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
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)
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
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

Wednesday, 6.05
(time is given in Kyiv time zone = CEST +1)

1500 - 1550 Jan Korbel (Complexity Science Hub, Vienna, Austria)
Foundations of entropy in complex systems. I
1600 - 1650 Jan Korbel (Complexity Science Hub, Vienna, Austria)
Foundations of entropy in complex systems. II
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

Thursday, 7.05
(time is given in Kyiv time zone = CEST +1)

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
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
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
1750 - 1800 Closing

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