Jour Fixe
The STRUCTURES Jour Fixe is the central meeting point of STRUCTURES. Its talks cover the entire scientific breadth of STRUCTURES and aim at all members. The Jour Fixe takes place as a hybrid event. You are interested in receiving announcements for the Jour Fixe or have questions? Feel free to write us at office@structures.uni-heidelberg.de. The STRUCTURES Project Management Office is happy to answer questions.
Recent and Upcoming Talks
Winter Semester 2025/26
| February 06, 13:30 | TBA Radu Roiban (Eberly College of Science (USA)) Venue: Philosophenweg 12 gHS |
| January 30, 13:30 | TBA Jan Pawlowski (ITP) Venue: Philosophenweg 12 gHS |
| January 22, 16:15 | Joint Event with the Mathematical Colloquium Ilya Chevyrev (Trieste) Venue: Hörsaal Mathematikon |
| January 16, 13:30 | TBA Victor Ksoll (ZAH) Venue: Philosophenweg 12 gHS |
| December 12, 13:30 | Coarse notions in Geometric Group Theory Petra Schwer (IMa) Venue: EINC, Oberstübchen, INF 225a |
| December 05, 13:30 | Quantum gravity - from fundamental questions to observational probes [ Poster/Abstract ] Astrid Eichhorn (ITP) Venue: Philosophenweg 12 gHS |
| November 21, 13:30 | The Nonlinear Universe - Asymptotic Approaches to Cosmic Structures [ Poster/Abstract ] Sara Konrad (ITP) Pretalk by M. Bartelmann starts at 1pm. Venue: Philosophenweg 12 gHS |
| November 14, 13:30 | Internal Discussion Manfred Salmhofer (U. Heidelberg) Venue: Philosophenweg 12 |
Summer Semester 2025
| July 25, 13:30 | Geometric Flows in Physics, Math, and Data [ Poster/Abstract ] Tim Laux (U. Heidelberg) Venue: Philosophenweg 12 |
| July 18, 13:30 | How does a random surface of large genus look like? [ Poster/Abstract ] Anja Randecker (U. Heidelberg) Venue: Philosophenweg 12 |
| July 11, 13:30 | HI across the Universe [ Poster/Abstract ] Henrik Beuther & Fabian Walter (U. Heidelberg) Venue: Philosophenweg 12 |
| July 04, 13:30 | Structures & Strategies: Statistical Perspectives on Generative Models and Stochastic Control [ Poster/Abstract ] Claudia Strauch (Uni HD) Venue: Philosophenweg 12 |
| June 27, 13:30 | Fluctuations and Criticality in Quantum Gases of Photons [ Poster/Abstract ] Julian Schmitt (U. Heidelberg) Venue: Philosophenweg 12 |
| June 20, 13:30 | Causality & Analyticity, a Match Made in the Upper Half-Plane [ Poster/Abstract ] Andrew Tolley (IC London) Venue: Philosophenweg 12 |
Winter Semester 2023/24
| February 09, 13:30 | The importance of active supermassive black holes in galaxy evolution [ Poster/Abstract ] Dominika Wylezalek Pretalk by Pranav Kukreti at 1pm. Venue: Hybrid: Online and in Large lecture hall |
| February 02, 13:30 | Geometric-harmonic data exploration [ Poster/Abstract ] Guy Wolf Pretalk by Fred Hamprecht starts at 1 pm. Venue: Hybrid: Online and in Large lecture hall |
| January 26, 13:30 | Geometric Learning via PDE-G-CNNs: Training of Association Fields [ Poster/Abstract ] Remco Duits Venue: Hybrid: Online and in Large lecture hall |
| January 19, 13:30 | Probing entanglement in quantum processors with randomized measurements Benoit Vermersch Venue: Hybrid: Online and in Large lecture hall |
| January 12, 13:30 | Identities and Cultures in the Natural Sciences Johan S. Bonilla Castro Pretalk starts at 1 pm. Venue: Hybrid: Online and in Large lecture hall |
| December 15, 13:30 | Experimental Activities in STRUCTURES Selim Jochim et al. Pretalk starts at 1 pm. Venue: Hybrid: Online and in Large lecture hall |
| December 08, 13:30 | The Topological Data Analysis of Stratified Spaces Lukas Waas & Tim Mäder Venue: Hybrid: Online and in Large lecture hall |
| December 01, 13:30 | From Quantum Entanglement to Data-Driven Science and Engineering Robert Scheichl (IMa, Uni Heidelberg) Venue: Hybrid: Online and in Large lecture hall |
| November 17, 13:30 | Turbulence, Pebbles And Planetesimals: The Origin of Minor Bodies in The Solar System Hubert Klahr (MPIA, Uni Heidelberg) Pretalk starts at 1 pm. Venue: Hybrid: Online and in Large lecture hall |
| November 03, 13:30 | On Accelerating Deep and Bayesian Neural Architectures. Holger Fröning Pretalk by Guido Kanschat starts at 1 pm. Venue: Hybrid: Online and in Large lecture hall |
Summer Semester 2023
| July 07, 13:30 | The role of multiscale modeling in molecular discovery Tristan Bereau Venue: Hybrid: Online and in Large lecture hall |
| June 23, 13:30 | The quest for an unknown functional that we know must exist Fred Hamprecht Venue: Hybrid: Online and in Large lecture hall |
| June 09, 13:45 | 3D Reconstruction of Interstellar Dust Distributions with Invertible Neural Networks Victor Ksoll Venue: Hybrid: Online and in Large lecture hall |
| May 26, 13:30 | (Hidden) Symmetries of Computational Problems. Michael Walter Pretalk starts at 1 pm. Venue: Hybrid: Online and in Large lecture hall |
| May 05, 13:30 | Probabilistic hyperdimensional computing Wolfram Pernice Venue: Hybrid: Online and in Large lecture hall |
| April 28, 13:30 | Local minimizers of the interface length functional based on a concept of local paired calibrations Tim Laux Pretalk starts at 1 pm. Venue: Hybrid: Online and in Large lecture hall |
| April 21, 13:30 | Transfer at Heidelberg University / Heidelberg University Publishing Johanna Schwarz and Jochen Apel Venue: Hybrid: Online and in Large lecture hall |
Winter Semester 2022/23
| February 10, 13:30 | Women in STEM – research insights and policy implications Christiane Schwieren (AWI Heidelberg) Venue: Hybrid: Online and in Great lecture Hall |
| February 03, 13:30 | Fullerenes and modular forms Peter Smillie Venue: Hybrid: Online and in Great lecture Hall |
| January 27, 13:30 | Learning the Universe with intensity mapping and computer vision Caroline Heneka (ITP, Uni Heidelberg) Venue: Hybrid: Online and in Great lecture Hall |
| January 20, 13:30 | Approximation Rates for Neural Operators Jakob Zech (IWR, Uni Heidelberg) Venue: Hybrid: Online and in Great lecture Hall |
| January 13, 13:30 | Connecting two-dimensional materials and ultracold atoms Richard Schmidt (ITP, Uni Heidelberg) Venue: Hybrid: Online and in Great lecture Hall |
| December 09, 13:30 | Surface dynamics in living systems Anna Erzberger (EMBL) Venue: Hybrid: Online and in Great lecture Hall |
| November 25, 13:30 | Probabilistic Cellular Automata for Fermionic Quantum Field Theories Christof Wetterich (ITP, Uni Heidelberg) Venue: Hybrid: Online and in Great lecture Hall |
| November 18, 13:30 | Constrained Optimization on Manifolds Roland Herzog (IWR, Uni Heidelberg) Venue: Hybrid: Online and in Great lecture Hall |
| November 11, 13:30 | Slowing Down Microwave Photons Using Superconducting Qubits Alexey Ustinov (KIT) Venue: Hybrid: Online and in Great lecture Hall |
| November 04, 13:30 | The non-abelian X-ray transform Gabriel Paternain (University of Cambridge) Venue: Hybrid: Online and in Great lecture Hall |
| October 28, ... | STRUCTURES Bottom Up Gong Show |
Summer Semester 2022
| July 08, 13:30 | Online Special Tobi Haas, James Farre, Agustin Moreno (QuIC, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Mathematisches Institut, Uni Heidelberg) Venue: Online |
| July 01, 13:30 | Computational Psychiatry Georgia Koppe / Pretalk Daniel Durstewitz (https://www.zi-mannheim.de/forschung/personen/person/7111.html) Venue: Phil12;SR106 |
| June 24, 13:30 | An introduction to expanders Nalini Anantharaman (Uni Strasbourg, France) Venue: Phil12;SR106 |
| June 10, 13:30 | Predicting robust emergent function in active networks Evelyn Tang (Rice University, Texas, USA) |
| June 03, 13:30 | Mathematical Methods for Single-cell Transcriptomics Simon Anders (BioQuant, Uni Heidelberg) Venue: Phil12 gHS & Online |
| May 13, 13:30 | Cracks in LCDM Lavinia Heisenberg (ITP, Uni Heidelberg) Venue: Phil12 gHS & Online |
| April 29, 13:30 | Interacting Particle Systems and stochastic PDEs Hendrik Weber (University of Bath, Department of Mathematical Sciences Probability Laboratory at Bath) |
Winter Semester 2021/22
| January 28, 13:00 | From Nilpotence Varieties to Supermultiplets (and Back?) Fabian Hahner (MI, Uni Heidelberg) Venue: Online |
| December 03, 13:00 | Hamiltonian Estimations by Inverse Renormalisation Group and Convolution Nets Stephane Mallat (Collège de France) Venue: Zoom |
| November 26, 13:00 | Photonic non-von Neumann computing Wolfram Pernice (Kirchhoff-Institute for Physics) Venue: Hybrid (Zoom + gHs Phil12) |
| November 19, 13:00 | Function from structure in neuronal networks Mihai Petrovici (Department of Physiology, Uni Bern) Venue: Hybrid (Zoom + gHs Phil12) |
| November 05, 13:00 | Randomized iterative approaches - also useful in the continuous setting? Felix Joos / Antonio Girao (IFI, Uni Heidelberg) Venue: Hybrid (Zoom + gHs Phil12) |
Summer Semester 2021
| July 30, 13:30 | Quantum simulation with ultracold atoms – emergent Hilbert-space fragmentation Monika Aidelsburger (LMU Munich & Munich Center for Quantum Science and Technology) Venue: Zoom Meeting |
| July 16, 13:30 | Visualization of Time-Dependent Vector Field Topology Lutz Hofmann (IWR, Uni Heidelberg) Venue: Zoom Meeting |
| July 09, 13:30 | Multilevel Monte Carlo for Lattice Field Theory Robert Scheichl/Eike Müller (IWR, Uni Heidelberg) Venue: Zoom Meeting |
| July 02, 13:30 | What's inside the box? New methods for looking at cosmological data! Björn Malte Schäfer (ZAH, Uni Heidelberg) Venue: Zoom Meeting |
| June 25, 13:30 | Generative and Invertible Networks for LHC Theory Tilman Plehn (ITP, Uni Heidelberg) Venue: Zoom Meeting |
| June 18, 14:30 | Using bayesian networks to infer chromatin networks Carl Herrmann (BioQuant, Uni Heidelberg) Venue: Zoom Meeting |
| June 18, 13:30 | From machine learning to dynamic modeling for personalized medicine Julio Saez-Rodriguez (Institute of Computational Biomedicine, Uni Heidelberg) Venue: Zoom Meeting |
| June 11, 17:00 | Challenging Artificial Intelligence Vision Algorithms to achieve Human Level Performance Alan Yuille (Johns Hopkins Krieger School of Arts and Sciences; Department for cognitive science;) Venue: Zoom Meeting |
| May 28, 13:30 | Geometric Finite Elements Oliver Sander (Institut für Numerische Mathematik, TU Dresden) Venue: Zoom Meeting |
| May 21, 13:30 | Random Tensors, from quantum gravity to conformal field theory Razvan Gurau (ITP, Uni Heidelberg) Venue: Zoom Meeting |
| May 14, 13:30 | “Dynamics of many interacting quantum particles -
what we can learn from experiments with ultracold atoms” Maximilian Prüfer (KIP, Uni Heidelberg) Venue: Zoom Meeting |
| May 07, 13:30 | EP 3.5 Knüpfer/Rüland (IAM, Uni Heidelberg) Venue: Zoom Meeting |
| April 30, 13:30 | The Virtual Universe Dylan Nelson (ZAH, Uni Heidelberg) Venue: Zoom Meeting |
| April 23, 13:30 | Opinion Dynamics & Kinetic Field Theory Carsten Littek (ITP, Uni Heidelberg) Venue: Zoom Meeting |
| April 16, 13:30 | General Introduction Long-Term-Members (STRUCTURES) Venue: Zoom Meeting |
Winter Semester 2020/21
| February 26, 13:30 | Ultracold Fermions under the Microscope Philipp Preiß (PI, Uni Heidelberg) Venue: Zoom Meeting |
| February 19, 13:30 | Circuits and architectures for accelerated analog neuromorphic computing Johannes Schemmel (KIP, Uni Heidelberg) Venue: Zoom Meeting |
| February 12, 13:30 | Autonomous Driving and Law: First Results Stefan J. Geibel (Institut für deutsches und europäisches Gesellschafts- und Wirtschaftsrecht, Uni Heidelberg) Venue: Zoom Meeting |
| February 05, 13:30 | Bayesian inference in stellar astrophysics Dr. Fabian Schneider (HITS, Heidelberg) Venue: Zoom Meeting |
| January 29, 13:30 | EP: From the observable to the unobservable properties of galaxies, with neural networks Dr. Annalisa Pillepich, Lukas Eisert (MPIA, Heidelberg) Venue: Zoom Meeting |
| January 22, 13:30 | Statistics of Inverse Problems Prof. Jan Johannes (MI, Uni Heidelberg) Venue: Zoom Meeting |
| January 15, 13:30 | EP: Subriemannian Billiards Dr. Lucas Dahinden (telefonisch zugesagt am 18.11. für den 15.01.) (MI, Uni Heidelberg) Venue: Zoom Meeting |
| December 11, 13:30 | The Mathematics of Deep Learning: Can we Open the Black Box of Deep Neural Networks? Prof. Dr. Gitta Kutyniok (Bavarian AI Chair for Mathematical Foundations of Artificial Intelligence, LMU Munich and Adjunct Professor for Machine Learning, University of Tromsø) Venue: Zoom Meeting |
| November 27, 13:30 | Covid-19: Predicting the uncertain future Prof. Dr. Cornelis Dullemond (MI, Uni Heidelberg) Venue: Zoom Meeting |
| November 20, 13:30 | EP: Zero-sum evolutionary games and convex Hamiltonian systems Prof. Dr. Gabriele Benedetti and Davide Legacci (MI, Uni Heidelberg) Venue: Zoom Meeting |
| November 13, 13:30 | Cosmic Mysteries and the Hydrogen 21cm Line Dr. Anastasia Fialkov (University of Cambridge, Institute of Astronomy) Venue: Zoom Meeting |
| November 06, 13:30 | Correlations, chaos, and criticality in neural networks Prof. Dr. Moritz Helias (Juelich Research Centre) Venue: Zoom Meeting |
Summer Semester 2020
| July 24, 13:30 | Minkowski Functionals as Comprehensive Shape Descriptors in Physics Michael A. Klatt (Princton University, USA) Venue: Zoom Meeting |
| July 17, 13:30 | EP: Planetesimals, Dust Bunnies, and Hybridized Discontinuous GalerkinMethods Prof. Guido Kanschat (IWR, Uni Heidelberg) Venue: Zoom Meeting |
| July 03, 13:30 | Thermodynamics from relative entropy PD Dr. Stefan Floerchinger (ITP, Uni Heidelberg) Venue: Zoom Meeting |
| June 26, 13:30 | Statistical Physics of Active Matter Prof. Julien Tailleur (Université Paris Diderot-CNRS) Venue: Zoom Meeting |
| June 05, 13:30 | Neuromorphic encoding of quantum entanglement Dr. Martin Gärttner (KIP, Uni Heidelberg) Venue: Zoom Meeting |
| May 29, 13:30 | Searching for Extrasolar Planets with Gravitational Microlensing Prof. Joachim Wambsganss (ARI, ZAH, Uni Heidelberg) Venue: Zoom Meeting |
| May 15, 13:30 | Substructures in large objects Prof. Felix Joos (Institut fuer Informatik, TCS Group, Uni Heidelberg) Venue: Zoom Meeting |
| May 08, 13:30 | Rigidity and Flexibility in PDEs: Uncertainty, Antilocality and the Fractional Calder\'on Problem Prof. Angkana Rueland (Institut fuer Angewandte Mathematik, Uni Heidelberg) Venue: Zoom Meeting |
Winter Semester 2019/20
| February 07, 11:30 | EP: Bayesian Parameter Estimation for Mathematical Models of Self-Organization and Biological Pattern Formation Marciniak/Scheichl (IWR, Uni Heidelberg) |
| January 31, 13:30 | EP: Universality on Network Structures from Quantum Dynamics to Big Data Nicolò Defenu (ITP, Uni Heidelberg) |
| January 31, 11:30 | Measuring the symplectic size of subsets in phase space Gabriele Benedetti (MI, Uni Heidelberg) |
| January 24, 13:30 | Using the HI 21 cm line to study the high-redshift Universe Simon Glover (ITA, Uni Heidelberg) |
| January 24, 11:30 | Universe(s) in a box: towards numerical simulations of the Reionization Annalisa Pillepich (MPIA, Uni Heidelberg) |
| January 17, 14:30 | EP: Can Geometric Hydrodynamics meet Dynamical Data Analysis? Peter Albers/ Christoph Schnörr (MI / IAM, Uni Heidelberg) |
| December 13, 11:30 | The Future of Artificial Intelligence Helmut Linde (Merck KGaA Darmstadt, PKW) Venue: R106/GHS |
| December 06, 11:30 | Stability and instability of Many-Body Localization Wojzeck de Roeck, Leuven (KU Leuven, Belgium) Venue: R 106 |
| November 15, 13:30 | Eigenvalue problems for nonlinear differential equations Carl Bender (Washington University, St. Louis) Venue: R 106 |
| November 15, 13:30 | Laplacian roots, space sandwiches, spectral methods, and Ising clusters Giaccomi Gori (ITP, Uni Heidelberg) Venue: R 106 |
| November 15, 11:30 | Geometry of bounded critical phenomena Giaccomi Gori (ITP, Uni Heidelberg) Venue: R 106 |
| November 08, 11:30 | New emergent behavior in networks with higher-order interactions Federico Battiston (Central European UniversityNador, Hungary) Venue: R 106 |
| November 08, 11:30 | Interplay between structure and function during brain development Ana Millan (University de Granada) Venue: R 106 |
| October 31, 14:15 | Quantum Simulation of Hyperbolic Space with Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics: From Graphs to Geometry Igor Boettcher (University of Maryland) |
| October 25, 13:30 | Kinetic field theory: more on the generating functional Matthias Bartelmann (ITP, Uni Heidelberg) Venue: GHS |
| October 25, 11:30 | Kinetic field theory for cosmic structure formation Matthias Bartelmann (ITP, Uni Heidelberg) Venue: GHS |
Summer Semester 2019
| July 19, 13:15 | Universality and phase transitions in dissipative quantum many-body
syst Jamir Marino (Mainz/Harvard) |
| July 12, 13:00 | Analyzing measured and simulated geometry based data Susanne Krömker (IWR, Uni Heidelberg) |
| July 12, 12:00 | Visualization in Dynamical Systems Filip Sadlo (IWR, Uni Heidelberg) |
| July 12, 11:30 | Radiation Magnetohydrodynamics in Astrophysics Ralf Klessen (ZAH, Uni Heidelberg) |
| July 12, 11:00 | Speakers introduce STRUCTURES YRC Venue: GHS |
| July 05, 13:00 | Moduli spaces, their geometry and analysis Jan Swoboda (MI, Uni Heidelberg) |
| July 05, 11:00 | Do quantum and classical heat machines have a different performance? David Gelbwaser (Harvard University) Venue: GHS |
| June 28, 13:00 | Cell mechanics as a heterogeneous materials problem / Efficient finite element solvers for heterogeneous materials Ulrich Schwarz / Linus Seelinger (ITP / IWR, Uni Heidelberg) |
| June 28, 11:00 | Quantum dynamics in the lab / Some Mathematical Questions in Quantum Dynamics Markus Oberthaler / Manfred Salmhofer (KIP / ITP, Uni Heidelberg) Venue: GHS |
| June 14, 13:15 | Internal discussion: open access and SciPost |
| June 14, 11:30 | Quench, Hydro and Floquet Dynamics in Integrable Systems Jean-Sebastien Caux (Amsterdam) Venue: R106 |
| June 07, 12:00 | EP Dynamics: Inferring Dynamical Systems from Time Series Observations using Recurrent Neural Networks Daniel Durstewitz (ZI Mannheim) Venue: R106 |
| May 24, 13:00 | Computers like Brains - Models for information processiong Andreas Baumbach (KIP (Uni Heidelberg)) Venue: R106 |
| May 17, 13:30 | Representing Structure in Data using Assignment Flows Christoph Schnörr (UAM, IPA) Venue: R106 |
| May 17, 12:00 | Applied string theory: Understanding strange metals in the lab with virtual black holes Koenraad Schalm (Universiteit Leiden, Netherlands) Venue: R106 |
| May 10, 13:00 | Vision Emerging Ralf Wessel (Washington University, Saint Louis, USA) Venue: R106 |
| April 26, 13:00 | Entanglement in quantum dynamics and quantum technologies Philipp Hauke (KIP/ITP, Uni Heidelberg) Venue: R106 |