ÖPG-SPS Meeting Vienna 2025

CMinCE: Condensed Matter in Central-Europe

Related sessions will take place from Thursday to Friday.

 

ÖPG and SPS, in collaboration with the Central European Initiative (Austria, Croatia, Czechia, Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland), recognize Central Europe’s immense potential to become a dynamic, competitive, and attractive hub for scientists and high-tech industries. To support this vision, the upcoming ÖPG-SPS Meeting 2025 (August 18–22, 2025, Vienna) will feature condensed matter physics sessions organized as a joint effort under the theme Condensed Matter in Central Europe (CMinCE). This joint initiative aspires to become a tradition and eventually expand to other branches of physics. The event is also endorsed by the Croatian Physical Society.

These sessions aim to bring together researchers across condensed matter fields and career stages, fostering collaboration, knowledge exchange, and networking. By strengthening scientific synergy, we seek to showcase Central Europe as a thriving environment where young researchers can grow and make important contributions to science.

CMinCE will feature dedicated oral sessions for keynote, invited and contributed talks, along with a specialized Poster Session fully embedded within the ÖPG-SPS program. To maximize interaction - especially among early-career researchers - CMinCE posters will be presented in a dedicated space to encourage active engagement and networking.

Central European Condensed Matter program committee

  • Austria: Silke Bühler-Paschen (TU Vienna), Wolfgang Lang (U. Vienna)
  • Croatia: Ana Akrap (U. Zagreb), Denis Sunko, (U. Zagreb)
  • Czechia: Michal Urbánek (CEITEC Brno), Jan Kuneš (Masaryk U. Brno)
  • Hungary: Béla Pécz, (Hungarian Research Network Budapest), Szabolcs Csonka, (U. of Technology and Economics Budapest)
  • Slovakia: Milan Sýkora (Comenius U. Bratislava), Peter Samuely (Center for Low Temperature Physics, SAS Košice)
  • Slovenia: Dragan Mihailović, Andrej Zorko (Jožef Stefan Inst. Ljubljana)
  • Switzerland: Tomáš Bzdušek (U. Zurich), Ivica Živković (EPFL Lausanne)
  • Head of the Mid-EU Initiative: Neven Barišić (TU Vienna & U. Zagreb)

ÖPG organization committee:

Local organizers: Markus Aspelmeyer et al. (U. Vienna)
ÖPG President, Vice-President: Alberta Bonanni (JKU Linz), Christian Teichert (MU Leoben)
ÖPG Head of the Condensed Matter Section: Andrii V Chumak (U. Wien)

 

SPS organization committee:

SPS President, Vice-President: Teresa Mountaruli (U. Genève), Michel Calame (EMPA & U. Basel)
SPS Heads of the Condensed Matter Section: Daniel G. Mazzone (PSI Villigen), Ilaria Zardo (U. Basel)

Confirmed Keynote Speakers:

  • Elsa Abreu (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
  • Luca Banszerus (University of Vienna, Austria)
  • Jiří Chaloupka, (Masaryk University Brno, Czech Republic)
  • Martin Gmitra (P. J. Šafárik University, Košice, Slovakia)
  • Matjaž Gomilšek (Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia)
  • Mirta Herak (University of Zagreb, Croatia)
  • Nada Mrkyvkova (Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia)
  • Fabian Natterer (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
  • Peter Nemes Incze (HUN-REN Centre for Energy Research, Budapest, Hungary)
  • Danko Radić (University of Zagreb, Croatia)
  • Aline Ramires (Technical University Vienna, Austria)
  • Dávid Szaller (University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary)
  • Igor Vaskivskyi (Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia)
  • Karel Výborný (Czech Academy of Sciences, Praha, Czech Republic)

 

Confirmed Participants:

  • To be announced