The Statphys in Lviv satellite conference of Statphys29 is specifically intended to initiate new connections and broaden and deepen connections already made, and to allow statistical physicists in Ukraine to interact with international colleagues without leaving the country.

The Russian war of agression against Ukraine has led to the largest refugee crisis in Europe since WW2, and to very serious disturbances of scientific life in Ukraine. Male scientists below the age of 60 can not cross the state border without special permission, which is not always immediate to obtain. Ukraine has therefore, in addition to all other misfortunes of war, had to face an increased isolation of its scientific community. Read the EPS Statement (March 3, 2022).

The Statphys in Lviv conference follows on an on-line European-Ukrainian conference organized in the framework of the Davydov Readings in December 2023, with the participation of several Board members of the EPS Statistical and Nonlinear Physics Division (EPS-SNPD), and on an upcoming in-person Sweden-Ukraine Conference: Theoretical and Computational Physics, at the Royal Academy of Sciences in Stockholm.