| Name | Location | Dates | Talk |
| Prof. Dr. Markus Porto | Technical University Darmstadt | 19.-20.7.07 | Proteins: Structure, function, and evolution |
| Prof. Dr. Konstantin Nefedev | Far Eastern National University, Vladivostok | 19.10-15.12.07 | Ab Initio Density Functional Calculations of Magnetic Superstructures |
| Prof. Dr. K.D. Usadel | University Duisburg-Essen | 12.-13.11.07 | Exchange bias and coercivity of ferromagnetic/antiferromagnetic multilayers |
| Dr. Frauke Liers | University of Cologne | 10.-13.12.07 | Studying spin glasses via combinatorial optimization |
| Prof. Dr. Holger Kantz | Max Planck Institute for Physics of Complex Systems | 17.-18.12.07 | Vorhersagemethoden für extreme Ereignisse |
| Prof. Dr. Helmut Katzgraber | ETH Zürich (Switzerland) | 23.-25.1.08 | Chaos and universality in spin glasses |
| Dr. Valery Van Kerrebroeck | Universita di Roma 'La Sapienza' (Italy) | 6.3.08 | Cycles in random graphs |
| Dr. Stephan Mertens | Universität Magdeburg | 14.4.08 | Algorithmen, Komplexität und Physik |
| Prof. Dr. Paolo Sibani | University of Southern Denmark (Odense) | 29.4.08 | Numerical experiments on intermittent linear response and spontaneous fluctuations in off-equilibrium aging dynamics |
| Prof. Dr. Gerard Barkema | University of Utrecht | 8.5.08 | Simulation of Polymer Translocation |
| Dr. Martin Weigel | Universität Mainz | 18-19.6.08 | Dynamical triangulations (and quadrangulations) in statistical physics |
| Dr. Nurgül Seferoglu | Gazi University, Ankara (Turkey) | 23.6.08 | Phase transitions of Blume-Emery-Griffiths Model on a Cellular Automata |
| Prof. Dr. D.W. Heermann | Universität Heidelberg | 26-27.7.08 | Physics of Life: Theory and Simulation of the Structure of Chromatin |
| Dr. Heiko Bauke | Max-Planck-Institut for Nuclear Physics | 1.7.08 | Passing messages to lonely numbers |
| Dr. Ian Campbell | Universite Montpellier II (France) | 3-5.7.08 | From Ohm's Law to the Nobel Prize historical perspectives and historic discoveries |
| Prof. Dr. Pekka Orponen | Helsinki University of Technology | 9-16.7.08 | Phase Transitions and Local Search for k-Satisfiability |
| Petri Savola | Helsinki University of Technology | 9-30.7.08 | Unbiased generation of metastable states for Ising spin glasses |
| Prof. Dr. Stefan Boettcher | Emory University, Atlanta | 9-10.10.08 | Simulations of Low-Energy Conformations in Spin Glasses with the Extremal Optimization heuristic |
| Prof. Dr. Peter Nielaba | Universität Konstanz | 3-4.11.08 | Phasenübergänge und Quanteneffekte in Modell-Kolloiden und Nanostrukturen (part 1, part 2) |
| Prof. Dr. Ludger Santen | Universität des Saarlandes | 8.1.09 | Cluster-Monte Carlo-Algorithmen für off-lattice Systeme |
| Prof. Dr. A. Nihat Berker | Sabanci University | 5.2.09 | New Phase Transition Phenomena in Systems with Frozen Disorder |
| Prof. Dr. Hans Ekkehard Plesser | Norwegian University of Life Sciences | 6.4.09 | Simulating Neuronal Networks with PyNEST |
| PD Dr. Thomas Franosch | LMU München | 16.4.09 | Transport in heterogeneous media: diffusion, fractals and anomalous dynamics |
| Prof. Dr. Ralf Klessen | Universität Heidelberg | 22.6.09 | Die turbulente Geburt der Sterne |
| Dr. Alfred Hucht | Universität Duisburg-Essen | 25.6.09 | Magnetic Friction in Ising Systems |
| Prof. Marc Mézard | Universite Paris Sud | 1.7-21.12.09 | Can nature solve hard problems? |
| Prof. Dr. Dietrich Stauffer | Universität zu Köln | 19.11.09 | Will modern medicine kill us? |
| Prof. Dr. Kurt Binder | Universität Mainz | 7.12.09 | Birth of new phases: statistical mechanics of nucleation |
| Dr. Stefan Wolfsheimer | Universite Paris Descartes | 14-18.12.09 | Distribution of General Patterns in Pair Hidden Markov Models |
| Prof. Dr. Andreas Heuer | Universität Münster | 17.12.09 | Energy landscapes, traps, and the glass transition |
| Jörg Kachelmann, Dr. Martin Fengler | Meteomedia AG | 25.1.10 | Wie entsteht eine gute Wettervorhersage |
| Mauro Cirio | Universita di Torino | 1.2.10 | Statistical Mechanics of the inverse Ising model |
| Volker Hähnke | ETH Zürich | 20-21.5.10 | PhAST - Pharmacophore Alignment Search |
| Prof. Dr. Stefan Boettcher | Emory University, Atlanta | 12.5-22.6.10 | Extreme Fluctuations and finite-size corrections in spin glasses and other combinatorial problems |
| Prof. Dr. Heiko Rieger | Universität des Saarlandes | 17.6.2010 | Geometry of domain walls in disordered 2d systems |
| Prof. Dr. May-Britt Kallenrode | Universität Osnabrück | 22.11.2010 | Solare Energiereiche Teilchen in der Atmosphäre - ein Mittler zwischen Solar-Terrestrischen Beziehungen? |
| Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Kinzel | Universität Würzburg | 25.11.2010 | Chaos Synchronization |
| Prof. Dr. Uli Nowak | Universität Konstanz | 25-26.1.2011 | Spin Dynamics at Finite Temperature |
| Dr. Werner Krauth | Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris | 18-19.5.2011 | The Melting Transition of Hard Disks |
| Prof. Dr. Marc-Thorsten Hütt | Jacobs Universität Bremen | 3.11.2011 | How few elements can systematically shape large-scale patterns |
| Prof. Dr. Tim Salditt | Universität Göttingen | 7.11.2011 | X-Ray imaging with nanoscale beams |
| Prof. Dr. Hans Herrmann | ETH Zürich | 12.12.2011 | Die wunderbare Welt der Dünen |
| Prof. Dr. David Sherrington | University of Oxford | 14-16.12.2011 | Physics and Complexity |
| Maryam Ghahremany | Imam Khomeini International University | 2.2.-29.3.2012 | Discussing magnetization of a disordered spin lattice |
| Tudor Mitran | University of Bucharest | 1.3.-31.10.2012 | Ab initio study of Mn doped BN nanosheets |
| Megha Khosla | MPI Computer Science Saarbrücken | 22.4-27.4.2012 | The Multiple-orientability Thresholds for Random Hypergraphs |
| Jinghua Shi | Shangdon University/ National University of Singapore | 27.4.2012 | Two Pieces of the Simulation Work |
| Prof. Dr. Oliver Kramer | Universität Oldenburg | 4.5.2012 | Unsupervised neighbors: an efficient procedure for dimension reduction |
| Prof. Dr. Peter Grassberger | Forschungszentrum Jülich | 30.-31.5.2012 | The many faces of percolation |
| Prof. Dr. Matthias Löwe | Universität Münster | 6.6.2012 | Fluctuations in spin glasses |
| Prof. Dr. Frank den Hollander | Universiteit Leiden | 20-21.6.2012 | Random walks in dynamic random environments |
| Prof. Dr. Reiner Kree | Universität Göttingen | 9.7.2012 | Filigree with a sledge hammer |
| Prof. Dr. A. Peter Young | University of California Santa Curz | 10.9-16.11.2012 | Mind the gap; solving optimization problems on a quantum computer |
| Dr. Florent Krzakala | Ecole Superieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles | 8.11.2012 | A statistical physics approach to compressed sensing |
| Yingying Xu | ETH Zürich | 6.-7.12.2012 | A message-passing approach to 1-bit compressed sensing |
| Dr. Thomas Neuhaus | Forschungszentrum Jülich | 24.1.2013 | Simulating Loop Gases with WORM updates |
| Dr. Alberto Rosso | Universite Paris Sud | 4-5.4.2013 | Spatial extent of an outbreak in animal epedemics |
| Prof. Dr. Aernout van Enter | University of Groningen | 18.4.2013 | Bootstrap percolation, the role of anisotropy. Questions, some answers and applications. |
| Prof. Dr. Claudius Gros | Universität Frankfurt | 22.4.2013 | Complex dynamical systems and our brain |
| Caleb Cook | Harvard University | 1.6-7.8.2013 | Simulating ageing behavior of random-site Ising models on GPUs |
| Jörg Bremer | University of Oldenburg | 5.7.2013 | Support vector decoders for contraint handling (in distributed power planning) |
| Prof. Dr. Roderich Moessner | Max-Planck Institute for Physics of Complex Systems | 28.10.2013 | Magnetic Monopoles in Spin Ice |
| Dr. Tiago de Paula Peixoto | Universität Bremen | 14.11.2013 | Statistical inference of modules in large-scale networks |
| Prof. Dr. Eckehard Schöll | TU Berlin | 27.1.2014 | Chimera states in dynamical networks: spontaneous symmetry breaking |
| Prof. Dr. Marc Timme | Max-Planck Institut für Dynamik und Selbstorganisation, Göttingen | 28.4.2014 | Modern Power Grids: (In-)Stabilities, Braess` Paradox and Non-local Cascades |
| Prof. Dr. Kay Hamacher | TU Darmstadt | 7-8.5.2014 | Stochastic Tunneling and Time Series Analysis for Global Optimization Techniques |
| Pr. Dr. Gregory Nuel | CNRS and Sorbonne, Paris | 19.-20.6.2014 | Estimating Causal Effects in Gene Expression from a Mixture of Observational and Intervention Experiments |
| Dr. Giulio Biroli | CEA, Saclay | 7.-8.1.2015 | Hidden static length-scales of super-cooled liquids |
| Prof. Dr. Ulrich Wolff | Humboldt University, Berlin | 22.1.2015 | Efficient simulation methods for quantum field theory and statistical physics models |
| Prof. Dr. Jörg Lücke | University of Oldenburg | 6.3.2015 | Inference and learning for sensory data |
| Paul Schultz | Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research | 21.4.2015 | Basin stability: large perturbations in power grids |
| Prof. Dr. Philippe Blanchard | University of Bielefeld | 27.4.2015 | Mathematical Analysis of Complex Networks: from Theory to Applications |
| Prof. Friederike Schmid | University of Mainz | 9.7.2015 | Studying Mesoscale Flow with Dissipative Particle Dynamics |
| Prof. Ofer Biham and Prof. Eytan Katzav | Hebrew University of Jerusalem | 5.-6.8.2015 | Analytical results for the distribution of shortest path lengths in random networks |
| Satoshi Takabe | University of Tokyo | 27.-31.9.2015 | Typical behavior of linear programming for combinatorial optimization problems |
| Prof. Martin Oettel | University of Tübingen | 26.-27.10.2015 | Superfast anomalous diffusion at interfaces |
| Prof. Reimer Kühn | King's College | 2.-3.11.2015 | Risk and the Statistical Physics of Falling Dominoes |
| Dr. Ebrahim Foulaadvand | University of Zanjan | 16.-19.8.2016 | Posing two problems in city transport optimization |
| Prof. Dr. Peter Young | University of California | 19.-25.10.2016 | Can a quantum computer solve optimization problems more efficiently than a classical computer? |
| Prof. Dr. Hildegard Meyer-Ortmanns | Jacobs University Bremen | 26.1.2017 | On the Role of Frustration in Dynamical Systems |
| Dr. Sebastian Kapfer | University of Erlangen-Nürnberg | 6.4.17 | Melting in 2d and a fresh perspective on Monte Carlo |
| Gilles Monneret | Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris | 3.-13.4.2017 | Identification of causal relationships in gene networks, from
observational and interventional expression data |
| Prof. Dr. Annette Zippelius | University of Göttingen | 18.5.2017 | Dense Granular Flow |
| Prof. Dr. Barbara Drossel | Technische Universität Darmstadt | 22.5.2017 | Can statistical mechanics be reduced to quantum mechanics? |
| Gunnar Claussen | Jade-Hochschule | 28.6.2017 | Reconstruction of the radial refractive index pro le of optical waveguides from lateral diffraction patterns |
| Prof. Dr. Peter F. Stadler | Universität Leipzig | 2.11.2017 | Statistical Thermodynamics of RNA Secondary Structures |
| Prof. Dr. Alexey Chernov | Universität Oldenburg | 20.12.2017 | Multilevel Monte Carlo Algorithms |
| Alexandre Krajenbrink | Ecole Normale Supérieure | 26.-27.4.2018 | A bottom-up approach to the KPZ equation for interface growth: recent developments |
| Prof. Dr. Michael Schreckenberg | Universität Duisburg-Essen | 25.6.2018 | Statistical mechanics of traffic models |
| Dr. Vivien Lecomte | University of Grenoble | 24.1.2019 | Population dynamics and rare events |
| Prof. Dr. Ralf Metzler | Universität Potsdam | 6.6.2019 | Brownian motion and beyond |
| Dr. Anna Zakharaova | TU Berlin | 20.6.2019 | Dynamics and control of multilayer networks |
| Dr. Oliver Melchert | University of Hannover | 18.11.2021 | Accurate Modelling and simulation of the dynamics of ultrashort optical pulses in nonlinear waveguides |
| Dr. Marco Tarzia | Sorbonne Paris | 14.07.2022 | Glassy properties of many-body localization |
| Prof. Dr. Thilo Gross | Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity | 3.11.2022 | One ring for all |
| Prof. Dr. Joachim Krug | University of Cologne | 21.11.2022 | How predictable is evolution? |
| Prof. Dr. Martin Weigel | University of Chemnitz | 12.01.2023 | Ising and Potts models in a random field: results from (quasi-)exact algorithms |
| Dr. Satya Majumdar | University Paris-Saclay | 27.04.2023 | Stochastic Resetting |
| Dr. Diego Rybski | Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research | 11.05.2023 | Selected Aspects of Urban Complexity |
| Dr. Johannes Zierenberg | Max-Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organisation | 04.04.2024 | How contact patterns affect the non-equilibrium physics of epidemic outbreaks |
| Prof. Dr. Heiko Rieger | Universität des Saarlandes | 27.06.2024 | Non-Markovian and collective Search Strategies |
