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Stay informed with our latest news and announcements on this page. For more in-depth content, we also encourage visitors to explore our bimonthly STRUCTURES Newsletter magazine, which features a variety of articles, interviews with members, and background information on our latest research and activities.
Click on the image to open the Newsletter as PDF.We are happy to present the 15th volume of the STRUCTURES Newsletter, featuring insightful news, background articles and interviews. This edition features the following topics:
- Probing Universal Dynamics with Topological Data Analysis in a Gluonic Plasma
- EP 5.4: The Quest for an Unknown Functional That We Know Exists
- STRUCTURES Welcomes its First YAM Fellows
- STRUCTURES Asks: Freya Jensen and Victoria Noel (EP Math & Data)
Additionally, we invite you to engage with the interactive version of our newsletter's cover image, containing a visualization by Tobias Kaczun & Roman Remme.
The STRUCTURES Project Management Office is happy to answer questions and to receive feedback.
The STRUCTURES Cluster, in collaboration with the 4EU+ European University Alliance, is thrilled to announce the spring block course Quantum Information and Quantum Many-Body Theory taking place from March to June 2024. The course includes both online lectures and in-person events at University of Copenhagen. The course is aimed at Master and PhD students, yet it warmly welcomes all interested students, extending an invitation even to those not affiliated with a university that is part of the 4EU+ Alliance.
Title: Quantum Information and Quantum Many-Body Theory
Date and Location:Course Description: In an era marked by the second quantum revolution and the rise of quantum technological advancements, the necessity for a deep understanding of quantum many-body systems and quantum information theory has never been more critical. Our course aims to equip participants with comprehensive knowledge and proficiency in these areas, focusing on the mathematics underpinning quantum theory, the characterization of complex quantum systems, and the development of algorithms for quantum information processing.
- Phase 1: 7 March - 2 May 2024 (Online)
- Phase 2: 2-31 May 2024 (Poster session)
- Phase 3: 24-28 June 2024 (Physical Master Class)
Travel Grants: Available for 4EU+ Alliance students
Registration Deadline: Registration is possible until 1 March 2024.
The goal is to provide students with a blended learning approach to the course content on the mathematics of quantum theory with special emphasis on complex quantum many-body systems and quantum information theory. The main intended learning outcomes include an overview of the latest developments in those fields. In addition, the course aims to help the participants to develop competencies to engage in self-organized cross-university and interdisciplinary collaborations via online team work as well as to give and receive feedback on results.
The 4EU+ European University Alliance is a transnational strategic association bringing together seven comprehensive, research-intensive, public universities from four regions of Europe: Charles University in Prague, Heidelberg University, Paris-Panthéon-Assas University, Sorbonne University in Paris, the University of Copenhagen, the University of Geneva, the University of Milan, and the University of Warsaw. The 4EU+ Alliance has one vision: to create one comprehensive research-intensive European University through a new quality of cooperation in teaching, education, research and administration.
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Conference posterWe are delighted to announce the upcoming talk by Prof. Klaus-Robert Müller at the IWR Colloquium on Tuesday, Jan 30, 2024. Prof. Klaus-Robert Müller, a renowned authority in the German machine learning community, will be sharing his expertise on Machine Learning and AI for the sciences, with a particular focus on chemistry and physics:
Title: Machine Learning and AI for the Sciences: Toward Understanding
Speaker: Prof. Klaus-Robert Müller (Director, Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning & Data · ML Group, TU Berlin)
Abstract: In recent years, machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) methods have begun to play a more and more enabling role in the sciences and in industry. In particular, the advent of large and/or complex data corpora has given rise to new technological challenges and possibilities. In his talk, Müller will touch upon the topic of ML applications in the sciences, in particular in chemistry and physics. He will also discuss possibilities for extracting information from machine learning models to further our understanding by explaining nonlinear ML models. Finally, Müller will briefly discuss perspectives and limitations.
Date/Time: Tuesday, Jan 30, 2024, at 16:15
Location: Mathematikon, Conference Room / 5th Floor, INF 205, 69120 Heidelberg (and online via Zoom.)
Prior to the IWR colloquium, there will be a get-together for all members of the HGS MathComp at 15:30 at the common room / fifth floor.
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We are excited to announce the inaugural Chemical Compound Space Conference (CCSC2024), which will take place on May 21-24, 2024 in Heidelberg. The conference aims to bring together the vibrant community of chemists, physicists, and data scientists who employ quantum machine learning to gain physics-informed understanding of the vast chemical compound space. Engaging talks by renowned experts, stimulating discussions, and valuable networking opportunities await the participants. We extend a cordial invitation to everyone interested – whether experts, early- and mid-career academics, postdocs, and students – for this enriching and collaborative event.
Further information:
- Conference website with further details
- Registration portal
- Abstract submission: You can apply for a short talk, poster, or digital demo by submitting your abstract via an abstract submission portal. A template is provided in the portal. The deadline is 15.03.2024.
Image copyright: LUMI/CSCInternational research team including STRUCTURES member Ralf Klessen receives computing time for simulating the behaviour of cosmic gases and plasmas during star formation
A Swiss-German interdisciplinary research team hopes to unlock the secrets of star formation using Europe’s fastest computer – the LUMI-G supercomputer in Kajaani (Finland) run by an international consortium. The researchers, including Heidelberg astrophysicists, aim to simulate the behaviour of gases and plasmas using a new simulation code called SPH-EXA. Project partner and STRUCTURES member Prof. Dr Ralf Klessen of Heidelberg University’s Centre for Astronomy (ZAH) anticipates groundbreaking insights for his own research: “With our simulations we are pursuing an approach that takes the particles of gases and plasmas into account to describe the movement of fluid elements in space. This allows us to make statements about the chaotic behaviour of turbulent streams or to better capture aspects of the transition from orderly to chaotic phases of the stream.” The computer experiment thereby opens up new avenues to better understand the formation of stars and star clusters in the turbulent multi-phase interstellar medium of galaxies such as our Milky Way.
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Click on the image to open the poster as PDFWe are delighted to announce this week's STRUCTURES Jour Fixe by Johan Sebastian Bonilla Castro on Identities and Cultures in the Natural Sciences, taking place this Friday, January 12, 1:30 pm at Philosophenweg 12 (GHs) and online. The pretalk will start at 1:00 pm.
Johan Sebastian Bonilla Castro is an Assistant Professor in Physics at Northeastern University, working within the CMS collaboration at CERN and involved in various dimensions of work in Diversity Equity and Inclusion. They are chair of the CERN LGBTQ Network and co-chair of the CMS Diversity & Inclusion Office.
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We are deligthed to announce that research from STRUCTURES' Comprehensive Project (CP 4: Quantum Structure and Dynamics) carried out by Celia Viermann and the group of Markus Oberthaler, in collaboration with external member Stefan Flörchinger, has made this year's Physics World list of Top 10 Breakthroughs of the Year 2023. In their laboratory experiment, the researchers have succeeded in realizing a quantum simulation of a curved and expanding spacetime. Within an ultracold quantum gas, they were able to simulate an entire family of curved universes that can be manipulated, allowing to investigate and comapre different cosmological scenarios with the predictions of a quantum field theoretical model (see also this earlier news item for more details). The research results were published in Nature (see Viermann et al., 2022).
We are delighted to announce that a study from STRUCTURES' CP 6 (Networks and Machine Learning) carried out by Egzon Miftari, Filip Sadlo and Daniel Durstewitz has been awarded one of the prestigious Best Paper Award of the IEEE VIS 23, the premier conference for visualization and visual analytics. The award is considered one of the most renowned awards for publications in this field of research. In their work, the researchers extend vector field topology to discontinuous but piecewise-continuous vector fields, by providing extraction techniques for Filippov systems and extending these systems with non-unique transport. This enables visualizing and exploring the behaviors of complex flow with discontinuities, which is extremely important in many engineering and application fields. An overview of this work can be found in this year's CP 6 project report by Egzon Miftari and Filip Sadlo featured in STRUCTURES News (October 2023), page 3.
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