Advanced Study Groups

Advanced Study Groups

MPIPKS hosts each year up to two Advanced Study Groups, in order to further advance the interaction and exchange between outstanding scientists and young researchers. Each group consists of several scientists headed by the Principal Investigator (PI). Their work focusses on a modern and important topic in the broad field of the Physics of Complex Systems. With the full support of the Visitors Program, the group will attract further shorter term visitors for seminars, lectures, discussions and other meetings.

MPIPKS welcomes applications for future Advanced Study Groups. Potential PIs should contact one of the directors of the institute in advance.

Strongly Correlated Extreme Fluctuations
Advanced Study Group 2024-2025
Convenor: Prof. Abbas Ali Saberi
Core members: Prof. Mehran Kardar, Prof. Jürgen Kurths, Prof. Martin Zirnbauer
Open quantum systems far from equilibrium
Advanced Study Group 2019-2022
Convenor: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Peter Hänggi
Core members: Prof. Sergey Denisov, Prof. Dario Poletti
Forecasting with Lyapunov Vectors
Advanced Study Group 2018/2019
Convenor: Prof. Marcus W. Beims
Members: Prof. Imre M. Jánosi, Prof. Jason A. C. Gallas
From Microscopic to Collective Dynamics in Neural Circuits
Advanced Study Group 2016/2017
Convenor: Prof. Alessandro Torcini
Members: Prof. German Mato, Prof. Antonio Politi, Dr. Hugh Robinson, Prof. Marc Timme
Semiclassical Methods: Insight and Practice in 'Many' Dimensions
Advanced Study Group 2015
Convenor: Prof. Eric Heller
Members: Prof. Alfredo Miguel Ozorio de Almeida, Dr. L. William Poirier, Prof. David Tannor, Prof. Steven L. Tomsovic
Statistical Physics and Anomalous Dynamics of Foraging
Advanced Study Group 2015
Convenor: Dr. Rainer Klages
Members: Prof. Frederic Bartumeus, Prof. Denis Boyer, Prof. Aleksei V. Chechkin, Dr. Luca Giuggioli, Dr. Jon Pitchford
Optical rare events: A challenge in Laser Dynamics
Advanced Study Group 2014
Convenor: Prof. Jason Gallas
Members: Prof. Vassilios Kovanis, Prof. Cristina Masoller, Prof. Marcus W. Beims
Coevolution: A proving ground for non-equilibrium statstical mechanics
Advanced Study Group 2013/2014
Convenor: Prof. Kevin E. Bassler
Members: Dr. Charo del Genio, Prof. Erwin Frey, Prof. Zoltán Toroczkai, Prof. Royce K.P. Zia
Topological Band Structures and Their Instabilities
Advanced Study Group 2012/2013
Convenor: Prof. Igor Herbut
Members: Prof. Faker Assaad, Dr. Balasz Dora, Dr. Lars Fritz, Dr. Ken-Ichiro Imura, Dr. Christopher Mudry
Statistical Physics of Collective Motion
Advanced Study Group 2011-2013
Convenor: Prof. Hugues Chaté
Members: Prof. Igor Aronson, Dr. Eric Bertin, Dr. Cristián Huepe, Prof. Sriram Ramaswamy, Prof. John Toner
Towards a Semiclassical Theory of Dynamical Tunneling
Advanced Study Group 2011
Convenor: Prof. Steven Tomsovic
Members: Prof. Akira Shudo, Prof. Peter Schlagheck, Prof. Srihari Keshavamurthy, Dr. Arnd Bäcker, Prof. Roland Ketzmerick
Quantum Thermodynamics of Finite Systems
Advanced Study Group 2010
Convenor: Prof. Gerhard C. Hegerfeldt
Members: Prof. J. Gonzalo Muga, Prof. Larry Schulman, Prof. Bernard Gaveau, Prof. Giulio Casati, Prof. Rafael Sala-Mayato
Unconventional Magnetism in High Fields
Advanced Study Group 2010
Convenor: Dr. Mike Zhitomirsky
Members: Prof. Andrey Chubukov, Prof. Peter Holdsworth, Prof. Frédéric Mila
Quantum Aggregates
Advanced Study Group 2008/2009
Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. John S. Briggs
Members: Prof. Manfred Kleber, Prof. Peter Reineker
Time: Quantum and Statistical Mechanics Aspects
Advanced Study Group 2008
Principal Investigator: Prof. Larry S. Schulman
Members: Prof. Arno Bohm, Prof. Bernard Gaveau, Prof. Jonathan Halliwell, Dr. Gonzalo Muga
Localizing Energy through Nonlinearity, Discreteness and Disorder
Advanced Study Group 2007
Principal Investigator: Prof. Serge Aubry
Members: Prof. Victor Fleurov, Prof. Rolf Schilling, Prof. Larry S. Schulman