ISING LECTURES-2026

28th Annual Workshop
on Critical Phenomena and Complex Systems

Lviv, Ukraine, May 5-7, 2026

Tuesday, 5.05
(time is given in Kyiv time zone = CEST +1)

1500 - 1510 Opening (Yurij Holovatch, Taras Bryk, Joseph Sebastian Ang)
Chaired by: Maria R. D'Orsogna, Oksana Dobush
1510 - 1600 Reinhard Folk (Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria)
New glimpses through the old holes.
A presentation of the book: Ernst Ising's Doctoral Thesis - One Hundred Years On (World Scientific, Singapore, 2026)

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1610 - 1700 Luís M. A. Bettencourt (University of Chicago, Chicago, USA; Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, USA & Complexity Science Hub, Vienna, Austria)
Towards a Statistical Mechanics of Cities. I
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1710 - 1800 Luís M. A. Bettencourt (University of Chicago, Chicago, USA; Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, USA & Complexity Science Hub, Vienna, Austria)
Towards a Statistical Mechanics of Cities. II
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Wednesday, 6.05
(time is given in Kyiv time zone = CEST +1)

Chaired by: Chris Hooley, Dmytro Shapoval
1500 - 1550 Jan Korbel (Complexity Science Hub, Vienna, Austria)
Foundations of entropy in complex systems. I
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1600 - 1650 Jan Korbel (Complexity Science Hub, Vienna, Austria)
Foundations of entropy in complex systems. II
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1700 - 1750 Ferenc Iglói (Institute for Solid State Physics and Optics, Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest, Hungary and University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary)
Disorder and Order in Quantum Systems. I
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Thursday, 7.05
(time is given in Kyiv time zone = CEST +1)

Chaired by: Antonio Scala, Marjana Krasnytska
1500 - 1550 Ferenc Iglói (Institute for Solid State Physics and Optics, Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest, Hungary and University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary)
Disorder and Order in Quantum Systems. II
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1600 - 1650 Matteo Marsili (Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics & Laboratory for Quantitative Sustainability, Trieste, Italy; Complexity Science Hub, Vienna, Austria)
Stylised models of sustainable Human Ecologies. I
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1700 - 1750 Matteo Marsili (Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics & Laboratory for Quantitative Sustainability, Trieste, Italy; Complexity Science Hub, Vienna, Austria)
Stylised models of sustainable Human Ecologies. II
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1750 - 1800 Closing

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