Formal Opening Of STRUCTURES Cluster Of Excellence

A ceremony will mark the official start of the work of the STRUCTURES Cluster of Excellence at Heidelberg University. Members of the university as well as the public are invited to learn more about the cluster's fields of endeavour and scientific goals. STRUCTURES was chosen for funding in September last year within the framework of the Excellence Strategy of the German Federal and State Governments. The opening ceremony will take place in the Great Hall of the New University on Monday, 15 July 2019, starting at 3:00pm. The Cluster of Excellence STRUCTURES - A unifying approach to emergent phenomena in the physical world, mathematics, and complex data - focuses on the formation, role, and detection of universal structures across a broad range of natural phenomena, from subatomic particle physics and cosmology to fundamental quantum physics and neuroscience. Why are there planets and not just dust in the vicinity of stars? How can we understand neuronal activity patterns in the brain and how does self-organisation work in biophysical systems? What these phenomena all have in common is their foundation in physical processes. The cluster aims to analyse these processes over wide time and length scales to uncover the relevant structures within the data.