Workshop I “Statistical Mechanics: planar & beyond” is a workshop of the ESI Thematic program on Statistical Mechanics and Combinatorics of Discrete Planar Structures from 21.-25. September 2026.
This workshop will bring together leading researchers in the area of statistical mechanics with a focus not only on planar models, but also reaching beyond it as well as beyond exact aolvability. In recent years, there has been remarkable progress in our understanding of lattice models, in particular of the planar case where different notions of exact solvability come into play. This workshop will bring together leading researchers in the area of statistical mechanics and their scaling limits. On the one hand we will focus on recently developed exact solutions to some of these models, but on the other hand we will also aim to reach beyond the planar and exactly solvable cases.
The workshop will be a great opportunity for experts in these and related subjects to meet and exchange ideas at the very sensitive time when these new theories are still dynamically developing.
Speakers of the workshop:
Cedric Boutillier (Sorbonne Université)
Dmitry Chelkak* (University of Michigan)
Béatrice de Tilière (Université Paris Dauphine-PSL)
Christophe Garban (Université Lyon 1)
Sasha Glazman (Universität Innsbruck)
Vadim Gorin (University of California)
Tyler Helmuth (Durham University)
Jesper Jacobsen (ENS, Paris)
Piet Lammers (Sorbonne Université)
Hubert Lacoin* (IMPA)
Titus Lupu (Sorbonne Université)
Romain Panis (Université Lyon 1)
Léonie Papon (TU Wien)
Eveliina Peltola (Universität Bonn)
Marianna Russkikh (University of Notre Dame)
Franco Severo (Sorbonne Université)
Cristina Toninelli (University Paris Dauphine – PSL)
Zijie Zhuang (University of Pennsylvania)
* to be confirmed
The workshop is co-organised by Nathanael Berestycki (University of Vienna), Marcin Lis (TU Wien) and Fabio Toninelli (TU Wien).
Application
To register your interest to participate we welcome applications.
Partial support is acknowledged from the SFB F 1002 “Discrete random structures: enumeration and scaling limits” by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF).
The support of the following organizations is greatly acknowledged:
