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Seminars

Seminar held at MPI-PKS (Nöthnitzer Str. 38).

A talk (20+10min) given by an IMPRS student and an invited talk (45+15min) given by an external speaker.

2026 - May 27

Josef Filgas (UCT, Prague)

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Miguel Huix-Rotllant (Aix-Marseille University & CNRS)

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2026 - May 6

Marco Vitek (IOCB, Prague)

Dynamic Electrolyte-to-Metal Transitions in Alkali Metal Solutions

Prof. Stephen Bradforth (University of Southern California)

The spectroscopy and reaction dynamics of excess electrons in molecular liquids

2026 - April 15

Aileen Durst (MPIPKS, Dresden)

 From few- to many-body physics with Rydberg atoms in ultracold gases

Prof. Tilman Pfau (University of Stuttgart)

Novel qubits for the neutral atom platform 

2026 - April 1

Jiří Janoš (UCT, Prague)

On the interpretation of molecular photoexcitation with long and ultrashort laser pulses

Prof. Sergey Bokarev (TUM)

From Highly-excited States to Attosecond Dynamics: A Multi-Reference Theoretical Perspective

2026 - March 4

Vojtech Kostal (IOCB, Prague)

Bayesian learning for accurate and robust biomolecular force fields

Dr. Ali Hassanali (ITCP, Trieste)

Towards Design Principles of Hydrogen-Bond Networks as Fluorescent Optical Probes

2026 - February 4

Aleksander Glodkowski (Wroclaw University of Science and Technology)

Effective Field Theory for the Superfluid Vortex Lattice

Prof. Riccardo Argurio (Université Libre de Bruxelles)

Quantum Field Theory and Symmetry: A Generalized Story

2026 - January 14

Kai Müller (TU Dresden)

Genuine Quantum Effects in Dicke-Type Models at Large Atom Numbers

Prof. Jean-Philippe Brantut (EPFL, Switzerland)

Quantum Simulations with Atoms and Photons

2025 - November 12

Lazaros Tsaloukidis(MPIPKS)

Extended Fracton-Elasticity duality and dynamical motion of dislocations

Prof. Zohar Nussinov (Washington University in St. Louis)

Dualities, Defects, and Constrained Dynamics: From Ising Models to Continuum Elasticity and Fractons

2025 - October 22

Adisorn Panasawatwong (MPIPKS)

Complexity measure: Regular, Chaos, Random, and Complex

Prof. Ulrich Parlitz (University of Göttingen & Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization)

Predicting Chaotic Time Series Using Reservoir Computing

2025 - September 10

Biplab Mahato (University of Wroclaw)

Finite momentum effects and thermodynamics of four-fermion interaction models

Prof. Gerd Roepke (University of Rostock)

The interacting Fermion system and the generalized Beth-Uhlenbeck formula

2025 - August 27

Stefanos Tsiopelas (University of Wroclaw)

Finite-temperature equations of state of compact stars with hyperons

Prof. Nicolas Chamel (Université Libre de Bruxelles)

On the internal constitution of neutron stars and their equation of state

2025 - July 23

Miguel Riopedre Fernandez (IOCB Prague)

Improving Glycan Simulations by Integrating Spectroscopy and ab initio MD

Dr. Luca Unione (CiC bioGUNE, Derio)

Sugars, Carbohydrates, Saccharides, or simply Glycans

2025 - July 9

Paul Schindler (MPIPKS)

Geometric Floquet Theory

Prof. Anatoli Polkovnikov (Boston University)

Adiabatic transformations: from quantum state preparation to chaos and thermodynamics in motion

2025 - June 25

Aritra Mishra (MPIPKS)

Wavefunction Reconstruction of Excitonic Edge States of Topological Molecular Aggregate using Machine Learning

Prof. Stefan G. Stanciu (National University of Science and Technology POLITEHNICA Bucharest)

Micro- and Nanoscale Optical Imaging of Biological Species and Advanced Materials: Techniques, Architectures and Applications

2025 - April 30

Adipta Pal (MPIPKS)

Characterization of topological semimetals under tensor product constraints and finite size effects

Dr. Adolfo G. Grushin (CNRS Néel Institute, Grenoble)

Non-crystalline topological matter

2025 -  April 2

Tatiana Nemirovich (IOCB Prague)

Stability of aromatic radical anions in the context of Birch reduction

Prof. Jinggang Lan (Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology)

Ab Initio Simulations of the Solvated Electron

2025 - March 5

Jan-Robert Schmidt (TU Dresden)

Resonance states of the three-disk scattering system

Dr. Eva-Maria Gräfe (Imperial College London)

(Semi)classical phase-space features of quantum systems with non-Hermitian Hamiltonians 

2025 - January 15

Siddhartha Poddar (MPIPKS)

Reconstruction of three-dimensional molecular electronic density from coherent diffraction images using Machine Learning

Dr. Kartik Ayyer (MPI for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Hamburg)

Serial diffractive imaging to study nanoscale structural dynamics

2024 - December 11

Hubert Beck (Charles University, Prague)

Using Machine Learning Potentials and Active Learning for Fully Converged Ab-Initio Molecular Dynamics

Dr. Kevin Rossi (TU Delft)

Uncertainty in the era of machine learning for atomistic modelling

2024-November 13

Ondřej Ticháček (IOCB Prague)

From Ion Flows to Hearing: A Multiscale Computational Model of the Inner Ear

Prof. Anthony Gummer (University of Tübingen)

The Cochlear Amplifier and its Functional Assessment using Otoacoustic Emissions

2024-October 24

Pawel Matus (MPI-PKS)

Modelling odd transport

Prof. Michel Fruchart (CNRS, ESPCI and PSL University, Paris)

Pattern formation by turbulent cascades

 

For seminars from previous academic years, see our former seminars page.