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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: DIFFERent - Strengthening usual and unusual collaborations

Seminar, to
Theo Salet
Abstract: Fundamental energy research obviously differs from a more engineering and design type of research that is performed at the department of the Built Environment due to the nature of the domain. Yet we are closely linked since a large part of the energy demand comes from our buildings, a demand that is currently in transition.
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DIFFER Seminar: Exciting Electrons in Optoelectronic Nanomaterials

Seminar, to
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

Seminar, to
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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