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Wilhelm and Else Heraeus-Foundation

Atmospheric physics has become an essential sub-discipline of environmental physics and has significantly grown as a field of research in recent decades, because it addresses some of the most urgent global environmental problems, e.g., climate change, air pollution or stratospheric ozone depletion. Atmospheric science in general is highly interdisciplinary and atmospheric physicists work closely together with atmospheric chemists, computer scientists, meteorologist, mathematicians and biologists. The School will give the participants a forum to broaden their scientific horizons, attend expert lectures by internationally renowned scientists, and to engage with these experts in an informal way during the school.

Geophysics and Geology,    Hydrology

Wilhelm and Else Heraeus-Foundation

In this interdisciplinary field, at the cross-roads of experimental physics, signal processing, computational image processing, mathematics of inverse problems, this school focused on the fundamentals and the underlying concepts. And we aim at highlighting the interplay of physical encoding by experimental design and computational decoding by reconstruction algorithms.

The school is intended for Ph.D. students and advanced master students entering research in the fields of computational imaging, physical optics, and mathematics of inverse problems in imaging, which seek an interdisciplinary perspective right from the start. More advanced Ph.D. students and postdocs which are already practitioners in their special fields (e.g. X-ray imaging, electron and light holography, visible light ptychography, computational imaging and AI) but which want to broaden their expertise by educating themselves in related fields are equally included in the scope of the school.

Pattern Recognition and Image Processing, Machine Vision,    Metrology and Instrumentation

Wilhelm and Else Heraeus-Foundation

Dark matter and dark energy dominate the mass and energy density in the universe but their composition is still unknown. There are various experimental efforts to solve this “elephant-in-the-room” problem. Some of the promising techniques involve areas of physics that are not widely known to workers in the field and are rarely discussed in “dark-sector” conferences and schools. An example is searches for axionlike particles with a ferromagnetic phase in liquid 3He. We will attempt to remedy this and several other similar gaps between seemingly disjunct research fields with this school for junior scientists, primarily, PhD students and postdocs on “Dark Intersections” ‒ the subdisciplines in physics that are used for the dark-sector and gravitational-wave research but are rarely studied in this context.

Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology,    High Energy Physics, Particles and Fields

Wilhelm and Else Heraeus-Foundation

We have identified leading experts whose work sits at the convergence of quantum computing and AI, and who combine scientific excellence with the proven ability to deliver clear and engaging lectures suited to early-career researchers. All of them have agreed to contribute to the school, ensuring that participants receive a rigorous introduction.

Quantum computing has emerged as one of the most promising technologies of the 21st century, yet its practical use cases and programming paradigms remain unfamiliar. At the same time, artificial intelligence and machine learning are transforming research and industry at an unprecedented pace. The intersection of these two areas, Quantum Machine Learning (QML) represents a rapidly expanding topic, but its concepts are still only partially understood and rarely taught in a coherent, hands-on framework.

Courses and Events for Math Students and Early Career Researchers,    Neural Networks and Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

Wilhelm and Else Heraeus-Foundation

Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden

Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Technology,    Quantum Information Theory and Quantum Computing