The Middle European Cooperation in Statistical Physics (MECO) is an international conference on statistical physics which takes place every year in a different country of Europe. MECO evolved in the early 1970s with the aim of bridging the gap between the communities of scientists from the Eastern and Western parts of Europe, separated as they were by the iron curtain. Since then, MECO conferences have become the yearly nomadic 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 advisory board of MECO – Middle European Cooperation in Statistical Physics is shocked by the actions of the leadership of Russia against Ukraine – a MECO member. This act of violence goes against the values and aspirations of Europe’s scientists who, with the creation of MECO in 1974, sought to overcome the iron curtain that divided Eastern and Western countries.
The invasion of a free country is a brutal attack on the freedom of all nations, communities, and individuals. MECO’s aim is to enable scientific freedom for the academic community as an essential part of peaceful cooperation between countries. Academic freedom is only possible by respecting national freedom. The advisory board therefore calls on the academic community worldwide to maintain and support these values by condemning the actions of Russia’s leadership and calling for the withdrawal of Russian forces from Ukraine with immediate effect.
B. Berche (Nancy), K. Binder (Mainz), Z. Burda (Kraków), A. Cuccoli (Firenze), C. Dellago (Vienna), C. Di Castro (Roma), A. Fedorenko (Lyon), R. Folk (Linz), E. Frey (Münich), M. Henkel (Nancy), Yu. Holovatch (Lviv), A. Gambassi (Trieste), F. Igloi (Budapest), W. Janke (Leipzig), J. Kaupužs (Riga), R. Kenna (Coventry), Z. Neda (Cluj-Napoca), H. Rieger (Saarbrücken), A. Surda (Bratislava), J. Sznajd (Wrocław), S. Trimper (Halle), K. Uzelac (Zagreb).
Webpages:
https://sites.google.com/site/mecoconferencephysics/home
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_European_Cooperation_in_Statistical_Physics
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