Workshops at the Dutch Institute for Emergent Phenomena
Gathering scientists and philosophers across the Netherlands and beyond
Gathering scientists and researchers across the Netherlands and beyond is one of the main tasks of DIEP. In the period 2018-2020, DIEP will organize a series of 4 workshops connecting different aspects of the science of emergence. These workshops will establish connections between different fields of expertise, in particular, cross-disciplinary endeavours between high energy physics and condensed matter, soft-condensed matter, self-assembly, multi-scale modelling and living matter. The first workshop, to be held in Amsterdam during the period 9-11th of May 2019 will gather scientists and philosophers to discuss the conceptual and philosophical aspects of emergence. The second workshop deals with hydrodynamics at all length scales and will be held in Leiden in June 2019 while the third deals with topological connections between hard, soft and metamaterials.
Emergence in Physics
DIEP Summer school | 13th - 17th July 2020| @ Radboud University Nijmegen
This is the first Summer School organized by The Dutch Institute for Emergent Phenomena. The concept of emergence is often taken to mean that unexpected and fascinating high-level behaviour is produced by combining elementary low-level ingredients that interact in complex ways to give a whole that is "more than the sum of the parts”. However, this is only one aspect of emergence, and actions such as changing the scale of observation and/or taking limits may also give rise to emergent phenomena, even in relatively simple systems. There are examples of emergence all around us, from the fundamental physics of interacting particles or quantum gravity, to societal issues in health and finance. Finding out what links these examples and how to understand the links is our challenge. This school will provide you with the tools and attitude to work on emergence in physics and start making the connections to emergence in other fields.
from driven quantum matter to active metamaterials
Topology and broken symmetries:
1st - 3rd of July 2019 @ Utrecht University Library | Booth Hall
Over the last few years, there has been an explosion of activity in the fields of topological matter, active matter and designer matter. Concepts of symmetries and topology have been found as essential guiding principles to capture the emergence of new phases of matter such as frustration-free disorder, protected edge modes or non-reciprocal transport but remain elusive for far-from-equilibrium systems. This workshop aims at bringing together a broad group of scientists from the quantum and the classical worlds to identify the unifying concepts for the understanding of emergent electronic, mechanical, acoustic and electromagnetic properties of driven/active materials and metamaterials.
Hydrodynamics at all length scales
from high energy to hard and soft matter
18th - 22nd of November 2019 @ Lorentz Centre Snellius | Leiden
The recent rapid developments in hydrodynamic theory and its broad range of applicability beg for a gathering of three distinct communities, namely, high-energy physics, hard condensed matter and soft condensed matter, whose interaction in this subject matter is almost absent at the current time. This workshop will be the first and one of its kind, bringing scientists from widely separated areas of research both in the Netherlands and from abroad and giving them the opportunity of learning new techniques outside (but relevant to) their own field. Leading to substantial cross-fertilisation of methods and tools of different communities for solving problems in fluid dynamics at different length scales, this workshop will, in addition, foster novel interdisciplinary collaborations.
