological-systems