Theory division seminars
Upcoming:
27/01/2026, Marin Bukov, MPI for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Learning to stabilize nonequilibrium phases of matter with active feedback using partial information
2025
11/12/2025, Peter Rabl, TU Munich / Walther-Meißner Institute, Autonomous entanglement distribution in squeezed and thermal reservoirs
11/11/2025, Natalia Ares, University of Oxford, Machine learning-based control of quantum devices and nanoscale thermodynamics
30/09/2025, Lingzhen Guo, Tianjin University, China, Engineering fault-tolerant Bosonic codes with quantum lattice gates
18/09/2025, Martina Hentschel, TU Chemnitz, Complex optical microcavities: a non-Hermitian perspective
08/09/2025, Henning Schomerus, University of Lancaster, Physical manifestations of non-Hermiticity and topology in photonic systems
05/08/2025, Markus Heyl, University of Augsburg, Active quantum flocks
15/07/2025, Renato Renner, ETH Zürich, Artificial agents as probes of quantum foundations
17/06/2025, Diego Porras, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Topological amplification in linear and non-linear systems
21/05/2025, Wolfram Pernice, Münster University, Embracing uncertainty: a photonic approach to probabilistic computing
06/05/2025, Mario Chemnitz, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Towards Computing with Nonlinear Schrödinger Systems: Mimicking neuromorphic capabilities with information-loaded femtosecond pulses and nonlinear fibers
25/04/2025, Marc Serra Garcia, AMOLF, Amsterdam, Computing with unconventional physical phenomena
01/04/2025, Antonio Acín, ICFO Barcelona, From Bell's theorem to the device-independent quantum information scenario
11/03/2025, Babak Rahmani, Microsoft Research, Dynamics in computation: From the analog optical computer to iterative language models
11/03/2025, Jacob Daniel Benestad, NTNU Trondheim, Real-time Hamiltonian estimation in single qubit experiments
20/02/2025, Zakari Denis, EPFL, Towards simulating quantum-optical systems with neural quantum states
19/02/2025, Jannes Nys, ETH Zürich, Neural Representations of Correlated Quantum Matter in and out of Equilibrium
2024
17/12/2024, Zidu Liu, MPQ Garching, Studies on the trainability of tensor network based machine learning
18/10/2024, Maxine McCarthy, University of Sheffield, Exact topological properties of finite structures
18/07/2024, Pascal Weckesser, Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, Quantum gas microscopy of Rydberg-based extended Bose Hubbard models
27/02/2024, Tong Wang, School of Physics, Peking University, Numerical Study of Disorder-driven Quantum Phase Transitions
13/02/2024 Maciej Koch-Janusz, Haiqu Inc. & University of Zurich, Effective descriptions of statistical and dynamical systems through the lens of compression theory
06/02/2024 Johannes Brandstaetter, MS-AI4Science and JKU Linz, Is it the network, or is it the data? Quo vadis, scientific research?
23/01/2024 Daniel Burgarth, FAU, Strong Error Bounds for Trotter & Strang-Splittings and their Implications for Quantum Chemistry
2023
13/12/2023 Ki Young Lee, Hanyang University, Korea, Revealing new topological effects in metasurfaces
21/11/2023 Linglin Fan, MIT, Energy-efficient photonic computing with physics-hardware co-learning
27/10/2023 Alexander Cerjan, Sandia National Laboratories, An Operator-Based Approach to Topological Physics: Band Structures and Bloch Eigenstates not Required
13/10/2023 Alexander Felski, Universität Heidelberg, Non-Hermitian fermions in effective QCD
15/09/2023 Lingzhen Guo, Tianjin University, Arbitrary Phase-space Hamiltonian Engineering for Bosonic Codes
12/09/2023 Jonathan Conrad, Freie Universität Berlin, Twirling GKP codes between theory and application
12/09/2023 Christopher Wächtler, University of California, Berkeley, Topological synchronization of classical and quantum systems
11/09/2023 Lei Du, Chalmers University of Technology, Giant atoms in a synthetic frequency dimension
14/08/2023 Peter McMahon, Cornell University, Computing with Physical Systems
14/08/2023 Lucas Winter, Universität Konstanz, Topological Protection of the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect in a Cavity
04/07/2023 Julian Arnold, Universität Basel, Replacing neural networks by optimal predictive models for the detection of phase transitions
Contact
Theory Division
Prof. Florian Marquardt
Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light
Staudtstr. 2
91058 Erlangen, Germany
For all general inquiries, please contact us at:
florian.marquardt@mpl.mpg.de
anna-gesine.murphy@mpl.mpg.de
Tel: +49 9131 7133 401
Fax: +49 9131 7133 409