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Workshops and Seminars: Next in the row

Workshop

Hydrodynamic Approaches to Active Matter: Successes and Future Challenges

Scientific Coordinators: Leiming Chen, Frank Jülicher, Chiu Fan Lee

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Workshop

Atomic Physics 2026

Scientific Coordinator: Jan Michael Rost

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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

Topological photovoltaic effects from tensor monopoles

 Wojciech J. Jankowski (MPI-PKS)

03 Nov 2026, 04:00 PM Room 1D1

IMPRS Seminar: Diagnosing chaos with projected ensembles of process tensors

 Mark Mitchison (King's College London)

04 Nov 2026, 03:30 PM Seminarroom 4

IMPRS Seminar: Dynamics of a globally conserved quantum resource without local conservation laws

 Jiangtian Yao (MPIPKS, Dresden)

04 Nov 2026, 04:45 PM Seminarroom 4

Talks

Highlights

Publication Highlights

Living on an Energy Budget: How Thermodynamics Limits Chemical Networks

Living systems consume energy constantly to sustain organised, functional…

Publication Highlights

Learning to stabilize nonequilibrium phases of matter with active feedback using partial information

How much information about a quantum system is needed in order to control it?…

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