The 4th Minsk international colloquium held at the NASB A.V.Luikov Heat and Mass Transfer Institute on November 9-12, 2015 focused on such important topics as dynamics, transport and elementary processes in systems involving shock waves, chemical and phase transformations as well as physical kinetics, heat transfer and transport processes at the micro- and nanoscale. The reports also dealt with the mechanics of liquids, gases and plasma.