BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:icalendar-ruby CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Vienna BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20290325T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=-1SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:CEST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20281029T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=-1SU;BYMONTH=10 TZNAME:CET END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261106T000026Z UID:1794216600@ist.ac.at DTSTART:20261109T103000 DTEND:20261109T113000 DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Chao Shen\nhosted by Maximilian Jösch\nAbstract: It i s a basic property of electromagnetic waves that they propagate. Yet the i mplications of this fact are often glossed over when it comes to nonlinear terahertz (THz) spectroscopy of bulk dielectrics\, with propagation effec ts being given marginal attention. In thick samples\, the THz fields\, opt ical probe\, and nonlinear polarization all propagate with different veloc ities\, experiencing different dispersion\, absorption and birefringence. This gives rise to complicated nonlinear optical interactions prone to mis interpretation in the absence of a comprehensive theoretical framework. Th is thesis combines two-dimensional THz Kerr-effect spectroscopy (2D-TKE)\, two-dimensional THz-field-induced second-harmonic generation (2D-TFISH)\, and propagation-resolved numerical modeling to interpret time-resolved TH z-pump/optical-probe spectroscopies and track nonlinear THz polariton tran sport in bulk dielectrics.In birefringent LaAlO$_3$\, we use 2D-TKE data a nd four-wave-mixing simulations to separate propagation-induced electronic features from the intrinsic Raman-mediated Kerr response. We unambiguousl y identify the $0.86~\\mathrm{THz}$ and $0.36~\\mathrm{THz}$ oscillations in TKE as arising from phase-matched co- and counter-propagating THz-pump/ optical-probe coupling\, whereas the $1.1~\\mathrm{THz}$ oscillation arise s from the $E_g$ Raman phonon in LaAlO$_3$ excited through THz two-photon absorption.In KTaO$_3$\, we identify the origin of the non-oscillatory par t of the TFISH signal by combining single-pulse and 2D-TFISH measurements with simulations based on a Maxwell--Duffing model. We show that propagati ng soft-mode polaritons produce non-local transient polarization inside th e sample. Spatial integration of the TFISH response at different locations acts to single out a polariton mode with a wavevector corresponding to th e phase mismatch between the probe and its second harmonic. A Maxwell--Duf fing model reproduces the temperature and field-strength dependence of bot h the single-pulse and 2D-TFISH signals\, showing that the non-oscillatory component arises purely from nonlinear polariton propagation effects with out invoking transient ferroelectricity. The 2D data also rule out the pro posed mechanisms based on relaxational polar nanoregions or hot phonons.Fi nally\, we develop a spatiotemporal method for tracking soft-mode phonon-p olariton transport in bulk SrTiO$_3$ using 2D-TKE. The nonlinear Kerr sign al is shown to probe the spatial overlap between two independent polariton ic wave packets. Then\, using the less anharmonic $A_{2u}$ polariton as a moving reference\, we track the field-dependent evolution of $E_u$ polarit ons. We observe that anharmonic effects lead to the formation of additiona l polarization accumulation near the sample entrance and an approximately 30\\% increase in the effective velocity of the leading peak of the $E_u$ polariton. A minimal Maxwell--Duffing model captures many qualitative feat ures of the 2D-TKE signal\, including the entrance-layer response\, but pr edicts a substantially weaker velocity renormalization than observed exper imentally. These results establish 2D-TKE as a protocol to trace field-tun able polariton transport in an anharmonic medium\, while revealing behavio r beyond the Maxwell--Duffing description.Together\, these results establi sh propagation as a crucial part of understanding nonlinear THz spectrosco py of bulk dielectrics. Propagation effects can mimic intrinsic material r esponse but\, when identified\, become a sensitive probe of nonlinear latt ice dynamics and transport in quantum materials. LOCATION:Sunstone Bldg / Ground floor / Big Seminar Room A (I23.EG.102) \, ISTA ORGANIZER: SUMMARY:Chao Shen: Propagation-Resolved Nonlinear Terahertz Spectroscopy of Bulk Dielectrics URL:https://talks-calendar.ista.ac.at/events/6683 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261106T000026Z UID:1794220200@ist.ac.at DTSTART:20261109T113000 DTEND:20261109T123000 DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Lauren O'Connell\nhosted by Lora Sweeney\nAbstract: Ti tle | Lessons from Poison Frogs on Ecological Tuning of Animal Behavior a nd PhysiologyAbstract |Behavior and physiology are the substrates of natu ral selection. Our overarching goal is to understand how new traits in phy siology and social behavior have evolved from existing genetic and cellula r components using poison frogs as research organisms. First\, we want to understand how organisms evolve ways to evade predation by using natural p roducts that target the nervous system. Animals with a rich diversity of c hemical defenses must also protect their own nervous systems from toxicity . We recently discovered toxin sponge proteins that bind deadly toxins and transport them to specific locations in poison frogs. Such a system is ri pe for reverse engineering drug carriers to better understand how chemical defenses evolve. Second\, we want to understand how new social behaviors evolve through changes in nervous system function using a comparative\, or ganismal approach. We have established poison frog tadpoles as a model sys tem for infant social behavior\, where species have evolved new communicat ion and social behaviors based on their rearing environments. Together\, t hese research avenues are enabling us to understand the design principles of chemical defense and social behaviors. LOCATION:Raiffeisen Lecture Hall\, ISTA ORGANIZER:diana.zubcevic@ista.ac.at SUMMARY:Lauren O'Connell: Lessons from Poison Frogs on Ecological Tuning of Animal Behavior and Physiology URL:https://talks-calendar.ista.ac.at/events/6550 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261106T000026Z UID:1794317400@ist.ac.at DTSTART:20261110T143000 DTEND:20261110T171500 DESCRIPTION:Speaker: ISTA Sustainability Day - Sofia Pazzagli\nhosted by Je roen Dobbelaere\nAbstract: ISTA Sustainability DayThe first ISTA Sustaina bility Day aims to bring together people from all research fields to exch ange ideas and discuss how sustainability can be better integrated into re search\, teaching\, and operations at ISTA. The program will feature Sofia Pazzagli who transitioned her research to include more sustainable resear ch practices. After a short break we will have a panel discussion with IST A scientists sharing what has worked—and what hasn’t—in their own ef forts. The afternoon will conclude with a World Café session with externa l experts\, encouraging open exchange and collaborative ideas on concrete actions ISTA can take toward a more sustainable future. REGISTRATION (htt ps://pretix.eu/ista-events/Sustainability-Day-2026/)Program Overview14.30. Opening.14.40 KeynoteSofia Pazzagli (Humbolt University Berlin\, DE)Can  research build a sustainable future? What scientific training often leaves out15.30. Intermezzo15.45. Panel Discussion – Challenges integrating sustainability in research(Stefan Freunberger\, Florian Praetorius\, Jul ia Reisenbauer and Caroline Muller) 16.30. World Café - Coffee and Su stainability Café Funding (Ina Matt\, FWF) - Reporting (Mariano Calcabri ni\, Susform) -Travel (Julia Gram\, University of Vienna)\, Plastics (Gree n Labs\, Andrea Tramontano) Consumables and green chemicals (Bianca Köck\ , TUWien) Academic Strategy (Elena Beringer\,  Boku)17.00 – 17.15 - P resentation results17.30 Food and Drinks LOCATION:Raiffeisen Lecture Hall\, ISTA ORGANIZER: SUMMARY:ISTA Sustainability Day - Sofia Pazzagli: ISTA Sustainability Day URL:https://talks-calendar.ista.ac.at/events/6673 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261106T000026Z UID:1794398400@ist.ac.at DTSTART:20261111T130000 DTEND:20261111T140000 DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Katy Woo\nhosted by Vivian Kuperberg\nAbstract: There is a long-standing history of using prime counting results to prove new th eorems about arithmetic objects\; Dirichlet’s theorem on primes in arith metic progressions was a key input in Hasse’s original proof of the loca l-to-global principle for quadratic forms over Q. In Corollary X.6.2.1 of Silverman’s “The Arithmetic of Elliptic Curves”\, any elliptic curve of the form y^2 = x^3 + px for p a prime number congruent to 7 mod 16 is shown to have rank zero\; Dirichlet’s theorem can be applied to show tha t there are infinitely many such elliptic curves. The breakthrough work of Green\, Tao\, and Ziegler on simultaneously prime values of linear system s was applied both to study Brauer-Manin obstructions to local-to-global p rinciples for certain conic bundles and to construct families of elliptic curves with rank 1.In this talk\, we will build on the seminal work of Gre en and Sawhney to prove new instances of the multivariate Bateman-Horn con jecture\; the key input will be methods from additive combinatorics. We wi ll then discuss how to use these new prime counting results to study the B rauer-Manin obstruction to local-to-global principles for an expanded clas s of conic bundles and construct quadratic twist families of elliptic curv es with rank 2.This talk is based on joint work with Niven Achenjang. LOCATION:Sunstone Bldg / Ground floor / Big Seminar Room A \, ISTA ORGANIZER: SUMMARY:Katy Woo: Arithmetic consequences of additive combinatorics URL:https://talks-calendar.ista.ac.at/events/6675 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261106T000026Z UID:69a7ee41f3eb3900041701@ist.ac.at DTSTART:20261112T131500 DTEND:20261112T161500 DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Gergely Berczi\nhosted by Tamas Hausel\nAbstract: We r eport on a story that began in January with my AlphaEvolve experiments on a conjecture of Aluffi\, Chen and Marcolli: the Poincar polynomials of the moduli of genus-zero curves are real-rooted. These experiments uncovered the asymptotic behaviour of the roots\, but no proof.In April a bivariate deformation\, discovered by an internal DeepMind model\, led in joint work with Young-Hoon Kiem to a proof of the conjecture. Reinterpreting the def ormation as a stratified motivic invariant\, we generalised real-rootednes s to that setting and formulated a conjecture on the branches of the real roots of the deformation which implies the real-rootedness of the Chow\, c hain and coarse flag polynomials of an arbitrary loopless matroid. We prov ed this branch conjecture for broad classes of matroids\, among them the p aving matroids.The same machinery then found the limits: in recent joint w ork with Basile Coron\, Chris Eur and Shiyue Li\, our agents constructed m atroids from finite geometries whose Chow and chain polynomials are not lo g-concave\, disproving conjectures of Huh-Stevens\, Ferroni-Schroter and A thanasiadis-Kalampogia-Evangelinou. Interestingly\, for genus one curves l og-concavity survives but real-rootedness does not. LOCATION:Office Bldg West / Ground floor / Heinzel Seminar Room (I21.EG.101 )\, ISTA ORGANIZER:boosthui@ist.ac.at SUMMARY:Gergely Berczi: Real-rootedness and log-concavity from moduli of cu rves to matroids: an AI-assisted workflow URL:https://talks-calendar.ista.ac.at/events/6721 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261106T000026Z UID:1794825000@ist.ac.at DTSTART:20261116T113000 DTEND:20261116T123000 DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Vivian Kuperberg & Carla Fernandez-Rico\nAbstract: Viv ian Kuperberg |Bias in Prime NumbersThe prime numbers have the curious pr operty that\, while they are precisely determined by their definition\, th ey seem to be rather “random" in their distribution. That is to say\, t hey behave in almost the same way as a randomly chosen sequence of integer s. The key word “almost" is the focus of this talk! We will discuss what it means for the prime numbers to look random and some surprising ways in which they do not\, as well as exploring some open questions in this rese arch area.________________________________________________________________ ________________Carla Fernández-Rico |Designing Structure across Scales i n Soft and Biofabricated MaterialsFrom biological tissues to synthetic mat erials\, properties and function often emerge from structures organized ac ross multiple length scales. Understanding how such organization develops from individual building blocks\, and how to control it\, is a central cha llenge at the interface of soft matter physics\, materials science\, and b iology. In this talk\, I will discuss how colloidal assembly\, phase separ ation\, and biological growth can generate and propagate order across scal es in soft matter. I will first show how particle curvature directs exotic liquid-crystalline phases\, how phase separation creates mechanically rob ust bicontinuous structures\, and how bacterial growth and biomaterial pro duction generate liquid-crystalline order across multiple length scales. T hese ideas motivate our work at ISTA\, where we aim to uncover the physica l principles behind the emergence of structural order\, and use them to de sign new\, adaptive\, and sustainable materials. LOCATION:ISTA | Central Building | Raiffeisen Lecture Hall\, ISTA ORGANIZER:diana.zubcevic@ista.ac.at SUMMARY:Vivian Kuperberg & Carla Fernandez-Rico: Inaugural Lecture | Vivian Kuperberg & Carla Fernández-Rico URL:https://talks-calendar.ista.ac.at/events/6389 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261106T000026Z UID:68498ab73a3f1770646428@ist.ac.at DTSTART:20261117T110000 DTEND:20261117T120000 DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Sebastian Hofferberth\nhosted by Julian Léonard\nAb stract: Mapping the strong interaction between Rydberg excitations in ultr acold atomic ensembles onto single photons enables the realization of opti cal nonlinearities which can modify light on the level of individual photo ns. This novel approach forms the basis of a growing Rydberg quantum optic s toolbox\, which enables photonic logic building-blocks such as single-ph oton sources\, all-optical transistors and photonic quantum gates. More br oadly\, interacting photons are a novel approach to realize strongly corre lated quantum few-body systems.In this talk\, I will introduce the general concepts of Rydberg quantum optics and present recent experiments from ou r labs utilizing both Rubidium and Ytterbium atoms as nonlinear medium. Sp ecifically\, I will show recent results on transverse photon-photon intera ction enabling photon-number dependent beam-shaping. Furthermore\, I will present our first investigations of Rydberg-mediated photon-interaction in Ytterbium\, highlighting possible advantages of this new platform. LOCATION:Office Bldg West / Ground floor / Heinzel Seminar Room (I21.EG.101 )\, ISTA ORGANIZER:sdolot@ist.ac.at SUMMARY:Sebastian Hofferberth: "\;Nonlinear quantum optics vie interact ing Rydberg atoms"\; URL:https://talks-calendar.ista.ac.at/events/6558 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261106T000026Z UID:1794924000@ist.ac.at DTSTART:20261117T150000 DTEND:20261117T160000 DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Thorsten Hüffer\nhosted by Sustainability Office\nAbs tract: Tire wear is a widespread source of rubber particles and associated chemicals in the environment. As particles move from roads into soils and waterways\, tire additives can leach and transform\, creating exposure pa thways that extend beyond the particles themselves. This lecture will foll ow these chemicals from their release during tire wear to their fate in th e environment\, focusing on how soil properties\, chemical behavior\, and plant uptake shape potential exposure through food.Drawing on laboratory s tudies\, soil-based experiments\, and measurements in commercial leafy veg etables\, I will discuss the uptake and transformation of rubber-associate d chemicals. The findings show that exposure depends on the compound and r oute of entry: some chemicals can be taken up by edible plants\, while tir e-wear particles may act as a continuing source of certain additives in so il. Detections in vegetables indicate a potential dietary pathway\, but do not by themselves establish health effects.The lecture will also consider what this evidence means for assessing the environmental footprint of rub ber products. Evaluating alternatives requires looking beyond particle emi ssions to include additive composition\, chemical release during use and w eathering\, and the movement of released compounds through soil\, water\, and food systems. LOCATION:Moonstone G\, ISTA ORGANIZER: SUMMARY:Thorsten Hüffer: From Road to Plate: Exposure to Rubber-Associated Chemicals URL:https://talks-calendar.ista.ac.at/events/6730 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261106T000026Z UID:6ad87b1d35c24118206910@ist.ac.at DTSTART:20261118T110000 DTEND:20261118T120000 DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Adria Rospars\nhosted by Johannes Fink\nAbstract: To p reserve quantum information\, a qubit must be isolated from its environmen t. To be useful\, it must remain accessible to control and measurement. In this talk\, I will present three projects from my PhD at ENS de Lyon. Eac h addresses this tension for a different circuit.The transmon is a circuit whose lowest levels are charge-insensitive\, but whose readout is not: th e photon number at which it stops being quantum non-demolition depends on offset charge\, and reported offset charges drift over minutes to hours. O n two devices\, we observed transmons whose offset charges were pinned at zero for more than ten days and up to nearly three months. This stability is fragile and disappeared in later cooldowns. I will show how materials c haracterization points to a thin superconducting layer that shunts the Jos ephson junction and pins the offset charge.The fluxonium shunts the juncti on deliberately\, with a superinductance\, which makes all its levels inse nsitive to offset charge. However\, fluxonium readout remains slower than transmon readout\, even at lower target fidelity. Here\, I will present a cross-resonance readout\, in which the fluxonium\, driven at the resonator frequency\, transmits the drive to the resonator with an amplitude that s cales with the dispersive shift of each state. With appropriate circuit pa rameters\, the resonator can then either stay close to vacuum for one stat e while being populated for the other\, even when the dispersive shift is smaller than the resonator linewidth\, or be displaced in opposite directi ons for two states. I will show both regimes experimentally\, using the th ree lowest levels of the fluxonium.Finally\, I will present the xiqubit\, a protected qubit in which only pairs of Cooper pairs can tunnel. It addre sses two obstacles faced by existing protected designs: sensitivity to jun ction asymmetry\, and the conflict between protection against relaxation a nd protection against dephasing. The first devices are fabricated and will be measured in the coming months. LOCATION:Office Bldg West / Ground floor / Heinzel Seminar Room (I21.EG.101 )\, ISTA ORGANIZER:swiddman@ist.ac.at SUMMARY:Adria Rospars: Improving superconducting quantum circuits: transmon charge stability\, fluxonium readout and a new protected qubit URL:https://talks-calendar.ista.ac.at/events/6713 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261106T000026Z UID:68761c6aa0cc2758615622@ist.ac.at DTSTART:20261119T103000 DTEND:20261119T121500 DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Michael M. Lerch\nhosted by Friedrich Stricker\nAbstra ct: Current robotic technologies\, despite advances in AI\, are inherently limited by the underlying hard materials. To make robots useful for co-wo rk\, medical interventions\, and care\, future robot bodies need to be sof t\, which requires new approaches on how to control their motions and coor dinate their operations. Stimuli-responsive materials are at the heart of a materials revolution in robotics and recent advances in chemical feedbac k control have enabled ever more complex material behaviors. In this lectu re\, I will present some of our work on chemically-driven actuators and in telligent materials. Specifically\, I will discuss how molecular design an d chemical reaction networks enable unexpected behaviors and how these can be harnessed for macroscale motions. LOCATION:Office Bldg West / Ground floor / Heinzel Seminar Room (I21.EG.101 )\, ISTA ORGANIZER:hcai@ist.ac.at SUMMARY:Michael M. Lerch: Chemical Signaling and Motion for Soft Robots URL:https://talks-calendar.ista.ac.at/events/5940 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261106T000026Z UID:69a7ee4200403374631665@ist.ac.at DTSTART:20261119T131500 DTEND:20261119T161500 DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Leonardo Francisco Cavenaghi\nhosted by Tamas Hausel\n Abstract: In this talk\, we quickly recall a weaker notion of the Hodge at oms of Katzarkov--Kontsevich--Pantev--Yu which suffices to solve the irrat ionality of wide interesting varieties\, such as very general smooth cubic 4-folds. This is done by introducing a super-analytic manifold (in the se nse of Berkovich)\, which should be thought of as the parameter space for the Gromov--Witten potential. This supermanifold carries a natural action of the Hodge group\, and at fixed points\, the isomorphism classes (partit ioned as generalized eigenspaces for the quantum multiplication action) of the isotropy representations are called coarse Hodge atoms''. We explain to what extent this data can be read from Lie-theoretic content in the cas e of complete intersections in flag varieties\, present an algorithm to co mpute atomic decomposition (implemented at https://leonardofcavenaghi.gith ub.io/atomicdecompositions/)\, and present some theoretical results to obs truct the rationality of 4-folds and some 5-folds.This is based on two joi nt works: the in-progress 9.5-lecture series on the theory of atoms with L . Katzarkov and M. Kontsevich\, and a recent work with B. Alexeev\, G. Gal indo\, L. Katzarkov\, and P. A. M. Martins. LOCATION:Office Bldg West / Ground floor / Heinzel Seminar Room (I21.EG.101 )\, ISTA ORGANIZER:boosthui@ist.ac.at SUMMARY:Leonardo Francisco Cavenaghi: On the atomic decomposition of some c omplete intersections URL:https://talks-calendar.ista.ac.at/events/6723 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261106T000026Z UID:1795098600@ist.ac.at DTSTART:20261119T153000 DTEND:20261119T170000 DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. Güneş Taylor\nhosted by EDI office\nAbstract: G ünes Taylor will explore financial security as an often-overlooked dimens ion of diversity in science and reflect on how financial circumstances can shape academic careers\, opportunities\, and personal choices. "An acade mic career is a series of watershed transitions: undergraduate\, master\, PhD or postdoc. Reaching each new rung of the professional ladder is an a chievement\, but the next is never guaranteed. With every transition comes a new period of uncertainty and a new set of personal and financial risks . Yet the consequences of that uncertainty are not the same for everyone. Without family wealth or a financial safety net\, there is far less room f or things to go wrong." Drawing on her own experience as a political refu gee and a foreign scientist in the UK\, Günes Taylor will explore how fi nancial security intersects with gender\, migration\, and belonging in sha ping a career in science. In particular\, she will reflect on the cumulati ve impact of navigating academia without a financial buffer\, from the car eer choices scientists make to the lives and families they hope to build.  Program:3:30 p.m. - Opening words3:40 - 4:30 p.m. - Diversity in Science Talk4:30 p.m. - Open Q&A session5:00 p.m. - Reception in the Foyer of th e Raiffeisen Lecture HallPlease note that on the following day\, November 20\, Dr. Taylor will also have a scientific seminar “Specification and Activation of Pregranulosa Cells within the Amniote Ovary“\, at 10 a.m. in the Mondi 2 room (Central Building\, O1)About Dr. TaylorDr Günes Tay lor is a Chancellor's Fellow and Principal Investigator in the Centre of R eproductive Health at the University of Edinburgh. As a molecular biologis t she uses many cutting-edge technologies to understand how reproductive s ystems are built. Her research program seeks to unravel details of ovarian function\, with the ultimate hope of developing solutions for women’s h ealth and fertility. She also is a trustee of The Genetics Society (https: //genetics.org.uk/about-us/committee-members/)\, previously being the Maga zine Editor and recently being appointed the VP of Membership.https://www. gunestaylor.com/Short bio:Chancellor's Fellow / Principal Investigator in Centre of Reproductive Health (https://reproductive-health.ed.ac.uk/resear ch/research-groups/taylor-group) at the University of EdinburghPostdoctora l Fellow in the Lovell-Badge Lab (https://www.crick.ac.uk/research/labs/ro bin-lovell-badge) at the Francis Crick Institute in LondonDPhil in the Sau ka-Spengler Lab (http://www.tsslab.co.uk/) at the University of OxfordMSc i in Human Genetics (https://youtu.be/mBGSAwaPYHE) at the University of No ttinghamTransportation:  In addition to the regular ISTA shuttle bus\, a  special shuttle will depart from Heiligenstadt at 2:45 p.m.\, with a stop at Klosterneuburg Stadtplatz\, and will return from ISTA to Heiligens tadt at 6:45 p.m. Click HERE (https://ista.ac.at/en/campus/how-to-get-her e/) for more information.The aim is to organize the event in accordance wi th the criteria of the Austrian Ecolabel for Green Meetings (https://www.u mweltzeichen.at/de/green-meetings-und-events/home). If you have any questi ons about the event's sustainability standards\, please contact the Green Event Officer Julia Kainrath (julia.kainrath@ista.ac.at). LOCATION:Raiffeisen Lecture Hall\, ISTA ORGANIZER: SUMMARY:Dr. Güneş Taylor: No Margin for Error: Navigating Academia withou t a Financial Safety Net URL:https://talks-calendar.ista.ac.at/events/6677 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261106T000026Z UID:6a4372f9ddc22842626164@ist.ac.at DTSTART:20261124T100000 DTEND:20261124T110000 DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Giacomo Trupiano\nhosted by Georgios Katsaros\nAbstrac t: Magnetic fields are a familiar way to control superconducting circuits\ , but they are not the only possibility. Heat and applied voltages can als o change how these devices carry current\, offering new opportunities for superconducting electronics.In this seminar\, I will discuss these possibi lities through theoretical models and experiments. I will introduce concep ts for controlling superconducting circuits by injecting electronic excita tions\, and present the experimental realization of a superconducting volt age amplifier powered by a temperature difference. I will then turn to vol tage-controlled devices: semiconductor junctions in which a gate tunes sup erconducting current\, and a fully suspended metallic superconducting nano wire in which a gate voltage strongly modifies the rate of switching into a resistive state.Together\, these results show how the sensitivity of sup erconducting devices to heat and voltage can be used to amplify electrical signals\, tune current transport\, and control switching dynamics.On a se parate note\, I am also planning to join Prof. Katsaros's group as a postd octoral researcher. Although the arrangements are not yet formally finaliz ed\, I have started looking into accommodation options from February 2027. I was wondering whether ISTA housing might be available from that time\, and if you could point me towards the appropriate person to contact about availability and the application procedure. LOCATION:Office Bldg West / Ground floor / Heinzel Seminar Room (I21.EG.101 )\, ISTA ORGANIZER:swiddman@ist.ac.at SUMMARY:Giacomo Trupiano: Beyond Flux Control: Thermal and Voltage Tuning o f Superconducting Nanodevices URL:https://talks-calendar.ista.ac.at/events/6540 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261106T000026Z UID:6a1e9cbf757f2024666156@ist.ac.at DTSTART:20261124T150000 DTEND:20261124T160000 DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Bruno Nachtergaele\nhosted by Laszlo Erdös\nAbstract: I will review several recent results about the ground state gap of quantu m many-body systems and the question of spectral gap stability under pertu rbations. I will discuss results for the AKLT model on the hexagonal latti ce\, in particular the Local Quantum Topological Order (LTQO) property for it. The LTQO property will be further clarified by considering two one-di mensional models with multiple ground states: certain Haldane pseudopotent ials and the Temperley-Lieb spin chains. For the first I will present a ne w gap stability result. The latter provide examples of an unstable ground state gap. LOCATION:Office Bldg West / Ground floor / Heinzel Seminar Room (I21.EG.101 )\, ISTA ORGANIZER:boosthui@ist.ac.at SUMMARY:Bruno Nachtergaele: Stability of Gapped Ground States URL:https://talks-calendar.ista.ac.at/events/6719 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261106T000026Z UID:1795593600@ist.ac.at DTSTART:20261125T090000 DTEND:20261125T170000 DESCRIPTION:hosted by Dan Alistarh\nAbstract: Join us for the second BilA I Industry Day at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA)  in Klosterneuburg and get in touch with AI research to foster strong pa rtnerships and accelerate real-world innovation. Leading experts from acad emia and industry will come together to share insights\, showcase results and explore new pathways for bilateral collaboration in AI.Date: November 25\, 2026Venue: Institute of Science and Technology Austria\, 3400 Klost erneuburgPlease register here (https://www.bilateral-ai.net/news-events/bi lai-industry-day-2).  What to expect:Updates for key industry players on ongoing research and results from Bilateral AINetworking OpportunitiesIns ights into related industrial research and development activities:Keynote speeches from industry and researchTalks and discussionsPoster sessionsBe part of shaping a shared AI future - grounded in research\, driven by inn ovation. LOCATION:Raiffeisen Lecture Hall\, ISTA ORGANIZER:events@ista.ac.at SUMMARY:BilAI Industry Day 2026 URL:https://talks-calendar.ista.ac.at/events/6602 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261106T000026Z UID:1796374800@ist.ac.at DTSTART:20261204T100000 DTEND:20261204T110000 DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Aleksander Bena\nhosted by Calin Guet\nAbstract: Trans ition-metal catalysis has transformed modern organic synthesis\, enabling the efficient and selective formation of chemical bonds. The success of th is field largely depended on the development of tailored ligands that can tune the reactivity of the metal center. Nickel catalysis has emerged as a particularly versatile platform for cross-coupling reactions\, thanks to its ability to access multiple oxidation states. However\, the instability of paramagnetic nickel species can make these reactions difficult to cont rol. Despite the central role of ligands in transition-metal catalysis\, t heir use in tuning the reactivity of such nickel intermediates remains com paratively underexplored. Modular amino-functionalized bipyridine ligands were developed to control the reactivity of Ni(I) intermediates and facil itate challenging elementary steps in cross-coupling catalysis. This appro ach facilitated carbon-carbon and carbon-heteroatom bond formation via Ni( I)/Ni(III) catalytic pathways. Notably\, a new ligand-design facilitated v isible-light induced C(sp²)-heteroatom cross-coupling reactions\, elimina ting the need for an additional photocatalyst and enabling the coupling of a broad range of nitrogen-\, oxygen-\, sulfur- and phosphorus-based nucle ophiles with challenging aryl electrophiles\, using unprecedented low cata lyst loadings. LOCATION:Sunstone Bldg / Ground floor / Big Seminar Room B (I23.EG.102)\, I STA ORGANIZER: SUMMARY:Aleksander Bena: Tuning the Catalytic Reactivity of Ni(I) through L igand Design URL:https://talks-calendar.ista.ac.at/events/6689 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261106T000026Z UID:1796639400@ist.ac.at DTSTART:20261207T113000 DTEND:20261207T123000 DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Daniel Robert\nhosted by Scott Waitukaitis LOCATION:Raiffeisen Lecture Hall\, ISTA ORGANIZER:diana.zubcevic@ista.ac.at SUMMARY:Daniel Robert: Institute Colloquium | Daniel Robert URL:https://talks-calendar.ista.ac.at/events/6551 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261106T000026Z UID:1797244200@ist.ac.at DTSTART:20261214T113000 DTEND:20261214T123000 DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Eva Benkova & Mikhail Lemeshko LOCATION:Raiffeisen Lecture Hall\, ISTA ORGANIZER:diana.zubcevic@ista.ac.at SUMMARY:Eva Benkova & Mikhail Lemeshko: SeniorISTA | Eva Benkova & Mikhail Lemeshko URL:https://talks-calendar.ista.ac.at/events/6736 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261106T000026Z UID:1800268200@ist.ac.at DTSTART:20270118T113000 DTEND:20270118T123000 DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Lora Sweeney\nhosted by Mario de Bono LOCATION:ISTA | Central Building | Raiffeisen Lecture Hall\, ISTA ORGANIZER:diana.zubcevic@ista.ac.at SUMMARY:Lora Sweeney: Tenure Talk | Lora Sweeney URL:https://talks-calendar.ista.ac.at/events/6387 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261106T000026Z UID:1801477800@ist.ac.at DTSTART:20270201T113000 DTEND:20270201T123000 DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Monika Visan & Simone Fatichi LOCATION:Raiffeisen Lecture Hall\, ISTA ORGANIZER:diana.zubcevic@ista.ac.at SUMMARY:Monika Visan & Simone Fatichi: Inaugural Lecture | Monika Visan & S imone Fatichi URL:https://talks-calendar.ista.ac.at/events/6552 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261106T000026Z UID:1805097600@ist.ac.at DTSTART:20270315T090000 DTEND:20270316T140000 DESCRIPTION:hosted by Lora Sweeney\, Alexander Lin-Moore \nAbstract: Join Allen Institute scientists for a two-day\, hands-on workshop focused on u sing brain cell atlases andsingle-cell transcriptomic data\, tools\, and r esources.Registration will open in January.  LOCATION:Moonstone Seminar Center\, ISTA ORGANIZER:arinya.eller@ista.ac.at SUMMARY:Allen Institute Workshop URL:https://talks-calendar.ista.ac.at/events/6710 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR