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Information × Registration Number 0121U113847, ( 0221U107202  ) R & D request Title Statistical physics and beyond: from the origins to European and global cooperation, from critical phenomena to complex systems Head Holovatch Yurii V., д.ф.-м.н. Registration Date 14-11-2021 Organization Institute of Condensed Matter Physics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine popup.description1 This interdisciplinary project is relevant to several disciplinary areas: statistical physics, complex systems science, scientometrics, history of science and culture. The projects is targeted on performing two main tasks: (i) to find out how the modern complex systems science was shaped by the application of statistical physics tools to investigation of systems of many interacting agents and (ii) to track and quantitatively describe the emergence and development of European cooperation in the field of statistical physics. The history and evolution of Ising model will be investigated in order to perform the first task. This is a basic model of statistical physics used to describe the collective behaviour of many-particle systems. Besides the historical and methodological aspects, a number of peculiarities of the Ising model itself will be studied. Some of these are not clarified so far. To work on the second task, we plan to perform the comprehensive scientometric analysis of MECO initiative: Conferences of the Middle European Cooperation in Statistical Physics. MECO was born in the early 1970ies from the idea to bridge the gap between the Eastern and Western European scientific communities separated by Iron Curtain. Since then MECO conferences became ones of the most important annual meetings of research community in the field of statistical physics in its wide sense, including modern interdisciplinary application for social sciences and humanities. The methodology of complex networks theory will be used in order to quantitatively process publication data, to reveal the structure and dynamics of collaboration patterns on different aggregation levels. popup.nrat_date 2024-12-09 Close