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Workshop

Old and New Questions in the Theory of Spin Glasses

Scientific coordinators: Christopher Laumann, Akshat Pandey, Tibor Rakovszky

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Focus Workshop

The non-equilibrium genome - where Physics meets Biology

Scientific coordinators: Srinjan Basu, Buddhapriya Chakrabarti, Angelo Rosa,…

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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

IMPRS Seminar: Towards Design Principles of Hydrogen-Bond Networks as Fluorescent Optical Probes

 Ali Hassanali (ICTP)

04 Mar 2026, 03:30 PM Seminarroom 4

IMPRS Seminar: Bayesian learning for accurate and robust biomolecular force fields

 Vojtech Kostal (IOCB Prague)

04 Mar 2026, 04:45 PM Seminarroom 4

Nonequilibrium quantum meta-materials

 Marios H. Michael (Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems)

05 Mar 2026, 03:00 PM Seminarroom 4

Talks

Highlights

Publication Highlights

Euler buckling on curved surfaces

Nearly three centuries ago, Euler explained how an elastic line buckles under…

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When lasers kick molecules: Watching molecular footballs blow up

Understanding complex many-body dynamics in laser-driven molecules is essential…

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