Seminar programme Jan. 2017 -
Seminar held at MPI-PKS (Nöthnitzer Str. 38).
A talk (20+5min) given by an IMPRS student and an invited talk (45+10min) given by an external speaker.
| May 30 | Jan Chalabala (UCT, Prague) Non-adiabatic Dynamics of Tin-Oxo Resists | Françoise Remacle (Liège) Role of electronic coherences in ultrafast non-equilibrium quantum dynamics in molecules induced by strong short optical pulses |
| April 18 | Piotr Witkowski (MPI PKS) AC flow in electron hydrodynamics | Andrew Mackenzie (MPI CPFS) Electron hydrodynamics: who cares and why |
February 21 | Martina Rubešová (UCT, Prague) Photoemission Emission Spectroscopy in Disordered Systems: A Chemist's Approach | Stephan Kümmel (U Bayreuth) Light harvesting systems and the many-body problem: Insights from first-principles theory |
| December 13 | Talia Lezama (MPI PKS) Steady-state limit of the one-particle density matrix occupation spectrum of many-body localized states after a global quench | David Luitz (TU Munich) Many-body localization and thermalization in isolated quantum systems |
| November 23 | Mehrdad Baghery (MPI PKS) Optimization of complex systems using gaussian processes | Manuel Gomez Rodriguez (Kaiserslautern) On information reliability, source trustworthiness and fake news |
| November 2 | Francesco Alaimo (TU Dresden) Curvature controlled defect dynamics in topological active nematics | Amin Doostmohammadi (University of Oxford) Active nematics in biology |
September 13 | Tobias Fiedlschuster (TU Dresden) Surface hopping in laser-driven molecular dynamics | Hardy Gross (MPI Halle) Potential energy surfaces and the molecular Berry phase beyond the Born-Oppenheimer approximation |
23 August | Matthias Wagner (TU Dresden) Approximation of dynamically relevant structures in a set-oriented framework | Peter Koltai (FU Berlin) Transition manifolds of complex metastable systems: theory and data driven computation of effective dynamics |
06 July
| Emmanouil Xypakis (MPI PKS) Effect of disorder geometry on transport properties of three dimensional topological nanowires | Roni Ilan (Tel Aviv University) Helical, chiral, and neutral: Fermion twists at the surface of topological insulators |
31 May | F Rodriguez Hernandez (TUD) Theoretical description of water splitting on TiO2 and combined Mo2C-graphene based materials | F Keil (Hamburg University of Technology) Multiscale modelling of reaction, absorption and diffusion in zeolites |
| 19 April | R Hartmann (TUD) Non-perturbative open quantum system dynamics with sub-ohmic environments -- the hierarchy of pure states (HOPS) approach | M Thorwart (Hamburg) Quantum coherence in the dynamics |
| 16 March | K Patucha (ILTSR) Strongly interacting bosons in optical lattices in synthetic magnetic fields | A Eckardt (MPI-PKS) Floquet engineering of atomic quantum gases in optical lattices |
| 4 Jan | K van Kruining (MPI-PKS) Electron vortex beams in a magnetic field | M Dennis (Univ. Bristol) Swings and roundabouts: operators and rays for structured Gaussian beams |