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Seminars - Summer term 2026
Seminar “Special problems in colloidal physics”
Location: HHU Düsseldorf, Seminarroom 25.32.O2.51Program:
| Date | Speaker | Topic | Time |
| Wed 13.05.2026 | K. Spanheimer | Drying patterns in soft colloids | 14:30 s.t. |
| Fri 15.05.2026 | I. Abdoli | Self-aligning active particles in an anisotropic trap | 14:30 s.t. |
| Mon 01.06.2026 | K. Olsen | Information in statistical physics: from response theory to intelligence | 14:30 s.t. |
| Wed 03.06.2026 | C. Bair | Hyperuniformity in the one-component plasma | 11:00 s.t. |
| Fri 19.06.2026 | M. Musacchio | Star-polymers | 14:30 s.t. |
| Fri 26.06.2026 | M. Rosenberg | Multipolar Active Matter | 14:30 s.t. |
| Mon 06.07.2026 | J. Melles | Confined quantum active particles | 14:30 s.t. |
| Fri 10.07.2026 | A. Compagnie | Estimating phoretic interactions between Janus colloids | 14:30 s.t. |
| Mon 20.07.2026 | M. Root | Escape problems for active particles | 14:30 s.t. |
| Fri 24.07.2026 | A. Antonov | Role of dissipation in the control of active matter | 14:30 s.t. |
Prof. Dr. H. Löwen
Seminar “Special problems in computer simulation of soft matter”
Location: HHU Düsseldorf, Seminarroom 25.32.O2.51Program:
| Date | Speaker | Topic | Time |
| Wed 13.05.2026 | K. Spanheimer | Drying patterns in soft colloids | 14:30 s.t. |
| Wed 03.06.2026 | C. Bair | Hyperuniformity in the one-component plasma | 11:00 s.t. |
| Fri 26.06.2026 | M. Rosenberg | Multipolar Active Matter | 14:30 s.t. |
| Wed 08.07.2026 | S. Ghosh | Active Microrheology of a Supercooled Liquid | 14:30 s.t. |
| Fri 10.07.2026 | A. Compagnie | Estimating phoretic interactions between Janus colloids | 14:30 s.t. |
| Fri 17.07.2026 | A. Pini | Single particle vs. collective diffusion dynamics in a glassforming ternary Lennard-Jones mixture | 14:30 s.t. |
| Mon 20.07.2026 | M. Root | Escape problems for active particles | 14:30 s.t. |
Prof. Dr. J. Horbach
Seminar “Soft Matter”
Location: HHU Düsseldorf, Seminarroom 25.32.O2.51Program:
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Time |
| Thu 23.07.2026 | Carsten Littek | Universität Heidelberg | 14:30 s.t. |
| Stochastic Path Integral Methods for Active Particles | |||
| Mon 15.06.2026 | Luis Fernando Elizondo | Instituto de Física, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, México | 14:30 s.t. |
| The Nonequilibrium Self-Consistent Generalized Langevin Equation Theory of Glasses and Gels | |||
| Wed 03.06.2026 | Shang-Yik Reigh | Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea | 14:30 s.t. |
| Diffusioosmotic Flows in a Microchannel | |||
| Wed 20.05.2026 | Smarajit Karmakar | Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Hyderabad, India | 14:30 s.t. |
| Response of Amorphous Solids under Oscillatory Shear and Active Dopants | |||
| Tue 12.05.2026 | Eric Kleinherbers | Department of Physics and Astronomy and Bhaumik Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, USA | 11:15 s.t. |
| Topological transport in magnetic systems: from novel SQUIDs to topological batteries | |||
| Mon 16.03.2026 | Eleonora Secchi | ETH Zürich, Institute of Environmental Engineering | 14:30 s.t. |
| Biofilms as living soft materials: linking mechanics, microstructure, and function | |||
| Mon 02.02.2026 | Chenyu Jin | Fudan University, Zhejiang 322000, People‘s Republic of China | 11:00 s.t. |
| Mechanical Confinement–Induced Transitions in Bacterial Growth Regulation: Evidence from Single-Cell Size-Control Dynamics | |||
| Thu 29.01.2026 | Amin Bakhshandeh | Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, Brazil | 14:30 s.t. |
| Canonical Titration of Colloidal Particles | |||
| Mon 26.01.2026 | Danilo Liarte | ICTP South American Institute for Fundamental Research and IFT-UNESP, Brazil | 11:00 s.t. |
| Disordered elastic systems: Statistical Physics and functional design | |||
| Thu 15.01.2026 | Francisca Guzmán Lastra | Universidad de Chile, Chile | 14:30 s.t. |
| Synchronization and emerging collective movements in magnetically active particles | |||
| Tue 06.01.2026 | Anouar El Moumane | University of Oxford, United Kingdom | 14:30 s.t. |
| Molecular chirality in liquid crystalline phases: a microscopic perspective | |||
| Fri 19.12.2025 | Joscha Mecke | Forschungszentrum Jülich | 14:30 s.t. |
| Chiral active fluids and probing scale-dependent liveliness: A multiscale view of active matter | |||
| Tue 28.10.2025 | Davide Breoni | Universitá di Trento, Trento, Italy | 11:00 s.t. |
| How memory allows to trap phototactic algae in rings of light | |||
| Tue 07.10.2025 | Rémi Goerlich | Tel Aviv University, Israel | 14:30 s.t. |
| Time-energy tradeoff in stochastic resetting using optimal control | |||
Prof. Dr. Horbach, Prof. Dr. Keim, Prof. Dr. Löwen
Colloquia
Location: HHU Düsseldorf, Lecture Hall 5F (Building 25.21 Level 00)Program:
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Time |
| Thu 02.07.2026 | Büsra Kösoglu-Kind | Senior Quantum Ambassador and IT-Architect at IBM, PhD candidate at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin | 16:30 s.t. |
| Quantum Computing: Hype or the Future? From Research Labs to Real-World Applications | |||
| Thu 22.01.2026 | Prof. Dr. Andreas R. Bausch | TU München | 16:30 s.t. |
| Structure Formation in Organoid Systems | |||
| Thu 18.12.2025 | Prof. Dr. Benedict Leimkuhler | University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 16:30 s.t. |
| Langevin dynamics, thermostats, and applications | |||
| Thu 11.12.2025 | Dr. Julia Katharina Vogt | Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf | 16:30 s.t. |
| Vom Studium der Medizinischen Physik / Physik in den klinischen Berufsalltag | |||
| Thu 30.10.2025 | Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Paul | Institut für Physik, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg | 16:30 s.t. |
| Quantum Analytical Mechanics: What is it and what is it good for? | |||
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