Robert Weis

Kirchhoff Institute for Physics

The Kirchhoff Institute for Physics (KIP) is named after a prominent physicist of the 19th Century: Gustav Robert Kirchhoff, who worked in Heidelberg for 21 years. His well-known lectures on experimental and theoretical physics attracted many students. Kirchhoff's ground-breaking research was extraordinarily diverse, spanning electrical, magnetic, optical, elastic, hydrodynamic and thermal processes. His laws for electrical circuits are well-known. At the time he was in Heidelberg, in conjunction with Robert Wilhelm Bunsen, he discovered spectral analysis and its application to solar radiation. In this way, Kirchhoff laid the foundation for modern astrophysics, as well as formulating the laws of thermal radiation, which played a key role in the discovery of quantum physics. The KIP aims to continue in this tradition of diverse scientific research and education.

Physikalisches Kolloquium

4. July 2025 5:00 pm  Generative Neural Networks for the Sciences

Prof. Dr. Ullrich Köthe, Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing (IWR), Heidelberg,Generative modelling with normalizing flows has worked well in scientific applications like simulation-based inference. However, the peculiar design makes it difficult to incorporate prior knowledge (such as laws of physics or chemistry) into their architecture. Free-form flows eliminate this restriction by means of a new training algorithm. Manifold free-form flows elegantly exploit these opportunities in the case when we know that the data reside on a manifold.more...

News

A new flower in the magnetic garden

Our study on pentagonal-bipyramildal coordinated molecules which remind us on a beautiful flower led to another sommer-themed publication in Chemistry - A European Journal.

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CQD Colloquium (funded by STRUCTURES) next Wednesday, 9th of July, by Prof. Sylvain Nascimbene,Paris

Next CQD Colloquium (funded by Structures) will be given by Dr. Sylvain Nascimbene, École Normale Supérieure de Paris on: Exploring quantum Hall physics with ultracold dysprosium atoms

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