Date	Speaker	Topic	Time
Fri 26.04.2024	E. Allahyarov	Challenges and Opportunities of Polymer Nanodielectrics for Capacitive Energy Storage	14:30 s.t.
Mon 29.04.2024	K. Olsen	Composite stochastic processes: from dynamical disorder to optimal bacterial motion	14:30 s.t.
Mon 13.05.2024	A. Antonov	Colloidal transport in microfluidic Y-junctions	14:30 s.t.
Fri 24.05.2024	I. Abdoli	Chiral active particles under Magnus force	14:30 s.t.
Mon 03.06.2024	I. Malhotra	Harnessing machine learning to anticipate the Mpemba Effect in colloidal particles	14:30 s.t.
Wed 05.06.2024	G.H.P. Nguyen	Unlocking GPU efficiency: Threads, blocks, and beyond	14:30 s.t.
Wed 19.06.2024	S. Chaki	Motility-induced phase separation of inertial particles	14:30 s.t.
Fri 21.06.2024	R. Wittmann	Fun without DFT	14:30 s.t.
Fri 12.07.2024	E. Allahyarov	Fiber Diffraction Method for improving the q4-q6 bond order parameters method for deformed or fluctuating crystalline structures	14:30 s.t.

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Time
Wed 19.06.2024	Pietro Luigi Muzzeddu	SISSA, International School for Advanced Studies, Trieste, Italy	14:30 s.t.
	Polymeric systems in complex environments
Wed 22.05.2024	William D. Pineros	University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg	14:30 s.t.
	Biased ensembles of pulsating active matter
Wed 17.04.2024	Lars Kürten	ESPCI Paris, France	14:30 s.t.
	Making the hard sphere nucleation discrepancy disappear
Thu 11.04.2024	Jonathan Hedley	Imperial College London, United Kingdom	14:30 s.t.
	Nonlocal correlation effects in water and aqueous electrolytes at electrified interfaces
Thu 28.03.2024	Dr. Rüdiger Kürsten	Universitat de Barcelona, Spain	14:30 s.t.
	Kinetic Theory of aligning self-propelled Particles beyond Mean Field
Wed 27.03.2024	Arnaud Compagnie	University of Liége, Belgium	14:30 s.t.
	Separating plastic from plankton in active matter simulations
Mon 25.03.2024	Dr. Margaret Rosenberg	Universität Wien, Österreich	14:30 s.t.
	Shape Matters: Microstructure and Magnetic Response of Colloidal Magnetic Nanoplatelets
Thu 14.03.2024	Dheeraj Kumar	ESPCI, Sorbonne University, Paris, France	14:30 s.t.
	Memory effects and yielding in a mesoscale model of amorphous materials
Wed 13.03.2024	Marco Musacchio	Sapienza University Rome, Italy	11:00 s.t.
	A naive Maximum Entropy approach to my Master studies
Fri 26.01.2024	Wentao Gong	ETH Zurich, Switzerland	14:00 s.t.
	Active Phase Separation: Unraveling Whi3-RNA Membrane Interactions and Mobility-Induced Spatial Patterns
Tue 23.01.2024	Souradeep Ghosh	IISER, Kolkatta, India	11:00 s.t.
	Thermodynamic Interplay in Associating Charged Polymers
Mon 22.01.2024	Jing Wang	Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg	11:00 s.t.
	Hydrodynamics on an object in hydrogel granulate beds
Thu 18.01.2024	Rishabh Sharma	TIFR Hyderabad, India	15:30 s.t.
	On the Similarities Between Actively Driven and Sheared Glasses
Mon 15.01.2024	Aditya Vats	IIT Delhi, India	11:00 s.t.
	Symbiotic Dynamics in Living Liquid Crystals
Fri 08.12.2023	Dr. Charles Reichhardt	Los Alamos National Laboratory, The United States of America	14:30 s.t.
	Complex Dynamics in Active Matter Systems, Frustration Effects, Magnus Forces and Synchronization
Mon 30.10.2023	Dr. Jens Elgeti	Forschungszentrum Jülich	11:30 s.t.
	Mechanics of cellular monolayers
Thu 05.10.2023	Prof. Dr. T. Palberg	Institut für Physik, Johannes Gutenberg Universität	16:30 s.t.
	Writing in Water

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Time
Thu 06.06.2024	Prof. Dr. Satya Majumdar	LPTMS, Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France	16:30 s.t.
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Thu 16.05.2024	Prof. Dr. Thomas Ihle	Universität Greifswald	16:30 s.t.
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Thu 25.04.2024	Dr. Pauline Gagnon	Indiana University, United States of America	16:30 s.t.
	What’s wrong with me?
Fri 19.04.2024	Commemoration colloquium Prof. Dr. Stefan U. Egelhaaf	Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf	14:00 s.t.
	Commemoration colloquium Prof. Dr. Stefan U. Egelhaaf: „Commemoration colloquium” Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf - Seminar@HHUD: 19.4.24 14:00 s.t., Lecture hall 25.31 O0.5L skip this - only pdf will be shown Commemoration colloquium
	Important notice - different location - Lecture hall 25.31 O0.5L
Thu 01.02.2024	Prof. Dr. Daniela Kraft	Soft Matter Physics, Huygens-Kamerlingh Onnes Laboratory, Leiden Institute of Physics, Leiden University, The Netherlands	16:30 s.t.
	Prof. Dr. Daniela Kraft: „From colloidal hinges to reconfigurable structures and microrobots” Soft Matter Physics, Huygens-Kamerlingh Onnes Laboratory, Leiden Institute of Physics, Leiden University, The Netherlands - Seminar@HHUD: 1.2.24 16:30 s.t., Lecture hall 25.31 O0.5J skip this - only pdf will be shown From colloidal hinges to reconfigurable structures and microrobots
Thu 12.10.2023	Dr. Gláucia Murta	Institut für Theoretische Physik III, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf	16:30 s.t.
	Dr. Gláucia Murta: „Device-independent quantum cryptography: towards network protocols” Institut für Theoretische Physik III, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf - Seminar@HHUD: 12.10.2023 16:30 s.t., Lecture hall 25.31 O0.5J skip this - only pdf will be shown Device-independent quantum cryptography: towards network protocols
Thu 29.06.2023	Dr. Ivonne Möller	Ruhr Universität Bochum	16:30 s.t.
	Dr. Ivonne Möller: „Gemeinsam zur Eigenständigkeit - Peer-Mentoring-Module im Physik-Studium an der RUB” Ruhr Universität Bochum - Seminar@HHUD: 29.6.23 16:30 s.t., Lecture hall 25.31 O0.5J skip this - only pdf will be shown Gemeinsam zur Eigenständigkeit - Peer-Mentoring-Module im Physik-Studium an der RUB
Thu 22.06.2023	Prof. Dr. Thomas Speck	Universität Stuttgart	16:30 s.t.
	Prof. Dr. Thomas Speck: „Dissipative structure formation in soft materials” Universität Stuttgart - Seminar@HHUD: 22.6.23 16:30 s.t., Lecture hall 25.31 O0.5J skip this - only pdf will be shown Dissipative structure formation in soft materials
Thu 25.05.2023	Prof. Dr. Constantin R. Schrade	Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark	16:30 s.t.
	Prof. Dr. Constantin R. Schrade: „Next-Generation Qubits in Superconducting Circuits” Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark - Seminar@HHUD: 25.5.23 16:30 s.t., Lecture hall 25.31 O0.5J skip this - only pdf will be shown Next-Generation Qubits in Superconducting Circuits
Thu 20.04.2023	Prof. Dr. Gerhard Kahl	Institut für Theoretische Physik, TU Wien, Austria	16:30 s.t.
	Prof. Dr. Gerhard Kahl: „Microswimmers learning chemotaxis” Institut für Theoretische Physik, TU Wien, Austria - Seminar@HHUD: 20.4.23 16:30 s.t., Lecture hall 25.31 O0.5J Microorganisms which are abundant in nature and which play a key role in many biological phenomena have developed a huge variety of strategies which help them in nutrient uptake, to reproduce, to escape from predators, or to hunt prey. These strategies are realized via different manners, such as shape deformations or by the use of appendages. In an effort to understand the locomotion of these microswimmers under low Reynolds number conditions, models have been proposed, which are based on fixed swimming strategies. However, models of such organisms that adapt their swimming strategies to the ever changing surroundings have rarely been investigated, so far. I will report about a project where a simple microswimmer model is trained to swim and to uptake nutrients by combining the equations-of-motion with modern tools of machine learning. Using genetic algorithms optimized neural networks are developed which control the shape deformations of the microswimmers and allow them to navigate in static and time-dependent chemical environ-ments. By introducing noisy signal transmission in the neural networks the well-known biased run-and-tumble motion emerges, as it is known for many swimming microorganisms. Extensions of the simple model in use to more realistic microswimmers are discussed. Microswimmers learning chemotaxis

Seminars - Summer term 2024

Seminar “Special problems in colloidal physics”

Seminar “Special problems in computer simulation of soft matter”

Seminar “Soft Matter”

Colloquia

Commemoration colloquium Prof. Dr. Stefan U. Egelhaaf: „Commemoration colloquium”Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf - Seminar@HHUD: 19.4.24 14:00 s.t., Lecture hall 25.31 O0.5L

Prof. Dr. Daniela Kraft: „From colloidal hinges to reconfigurable structures and microrobots”Soft Matter Physics, Huygens-Kamerlingh Onnes Laboratory, Leiden Institute of Physics, Leiden University, The Netherlands - Seminar@HHUD: 1.2.24 16:30 s.t., Lecture hall 25.31 O0.5J

Dr. Gláucia Murta: „Device-independent quantum cryptography: towards network protocols”Institut für Theoretische Physik III, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf - Seminar@HHUD: 12.10.2023 16:30 s.t., Lecture hall 25.31 O0.5J

Dr. Ivonne Möller: „Gemeinsam zur Eigenständigkeit - Peer-Mentoring-Module im Physik-Studium an der RUB”Ruhr Universität Bochum - Seminar@HHUD: 29.6.23 16:30 s.t., Lecture hall 25.31 O0.5J

Prof. Dr. Thomas Speck: „Dissipative structure formation in soft materials”Universität Stuttgart - Seminar@HHUD: 22.6.23 16:30 s.t., Lecture hall 25.31 O0.5J

Prof. Dr. Constantin R. Schrade: „Next-Generation Qubits in Superconducting Circuits”Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark - Seminar@HHUD: 25.5.23 16:30 s.t., Lecture hall 25.31 O0.5J

Prof. Dr. Gerhard Kahl: „Microswimmers learning chemotaxis”Institut für Theoretische Physik, TU Wien, Austria - Seminar@HHUD: 20.4.23 16:30 s.t., Lecture hall 25.31 O0.5J

Seminar about Bachelor, Master and other Theses from the Institut for Theoretical Physics II

Commemoration colloquium Prof. Dr. Stefan U. Egelhaaf: „Commemoration colloquium”
Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf - Seminar@HHUD: 19.4.24 14:00 s.t., Lecture hall 25.31 O0.5L

Prof. Dr. Daniela Kraft: „From colloidal hinges to reconfigurable structures and microrobots”
Soft Matter Physics, Huygens-Kamerlingh Onnes Laboratory, Leiden Institute of Physics, Leiden University, The Netherlands - Seminar@HHUD: 1.2.24 16:30 s.t., Lecture hall 25.31 O0.5J

Dr. Gláucia Murta: „Device-independent quantum cryptography: towards network protocols”
Institut für Theoretische Physik III, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf - Seminar@HHUD: 12.10.2023 16:30 s.t., Lecture hall 25.31 O0.5J

Dr. Ivonne Möller: „Gemeinsam zur Eigenständigkeit - Peer-Mentoring-Module im Physik-Studium an der RUB”
Ruhr Universität Bochum - Seminar@HHUD: 29.6.23 16:30 s.t., Lecture hall 25.31 O0.5J

Prof. Dr. Thomas Speck: „Dissipative structure formation in soft materials”
Universität Stuttgart - Seminar@HHUD: 22.6.23 16:30 s.t., Lecture hall 25.31 O0.5J

Prof. Dr. Constantin R. Schrade: „Next-Generation Qubits in Superconducting Circuits”
Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark - Seminar@HHUD: 25.5.23 16:30 s.t., Lecture hall 25.31 O0.5J

Prof. Dr. Gerhard Kahl: „Microswimmers learning chemotaxis”
Institut für Theoretische Physik, TU Wien, Austria - Seminar@HHUD: 20.4.23 16:30 s.t., Lecture hall 25.31 O0.5J