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
Recent and Upcoming Talks
Winter Semester 2026/27
| Nov 6 13:30 | The formal semantics of general 'computing' processes (and how this connects to modeling multiscale dynamical systems in general) Herbert Jaeger (U. Groningen) Venue: TBA |
| Oct 30 13:30 | TBA |
| Oct 23 13:30 | From Turing patterns to black holes: a simulation-based inference of binary black hole populations using the Correlation Integral Likelihood Alexey Kazarnikov & Stefano Rinaldi (U. Heidelberg) Pretalk by Stefano Rinaldi starts at 1pm Venue: Philosophenweg 12 gHS |
| Oct 16 13:30 | Vortex filament reconnection in 3d critical Abelian Higgs models Robert Jerrard (Toronto) Venue: INF 205 Mathematikon (as part of the ANGEL seminar) |
Summer Semester 2026
| Jul 17 13:30 | The Allen-Cahn equation with multiplicative oscillatory driving [ Poster with Abstract and Zoom link ] Olivier Pierre-Louis (Lyon University) Pretalk starts at 1pm Venue: Philosophenweg 12 gHS |
| Jul 10 13:30 | No Jour Fixe (due to Colloquium by Stefan Hollands) |
| Jun 26 13:30 | No Jour Fixe (due to Birthday Symposium for Ulrich Schwarz) |
| Jun 19 13:30 | Large Language Models – are pretrained language correlations
useful for physics? [ Poster with Abstract and Zoom link ] Caroline Heneka (ITP) Pretalk by Daniel Schiller starts at 1pm Venue: Philosophenweg 12 gHS |
| Jun 12 13:30 | Cluster members only STRUCTURES internal meeting Venue: n.a. |
| Jun 5 13:30 | Computing phase diagrams using a convex hull algorithm [ Poster with Abstract and Zoom link ] Cornelis Dullemond (ZAH) Venue: Philosophenweg 12 gHS |
| May 29 13:30 | No Jour Fixe |
| May 22 13:30 | News from the STRUCTURES Office (and the YRC) Sebastian Stapelberg, Fabius Krämer Venue: Philosophenweg 12 gHS |
| May 8 13:30 | EOFlows – a non-linear generalization of PCA [ Poster with Abstract and Zoom link ] Ullrich Koethe (IWR) Pretalk by Armand Rousselot starts at 1pm. Venue: Philosophenweg 12 gHS |
Winter Semester 2025/26
| Feb 6 13:30 | On the Algebraic and Differential Architecture of the Two-Body Problem in General Relativity [ Poster with Abstract and Zoom link ] Radu Roiban (Penn State, ETH-ITS Zürich) Venue: Philosophenweg 12 gHS |
| Jan 30 13:30 | The generative renormalisation group
or
PIKs and how to find them [ Poster with Abstract and Zoom link ] Jan Pawlowski (U. Heidelberg) Venue: Philosophenweg 12 gHS |
| Jan 22 16:15 | Joint Event with the Mathematical Colloquium *CANCELLED* Ilya Chevyrev (Trieste) Venue: Hörsaal Mathematikon (Note the unusual date!) |
| Jan 16 13:30 | Solving Inverse Problems in Astronomy with Invertible Neural Networks [ Poster with Abstract and Zoom link ] Victor Ksoll (ZAH) Venue: Philosophenweg 12 gHS |
| Dec 12 13:30 | Coarse notions in Geometric Group Theory [ Poster with Abstract and Zoom link ] *CANCELLED* Petra Schwer (IMa) Venue: EINC, Oberstübchen, INF 225a |
| Dec 5 13:30 | Quantum gravity - from fundamental questions to observational probes [ Poster with Abstract and Zoom link ] Astrid Eichhorn (ITP) Venue: Philosophenweg 12 gHS |
| Nov 21 13:30 | The Nonlinear Universe - Asymptotic Approaches to Cosmic Structures [ Poster with Abstract and Zoom link ] Sara Konrad (ITP) Pretalk by M. Bartelmann starts at 1pm. Venue: Philosophenweg 12 gHS |
| Nov 14 13:30 | Internal Discussion Manfred Salmhofer (U. Heidelberg) Venue: Philosophenweg 12 |
Summer Semester 2025
| Jul 25 13:30 | Geometric Flows in Physics, Math, and Data [ Poster with Abstract and Zoom link ] Tim Laux (U. Heidelberg) Venue: Philosophenweg 12 |
| Jul 18 13:30 | How does a random surface of large genus look like? [ Poster with Abstract and Zoom link ] Anja Randecker (U. Heidelberg) Venue: Philosophenweg 12 |
| Jul 11 13:30 | HI across the Universe [ Poster with Abstract and Zoom link ] Henrik Beuther & Fabian Walter (U. Heidelberg) Venue: Philosophenweg 12 |
| Jul 4 13:30 | Structures & Strategies: Statistical Perspectives on Generative Models and Stochastic Control [ Poster with Abstract and Zoom link ] Claudia Strauch (Uni HD) Venue: Philosophenweg 12 |
| Jun 27 13:30 | Fluctuations and Criticality in Quantum Gases of Photons [ Poster with Abstract and Zoom link ] Julian Schmitt (U. Heidelberg) Venue: Philosophenweg 12 |
| Jun 20 13:30 | Causality & Analyticity, a Match Made in the Upper Half-Plane [ Poster with Abstract and Zoom link ] Andrew Tolley (IC London) Venue: Philosophenweg 12 |
Winter Semester 2023/24
| Feb 9 13:30 | The importance of active supermassive black holes in galaxy evolution [ Poster with Abstract and Zoom link ] Dominika Wylezalek Pretalk by Pranav Kukreti at 1pm. Venue: Hybrid: Online and in Large lecture hall |
| Feb 2 13:30 | Geometric-harmonic data exploration [ Poster with Abstract and Zoom link ] Guy Wolf Pretalk by Fred Hamprecht starts at 1 pm. Venue: Hybrid: Online and in Large lecture hall |
| Jan 26 13:30 | Geometric Learning via PDE-G-CNNs: Training of Association Fields [ Poster with Abstract and Zoom link ] Remco Duits Venue: Hybrid: Online and in Large lecture hall |
| Jan 19 13:30 | Probing entanglement in quantum processors with randomized measurements Benoit Vermersch Venue: Hybrid: Online and in Large lecture hall |
| Jan 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 |
| Dec 15 13:30 | Experimental Activities in STRUCTURES Selim Jochim et al. Pretalk starts at 1 pm. Venue: Hybrid: Online and in Large lecture hall |
| Dec 8 13:30 | The Topological Data Analysis of Stratified Spaces Lukas Waas & Tim Mäder Venue: Hybrid: Online and in Large lecture hall |
| Dec 1 13:30 | From Quantum Entanglement to Data-Driven Science and Engineering Robert Scheichl (IMa, Uni Heidelberg) Venue: Hybrid: Online and in Large lecture hall |
| Nov 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 |
| Nov 3 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
| Jul 7 13:30 | The role of multiscale modeling in molecular discovery Tristan Bereau Venue: Hybrid: Online and in Large lecture hall |
| Jun 23 13:30 | The quest for an unknown functional that we know must exist Fred Hamprecht Venue: Hybrid: Online and in Large lecture hall |
| Jun 9 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 5 13:30 | Probabilistic hyperdimensional computing Wolfram Pernice Venue: Hybrid: Online and in Large lecture hall |
| Apr 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 |
| Apr 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
| Feb 10 13:30 | Women in STEM – research insights and policy implications Christiane Schwieren (AWI Heidelberg) Venue: Hybrid: Online and in Great lecture Hall |
| Feb 3 13:30 | Fullerenes and modular forms Peter Smillie Venue: Hybrid: Online and in Great lecture Hall |
| Jan 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 |
| Jan 20 13:30 | Approximation Rates for Neural Operators Jakob Zech (IWR, Uni Heidelberg) Venue: Hybrid: Online and in Great lecture Hall |
| Jan 13 13:30 | Connecting two-dimensional materials and ultracold atoms Richard Schmidt (ITP, Uni Heidelberg) Venue: Hybrid: Online and in Great lecture Hall |
| Dec 9 13:30 | Surface dynamics in living systems Anna Erzberger (EMBL) Venue: Hybrid: Online and in Great lecture Hall |
| Nov 25 13:30 | Probabilistic Cellular Automata for Fermionic Quantum Field Theories Christof Wetterich (ITP, Uni Heidelberg) Venue: Hybrid: Online and in Great lecture Hall |
| Nov 18 13:30 | Constrained Optimization on Manifolds Roland Herzog (IWR, Uni Heidelberg) Venue: Hybrid: Online and in Great lecture Hall |
| Nov 11 13:30 | Slowing Down Microwave Photons Using Superconducting Qubits Alexey Ustinov (KIT) Venue: Hybrid: Online and in Great lecture Hall |
| Nov 4 13:30 | The non-abelian X-ray transform Gabriel Paternain (University of Cambridge) Venue: Hybrid: Online and in Great lecture Hall |
| Oct 28 ... | STRUCTURES Bottom Up Gong Show |
Summer Semester 2022
| Jul 8 13:30 | Online Special Tobi Haas, James Farre, Agustin Moreno (QuIC, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Mathematisches Institut, Uni Heidelberg) Venue: Online |
| Jul 1 13:30 | Computational Psychiatry Georgia Koppe / Pretalk Daniel Durstewitz (https://www.zi-mannheim.de/forschung/personen/person/7111.html) Venue: Phil12;SR106 |
| Jun 24 13:30 | An introduction to expanders Nalini Anantharaman (Uni Strasbourg, France) Venue: Phil12;SR106 |
| Jun 10 13:30 | Predicting robust emergent function in active networks Evelyn Tang (Rice University, Texas, USA) |
| Jun 3 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 |
| Apr 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
| Jan 28 13:00 | From Nilpotence Varieties to Supermultiplets (and Back?) Fabian Hahner (MI, Uni Heidelberg) Venue: Online |
| Dec 3 13:00 | Hamiltonian Estimations by Inverse Renormalisation Group and Convolution Nets Stephane Mallat (Collège de France) Venue: Zoom |
| Nov 26 13:00 | Photonic non-von Neumann computing Wolfram Pernice (Kirchhoff-Institute for Physics) Venue: Hybrid (Zoom + gHs Phil12) |
| Nov 19 13:00 | Function from structure in neuronal networks Mihai Petrovici (Department of Physiology, Uni Bern) Venue: Hybrid (Zoom + gHs Phil12) |
| Nov 5 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
| Jul 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 |
| Jul 16 13:30 | Visualization of Time-Dependent Vector Field Topology Lutz Hofmann (IWR, Uni Heidelberg) Venue: Zoom Meeting |
| Jul 9 13:30 | Multilevel Monte Carlo for Lattice Field Theory Robert Scheichl/Eike Müller (IWR, Uni Heidelberg) Venue: Zoom Meeting |
| Jul 2 13:30 | What's inside the box? New methods for looking at cosmological data! Björn Malte Schäfer (ZAH, Uni Heidelberg) Venue: Zoom Meeting |
| Jun 25 13:30 | Generative and Invertible Networks for LHC Theory Tilman Plehn (ITP, Uni Heidelberg) Venue: Zoom Meeting |
| Jun 18 14:30 | Using bayesian networks to infer chromatin networks Carl Herrmann (BioQuant, Uni Heidelberg) Venue: Zoom Meeting |
| Jun 18 13:30 | From machine learning to dynamic modeling for personalized medicine Julio Saez-Rodriguez (Institute of Computational Biomedicine, Uni Heidelberg) Venue: Zoom Meeting |
| Jun 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 7 13:30 | EP 3.5 Knüpfer/Rüland (IAM, Uni Heidelberg) Venue: Zoom Meeting |
| Apr 30 13:30 | The Virtual Universe Dylan Nelson (ZAH, Uni Heidelberg) Venue: Zoom Meeting |
| Apr 23 13:30 | Opinion Dynamics & Kinetic Field Theory Carsten Littek (ITP, Uni Heidelberg) Venue: Zoom Meeting |
| Apr 16 13:30 | General Introduction Long-Term-Members (STRUCTURES) Venue: Zoom Meeting |
Winter Semester 2020/21
| Feb 26 13:30 | Ultracold Fermions under the Microscope Philipp Preiß (PI, Uni Heidelberg) Venue: Zoom Meeting |
| Feb 19 13:30 | Circuits and architectures for accelerated analog neuromorphic computing Johannes Schemmel (KIP, Uni Heidelberg) Venue: Zoom Meeting |
| Feb 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 |
| Feb 5 13:30 | Bayesian inference in stellar astrophysics Dr. Fabian Schneider (HITS, Heidelberg) Venue: Zoom Meeting |
| Jan 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 |
| Jan 22 13:30 | Statistics of Inverse Problems Prof. Jan Johannes (MI, Uni Heidelberg) Venue: Zoom Meeting |
| Jan 15 13:30 | EP: Subriemannian Billiards Dr. Lucas Dahinden (telefonisch zugesagt am 18.11. für den 15.01.) (MI, Uni Heidelberg) Venue: Zoom Meeting |
| Dec 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 |
| Nov 27 13:30 | Covid-19: Predicting the uncertain future Prof. Dr. Cornelis Dullemond (ZAH, Uni Heidelberg) Venue: Zoom Meeting |
| Nov 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 |
| Nov 13 13:30 | Cosmic Mysteries and the Hydrogen 21cm Line Dr. Anastasia Fialkov (University of Cambridge, Institute of Astronomy) Venue: Zoom Meeting |
| Nov 6 13:30 | Correlations, chaos, and criticality in neural networks Prof. Dr. Moritz Helias (Juelich Research Centre) Venue: Zoom Meeting |
Summer Semester 2020
| Jul 24 13:30 | Minkowski Functionals as Comprehensive Shape Descriptors in Physics Michael A. Klatt (Princton University, USA) Venue: Zoom Meeting |
| Jul 17 13:30 | EP: Planetesimals, Dust Bunnies, and Hybridized Discontinuous GalerkinMethods Prof. Guido Kanschat (IWR, Uni Heidelberg) Venue: Zoom Meeting |
| Jul 3 13:30 | Thermodynamics from relative entropy PD Dr. Stefan Floerchinger (ITP, Uni Heidelberg) Venue: Zoom Meeting |
| Jun 26 13:30 | Statistical Physics of Active Matter Prof. Julien Tailleur (Université Paris Diderot-CNRS) Venue: Zoom Meeting |
| Jun 5 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 8 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
| Feb 7 11:30 | EP: Bayesian Parameter Estimation for Mathematical Models of Self-Organization and Biological Pattern Formation Marciniak/Scheichl (IWR, Uni Heidelberg) |
| Jan 31 13:30 | EP: Universality on Network Structures from Quantum Dynamics to Big Data Nicolò Defenu (ITP, Uni Heidelberg) |
| Jan 31 11:30 | Measuring the symplectic size of subsets in phase space Gabriele Benedetti (MI, Uni Heidelberg) |
| Jan 24 13:30 | Using the HI 21 cm line to study the high-redshift Universe Simon Glover (ITA, Uni Heidelberg) |
| Jan 24 11:30 | Universe(s) in a box: towards numerical simulations of the Reionization Annalisa Pillepich (MPIA, Uni Heidelberg) |
| Jan 17 14:30 | EP: Can Geometric Hydrodynamics meet Dynamical Data Analysis? Peter Albers/ Christoph Schnörr (MI / IAM, Uni Heidelberg) |
| Dec 13 11:30 | The Future of Artificial Intelligence Helmut Linde (Merck KGaA Darmstadt, PKW) Venue: R106/GHS |
| Dec 6 11:30 | Stability and instability of Many-Body Localization Wojzeck de Roeck, Leuven (KU Leuven, Belgium) Venue: R 106 |
| Nov 15 13:30 | Eigenvalue problems for nonlinear differential equations Carl Bender (Washington University, St. Louis) Venue: R 106 |
| Nov 15 13:30 | Laplacian roots, space sandwiches, spectral methods, and Ising clusters Giaccomi Gori (ITP, Uni Heidelberg) Venue: R 106 |
| Nov 15 11:30 | Geometry of bounded critical phenomena Giaccomi Gori (ITP, Uni Heidelberg) Venue: R 106 |
| Nov 8 11:30 | New emergent behavior in networks with higher-order interactions Federico Battiston (Central European UniversityNador, Hungary) Venue: R 106 |
| Nov 8 11:30 | Interplay between structure and function during brain development Ana Millan (University de Granada) Venue: R 106 |
| Oct 31 14:15 | Quantum Simulation of Hyperbolic Space with Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics: From Graphs to Geometry Igor Boettcher (University of Maryland) |
| Oct 25 13:30 | Kinetic field theory: more on the generating functional Matthias Bartelmann (ITP, Uni Heidelberg) Venue: GHS |
| Oct 25 11:30 | Kinetic field theory for cosmic structure formation Matthias Bartelmann (ITP, Uni Heidelberg) Venue: GHS |
Summer Semester 2019
| Jul 19 13:15 | Universality and phase transitions in dissipative quantum many-body
syst Jamir Marino (Mainz/Harvard) |
| Jul 12 13:00 | Analyzing measured and simulated geometry based data Susanne Krömker (IWR, Uni Heidelberg) |
| Jul 12 12:00 | Visualization in Dynamical Systems Filip Sadlo (IWR, Uni Heidelberg) |
| Jul 12 11:30 | Radiation Magnetohydrodynamics in Astrophysics Ralf Klessen (ZAH, Uni Heidelberg) |
| Jul 12 11:00 | Speakers introduce STRUCTURES YRC Venue: GHS |
| Jul 5 13:00 | Moduli spaces, their geometry and analysis Jan Swoboda (MI, Uni Heidelberg) |
| Jul 5 11:00 | Do quantum and classical heat machines have a different performance? David Gelbwaser (Harvard University) Venue: GHS |
| Jun 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) |
| Jun 28 11:00 | Quantum dynamics in the lab / Some Mathematical Questions in Quantum Dynamics Markus Oberthaler / Manfred Salmhofer (KIP / ITP, Uni Heidelberg) Venue: GHS |
| Jun 14 13:15 | Internal discussion: open access and SciPost |
| Jun 14 11:30 | Quench, Hydro and Floquet Dynamics in Integrable Systems Jean-Sebastien Caux (Amsterdam) Venue: R106 |
| Jun 7 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 |
| Apr 26 13:00 | Entanglement in quantum dynamics and quantum technologies Philipp Hauke (KIP/ITP, Uni Heidelberg) Venue: R106 |