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Seminar and Workshop

Complex Photonic Systems with Broken Symmetries: Synergetic Effects of Wave Chaos and Non-Hermiticity

Scientific Coordinators: Martina Hentschel, Jung-Wan Ryu, Susumu Shinohara

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Focus Workshop

Limit Cycles and Synchronization Go Quantum

Scientific Coordinators: Christoph Bruder, Andreas Nunnenkamp, Christopher…

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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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Talks

From Spin Ice to Fractons on the Octochlore Lattice

 Kai Chung (MPI-PKS)

26 Jun 2025, 03:00 PM Seminarroom 4

Quantum oscillators and dissipation in trapped-ion systems

 Prof. Jonathan Home (ETH Zurich)

30 Jun 2025, 04:30 PM Seminarroom 1+2+3

Critical gauge theories on the fuzzy sphere: a Monte Carlo perspective

 Johannes Hofmann (MPI-PKS)

03 Jul 2025, 03:00 PM Seminarroom 4

Talks

Highlights

Publication Highlights

New random walk model elucidates hidden spatiotemporal patterns in complex systems

Recent experiments tracking organelles in biological cells or financial-market…

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Impossible ecologies

What are the general principles that determine whether species can coexist…

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