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Monday, 28 September 2026
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09:30 to 11:30 Bernard Derrida (Collège de France, Paris, France) An introduction to the Macroscopic Fluctuation Theory for diffusive systems
14:30 to 15:10 Baruch Meerson (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel) Macroscopic fluctuation theory of a mass- and dipole-conserving stochastic lattice gas (Online)
15:10 to 15:50 Arnab Pal (The Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc), Chennai, India) Activation beyond Arrhenius
15:50 to 16:05 Federica Iacovissi (Instituto Superior Técnico (IST Lisbon), Lisbon, Portugal) The Matrix Product Ansatz from a probabilistic viewpoint
16:05 to 16:20 Soumyabrata Saha (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai, India) Solving MFT through dualities and transformations
17:00 to 18:00 Denis Bernard (Laboratoire de Physique de l'École Normale Supérieure (LPENS), CNRS, ENS, PSL, Paris, France) Toward a Quantum Mesoscopic Fluctuation Theory: Progress and Open Questions
Tuesday, 29 September 2026
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09:30 to 11:30 Cristian Giardinà (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy) Discrete macroscopic fluctuation theory and duality properties
14:30 to 15:10 R. L. Jack (Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP), University of Cambridge, UK) Macroscopic fluctuation theory for active matter
15:10 to 15:50 Cesare Nardini (CEA Saclay, SPEC, France) Non-local stationary measures and nucleation theory in active systems
15:50 to 16:30 Jorge Kurchan (Laboratoire de Physique de l'École Normale Supérieure (LPENS), CNRS, ENS, PSL, Paris, France) Liquid theory of spherical and unitary designs (Online)
Wednesday, 30 September 2026
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09:30 to 11:30 Tomohiro Sasamoto (Department of Physics, Institute of Science Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan) Inverse scattering methods in MFT
14:30 to 15:10 Eldad Bettelheim (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel) Whitham Theory for Large Deviations
15:10 to 15:50 Lorenzo Bertini (Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy) MFT for kinetic models
15:50 to 16:30 Gianni Jona-Lasinio (Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome, Italy) Some remarks on the macroscopic fluctuation theory (Online)
Thursday, 01 October 2026
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09:30 to 11:30 Davide Gabrielli (University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy) MFT, mass transport and the Schrödinger problem
14:30 to 15:10 Alberto De Sole (Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome, Italy) Conjugacy between bosonic and classical Ornstein–Uhlenbeck semigroups
15:10 to 15:25 Daisuke Suzuki (Institute of Science Tokyo (formerly Tokyo Institute of Technology), Tokyo, Japan) Non-stationary current fluctuations in 1D boundary-driven diffusive systems via Macroscopic Fluctuation Theory
16:00 to 18:00 Bernard Derrida (Collège de France, Paris, France) (ICTS Distinguished Lecture) Overlaps in spin glasses and models of evolution
Monday, 05 October 2026
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09:30 to 11:30 Benjamin Doyon (Department of Mathematics, King's College London, UK) Ballistic macroscopic fluctuation theory
14:30 to 15:10 Takato Yoshimura (Department of Mathematics, King's College London, UK) Nonlinear fluctuating hydrodynamics for integrable systems
15:10 to 15:50 Kabir Ramola (TIFR Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India) Traveling waves, phase separation and pattern formation in the active stepping stone model
15:50 to 16:30 Punyabrata Pradhan (S N Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata, India) Generic power laws in lattice models with multidirectional hopping
17:00 to 18:00 Stefano Olla (Université Paris Dauphine, PSL and GSSI, Paris, France) “Hard rods, hydrodynamics, and ballistic transport”
Tuesday, 06 October 2026
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09:30 to 10:10 Christophe Bahadoran (Université Clermont Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France) Asymmetric multilane exclusion processes and related hyperbolic systems
10:10 to 10:50 Ellen Saada (Laboratoire MAP5, UMR 8145 CNRS, Université Paris Cité, Paris, France) “Hydrodynamic limit of the directed exclusion process”
11:30 to 12:10 Jérémie Bec (Institut de Physique de Nice (INPHYNI), CNRS, Université Côte d'Azur, Nice, France) “Spontaneous stochasticity: macroscopic randomness from vanishing perturbations”
12:10 to 12:25 Jitendra Kethepalli (Collège de France, Paris, France) “Universal Tracer Statistics in Single-File Transport”
14:30 to 15:10 Johannes Zimmer (Technische Universität München (TUM), Munich, Germany) (Non-)existence for fluctuating hydrodynamics and a computational application
15:10 to 15:50 Gioia Carinci (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy) Non-Equilibrium Steady State, Large Deviations and Shannon Entropy of Harmonic Models
15:50 to 16:30 Chiara Franceschini (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy) Title to be confirmed
17:00 to 18:00 Raphaël Chétrite (CNRS, LYSM Ypatia Laboratory for Mathematical Sciences, Rome, Italy) Conditioning, Level 2.5 Large Deviations, and the Schrödinger Problem
Wednesday, 07 October 2026
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09:30 to 10:10 Pablo Ferrari (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina) Title to be confirmed
10:10 to 10:50 Tomasz Komorowski (Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences (IMPAN), Warsaw, Poland) Thermal Boundary Conditions in Fractional Superdiffusion of Energy
11:20 to 12:00 Makiko Sasada (Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan) Stationary fluctuations for an exclusion process with mass and energy conservation
12:00 to 12:40 Manas Kulkarni (ICTS-TIFR, Bengaluru, India) Confined Riesz Gases: Newtonian Dynamics, Emergent Hydrodynamics, and Random Driving
14:30 to 15:10 Christian Maes (Department of Physics and Astronomy, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium) Relaxation to Nonequilibrium (Online)
15:10 to 15:25 Kapil Sharma (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai, India) “Multi-time Fluctuation Symmetry”
16:00 to 17:30 Herbert Spohn (Technical University of Munich (TUM), Munich, Germany) One decade of Generalized Hydrodynamics
Thursday, 08 October 2026
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09:30 to 10:10 Timo Schorlepp (Courant Institute, New York University, New York, USA) Numerical methods for weak-noise field theories: optimal control and fluctuations
10:10 to 10:50 Benjamin Guiselin (Laboratoire Charles Coulomb (L2C), Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France) “Numerical sampling of rare fluctuations: from free-energy landscapes to dynamical trajectories”
11:20 to 12:00 Abhishek Dhar (ICTS-TIFR, Bengaluru, India) Transport in a non-acoustic anharmonic chain
12:00 to 12:40 Anupam Kundu (ICTS-TIFR, Bengaluru, India) Hydrodynamic Correlations and Current Fluctuations in a Hard-Rod Gas
14:30 to 15:10 R. Rajesh (The Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc), Chennai, India) “Exact Fluctuation Theory for Product-Kernel Aggregation, Instantons, Non-Convex Large Deviations, and Dynamical Ensemble Inequivalence”
15:10 to 15:50 Cedric Bernardin (Higher School of Economics University) Fractional Macroscopic Fluctuation Theory (Online)
15:50 to 16:05 Nalina Vadakkayil (JNCASR, Bengaluru, India) “Critical Dynamics of Finite-Time Dynamical Phase Transition in Lattice Models”
16:30 to 17:10 Eric Akkermans (Technion — Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel) Title to be confirmed (Online)
17:10 to 17:50 Hiroki Moriya (Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel) Current fluctuations of the symmetric exclusion process with quenched initial condition
Friday, 09 October 2026
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09:30 to 10:10 Sanjib Sabhapandit (Raman Research Institute, Bengaluru, India) “Hydrodynamics of the active lattice gas”
10:10 to 10:50 Jacopo De Nardis (CYU Cergy Paris, France) Title to be confirmed
10:50 to 11:05 Sandeep Jangid (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai, India) “Active Macroscopic Fluctuation Theory: first steps”
11:30 to 12:10 Grégory Schehr (Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Hautes Energies (LPTHE), CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France) Density and Current Fluctuations for Run-and-Tumble Particles With and Without Interactions
12:10 to 12:25 Rashmiranjan Bhutia (TIFR Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India) “Hydrodynamics of growing active populations”