PREFACE: XL SIBERIAN THERMOPHYSICAL SEMINAR

Since 1960, the Siberian Thermophysical Seminar has traditionally been held in the academic town of Novosibirsk in Russia by the Kutateladze Institute of Thermophysics SB RAS. In 2024, the seminar was dedicated to the 110th anniversary of the birth of the academician Samson Semyonovich Kutateladze, who the institute is named after, and the 300th anniversary of the Russian Academy of Sciences.