Dear Members,
I hope you’ve been having a good and productive summer. It may be hard to believe, but the abstract submissions portal for the 2025 APS Joint March Meeting and April Meeting will open soon - in early September. The 2025 meeting will feature additional events celebrating the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology. Our program committee, chaired by Narayanan Menon and vice-chaired by Sebastian Deffner, has been hard at work. Below is their list of Standard and Focus session sorting categories, which we hope spans the full range of member interests. Some asks:
- Please submit using these categories, namely 03 numbers (especially the Focus Sessions, which are almost all co-sponsored by other units) so that we can sponsor more Invited sessions in 2026.
- We update our categories every year. If your area of Statistical and Nonlinear Physics is not adequately covered, please send suggestions to the 2026 program chair, Sebastian Deffner (deffner@umbc.edu).
- Finally, please look ahead to renewing your GSNP membership and reminding others in your research group, so that we can stay on track to becoming a division. Promotion from a Topical Group to a Division will bring more visibility to our field and a host of benefits to our members.
Sincerely yours, -Doug
Douglas Durian, GSNP Chair
University of Pennsylvania
Standard Sessions
Jamming and Glassy Behavior 03.03.00
Granular Materials and Flows 03.04.00
Active Matter 03.05.00
Systems Far from Equilibrium 03.06.00
Chaos and Nonlinear Dynamics 03.07.00
Complex Networks and Their Application 03.08.00
Statistical Mechanics of Social Systems 03.09.00
Elastic Instabilities: Wrinkling, Crumpling, Buckling... 03.10.00
Ecological and Evolutionary Dynamics 03.11.00
General Statistical and Nonlinear Physics 03.12.00
Pattern Formation 03.13.00
Phase Transitions 03.14.00
Focus Sessions
Statistical Physics of Networks: Theory and Applications to Complex Systems 03.01.01
Statistical Physics Meets Machine Learning 03.01.02
Noise-Driven Dynamics in Far-From-Equilibrium Systems 03.01.03
Physics of the Liquid State 03.01.04
Quantum thermalization in complex many-body systems 03.01.05
Steerable Particles in Fluid Media 03.01.06
Long-range correlations in disordered matter 03.01.07
Statistical and Dynamical Physics of the Brain 03.01.08
Multiscale Description of Particulate Materials 03.01.10
Network Theory for new Materials: Theory and Applications 03.01.11
Plasticity in Amorphous Solids 03.01.12
Embodied intelligence in nonlinear elastic systems 03.01.13
Physics of Human Social Systems 03.01.14
Memory formation in matter: From disorder to design 03.01.15
Active Matter in Complex Confinement 03.01.16
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