Event Calendar

Event Calendar

The Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research regularly hosts scientific as well as public events and conferences. Here you will find an overview of future events.

Ultrasmall polymer nanoparticles for better nanomedicine

  • Date: Apr 28, 2026
  • Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Prof. Dr. Martina Stenzel
  • UNSW, Sydney, Australia
  • Location: MPI für Polymerforschung, Mainz
  • Room: Hermann Staudinger Lecture Hall
  • Host: Prof. Dr. K. Landfester
Key-visual Wissens Bissen

Plant-based – the future? What do researchers think about meat substitutes.

Wissens Bissen
  • Date: Apr 29, 2026
  • Time: 06:00 PM - 08:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Prof. Gunther Hirschfelder, Prof. Thomas Vilgis
  • Prof. Hirschfelder teaches Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of Regensburg; Prof. Vilgis is a physicist and leads the working group on analytical theory of soft matter
  • Location: Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research
  • Room: Seminar room 1.009
  • Host: MPI-P / AK Landfester
  • Topic: Discussion and debate formats, lectures
  • Contact: schneideru@mpip-mainz.mpg.de
As part of the ‘Wissens Bissen’ series, Prof. Gunther Hirschfelder and Prof. Thomas Vilgis will discuss a highly topical issue: How should the food trend of veganism be understood? How is it embedded in society and culture? Does lab-grown meat have a viable future, and what happens at the molecular level with plant-based proteins? [more]

4th SIMPLAIX Workshop on Machine Learning for Multiscale Molecular Modeling

  • Start: May 6, 2026
  • End: May 8, 2026
  • Location: Studio Villa Bosch Heidelberg, Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg 33, 69118 Heidelberg
SIMPLAIX is a cooperation between the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS), the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Heidelberg University and the MPI-P, focussed on bridging scales from (bio)molecules to molecular materials by multiscale simulation and machine learning (www.simplaix.org). RTG 2450 is a DFG-funded research graduate school at KIT on “Tailored Scale-Bridging Approaches to Computational Nanoscience” (https://www.compnano.kit.edu/index.php).The Fourth SIMPLAIX Workshop on “Machine Learning for Multiscale Molecular Modeling” is again jointly organized by SIMPLAIX and the RTG 2450.The first three SIMPLAIX workshops took place in May 2023, 2024 and 2025 (https://simplaix-workshop2023.h-its.org, https://simplaix-workshop2024.h-its.org/ and https://simplaix-workshop2025.h-its.org/). Similarly, the aim of this fourth workshop is to bring together scientists working in this vibrant field to share their research and discuss current challenges in an informal atmosphere. [more]

Multiscale simulation methods in soft matter systems V

  • Start: May 18, 2026
  • End: May 22, 2026
  • Location: MPI für Polymerforschung, Mainz
  • Room: Hermann Staudinger Lecture Hall
  • Topic: Lectures
This is the final meeting in a series whose purpose has been and is to highlight key challenges and current developments within the research field of the collaborative research center DFG SFB TRR 146 : Multiscale simulation methods for soft-matter systems. The aim of the workshop is to bring together experts from the fields of physics, chemistry, and applied mathematics to discuss the current state of the field, recent exciting advances and future prospects. Topics include mathematical foundations, machine learning approaches and other new developments, and challenges for applications. At the same time, the meeting is intended to celebrate Kurt Kremer's 70th birthday. Registration deadline: April 17, 2026 [more]
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Science Day: 17 Goals for the Future

Family Day
  • Date: May 31, 2026
  • Time: 10:30 AM - 01:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Prof. Katharina Landfester / HSD Hochschule Düsseldorf
  • Location: Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research
  • Room: Hermann Staudinger Lecture Hall and Polymer Path
  • Host: MPI-P / AK Landfester
  • Topic: Open day
We cordially invite you, your family and your friends to experience this year's Science Day theme, “17 Goals for the Future”, through a variety of activities. At the Children’s University, Prof. Katharina Landfester will present an overview of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which are designed to ensure that future generations can enjoy peace, prosperity and a healthy environment. The rest of the program provides additional insights into the meaning of the SDGs. [more]

The Atomic Simulation Environment: Integration into Wider Community Projects

  • Start: Jun 15, 2026
  • End: Jun 19, 2026
  • Topic: Lectures
The 2025 CECAM workshop: “The atomic simulation environment ecosystem: Present and perspectives” addressed the increasing challenge of maintaining ASE due to its rapid growth in recent years. The main proposals from the workshop were a new plugin system, a decoupling of the structure representation (the Atoms object) from the calculation itself (the Calculator object), which are currently strongly intertwined and frequently cause bugs, and a restructuring of the data obtained from calculators. These proposed changes, while conceptually small, will change the fundamental aspects of how every single user and developer operates and interfaces with ASE. The smoothness of the transition from ASEv3 to ASEv4, its take-up and success will strongly depend on stress-testing the modifications to the core ASE functionality in a wide range of community-led efforts, as well as the engagement of the developers of the derived packages with the plugin infrastructure. Registration deadline: April 15, 2026 [more]

High-throughput simulations: polymer science meets biophysics

  • Start: Jun 29, 2026
  • End: Jul 2, 2026
  • Location: Max-Planck-Institut für Polymerforschung
  • Room: Hermann Staudinger Lecture Hall
  • Topic: Lectures
Registration deadline: May 29, 2026 [more]
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