- Henk Van Beijeren (Utrecht University) -- Classical equilibration
- Abhishek Dhar (ICTS) -- Fluctuation theorems
- Udo Seifert (Stuttgart University) -- Stochastic thermodynamics
- Jorge Kurchan (ESPCI, Paris) -- Glass transition
- Leticia Cugliandolo (Université Curie, Paris) -- Coarsening & thermal quenches
- Patrick Hayden (McGill University) -- Quantum information
- Anatoli Polkovnikov (Boston University) -- Quantum ergodicity
- Alessandro Silva (SISSA, Trieste) -- Quantum quenches
- Amit Dutta (IIT Kanpur) -- Quantum quenches
- Sumit R. Das (University of Kentucky) -- Holography and Quantum quenches
- Laurence Yaffe (University of Washington) -- Non-Abelian plasma thermalization