Computer simulations have become an invaluable tool for studying problems in statistical mechanics in the past several decades. This discussion meeting focuses on recent advances in the general field of computational statistical physics, highlighting in particular the fruitful interplay between simulation and theory which has helped to make computational methods so successful. The workshop is dedicated to honor Kurt Binder, who will become emeritus at the JGU Mainz in 2012.

We plan to design the meeting as a stimulating event where current exciting developments are discussed in an informal atmosphere, with much exchange among the participants.

The topics to be discussed include:

• Simulation methods
  
• Glasses, spin glasses and disordered systems
  
• Polymers
  
• Critical phenomena and finite size scaling
  
• Nucleation and spinodal decomposition
  
• Surfaces, wetting, confinement
  

We plan to have 20-25 talks (30 minutes including discussion) and a poster session.