EPJ ST Special Issue: In Memoriam Hermann Haken: Synergetics and Self-organisation in Complex Systems

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Published on 28 October 2024

Guest Editors: Axel Hutt, Axel Pelster, Christian Uhl and Jürgen Kurths

With this special issue in The European Journal of Physics Special Topics the Guest Editors would like to commemorate the physicist Hermann Haken who passed away in August 2024 and who was one of the foremost researchers in theoretical physics and complex systems since the beginning of the 1960s. He was the first to describe the solid-state laser by quantum field theory and then ingeniously extended the deep physical insights gained from the laser to diverse complex systems in hydrodynamics, chemistry, biology, neuroscience as well as psychology, sociology, economy and philosophy, thus founding the interdisciplinary research field ’Synergetics’. It is envisaged that former colleagues and various other researchers influenced by Hermann Haken’s work will be paying tribute to this work in this Memorial issue. They are invited to describe recent developments that build on the repercussions of Hermann Haken’s legacy and extend his ideas to new directions. Thus, the Memorial issue will demonstrate the strong significance and breadth of Hermann Haken’s insight in fostering the massive progress in theoretical physics and complexity science of recent and future times.

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Guest Editors:

Axel Hutt, Inria Centre at Université de Lorraine, Strasbourg, France, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Axel Pelster, Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau, Germany, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Christian Uhl, Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaften Ansbach, Germany, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Jürgen Kurths, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Germany, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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