Editorial

Dear readers,

Last year, 63 participants from 18 countries gathered for the 8^th edition of the International Workshop on Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics IWNET (see http://www.nonequilibrium-thermodynamics.org for more details), which was organized by Markus Hütter (Eindhoven University of Technology) and Leonard Sagis (Wageningen University and Research) and was held in Sint-Michielsgestel, close to the city of ‘s Hertogenbosch in the Netherlands. Previous meetings in this series took place in Montréal (1996), Oxford (2000), Princeton (2003), Rhodes (2006), Cuernavaca (2009), Røros (2012), and Hilvarenbeek (2015).

The 5-day workshop consisted of invited lectures, regular presentations, poster sessions, and discussion sessions, on the following topics:

This issue of the Journal of Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics contains four peer-reviewed publications of work that has been presented at the workshop last year. Particularly, the contributions are the following: In the field of New Conceptual Developments, Miroslav Grmela, Michal Pavelka, Vaclav Klika, Bing-Yang Cao, and Nie Bendian present “Entropy and entropy production in multiscale dynamics” (pp. 217–233); in the field of Complex Fluids and Solids, Paul M. Mwasame, Norman J. Wagner, and Antony N. Beris describe “Micro-inertia effects in material flow” (pp. 235–246), and Mátyás Szücs and Tamás Fülöp elaborate on “Kluitenberg-Verhás rheology of solids in the GENERIC framework” (pp. 247–259); in the field of Quantum Dissipation, Walter Aschbacher presents his results on “A rigorous scattering approach to quasifree fermionic systems out of equilibrium” (pp. 261–275).

The 9^th workshop in this series, IWNET2021, will take place in 2021 in Victoria, Canada, and will be organized by Henning Struchtrup (University of Victoria).

Markus Hütter

Guest editor