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Workshop

Adaptive Immune Recognition in Infectious Disease and Cancer

Scientific coordinators: Barbara Bravi, Martin Meier-Schellersheim, Carmen…

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Workshop

Information & Decisions Across Scales: Constraints and Optimality in Neural and Biological Networks

Scientific coordinators: Marianne Bauer, Daniel M. Busiello, Isabella Graf,…

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The institute offers various opportunities for undergraduates, graduate students, postdocs and faculty members.

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Public Outreach

Our public outreach program aims to make scientific results accessible to the general public. Active scientists speak about their recent work and explain it to a lay public with an interest in natural sciences, or to school children of different ages.

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Talks

Making memories: from infancy to immunity

 Dr Paul G. Thomas (Fred Hutch Cancer Research Center)

20 Apr 2026, 03:30 PM Seminarroom 1+2+3

The memory of geometry in random explorations : From self-interacting walks to universal flip statistics

 Julien Brémont (Collège de France, Paris)

22 Apr 2026, 02:00 PM Seminarroom 4

Beyond the pairing paradigm: higher-order electron condensates in multicomponent superconductors

 Ilaria Maccari (Institut für Theoretische Physik, ETH Zürich)

23 Apr 2026, 03:00 PM Seminarroom 4

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Highlights

Publication Highlights

Relaxation Control of Open Quantum Systems

Controlling how fast quantum systems relax toward their steady state is a…

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Euler buckling on curved surfaces

Nearly three centuries ago, Euler explained how an elastic line buckles under…

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