Teaching
Winter term 2025/2026
Self-Organization and Pattern Formation
[LSF of lectures] [LSF of tutorials] [YouTube]
Tuesday, 10-12 (A348)
Thursdays, 12-14 (A348)
Homework sheets
- Sheet 0: Diffusion and Fourier transform, The harmonic oscillator, A model of a laser
- Sheet 1: Lyapunov functions, Population of fish, Outbreak of an insect in a forest
- Sheet 2: Bogdanov-Takens bifurcation, Bogdanov-Takens bifurcation: Unfolding the homoclinic orbit, Biochemical Oscillations
- Sheet 3: Source degradation model, Allen-Cahn equation with external field, Fisher-KPP equation
- Sheet 4: Cahn-Hilliard equation with an additional reaction term, Cahn-Hilliard equation with active reaction
- Sheet 5: The LSW theory of Ostwald ripening, The LSW theory in d spatial dimensions, Non-reciprocal Cahn-Hillard equation
- Sheet 6: Linear Stability of the Keller–Segel Model, Active Model B and Pseudopotentials
- Sheet 7: Stability of wave solutions of the complex Ginzburg-Landau equation, Phase Equations of the CGLE
- Sheet 8: Kuramoto models – global synchronization of heterogeneous oscillators, Kuramoto models – spatially coupled identical oscillators, Slow Manifold of Predator-Prey Dynamics
- Sheet 9: Conceptual Questions
Summer term 2025
Nonequilibrium Field Theories and Stochastic Dynamics
- [LSF] [Moodle] [YouTube]
- Wednesdays, 10-12 (A348)
- Thursdays, 10-12 (A348)
- First lecture on 23.04.2025
Summer term 2024
Winter Term 2023/2024
Summer term 2023
Winter term 2022/2023
Summer term 2022
Winter Term 2021/2022
Summer term 2021
- T6: Self-organisation and pattern formation
- Computational Methods for Molecular Evolution
- Seminar: Physics of Life
Winter term 2020/2021
- Stochastic Dynamics of Particles and Fields (Prof. Dr. Erwin Frey)
- Seminar: Stochastic Processes and Networks in Biology (Prof. Dr. Erwin Frey and Dr. Benedikt Sabaß)
- Seminar: Physics of Living Systems
Summer term 2020
Winter term 2019/2020
- Soft Condensed Matter Physics (Prof. Dr. Chase Broedersz)
- Stochastic Dynamics of Particles and Fields (Prof. Dr. Erwin Frey)
- Seminar on Theoretical Biophysics (Prof. Dr. Chase Broedersz and Prof. Dr. Erwin Frey)
- Lunch Seminar Soft Matter and Biological Physics