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Workshop

Phases of Collective Cellular Behavior: Rheology, Order & Feedback

Scientific coordinators: Silke Henkes, Matthias Merkel, Marko Popović

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Workshop

Hydrodynamic Approaches to Active Matter: Successes and Future Challenges

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

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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

What to throw away? How brains make efficient codes

 Dr Stephanie Palmer (University of Chicago)

14 Sep 2026, 03:30 PM Seminarroom 1+2+3

IMPRS Seminar: Quantum gas microscopy of Hubbard systems

 Peter Schauss (University of Hamburg)

16 Sep 2026, 03:30 PM Seminarroom 4

IMPRS Seminar: Probing pairing spectra using Feshbach spectroscopy of the attractive Hubbard model

 Luke Staszewski (MPIPKS, Dresden)

16 Sep 2026, 04:45 PM Seminarroom 4

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Highlights

Awards and Honors

Marko Popović awarded the Pierre-Gilles de Gennes Prize

Marko Popović has received the Pierre-Gilles de Gennes Prize, awarded as a part…

Publication Highlights

Exploring exotic superconductivity with many-body computations and cold-atom experiments

The discovery and understanding of new forms of superconducting pairing states…

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