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Max Planck Lecture Yejin Choi 26-05-2023 Common Sense: the Dark Matter of Language and Intelligence The Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems is delighted to invite you to its 2023 Max Planck Lecture in Tübingen. Moritz Hardt Michael Black Bernhard Schölkopf Matthias Tröndle Barbara Kettemann Nisha Tyagi
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Max Planck Lecture Zhenan Bao 22-07-2022 Skin-Inspired Organic Electronics Zhenan Bao is an inspiring scientist who is a world-renowned chemist, chemical engineer and material scientist and who has received so many awards it becomes challenging to count. She teaches at Stanford University in the heart of Silicon Valley where she and her team develop the most dazzling flexible and stretchable materials, electronics and energy devices which are inspired by human skin. On Friday, July 22, 2022 from 1:30pm, Zhenan Bao will hold this year’s Max Planck Lecture titled "Skin-Inspired Organic Electronics" at the Stuttgart site of the MPI-IS – live and in-person just as bef... Metin Sitti Matthias Tröndle Barbara Kettemann
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Max Planck Lecture Professor Bilge Yildiz 10-03-2022 Understanding and tuning the surface chemistry of perovskite oxides to activate oxygen exchange and water splitting reactions The deployment of decarbonization technologies, including solid oxide fuel and electrolysis cells, is limited by slow rates of conversion reactions at surfaces, and instability of materials under operating conditions. A major scientific challenge has been the lack of knowledge of the chemistry and electronic structure on material surfaces in the harsh operational conditions.
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Max Planck Lecture Martin Zwierlein 16-06-2020 The sound of fermions Fermions, particles with half-integer spin like the electron, proton and neutron, obey the Pauli principle: They cannot share one and the same quantum state. This “anti social” behavior is directly observed in experiments with ultracold gases of fermionic atoms: Pauli blocking in momentum space for a free Fermi gas, and in real space in gases confined to an optical lattice. When fermions interact, new, rather “social” behavior emerges, i.e. hydrodynamic flow, superfluidity and magnetism. The interplay of Pauli’s principle and strong interactions poses great difficulties to our understanding...
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Max Planck Lecture Hanieh Fattahi 09-06-2020 Towards spectro-microscopy at extreme limits This talk is devoted to modern methods for attosecond and femtosecond laser spectro-microscopy with the special focus on applications that require extreme spatial resolution. In the first part, I discuss how high-harmonic generation by high-energy, high-power light transients holds promise to deliver the required photon flux and photon energy for attosecond pump-probe spectroscopy at high spatiotemporal resolution in order to capture electron-dynamic in matter. I demonstrate the first prototype high-energy field synthesizer based on Yb:YAG, thin-disk laser technology for generating high...
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Max Planck Lecture Marcia Babosa 12-05-2020 Water anomalies: from ice age to carbon Technological advances in laser and vacuum technology have allowed realizing a dream of the early days of quantum mechanics: controlling single, laser-cooled atoms at a quantum level. Interfacing individual atoms with ultracold gases offer new experimental approaches to unsolved problems of nonequilibrium quantum physics. Moreover, such systems allow experimentally addressing the question if and how quantum properties can boost the performance of atomic-scale devices. In this talk, I will discuss how single atoms can be controlled and probed in an ultracold gas. Understanding the impuri...
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Max Planck Lecture Ronny Thomale 05-05-2020 The d-wave paradigm of unconventional superconductors As famously introduced in the context of copper oxide superconductors, Cooper pairing ofelectrons through a d-wave order parameter constitutes a central departure from theconventional microscopic picture of phonon-mediated s-wave superconductivity. Fordecades, copper oxide superconductors remained the predominant arena for d-wavepairing. In recent years, however, d-wave superconductivity witnesses significant diversification in terms of materials realizations, such as Na-doped cobaltates, pnictides atstrong hole doping, and, most recently, infinite layer nickelates as well as strontiumruthe...
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Max Planck Lecture Artur Widera 28-04-2020 Engineering single-atom devices in ultracold gases Technological advances in laser and vacuum technology have allowed realizing a dream of the early days of quantum mechanics: controlling single, laser-cooled atoms at a quantum level. Interfacing individual atoms with ultracold gases offer new experimental approaches to unsolved problems of nonequilibrium quantum physics. Moreover, such systems allow experimentally addressing the question if and how quantum properties can boost the performance of atomic-scale devices. In this talk, I will discuss how single atoms can be controlled and probed in an ultracold gas. Understanding the impuri...
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Max Planck Lecture Martin Wolf 21-04-2020 Ultrafast Surface Dynamics and Local Spectroscopy at the Nanoscale In a Born-Oppenheimer description, atomic motions evolve across a potential energy surface determined by the occupation of electronic states as a function of atom positions. Ultrafast photo-induced phase transitions provide a test case for how the forces and resulting nuclear motion along the reaction co-ordinate originate from a non-equilibrium population of excited electronic states. Here I discuss recent advances in time-resolved photoemission spectroscopy allowing for direct probing of the underlying fundamental steps and the transiently evolving band structure in the ultrafast phase t... Joachim Gräfe
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Max Planck Lecture Mark Dennis 14-04-2020 How to tie an optical field into a knot Tying a knot in a piece of string can be a hard practical problem.
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Modern Magnetic Systems Max Planck Lecture Victorino Franco 23-04-2019 Magnetocaloric Effect: From Energy Efficient Refrigeration to Fundamental Studies of Phase Transitions Joachim Gräfe Michael Hirscher
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Max Planck Lecture Roland Siegwart 22-10-2018 Autonomous Robots that Walk and Fly While robots are already doing a wonderful job as factory workhorses, they are now gradually appearing in our daily environments and offering their services as autonomous cars, delivery drones, helpers in search and rescue and much more. Katherine J. Kuchenbecker Matthias Tröndle Ildikó Papp-Wiedmann Barbara Kettemann
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Max Planck Lecture Prof. Dr. Hideo Hosono 12-10-2018 Transparent Amorphous Oxide Semiconductors: from materials design to implementation to state of the art displays Thin film transistor (TFTs) is a fundamental building block in electronic circuits. Since the specification for TFTs to drive the pixel of flat panel displays rather differs from that for CPUs and memories because of their large dimension.
Max Planck Lecture Prof. Amnon Shashua 18-09-2017 The Three Pillars of Fully Autonomous Driving The field of transportation is undergoing a seismic change with the coming introduction of autonomous driving. The technologies required to enable computer driven cars involves the latest cutting edge artificial intelligence algorithms along three major thrusts: Sensing, Planning and Mapping. Prof. Amnon Shashua, Co-founder and Chairman of Mobileye, will describe the challenges and the kind of machine learning algorithms involved, but will do that through the perspective of Mobileye’s activity in this domain.
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Max Planck Lecture Robert J. Birgeneau 18-05-2017 Superconductors Old and New Solid State Physics is a field which continuously renews itself through the discovery of new materials and new phenomena. This has been particularly true for the subfield of superconductivity.
Max Planck Lecture Professor Naomi Ehrich Leonard 06-06-2016 On the Nonlinear Dynamics of Collective Decision-Making in Nature and Design The successful deployment of complex, multi-agent systems requires well-designed, agent-level control strategies that accommodate sensing, communication, and computational limitations on individual agents.
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Max Planck Lecture Professor Wolfgang Ketterle 20-05-2015 Ultracold atoms as quantum simulators for new materials – synthetic magnetic fields and topological phases When atoms are cooled to nanokelvin temperatures, they can easily be confined and manipulated with laser beams. Their interactions can be tuned with the help of magnetic fields, making them strongly or weakly interacting, repulsive or attractive.
Max Planck Lecture Vijay Kumar, Ph.D. 09-03-2015 Aerial Robot Swarms Autonomous micro aerial robots can operate in three-dimensional, indoor and outdoor environments, and have applications to search and rescue, first response and precision farming. I will describe the challenges in developing small, agile robots and the algorithmic challenges in the areas of (a) control and planning, (b) state estimation and mapping, and (c) coordinating large teams of robots.
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Max Planck Lecture Professor A. L. Greer 22-05-2014 The Glassy State properties and applications exploiting non-crystallinity: golf, frozen frogs, memory Glasses, lacking the order of crystals, are in many ways still regarded as poorly understood. Yet glasses, lacking the complications of different crystallographic symmetries, also show some remarkable correlations of diverse properties.
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Max Planck Lecture Prof. Dr. Paul Chaikin 10-10-2013 Some Small Steps toward Artificial Life No one has successfully defined life but the properties we often associate with living things are motility, metabolism and self-replication. According to the Nobel Laureate Richard Feynman: "What I can't create, I don't understand". We thought we'd give it a shot – understanding life – and in the process we've made two different systems, one that exhibits both autonomous motility and metabolism and another which is the first artificial system which can replicate arbitrarily designed motifs.
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Max Planck Lecture Dr. Ivan Božović 08-05-2013 Interface Science Interface Science. The last decade has witnessed explosive growth of research on various oxide heterostructures, and discoveries of exciting new interface phenomena. We may be witnessing the emergence of a new scientific discipline – Interface Science, delineated by a distinct new set of problems, techniques, phenomena, and theoretical concepts.
Max Planck Lecture Prof. Dr. Clare P. Grey 06-12-2012 Following Function in Real Time: New NMR, MRI and Diffraction Methods for Studying Structure and Dynamics in Batteries and Supercapacitors A full understanding of the operation of a device requires that we utilize methods that allow devices or materials to be probed while they are operating (i.e., in-situ). This allows, for example, the transformations of the various cell components to be followed under realistic conditions without having to disassemble and take apart the cell.
Max Planck Lecture Prof. Dr. Robert Wood 26-09-2012 Progress on biologically-inspired microrobots As the characteristic size of a flying robot decreases, the challenges for successful flight revert to basic questions of fabrication, actuation, fluid mechanics, stabilization, and power – whereas such questions have in general been answered for larger aircraft.
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Max Planck Lecture Prof. Dr. Martin Nowak 14-10-2011 Evolution of cooperation Cooperation implies that one individual pays a cost for another to receive a benefit. Cost and benefit are measured in terms of reproductive success. Cooperation is useful for construction in evolution: genomes, cells, multi-cellular organisms, animal and human societies are consequences of cooperation. Cooperation can be at variance with natural selection. Why should you help competitors?
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Max Planck Lecture Prof. Dr. Michael Grätzel 03-03-2011 The advent of mesoscopic solar cells The field of photovoltaic cells has been dominated so far by solid state p-n junction devices made e.g. of crystalline or amorphous silicon, profiting from the experience and material availability of the semi­conductor industry. However, there is an increasing awareness of the possible advantages of devices referred to as "bulk" junctions due to their interconnected three-dimensional structure. Their embodiment departs completely from the conventional flat p-n junction solid-state cells, replacing them by inter­penetrating networks.
Max Planck Lecture Prof. Dr. Subra Suresh 27-05-2010 Materials Science Aproaches for Life Sciences and Human Health This lecture will provide recent research results at the intersections of engineering, materials science, nanotechnology, genetics, life sciences, medicine and public health.
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Max Planck Lecture Prof. Dr. Harold Y. Hwang 23-11-2009 Atomic Engineering Oxide Heterointerfaces Complex oxides are fascinating systems which host a vast array of unique phenom­ena, such as high-temperature (and unconventional) superconductivity, "colossal" magnetoresistance, all forms of magnetism and ferroelectricity, as well as (quantum) phase transitions and couplings between these states.
Max Planck Lecture Prof. Dr. Yves Bréchet 08-06-2009 Architectured Materials and Multifunctional Designs: Foams, Wools and Interlocked Materials Developing new materials via a better understanding of the mechanisms underlying macroscopic properties has been the Graal of materials science. The most prominent effort in Materials Science has been toward a better control of the microstructure, toward smaller and smaller scales, and in recent years, toward nanomaterials.
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Max Planck Lecture Prof. Dr. Moty Heiblum 15-10-2008 Electron Interference in two Dimensions: Phase Measurements, Controlled Dephasing and Phase Recovery Electron interference in the solid enables to determine the electron coherence time, the phase electron gains during transport, the statistics of quasi-particles in strongly interacting systems, and the processes of dephasing.
Max Planck Lecture Prof. Dr. A. Paul Alivisatos 22-07-2008 Nanocrystals as Model Systems for Understanding Structural and Chemical Transformations in the Solid State The advent of means to prepare well-controlled nanoscale building blocks has opened up many new opportunities to understand difficult problems which lie at the core of materials science. As an example, nanometer-size inorganic nanocrystals can be transformed from one state to another with remarkably simplified kinetics compared to extended or bulk solids.
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Max Planck Lecture Prof. Dr. Peidong Yang 11-07-2007 Nanowire Building Blocks for Photonics & Energy Conversion Nanowires are of both fundamental and technological interest. They represent the critical components in the potential nanoscale electronic and photonic device applications.