7th International Workshop and Summer School on Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics (IWNET 2015) Hilvarenbeek, The Netherlands

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History, scope, and format of the workshop and summer school Nonequilibrium thermodynamics aims at understanding and describing the dynamics of out-of-equilibrium systems, particularly also the relaxation towards equilibrium. Contrary to classical equilibrium thermodynamics, nonequilibrium thermodynamics has been in the past decades and still is a vibrant field of research, with substantial challenges that await to be solved. In order to foster a profound comparison between the different approaches to nonequilibrium thermodynamics, to unify these existing approaches, to identify challenges and possibly concert research efforts, a series of workshops, called International Workshop on Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics (IWNET), has been held (www.nonequilibrium-thermodynamics.org ») 1st IWNET, 1996 in Montréal, organized by Miroslav Grmela 2nd IWNET, 2000 in Oxford, organized by Hans Christian Öttinger 3rd IWNET, 2003 in Princeton, organized by Antony N. Beris and Brian J. Edwards 4th IWNET, 2006 on Rhodes, organized by Vlasis G. Mavrantzas 5th IWNET, 2009 in Cuernavaca, organized by Mariano López de Haro and Federico Vásquez Hurtado 6th IWNET, 2012 in Røros, organized by Dick Bedeaux and Signe Kjelstrup We are happy to invite you to participate in the latest workshop in this series: 7th IWNET, 2015 in Hilvarenbeek, organized by Markus Hütter and Ger Koper This 7th workshop is organized as follows. Each of the workshop days (July 6 - July 10) is dedicated to one of the following five carefully selected topics of current interest in nonequilibrium thermodynamics (with respective topic-organizers): Fundamental issues in nonequilibrium thermodynamics »» Miroslav Grmela   École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada David Jou   Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain Coarse-graining techniques and truly multiscale simulations »» Vlasis Mavrantzas   University of Patras, Greece Patrick Ilg   University of Reading, United Kingdom Heterogeneous systems, interfaces, system-boundaries and small systems »» Dick Bedeaux   Norwegian University of Science and Technology - Trondheim, Norway Leonard Sagis   Wageningen University, The Netherlands Role of thermodynamics in modeling the dynamics of complex materials under deformation »» Antony Beris   University of Delaware, U.S.A. Markus Hütter   Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Fundamental underpinnings of and rigorous mathematical results in nonequilibrium thermodynamics »» Hans Christian Öttinger   ETH Zurich, Switzerland Mark Peletier   Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Each of these days starts with a summer school part in the mornings, reviewing modern developments in the respective topic, which is designed to be useful for everybody (from students to experts in the field). Latest developments in the same topic will be presented in the afternoons, the workshop part. In addition, there will be ample time for discussing future research directions. Both the summer school and workshop parts will be held in single plenary sessions; there will be no parallel sessions. The goal of this 7th workshop is to further strengthen nonequilibrium thermodynamics as a powerful tool for understanding and describing the possibly nonlinear, far-from-equilibrium dynamics of complex systems. By choosing the above five topics we hope to make progress in this direction. The set-up in purely plenary sessions, as in previous IWNETs, is intended to promote interactions between different disciplines and to stimulate debates.

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