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

School for Master Students

Collective phenomena in quantum many-body physics: From quantum matter to light

Scientific coordinators: Marin Bukov, Pieter Claeys, Roderich Moessner

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Workshop

Localization: Emergent Platforms and Novel Trends

Scientific Coordinators: Ferdinand Evers, Ilya A. Gruzberg, Alexander Mirlin

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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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Defect versus defect: stationary states of single file marching in periodic landscapes with road blocks

Sudip Mukherjee (Barasat Government College, Kolkata, India)

11 Sep 2024, 02:00 PM Seminarroom 4

IMPRS Seminar: Engineering of many-body states in a driven-dissipative cavity QED system

Prof. Dr. Tobias Donner (ETH Zurich)

11 Sep 2024, 03:30 PM Seminarroom 4

IMPRS Seminar: Laser-Painted Cavity-Mediated Interactions in a 1D and 2D Quantum Gas

Mariano Bonifacio (MPIPKS, Dresden)

11 Sep 2024, 04:45 PM Seminarroom 4

Highlights

Publication Highlights

Moving together despite turning away

Self-propelled agents such as birds, cells, and active colloidal particles often…

Awards and Honors

Prof. Matthieu Wyart awarded the "Physik Preis Dresden 2024"

On 18 June 2024, the French physicist Prof. Matthieu Wyart (EPFL, École…