Mini-Symposia

            • (12 minutes presentations of the experts and 45 minutes general discussion.)

              A, Nonadditive thermodynamics (chair: Peter Ván, MTA Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest, Hungary)

              Sumiyoshi Abe, Mie University, Japan
              Baris Bagci, TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Ankara, Turkey
              Tamás Biró, MTA Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest, Hungary
              Petr Jizba, Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic
              Constantino Tsallis, Brazilian Center for Physics Research, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

              B, Thermodynamics of quantum systems  (chair: Ronnie Kosloff, Hebrew University Jerusalem, Israel)

              Alexia Auffeves, Institut NEEL, Grenoble, France
              Lajos Diósi, MTA Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest, Hungary
              Massimiliano Esposito, Université du Luxembourg, Luxembourg
              Andrew N. Jordan, University of Rochester, Rochester, USA

              C, Biothermodynamics  (chair: Natalya N. Kizilova, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland)

              Yasar Demirel, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, USA
              Elisa Magnanelli, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
              Peter Salamon, San Diego State University, USA
              R. Dean Astumian, The University of Maine, USA

              D, Engineering thermodynamics  (chair: Michel Feidt, Université de Lorraine, Lorraine, France)

              Julian Gonzalez-Ayala, Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
              László Kiss, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, Chicoutimi, Canada
              Alojz Poredos, University of Ljubjana, Ljubjana, Slovenia
              Petar Varbanov, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic

              E, Computational thermodynamics of phases and surfaces  (chair: Ulrich Deiters, University of Cologne, Köln, Germany)

              Ian Bell, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder (Colorado), USA
              Jean-Noël Jaubert, Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France
              Ilya Polishuk, Ariel University, Israel
              Sergio E. Quiñones-Cisneros, F-Thermo Services GmbH, Cologne, Germany
              Richard Sadus, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn (Victoria), Australia
              Leslie V. Woodcock,  University of Algarve. Faro. Portugal

              F, Theories of nonequilibrium thermodynamics (extended, GENERIC, internal variables, rational)  (chair: Vito Antonio Cimmelli, University of Basilicata, Potenza, Italy)

              David Jou, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
              Angelo Morro, Università di Genova, Genova, Italy
              Hans Christian Oettinger, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
              Bing-Yang Cao, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
              Vít Prusa, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

              G, Chemical thermodynamics  (chair: Signe Kjelstrup, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway)

              Fernando Bresme, Imperial College, London, UK
              Gian Paolo Beretta, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy
              Elena Kustova, University of St Petersburg, St. Petersburg, Russia
              Miguel Rubi, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
              Jean-Marc Simon, CNRS, University of Burgundy, Dijon, France

              H, Continuum thermomechanics  (chairs: Christina Papenfuss, University of Applied Sciences, Berlin, Germany and Joe Verhas, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary)

              Arkadi Berezovski, Center of Nonlinear Studies, Institute of Cybernetics, Tallinn, Estonia
              Miroslav Grmela, Polytechnique Montreal, Montreal, Canada
              Paolo Maria Mariano, Università di Firenze, Florence, Italy
              Bob Svendsen, Universität Aachen, Aachen, Germany
              Kerstin Weinberg, Universität Siegen, Siegen, Germany

Georges Cailletaud, Mines ParisTech, Paris, France