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

Localization: Emergent Platforms and Novel Trends

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

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Symposium

Matter to Life Fall Days

Scientific Coordinators: Jan Heidelberger, Dharanija Madhavan, Frank Jülicher

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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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Aspects of Localization in Driven Matter

Prof. David Weld (UC Santa Barbara)

16 Sep 2024, 04:30 PM Seminarroom 1+2+3

How do activity and inertia influence non-equilibrium features of active Brownian particles?

Debasish Chaudhuri (Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, India)

18 Sep 2024, 02:00 PM Seminarroom 4

CondMat for Dummies: Flow past a sphere at low but nonzero Reynolds number

Ruben Lier (Universiteit van Amsterdam)

20 Sep 2024, 05:00 PM Seminarroom 4

Highlights

Awards and Honors

Libor Šmejkal receives ERC starting grant

The European Research Council (ERC) has announced prestigious starting grants to…

Institute's News

New group at the institute: Functional Quantum Matter

We cordially welcome Libor Šmejkal as a new group leader at the institute! Libor…