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Workshop

Unifying the principles of learning with and without brains

Scientific Coordinators: Karen Alim, Omri Barak, Naama Brenner, Jennifer Schwarz

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Workshop

Advances in Quantum Control - Techniques, Applications, and Challenges

Scientific Coordinators: Christiane Koch, Steve Campbell

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The institute offers various opportunities for undergraduates, graduate students, postdocs and faculty members.

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Public Outreach

Our public outreach program aims to make scientific results accessible to the general public. Active scientists speak about their recent work and explain it to a lay public with an interest in natural sciences, or to school children of different ages.

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Talks

Critical gauge theories on the fuzzy sphere: a Monte Carlo perspective

 Johannes Hofmann (MPI-PKS)

03 Jul 2025, 03:00 PM Seminarroom 4

Quantum Dynamics Seminar: Exact Factorization: Quantum-Classical Approaches and Light-Matter Interaction

 Peter Schürger (Université Paris-Saclay)

03 Jul 2025, 04:30 PM Room 1D1

Tunable Matter -- Many More is More Different

 Prof. Andrea J. Liu (University of Pennsylvania)

07 Jul 2025, 04:30 PM Seminarroom 1+2+3

Talks

Highlights

Publication Highlights

Activity-enhanced elasticity in entangled polymer solutions

One of the key achievements of equilibrium polymer physics is the prediction of…

Publication Highlights

New random walk model elucidates hidden spatiotemporal patterns in complex systems

Recent experiments tracking organelles in biological cells or financial-market…

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