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) tba | Miguel Huix-Rotllant (Aix-Marseille University & CNRS) tba |
| 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.