The Conferences of the Middle European Cooperation in Statistical Physics (MECO) were initiated in 1974 with the aim of bridging the gap between the communities of scientists from the Eastern and Western blocks of Europe, separated by the iron curtain. Since then, MECO conferences have become the yearly itinerant reference meetings for the community of scientists who are active in the field of Statistical Physics in the broader sense, including modern interdisciplinary applications to biology, finance, information theory, and quantum computation.The 45th edition is organized by the Faculty of Physics, Babeș-Bolyai University and the Transylvanian Branch of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (KAB)
Topics: disordered and frustrated systems, strongly correlated systems, soft and active matter, networks and complex systems, synchronization and collective behavior, quantum many body systems and quantum computation, non-equilibrium phenomena, interdisciplinary applications, biophysics, econophysics, sociophysics