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Focus Workshop

Localization and Constrained Dynamics in Quantum Many-Body Systems (FOR 5522)

Scientific Coordinators: Fabian Heidrich-Meisner, Roderich Moessner, Frank…

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Boundaries of quantum thermalization

Scientific coordinators: Daniel Adler, Suchita Agrawal, Fabian Heidrich-Meisner

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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

A world with a docile clock

 Prof. Jorge Kurchan

02 Dec 2024, 04:30 PM Seminarroom 1+2+3

Of emergent genealogical demixing and organizational entropy in developing living systems

 Anupam Sengupta (Physics of Living Matter Group, Department of Physics and Materials Science, University of Luxembourg / Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Luxembourg)

04 Dec 2024, 02:00 PM Seminarroom 4

Phase transitions in confluent epithelia

 Prof. Luca Giomi (Instituut-Lorentz for Theoretical Physics, Universiteit Leiden)

09 Dec 2024, 04:30 PM Seminarroom 1+2+3

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Awards and Honors

Libor Šmejkal awarded the Walter Schottky Prize

Libor Šmejkal, group leader at the MPI-PKS jointly with MPI-CPfS, has been…

Publication Highlights

Listening to hidden signals: how biological systems optimise inaccessible information

Living organisms must sense and process information from their surroundings to…

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