Name: 39th M. Smoluchowski Symposium on Statistical Physics
Start: 2026-09-23T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-09-25T20:00:00+02:00
Location: Accademia Polacca Delle Scienze

39th M. Smoluchowski Symposium on Statistical Physics

from Wednesday, 23 September 2026 (08:00) to Friday, 25 September 2026 (20:00)

Monday, 21 September 2026
Tuesday, 22 September 2026
Wednesday, 23 September 2026
09:30
09:30 - 11:00
Contributions

09:30 Fast Rare Events in Exit-Time Statistics of Jump Processes - Raffaella Burioni (University of Parma)

10:00 Boltzmann equations: From random exchange models for the distribution of wealth to the Lorentz gas - Enrico Scalas (Department of Statistical Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome)

10:30 Anomalous Diffusion, Non-Gaussianity and Long-Range Dependent Motion - Ralf Metzler (University of Potsdam)
11:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30
11:30
11:30 - 13:00
Contributions

11:30 Different types of random motion and generalized Fokker-Planck equations - Luca Angelani

12:00 Multimodality of stationary states in single-well potentials - Bartłomiej Dybiec (Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Applied Computer Science, Jagiellonian University)

12:30 Continuous-time random walks with resetting: scaling limits and anomalous diffusions - Luisa Beghin (Sapienza University of Rome)
13:00 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
13:00 - 14:00
14:00 Session 3
Session 3
14:00 - 16:00
Contributions

14:00 Janus Percolation in Anisotropic Limited-Degree Networks - Lucilla de Arcangelis (Università della Campania)

14:30 The Cost of Ignorance: Sparse Corruption and BBP-Type Transitions in Low-Rank Matrix Inference - Pierpaolo Vivo (King's College London)

15:00 Preferential attachment graphs: random initial degrees - Federico Polito (University of Torino)

15:30 Information engine fueled by first–passage times - Alberto Imparato (Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Trieste)
Thursday, 24 September 2026
09:00 Session 4
Session 4
09:00 - 11:00
Contributions

09:00 The real butterfly effect: from the pop culture to mathematics and physics - Angelo Vulpiani (Dip. di Fisica, Univ. Sapienza, Roma)

09:30 Burgers equation and the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou lattice - Stefano Ruffo (SISSA)

10:00 Observers, fluctuations and fluctuation theorems - Francesco Caravelli

10:30 Formal Fluctuation-Response Relations for Non-Stationary Systems - Igor Sokolov (Humbold University at Berlin)
11:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30
11:30
11:30 - 13:00
Contributions

11:30 Heavy distribution tails and explosive moments in a doubly-stochastic model of cell proliferation - Marek Kimmel (Rice University)

12:00 Statistical fluctuations of large-scale mind states - dante chialvo (Universidad Nacional de San Martin)

12:30 Fractal and multifractal organisation of neuroimaging signals - Jeremi Ochab (Institute of Theoretical Physics, Jagiellonian University, Kraków)
13:00 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
13:00 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 15:30
Contributions

14:00 Non-local dynamic boundary conditions for sticky Brownian motions on smooth domains - Mirko D'Ovidio

14:30 Superdiffusion in a system with a thin membrane - Tadeusz Kosztołowicz (Institute of Physics, Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce)

15:00 Analysis of fractional Cauchy problems with some probabilistic applications - Enzo Orsingher (La Sapienza)
15:30
15:30 - 17:10
Contributions

15:30 Phase diagram of Turing pattern formation - Helder Larraguivel (UJ, FAIS, Mark Kac Center for Complex Systems Research)

15:30 Behavior of hidden nodes in Artificial Neural Networks under increasing cognitive load - Pablo Vidal Franco

15:30 Unusual transport in odd-diffusive systems - Erik Kalz (University of Potsdam)

15:30 Conflict between ensembles in a system with random disorder on a complete graph - Nir Schreiber (Bar Ilan University)

15:30 Curvature-driven phase behavior in a vertex model of epithelial tissues - Mohammad Salar Ghasemi Nasab (PhD student, Jagiellonian University, Krakow)

15:30 Feller Diffusion in an Interval: Inhomogeneous Fluctuation-Induced Asymmetric Escapes - Debasish Mondal (Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati, India)

15:30 Probabilities of rare events in product kernel aggregation: An exact formula and phase diagram - Goutham R

15:30 Reset-controlled thermodynamic transition in an inhomogeneous Brownian information engine - Prashanta Bauri (Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati)

15:30 Strong Violation of the Thermodynamic Uncertainty Relation in a Minimal Autonomous Heat Engine - Enrique Puga Cital (Charles University)
20:00 Conference Dinner
Conference Dinner
20:00 - 22:00
Friday, 25 September 2026
09:00
09:00 - 11:00
Contributions

09:00 Large deviations for linear regression - Silvia Bartolucci (Department of Computer Science, University College London)

09:30 Heterogeneous Diffusion and Its Connection to the Noisy Voter Model - Tobiasz Pietrzak (Institute of Nuclear Physics, PAS, Kraków, Poland)

10:00 Random walks with stochastic resetting: a discrete time approach - Giuseppe D'Onofrio (Politecnico di Torino)
11:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30
11:30
11:30 - 13:00
Contributions

11:30 Monte-Carlo search for nematic liquid crystals of non-standard symmetries. - Michal Ciesla (Jagiellonian University)

12:00 A new exact fractal mean-field analysis in phase transition - Fernando de Oliveira (University of Brasilia)

12:30 Estimation of Methylation Entropy Distribution in Genomics - Monika Kurpas (Department of Systems Biology and Engineering, Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland)
13:00 Conference Closing & Lunch
Conference Closing & Lunch
13:00 - 14:00