This international conference focuses on nonlinearity, complex networks, statistical physics, and machine learning.
Since the 1970s, nonlinear science has grown remarkably, integrating nonlinear dynamics and statistical physics with complex systems, machine learning, and information theory to analyze and predict complex phenomena. Italy has played a key role in this field, notably through the 1986 ICTP School, which fostered collaborations with researchers from the Global South.
The Perspectives in Nonlinear Dynamics (PNLD) conference series, launched in 2004 in India, has become a significant platform for global experts, held every three years alongside the StatPhys conference.
With StatPhys-29 set for Florence in 2025, the nearby historic city of Lucca offers the venue for PNLD 2025, a satellite conference ensuring an inspiring environment for scientific exchange on cutting-edge topics like nonlinear systems, complex networks, machine learning, and quantum chaos. In line with the addition of the novel TOPIC 9 “Statistical physics of machine learning and information: Machine learning, neural networks, information processing, etc.” to the topics of StatPhys-29, PNLD 2025 is particularly interested in contributions on this topic.
PNLD 2025 aligns with EFC’s objective of creating a network of PhD students and young scholars across institutions, contributing to the education of a new generation of citizens facing an increasingly complex society. PNLD focuses on nonlinearity as the common aspect behind several real-world phenomena ranging from collective behaviour in social and biological contexts to the (in)stability of economic and ecological systems.
