Welcome to the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems

It is with great sadness that we have to announce that our founding director Peter Fulde passed away in the night of April 11, 2024, shortly after his 88th birthday. We personally as directors of mpipks are grateful to Peter for his generosity, kindness and leadership over the past three decades. His foresight, creativity and dedication were the source for his personal success as a scientist and the basis for building mpipks as an open-minded and flourishing research institute, a stimulating environment for scientific exchange that attracts colleagues from all over the world. We will make every effort that his spirit will continue to guide the institute as his living legacy.

Frank Jülicher, Roderich Moessner, Jan-Michael Rost

 

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Workshops and Seminars: Next in the row

Workshop

Future of Ultracold and Ultrafast Dynamics

Scientific Coordinators: Matthew Eiles, Jan Michael Rost

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Workshop

Atomic Physics 2024

Scientific Coordinator: Jan-Michael Rost

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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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Ultracold allows the study of Ultrahot and Ultralarge

Prof. Dr. Markus Oberthaler (Heidelberg University)

21 Oct 2024, 04:30 PM Seminarroom 1+2+3

Drying Dynamics and Pattern Formation of Droplets

Mengmeng Wu (Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research)

23 Oct 2024, 02:00 PM Seminarroom 4

IMPRS Seminar: Pattern formation by turbulent cascades

Dr. Michel Fruchart (CNRS, ESPCI and PSL University, Paris)

23 Oct 2024, 03:30 PM Seminarroom 4

Highlights

Publication Highlights

Counterdiabatic driving for periodically driven systems

Periodically driven systems have emerged as a useful technique to engineer the…

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The call for the 2025 Distinguished PKS Postdoctoral Fellowship is open!

The application deadline for this call is the 15 of November 2024. Distinguished…