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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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Hydrodynamic Approaches to Active Matter: Successes and Future Challenges

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

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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

Finding the Materials Needle in the Haystack: Beyond Bulk Properties in Computational Materials Discovery

 Prof. Geoffroy Hautier (Rice University, USA)

29 Sep 2026, 02:00 PM Seminarroom 1+2+3

The hidden structure of chaotic many-body quantum systems

 Andrea Pizzi (Trinity College, University of Cambridge)

01 Oct 2026, 03:00 PM Seminarroom 4

Programming Shape in Living Tissues

 Prof. Dr. Xavier Trepat (Institut de Bioenginyeria de Catalunya (IBEC))

05 Oct 2026, 03:30 PM Seminarroom 1+2

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Institute's News

The call for the 2027 Distinguished PKS Postdoctoral Fellowship is open!

The application deadline for this call is the 13 of November 2026. Distinguished…

Publication Highlights

The Price of Information: How Cells Balance Sensing and Energy

How can a sensing system balance the information it gains against the energy it…

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