Statistical physics and emergent behaviour: from spin models to cultural complexity. In memory of Ralph Kenna (27.08.1964-26.10.2023)

B. Berche; R. Folk; Yu. Holovatch; O. Mryglod

doi:10.5488/cmp.27.30101

Authors

B. Berche Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie Théoriques, CNRS - Université de Lorraine, UMR 7019, Nancy, France; L4 Collaboration and Doctoral College for the Statistical Physics of Complex Systems, Lviv-Leipzig-Lorraine-Coventry, Europe https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4254-807X
R. Folk Institute for Theoretical Physics, Johannes Kepler University Linz, 4040 Linz, Austria https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5958-4106
Yu. Holovatch Institute for Condensed Matter Physics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Lviv, 79011, Ukraine; L4 Collaboration and Doctoral College for the Statistical Physics of Complex Systems, Lviv-Leipzig-Lorraine-Coventry, Europe; Centre for Fluid and Complex Systems, Coventry University, Coventry CV1 5FB, UK; Complexity Science Hub Vienna, 1080 Vienna, Austria https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1125-2532
O. Mryglod Institute for Condensed Matter Physics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Lviv, 79011, Ukraine; L4 Collaboration and Doctoral College for the Statistical Physics of Complex Systems, Lviv-Leipzig-Lorraine-Coventry, Europe https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4415-7061

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5488/cmp.27.30101

Abstract

It’s been sixty years since Ralph’s birth day and soon it will be one year since he left us. Initially, this collection of papers was being prepared as a Festschrift - a birthday greeting, and now it is published in his memory. It is difficult to write this foreword, because Ralph is not only a fellow physicist and a close collaborator, he is a very close friend. It is also difficult to write because, in a short text, it is hard to reflect the versatility of his gifts: from statistical physics to field theory, from the science of complex systems to quantitative methods in social sciences and humanities, from scientometrics to history of physics. This is not a complete list of areas that he enriched thanks to his talent and hard work. What’s more, his activities in scientific research are inseparable from his public activities, be it the protection of historical heritage or the restoration of historical memory in Ireland, his motherland, or the collection of funds for the fight against serious diseases in the UK, where he worked, or his participation in the organisation and evaluation of research work on a pan-European scale. The integrity of his personality is one of those features that first come to mind when we think about him, repeatedly.

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