IAS Retreat 2025
See below for the program of the Junior Researchers Event on 22 May.
27 May 2025
Main Event
Forschungszentrum Jülich, central library (building 04.7)
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Meetings |
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08:30-09:00 |
Registration & Welcome Coffee Foyer |
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09:00-09:10 |
Welcome Address Lecture Hall, Chair: Sonja Grün Ulf G. Meißner, IAS Managing Director Laurens Kuipers, Member of the Board of Directors (VS-I) |
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09:10-11:00 |
Presentations of the Institute Divisions, Part I Lecture Hall, Chair: Marisol Ripoll IAS-2 Minimal Physical Modeling of Living Systems - Thorsten Auth, Jens Elgeti IAS-4 Nuclear Lattice Effective Field Theory in a Nutshell - Fabian Hildenbrand Engineering topological phases in quantum nanosystems - Lin Wang IAS-6 Introduction to IAS-6 - Sonja Grün Physics of AI - Moritz Helias IAS-7 Shaping the Future of Crowd Safety: From Flames to Footsteps - Lukas Arnold and Mohcine Chraibi IAS-8 Retrieval of sun-induced plant fluorescence from hyperspectral imagery - Jim Buffat Galaxy Morphology Classification with Counterfactual Explanation - Zhuo Cao |
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11:00-11:30 |
Coffee Break & Group Photo Foyer |
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11:30-11:50 |
Spotlight Talks, Part I Lecture Hall, Chair: Abigail Morrison Exascale computing for skyrmion simulations - Nihad Abuawwad (#1) Supercomputing in a Browser - Easy access to WebTools for increased Productivity - Jens Henrik Goebbert, Tim Kreuzer (#43) Hadron physics with the Jülich-Bonn model: determining the light baryon resonance spectrum - Oleh Luniachek, Deborah Ronchen, Christian Schneider (#65) Vortex formation and odd viscosity in a chiral active fluid - Joscha Mecke (#69) Combining socio-psychological pedestrian dynamics with AI and simulation tools - Ezel Üsten (#97) |
Scientific Support Meeting (30-60 min) Room 338 |
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11:50-12:40 |
Poster Session, Part I (odd numbers) Foyer |
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12:40-13:40 |
Lunch Foyer |
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13:40-15:30 |
Presentations of the Institute Divisions, Part II Lecture Hall, Chair: Erenus Yildiz IAS-9 Materials Data Science and Informatics - Stefan Sandfeld JSC The Futures of Computing at JSC - Robert Speck INM-9 Computational Biomedicine - Developing and using molecular simulation, machine learning, and bioinformatics tools to investigate neurotransmission in the human brain - Giulia Rossetti PGI-1 An IAS perspective on the Peter Grünberg Institut 1 - Quantum Theory of Materials - Gregor Michalicek PGI-15 Neuromorphic Principles for Self-Attention - Emre Neftci |
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15:30-15:50 |
Spotlight Talks, Part II Lecture Hall, Chair: Vania Calandrini Leveraging LLMs and ontologies for simulation data extraction and exploration - Elaheh Akhoundi (#2) Event-driven eligibility propagation: combining efficiency with biological realism - Agnes Korcsak-Gorzo (#56) Cognitive maps in brains and machines - Sven Krausse; Alpha Renner (#60) Summation Compression for Very Low-Rank Adaptation - Alessio Quercia (#84) |
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15:50-16:40 |
Poster Session, Part II (even numbers) Foyer |
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16:40-16:50 |
Short Break Foyer |
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16:50-17:50 |
Large Research Projects and Infrastructures Lecture Hall, Chair: Robert Speck JUPITER - Pushing Technical and Scientific Boundaries to the Exascale Level - Benedikt von St. Vieth Better Software Better Research - Claire Wyatt Fostering interdisciplinarity: The Jülich Neuromorphic Computing Alliance - Abigail Morrison Rhine-Ruhr Center for Scientific Data Literacy - An Introduction and Recent Activities - Katharina Immel Helmholtz AI Consulting - supporting AI innovation in Helmholtz – Stefan Kesselheim |
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17:50-18:00 |
Closing Remarks, Report from the Junior Investigators Event & Poster Prize Lecture Hall Tom Luu, Sonja Grün, Katharina Immel |
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18:15-19:15 |
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Senior Investigators Meeting Foyer |
Senior Investigators Meeting
A meeting of senior investigators (i.e. senior postdocs, team leaders, group leaders, directors, ...) to get to know each other and exchange ideas and perspectives on, among others, cooperation within the IAS, leadership matters, and communication.
Scientific Support Meeting (from 11:30 with open end)
An informal get-together of those IAS members supporting scientific activities at the IAS (i.e. secretaries, coordinators, IT staff, ...).
22 May 2025
Satellite Event: Junior Researchers Event
11:00-16:00 on Forschungszentrum Jülich campus.
A meeting of young researchers (i.e. BSc, MSc, doctoral students, young postdocs, ...) to get to know each other, learn about career and support services and a chance to exchange with invited speakers from different career stages and paths.
