SigmaPhi Awards

During the conference, four works selected out of all the oral and poster presentations have been awarded.

The prizes have been supported by the SigmaPhi Conference.

The selection committee was composed by D. Hristopulos, S.L. da Silva and A.M. Scarfone

Any awarded scientists have been granted 500 Euro each. Additionally, the registration fee will be waived to the six winners for participating in the next edition of the SigmaPhi Conference: SigmaPhi2026.
The announcement of the winners and awarding ceremony took place on Friday July 14th.

The winners are:

Peter Ván  (Wigner Research, Centre for Physics, Hungary)

Prize for the best oral presentation on Theoretical Statistical Physics

Title of the work: Classical holography

Asli Tuncer  (Koç University, Turkey)

Prize for the best oral presentation on Applied and Interdisciplinary Statistical Physics

Title of the work: Quantum superposition states: Spin-glasses and magnetic classification over entanglement

Sarah A.M. Loos (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)

Prize for the best oral presentation (early-career scientists)

Title of the work:Stochastic thermodynamics of a particle in a correlated field

Katarina Karlova (J. Šafárik University, Slovakia)

Prize for the best poster presentation

Title of the work: Frustrated magnetism of a quantum mixed spin-(1, 1/2) Heisenberg octahedral chain from a statistical-mechanical monomer-dimer model