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Events (archive)

Events (archive)

We believe in our duty to share knowledge through weekly seminars, regularly workshops and other events. on this page you'll find events organized in the past. If you're interested in upcoming events visit the Events page. Our weekly seminars at DIFFER cover a wide range of topics and are open to everybody. Please, read more on our dedicated Seminars page. You can find specific information for external visitors and subscribe to our seminar mailinglist on this page.

DIFFER Seminar: Exciting Electrons in Optoelectronic Nanomaterials

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Laurens Siebbeles
Abstract: Semiconductor nanomaterials such as quantum dots, nanowires and two-dimensional materials are of interest for optoelectronic applications, including solar cells, photodetectors, LEDs, lasers and photocatalysis. We study electronic excited states (excitons), charge carriers and many-body complexes thereof.
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DIFFER Seminar: From Soft Matter to Functional Materials

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Heiner Friedrich
Abstract: Advanced functional materials are at the core of chemistry and engineering research to address societal challenges related to health, energy, and sustainability.
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DIFFER Seminar: Generative models for data-driven simulation

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Vlado Menkovski
Abstract: Machine learning (ML) methods are taking a prominent role for surrogate modelling motivated by their capability to alleviate the high computational complexity of traditional methods. Moreover,ML-based methods are also well suited for problems where no symbolic models are available or where not all phenomena are fully understood while experimental data is available.
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DIFFER Seminar: Melting of ice

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Detlef Lohse
Abstract: The quantitative understanding of glacial ice melting into the ocean is one of the most outstanding challenges in environmental fluid dynamics. The lack of understanding is on a fundamental level, due to the highly complex multi-scale, multi-physics nature of the problem.
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DIFFER Seminar: Integrated modelling of tokamak plasmas: validation, progress towards fast control-oriented frameworks, and challenges towards ITER operation.

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From [W. Morris JPP colloquium Oct. 2024]
Abstract: Simulation of tokamak plasmas is a multi-physics challenge across multiple timescales. Coupled partial-differential-equations evolve quantities like current, heat, particles and momentum, over entire experiment timescales.
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