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The program marks twenty-five years of remarkable progress in “Macroscopic Fluctuation Theory (MFT)” and aims to provide a forum for reflecting on its development while exploring new directions for the field. Since its emergence, MFT has become a central framework for understanding fluctuations and rare events in non-equilibrium many-body systems. By combining ideas from statistical physics, hydrodynamics, and large deviation theory, it provides a powerful macroscopic description of transport, fluctuations, and dynamical phase transitions in interacting particle systems.

The goal of the meeting is to bring together researchers working on the theoretical, mathematical, and applied aspects of MFT in a relaxed and stimulating environment. By gathering scientists from different communities, the program aims to encourage the exchange of ideas, identify current challenges, and stimulate new collaborations.

The scientific program will cover a broad range of topics related to MFT and its applications. These include large deviations and fluctuations in non-equilibrium many-body systems such as exclusion processes, lattice gases, multicomponent and single-file transport systems, active matter, KPZ interface fluctuations, geophysical flows, and long-range interacting systems. The program will also highlight advances in fluctuating hydrodynamics for both classical and quantum systems, including diffusive and ballistic transport, hyperbolic conservation laws, integrable models, generalized hydrodynamics, and quantum stochastic dynamics.

In addition, the meeting will address recent progress on the mathematical structure of MFT, including classical integrability of the MFT equations and open mathematical problems such as infinite-dimensional Hamilton–Jacobi equations, non-gradient systems, and related variational and large-deviation challenges.

A special session: The meeting will also celebrate the 80th birthday of Professor Herbert Spohn, honoring his profound and lasting contributions to statistical mechanics.

Eligibility Criteria: PhD students, Post-doctoral fellows, and Permanent Researchers working in the broad area of Statistical Physics.

Accommodation will be provided for outstation participants at ICTS  on-campus guest house or  ICTS Hostel.

ICTS is committed to building an environment that is inclusive, non-discriminatory and welcoming of diverse individuals. We especially encourage the participation of women and other under-represented groups.