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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

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Michal Heller
(U. Ghent)

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Frank Pijpers
(CBS/UvA)

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Ruth Gregory
(Kings College London)

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Alix McCollam
(U. Cork)

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Katharina Krischer
(Technische Universität München)

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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

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Jácome (Jay) Armas
(University of Amsterdam)

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Mark Golden
(University of Amsterdam)

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Maryam Shabestari

(University of Amsterdam)

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