Statement of the MECO Advisory Board of 25 February 2022
The advisory board of MECO is shocked by the actions of the leadership of Russia against Ukraine – a MECO member. This act of violence goes against the values and aspirations of Europe’s scientists who, with the creation of MECO in 1974, sought to overcome the iron curtain that divided Eastern and Western countries.
The invasion of a free country is a brutal attack on the freedom of all nations, communities, and individuals. MECO’s aim is to enable scientific freedom for the academic community as an essential part of peaceful cooperation between countries. Academic freedom is only possible by respecting national freedom. The advisory board therefore calls on the academic community worldwide to maintain and support these values by condemning the actions of Russia’s leadership and calling for withdrawal of Russian forces from Ukraine with immediate effect.
B. Berche (Nancy), Z. Burda (Kraków), A. Cuccoli (Firenze), C. Dellago (Vienna), A. Fedorenko (Lyon), E. Frey (Münich), M. Henkel (Nancy), Yu. Holovatch (Lviv), A. Gambassi (Trieste), F. Igloi (Budapest), W. Janke (Leipzig), J. Kaupužs (Riga), R. Kenna (Coventry), G. Meissner (Saarbrücken), Z. Neda (Cluj-Napoca), H. Rieger (Saarbrücken), J. Sznajd (Wroclaw), S. Trimper (Halle), K. Uzelac (Zagreb)
Former members: A. Bäuerle (Linz), K. Binder (Mainz), R. Blinc (Ljubljana), M. Capizzi (Roma), C. Di Castro (Roma), E. Courtens (Lausanne), V. Dvorak (Prague), C. Enz (Genf), R. Folk (Linz), Z. Galasiewicz (Wroclaw), W. Kleemann (Duisburg), I. Kondor (Budapest), M. Kotrla (Prague), A. Kühnel (Leipzig ), A. Maritan (Trieste), F. Mezei (Berlin, Budapest), F. Milia (Athens), S. Milosevic (Beograd), K. Alex Müller (Zürich), R. Pick (Paris), L. Picman (Ljubljana), A. Rigamonti (Pavia), T. Schneider (Zürich), F. Schwabl (München), A. Surda (Bratislava), P. Szépfalusy (Budapest), H. Thomas (Basel), V. Tognetti (Firenze), J. C. Toledano (Saclay), I. Vilfan (Ljubljana), J. Villain (Grenoble), H. Warhanek (Venna)
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Scientific Curriculum vitae
1973 Doctoral Thesis at the Institute of Theoretical Physics,
University of Vienna entitled "Hydrodynamic Equations of
Dielectric Crystals"
1973 Assistant at the Institute of Theoretical Physics,
University of Linz
1984 Director of the group "Phase Transitions and Critical
Phenomena" at the Institute of Theoretical Physics,
University of Linz
permanent position as Senior Associate Professor at the
Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Linz
1. December 2009 retired
3. December 2009 Degree 'Doctor honoris causa' awarded by the decision of the ICMP
(Institute for Condensed Matter Physics) Scientific Council of
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Lviv
2021 Member of the Supervisory
Board of the Institute for Condensed Matter Physics
of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Positions abroad
1979-1980 Scientific visitor at the Institute of Solid State
Physics, KFA Jülich, Germany
1982-1983 Assistant at the Physics Department of the Technical
University München, Germany
1986-1987 Visiting Associate Professor (Chair of Prof. Wölfle)
at the Physics Department of the Technical University München,
Germany
Administrative Acitivities
Organisation of the meeting MECO33
14.04.-16.04.2008 in Puchberg/Wels
Organisation of the
Symposium "Renormalization and Scaling" at
the 69. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft (DPG)
4.-9. March 2005 in Berlin
2002-2007 Austrian Delegate in the Steering Committee of the program
Phase Transitions and Fluctuation Phenomena for Random Dynamics in Spatially
Extended Systems (RDSES) of ESF
2006-2009 Austrian Delegate in the Experts Committee of the Domain
MPNS - Materials, Physical and Nanosciences of COST
1998-2006 Austrian Delegate in the
Technical Committee on Physics of COST
Member of the faculty over several years, member of various
comissions
1993-2003 Member of the "Bundeskonferenz des wissenschaftlichen
und künstlerischen Personals der österreichischen
Universitäten und Kunsthochschulen" (BUKO)
1997-1999 Member of the presidency of the BUKO
1999-2001 (first period) Chairman of the presidency of the BUKO
2001-2003 (second and last period) Chairman of the presidency of the
BUKO closed by UG2002 on 31.12.03
see the publications of the BUKO (in german)
BUKO-Info
Organisation of the meeting MECO20 21.3.-23.3.1995 in Puchberg/Wels
1995-2013 Member of the Advisor Commitee of the Middle European Cooperation
on Statistical Physics
Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung:
Grant No.5901 and 6759 (1985-1990) "Quantitative Theory of
Phase Transitions"
Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung:
Grant No.9379-PHY (1993-1996) "Recognition of patterns
in networks with multi state neurons"
Ministry of Science, Research and Art: Grant
"Microscopic theory of dynamic properties of magnetic
liquids" (1994-1996)
Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung:
Lise Meitner Scholarschip with the topic "Neural networks
for the invariant recognition of visual patterns" for
Dr.A.Kartashov (Moscow, Academy of Sciences)(1993/94)
Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung:
Grant No. 12422-PHY (1997-2000) "Critical Dynamics of Fluids"
and COST P1
Österreichische Nationalbank Jubiläumsfonds:
Grant No.7694 (1999-2003)"Kritische Phänomene"
Project OIAD No. UA 09/2020 (2021 - 2022): Statistical physics and beyond: from the origins to european and global cooperation -from
critical phenomena to complex systems
Phase Transitions in Ferroelectric Phosphorous Chalcogenide Crystals
by Vysochanskii, Yu. M., Janssen, T., Currat, R., Folk, R., Banys, J., Grigas, J., Samulionis, V.,
Vilniaus Universiteto Leidykla
2006
Publications
R. Folk, Die fluide Welt des Leonhard Euler. In: (Hrsg) P.M. Schuster
und F. Pichler, Georg v. Peuerbach Symposium- Konferenzbericht 2010
Modelle der Wirklichkeit vom späten Mittelalter bis zur Zeit der
Aufklärung in Astronomie, Mathematik, Physik. Living Edition Pöllauberg
Hainault Atascadero 2012. ISBN 978-1-901585-21-0
R. Folk, Uffenbach's "Zeitweiser" published 1598 in The Compendium,
Journal of the North American Sundial Society, Vol. 21 Num. 3 Pag.4
September 2014 ISSN 1074-3197.
R. Folk, P. Altman Pötsch, Die Bildvorlagen der Epitaphien Andreas
Pleningers. Jahrbuch der Gesellschaft für Landeskunde und Denkmalpflege
Oberösterreichs. 159. Band Seiten 181 - 234 (2014)
R. Folk, P. Altman Pötsch, Die Bildvorlagen der Kalendertische des Andreas
Pleninger. Jahrbuch der Gesellschaft für Landeskunde und Denkmalpflege
Oberösterreichs. 161. Band Seiten 47 - 120 (2016)
R. Folk, Der steinerne Kosmos des Andreas Pleninger (1555 - 1607) -
Astronomie und Zeitmessung um 1600, in Band 31 (2015): Wolfschmidt,
Gudrun (Hg.): Astronomie in Franken - Von den Anfängen bis zur modernen
Astrophysik - 125 Jahre Dr. Karl Remeis-Sternwarte Bamberg (1889).
Proceedings der Tagung des Arbeitskreises Astronomiegeschichte in der
Astronomischen Gesellschaft 2014. Hamburg: tredition.
R. Folk, . . . die vier größte Wunderwerck GOTtes . . .
Himmel/ Erdt/ die Zeit und der Mensch -
Glaube und Weltbild um 1600 in Philipp Uffenbachs „Zeitweiser“ -
Astronomie und Zeitmessung um 1600, in Band 32 (2018): Wolfschmidt,
Gudrun (Hg.): Astronomie und Astrologie im Kontext von Religionen
Proceedings der Tagung des Arbeitskreises Astronomiegeschichte in der AG
in Göttingen 2017. Hamburg: tredition.
T. Ising, R. Folk, R. Kenna, B. Berche, Y. Holovatch,
The Fate of Ernst Ising and the Fate of his Model, Journ. Phys. Stud. 21(3) : 3002 (2017)