The NCU Institute of Physics will, on 21-24 June 2018, host participants of a special event: the 50th Symposium on Mathematical Physics. For half a century the scientific conference, initiated by Prof. Roman S. Ingarden, has attracted the attention of physicists from around the world, and has become the hallmark of the Toruń school of mathematical physics. The annual Symposium has been held continuously since 1969.
It is the oldest, cyclical conference organized at the Nicolaus Copernicus University. At the same time, it belongs to the oldest cyclical scientific events In its thematic discipline, both in Europe and worldwide. Over the years, the Toruń conference has been a prestigious forum for scientific exchange between Polish physicists and scientists not only from European countries, but also among others from Russia, the USA, Canada, Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Japan, Singapore, Saudi Arabia and Republic of South Africa. Among the guests visiting the Toruń Symposium there are many well-known, world's most outstanding physicists and mathematicians, such as Yuri M. Berezanski (Kiev), Giulio Casati (Milano), Heinz-Dietrich Doebner (Clausthal), Artur Ekert (Oxford), Göran Lindblad, Jan Łopuszański (Wrocław), Krzysztof Maurin (Warsaw), Masanori Ohya (Tokyo), Roger Penrose (Oxford), Felix A. Pirani (London), Jerzy Rayski (Cracow), Jan Rzewuski (Wrocław), Raymond F. Streater (London), George Sudarshan (Austin), Floris Takens (Groningen), Andrzej Trautman (Warsaw), Armin Uhlmann (Leipzig), Veeravalli S. Varadarajan (Los Angeles), Stanisław L. Woronowicz (Warsaw). This year, the organizers expect 110 scientists to attend the jubilee edition of the Symposium, including 60 from abroad. The 50th edition of the Symposium will begin on Thursday, June 21, and will run until Sunday, June 24, 2018. Proceedings will take place at the seat of the Institute of Physics (ul. Grudziądzka 5 in Toruń).
The Symposium deals primarily with the mathematical foundations of modern physics. However, in the last decade, in response to the worldwide increase in interest in the development of the so-called quantum technology, the programmealso addresses the issues of quantum information theory and mathematical aspects of the theory of quantum open systems. The organizers of the Symposium pay special attention to the scientific development of graduate and PhD students, and young researchers. Therefore, as in the previous years, there is some sponsorship available to co-finance the participation in the Symposium of 20 young scientists and students selected through a competition of research results reported by them.
The Symposium on Mathematical Physics is closely associated with two highly ecognised peer-reviewed international scientific journals Reports on Mathematical Physics (ROMP), www.romp.pl, established in 1970, and Open Systems & Information Dynamics (OSID), www.osid.org.pl, established in 1993. Both the journals are edited at the Department of Mathematical Physics at the Nicolaus Copernicus University, and issued by PWN in co-edition with the Elsevier group (ROMP) and by World Scientific Publishers (OSID) respectively. They are highly valued in their field, and have been on the Philadelphia list for years. The indicator of the number of citations, i.e. the impact factor of the OSID magazine in 2016 reached the value of 1.562, while the ROMP magazine - 0.604. These are very high rates in the group of journals of a mathematical and theoretical nature.
For several years, the Aleksander Jabłoński Foundation has been the active co-organizer of the Symposium on Mathematical Physics at the Nicolaus Copernicus University.