Seminars

From Structure Search to Autonomous Experiments: Towards Function by Design at the Atomic Scale

  • TH Department Seminar
  • Date: May 21, 2026
  • Time: 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Prof. Oliver T. Hofmann
  • Institute of Solid State Physics, Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria
  • Location: https://zoom.us/j/92249469122?pwd=e1xs7MWdB2SkOl5w2VAxFVF8rFjnoU.1
  • Room: Meeting ID: 922 4946 9122 | Passcode: 027736
  • Host: TH Department
Recent progress in machine learning and automation is beginning to fundamentally change how we explore and engineer materials at surfaces. In this talk, I will discuss two complementary directions towards a more predictive and autonomous surface science workflow. [more]

Multiphoton Electron Photoemission Linear Polarizance/Circular Dichroism Dynamics for Achiral and Chiral Plasmonic Nanostructures

  • MP Department Seminar
  • Date: May 22, 2026
  • Time: 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Prof. David J. Nesbitt
  • JILA, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
  • Location: Building K, Haber-Villa, Faradayweg 8, 14195 Berlin
  • Room: Seminar Room
  • Host: Department of Molecular Physics
  • Contact: winter@fhi.mpg.de
Plasmonic nanostructures exhibit intense (> 106 Å2) resonance absorption features that can be smoothly tuned by shape and elemental content from near UV to near IR regions of spectrum. [more]

Atomically-resolved Fluorescence with STM: Exploring Energy Conversion and Transfer at the Molecular Limit

  • PC Department Seminar
  • Date: May 27, 2026
  • Time: 02:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Guillaume Schull
  • Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IPCMS, UMR 7504
  • Room: FHI Library (Building A)
  • Host: Martin Wolf
Tip-enhanced photoluminescence and electroluminescence enable fluorescence microscopy with sub-nanometer spatial resolution. [more]
Prof. Niklas Nilius

From defect luminescence to cationic mixing: Oxide materials in the STM

  • ISC Department Seminar
  • Date: Jun 22, 2026
  • Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Prof. Niklas Nilius
  • University of Oldenburg, Germany
  • Location: Building P, Faradayweg 16, 14195 Berlin
  • Room: Gebäude P, Seminar Room P 2.05, Faradayweg 16
  • Host: Interface Science Department
  • Topic: Discussion and debate formats, lectures
  • Contact: nikolaus@fhi-berlin.mpg.de
Oxide materials are omnipresent in science and technology. Given their low carrier density and poor screening ability, oxide properties are often inhomogeneous in space and governed by stoichiometry modulations, defects and impurities. [more]

A 2D Infrared Catastrophe and the Quantum Limits of Voltage Noise in Water

  • TH Department Seminar
  • Date: Jul 1, 2026
  • Time: 11:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Prof. Richard Hennig
  • Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Nuclear Engineering Program, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
  • Location: https://zoom.us/j/99792488364?pwd=svj3g0UOe0bjVXAFFdkIbKh1Ixs4lL.1
  • Room: Meeting ID: 997 9248 8364 | Passcode: 075969
  • Host: TH Department
Electrostatic potential fluctuations in liquid water control the thermodynamics and kinetics, such the solvation free energies, the capacitance of electrified interfaces, and the decoherence of molecular qubits in aqueous environments. Most simulation work has focused on mean fields. Only recently has it become clear that the fluctuations themselves carry physics that is missed by the average. [more]
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