Critical Stability of Few-Body Quantum Systems

The topical workshop "Critical Stability of Few-Body Quantum Systems" has a broad scope embracing few-body quantum systems at the edge between stability and instability, in atomic, nuclear and hadronic physics. The main purpose is to bring people together from the different communities, experimental as well as theoretical researchers, to focus on the interdisciplinary aspects of techniques, methods, concepts and ideas surpassing the specialization of the different sub-fields of physics. Inside the critical stability region many systems show universal behavior and, in spite of the difficulty to identify similarities among the approaches in several fields, the effort in this direction may be very useful. The progress in science would clearly be faster if we could "speak the same language" and immediately distribute the knowledge from one field to another. Developing collaborations crossing the sub-field barriers is an efficient method to spread new insights. The aim of this workshop is the improvement of the flux of information between the subareas of Few-Body Physics and, at the same time, between the experimental and the theoretical research.