ICTSM 2026: 20. International Conference on Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics

Thermodynamics and Thermophysics
Climate control and the environment
Availability of energy resources
Basic engineering thermal science
Thermal fluid dynamics of single- and multi-phase systems
Micro- and nano-technologies in energy and environmental systems
Computational thermal-fluid dynamics
Refrigeration and air-conditioning including advanced cycles and new refrigerants
Heat exchangers and heat exchanger systems
Solar energy including solar thermal and photovoltaic,CST and CPV
Wind and alternative energy systems
Geothermal energy systems
Fuel cells and hydrogen energy technologies
Biofuels
Combustion improvements and combustion of new fuels
Material processing
Energy conservation in buildings and the improvement of indoor air quality
Low/zero energy buildings
Renewable and alternative energy technologies
Solar heating and cooling
Energy systems: design, integration, implementation
Energy conversion
Energy savings in transportation
Energy applications: sustainability, renewable energy
Combined energy cycles, CHP and CCHP
Power plants and equipment
Low/zero emission power plants and carbon sequestration
Waste heat recovery including using ORC
Water desalination and distillation systems
Cogeneration and combined heat and power
Energy storage – from small to large scale including hot and cold energy storage
Sustainable cities and communities
Thermoeconomic analysis
Industrial engineering applications in renewable and sustainable energy

Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics
General aspects of statistical physics: phase transitions, critical phenomena, thermodynamics, networks and graphs
Mathematical aspects: rigorous results, exact solutions, matrix models, SLE, combinatorics
Nonequilibrium processes: driven systems, transport theory, relaxation phenomena, random processes, fluctuations, large deviations
Quantum systems: strongly correlated electrons, cold atoms, graphene, soft quantum matter, mesoscopic quantum phenomena, fractional quantum Hall effect, low dimensional quantum field theory, quantum phase transitions, quantum information and entanglement
Fluids and soft matter: molecular and ionic fluids, metastable liquids, polymers, gels, liquid crystals, microemulsions, foams, membranes, colloids, granular materials
Surfaces and Interfacial phenomena: growth processes, wetting, surface effects, films, confined systems
Non-linear phenomena: dynamical systems, pattern formation, hydrodynamic instabilities, turbulence, chemical reactions
Disordered and glassy systems: percolation, spin glasses, structural glasses, jamming, glass transition, algorithmic problems
Biological physics: molecular motors, dynamics at the scale of the cell, spatio-temporal organization in biological systems, biological membranes, biopolymer folding
Statistical modeling of biological data: genomics, biological networks, evolution models
Interdisciplinary topics in statistical physics: applied networks, econophysics, social phenomena, information theory, traffic fl