
EMERGENCE AT ALL SCALES - 1st ANNUAL MEETING
7th & 8th April 2026 | @OBA (Amsterdam Public Library, 6th floor), Oosterdokskade 143, 1011 DL Amsterdam, Netherlands
1st ANNUAL MEETING
T​he NWA ORC Consortium Emergence at all Scales invites everyone to attend its first annual meeting where topics within its focus will be discussed, including hydrodynamics, complexity, collective phenomena, synchronization, phases of matter, social physics, etc. The preliminary program, including plenary speakers can be found below.
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Programme 7th of April:
09:00 - 10:15: Walk-in, tea and coffee
10:15 - 10:30: Opening remarks
10:30 - 11:25: Michal Heller on hydrodynamics and complexity
11:25 - 11:30: Coffee break
11:30 - 13:00: Parallel session | Quantum spacetime and emergent structures (speakers: Ruth Gregory, Ben Freivogel, Phine Schikof)
11:30 - 13:00: Parallel session | Emergence of hydrodynamics (speakers: Wout Merbis and Ruben Lier)
11:30 - 13:00: Parallel session | Gravity and dark structure
13:00 - 14:30: Lunch break
14:30 - 15:25: Ruth Gregory on analogue black holes
15:25 - 15:55: Coffee break
15:55 - 17:25: Parallel session | Cosmic structures
15:55 - 17:25: Parallel session | Collective behaviour in networks and life-like matter (speakers: Katharina Kirscher)
15:55 - 17:25: Parallel session | Quantum matter (speakers: Alix McCollam)
17:25 - 19:00: Borrel + meet societal partners
19:00 - 21:00: Dinner
21:00 - +++++: social activities
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Programme 8th of April:
09:00 - 09:30: Walk-in, tea and coffee
09:30 - 10:25: Katharina Krischer on synchronization
10:25 - 11:00: Summaries of ongoing progress from parallel sessions
11:10 - 11:40: Coffee break
11:40 - 12:35: Frank Pijpers on social physics
12:35 - 14:00: Lunch and posters
14:00 - 14:55: Hartmut Löwen on emergent properties of intelligent matter
14:55 - 15:30: Meet the PhDs and Postdocs
15:30 - 16:00: Coffee break
16:00 - 16:55: Plenary talk (TBA)
16:55 - 17:45: Discussion
17:45 - 18:45: Borrel + departure
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Location: OBA (Amsterdam Public Library, 6th floor), Oosterdokskade 143, 1011 DL Amsterdam, Netherlands
Invited speakers

Michal Heller
(U. Ghent)

Frank Pijpers
(CBS/UvA)

Ruth Gregory
(Kings College London)

Alix McCollam
(U. Cork)

Katharina Krischer
(Technische Universität München)

Hartmut Löwen
(Heinrich-Heine University of Düsseldorf)
Registration
Registration is required before March 20th, please register here. Note that there is limited space available, therefore registration does not imply registration. We will send e-mail confirmation once we have made a selection if necessary.
Organisers

Jácome (Jay) Armas
(University of Amsterdam)

Mark Golden
(University of Amsterdam)
