Dutch Institute for Emergent Phenomena

Reminder to register for this upcoming DIEP workshop about scaling in complex systems!

Resilience pathways for ambiguous tipping points - Institute for Advanced Study IAS In this edition of the DIEP seminar series, Max Rietkerk, professor of Spatial Ecology and Global Change at the Copernicus Institute for Sustainable Development, Utrecht University will speak on the r...

Today 11am is our next DIEP seminar!
We will have Max Rietkerk (from Utrecht University) who will give a talk on: “Resilience pathways for ambiguous tipping points” 🌍
Abstract and registration here:
ias.uva.nl/content/even...

We are very excited to announce an upcoming workshop at DIEP!
Title: Scaling and Criticality in Complex Systems🎢✨
Date: Fri 20/03 9:00-17:00
Place: OBA Oosterdok Amsterdam
Info & registration: d-iep.org/workshopscal...

Evaluating Scientific Understanding and Creativity in LLMs - Institute for Advanced Study IAS In this edition of the DIEP seminar series, Merijn Moody will present his work on LLMs. Merijn joined DIEP in October 2024 as a FAEME PhD student. He is currently working on the development of a math...

Next DIEP seminar is tomorrow 11am at the IAS second floor library!
Merijn Moody, a PhD student at DIEP, will give a talk on:
“Evaluating Scientific Understanding and Creativity in LLMs”🎨
Abstract & registration: ias.uva.nl/content/even...

Myths, maths, and missing data - Institute for Advanced Study IAS In this edition of the DIEP seminar series, Pádraig MacCarron, Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics & Statistics at the University of Limerick will speak on his work applying techniqu...

Tomorrow 11am is our next DIEP seminar 📐
We will have Pádraig MacCarron (@unioflimerick.bsky.social) who will present his work applying techniques from complex networks to literature of legends: “Myths, maths, and missing data”! 💽
Abstract and registration here: ias.uva.nl/content/even...

(3/3) The methods are useful for handling chemical systems but also have applications in a wide range of areas such as ecology and epidemiology.

(2/3) or particles with the environment. These systems can be modeled as stochastic reaction-diffusion systems. In this pedagogical review, the authors apply powerful field-theoretic methods to these systems, unifying diverse approaches under a single framework.

(1/3) The exchange of energy and molecules in a living cell, the spread of opinions through a society, and the flow of traffic in a crowded city are very different phenomena, yet they are all examples of complex systems composed of many agents that interact with each other and exchange energy

Field theories and quantum methods for stochastic reaction-diffusion systems The exchange of energy and molecules in a living cell, the spread of opinions through a society, and the flow of traffic in a crowded city are very different phenomena, yet they are all examples of co...

New DIEP publication!
“Field theories and quantum methods for stochastic reaction-diffusion systems” was published in Reviews of Modern Physics.
Congrats to DIEP fellow Wout Merbis, former fellow Mauricio del Razo, and Tommaso Lamma 🎉
Paper: journals.aps.org/rmp/abstract...
Abstract in comments👇

Mirroring the world: How symmetry shapes hierarchical beliefs - Institute for Advanced Study IAS In this edition of the DIEP seminar series, Dr. Fernando Rosas, lecturer in Computer Science and AI at the University of Sussex and Honorary Research Fellow Imperial College London will be talking ab...

DIEP seminar tomorrow 11am! 🪞
Join us to attend a talk by @frosas.bsky.social (lecturer at the University of Sussex) titled

“Mirroring the world: How symmetry shapes hierarchical beliefs” 🤼

Abstract & registration: ias.uva.nl/content/even...
See you there!

Geometry hinders the formation of consensus in asynchronous majority dynamics - Institute for Advanced Study IAS In this edition of the DIEP seminar series, Assistant Professor in the Stochastic Operations Research group at University of Twente, Dr Martijn Gösgens, will talk about how geometry hinders the format...

Tomorrow at 11am we have our usual DIEP seminar!✨
We host Martijn Gösgens from the University of Twente who will tell us about how geometry hinders the formation of consensus in asynchronous majority dynamics 🧮
Interested?
Register here: ias.uva.nl/content/even...

Understanding pedestrian physics: from large-scale measurements, physics-based modeling and generative AI - Institute for Advanced Study IAS In this edition of the DIEP seminar series, Prof. Alessandro Corbetta head of the Crowdflow research group at Technische Universiteit Eindhoven will be giving a talk at the DIEP seminar. He will be d...

Next DIEP seminar is tomorrow 11am at the IAS second floor library 🚶‍♀️
We will host Prof. Alessandro Corbetta, head of the crowdflow research group @tue.nl who will discuss pedestrian physics with measurements, modeling and AI! 🖥️
Registration: ias.uva.nl/content/even...

Entropy production of biochemical processes with applications to enzyme kinetics - Institute for Advanced Study IAS In this edition of the DIEP seminar series, former DIEP fellow and group leader at the Zuse Institute Berlin and the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the Freie Universität Berlin, Ma...

Happy new year 2026 from DIEP 🎉

Tomorrow 15/01 at 11am we have our very first seminar of the year with Mauricio del Razo who shall present his new work on entropy production in biochemical processes!

Info & registration: ias.uva.nl/content/even...

DIEP is wishing you wonderful holidays and a relaxing time with your loved ones! 🧑‍🎄

Miss us during the break?
Check out our YouTube channel where recent seminars have been published

Stay tuned in January for the announcement of exciting DIEP seminars 😎

youtube.com/@dutchinstit...

Modelling large-scale bioinvasion: spreading in the global shipping network, historical trends, and anticipated changes in the future. - Institute for Advanced Study IAS In this edition of the DIEP seminar series, Professor Bernd Blasius, University of Oldenburg, Germany will talk about his work relating to modelling large-scale bioinvasion.

Tomorrow 11am is our next DIEP seminar!🌿

We will have Bernd Blasius from the University of Oldenburg who will present his work on modelling large-scale bioinvasion 🧬

Abstract and registration here: ias.uva.nl/content/even...

DIEP seminar tomorrow (Monday) at 13:00 at Science Park 904 room C4.174! 🎸
We have Marco Buongiorno Nardelli (Composition Studies & Physics professor at the University of North Texas) for “MUSIC” for Martians, a talk on the hidden structure of music as a complex data system using network theory🎵

Fresh press coverage at DIEP 🔍

Jay Armas was interviewed by Portuguese newspaper @publico.pt about the Emergence At All Scales (EAAS) consortium that he leads which recently received a NWO grant!

Link to the interview: www.publico.pt/2025/11/30/c...
More about EAAS: d-iep.org/eaas

Next DIEP seminar is tomorrow 11am at the IAS second floor library 🖥️
We will host Ruben Zakine (assistant professor at the Hydrodynamics Laboratory @polytechniqueparis.bsky.social) for a talk on “Socioeconomic agents as active matter in nonequilibrium Sakoda-Schelling models” 🌐
See you there!

🚀 Our colleague @abelaer.bsky.social is presenting his newest paper at #NeurIPS2025!

If you're in San Diego, visit the poster:

📍 Exhibit Hall C, D, E #2602

🕚 Wed 3 Dec, 11:00–14:00 PST

Check out the paper here: arxiv.org/pdf/2501.11447

Dutch Institute for Emergent Phenomena

Interested in emergent phenomena across disciplines? 🌌

Every week, we invite a guest to give a talk at our DIEP seminar (usually on Thursdays 11am) 🤓

Cannot make it?👉No problem!

Most DIEP seminars are also available on our YouTube channel: youtube.com/@dutchinstit...

Tomorrow exceptional DIEP seminar with Andreas Wagner (from the Department of Evolutionary Biology of the University of Zürich) !

Title: On the de novo origin of bacterial promoters in evolution
Place: Science Park 904, room C3.161
Time: 14:00

Dynamical systems approaches to climate response and climate tipping - Institute for Advanced Study IAS In this edition of the DIEP seminar series, Professor Anna von der Heydt from the Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research, Utrecht University will be speaking about dynamical systems approaches ...

🌳Join us tomorrow at 11am for the next DIEP seminar!

Anna von der Heydt (from @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social) will be speaking about dynamical systems approaches to climate response and climate tipping 🌊🌏

Interested? You can register here: ias.uva.nl/content/even...

See you there!

How simplicity emerges from the algorithms that describe our world - Institute for Advanced Study IAS In this edition of the DIEP seminar series, Ard Louis from the University of Oxford will be speaking about the applications of The coding theorem to biological evolution.

Tomorrow 11am is our next DIEP seminar! 🪐
Join us for a talk by Ard Louis (from @oxfordphysics.bsky.social) on “how simplicity emerges from the algorithms that describe our world” 🌏
Abstract and registration: ias.uva.nl/content/even...

Next DIEP seminar is tomorrow 11am at the IAS second floor library! 🌟
We are excited to have Alexandre René (from @rwth.bsky.social Aachen) give the following talk
“Truth in the age of deep learning: building a model-selection criterion which survives replication” 💻
Hope to see you there!

Towards a Mechanics of Predation and Escape - Institute for Advanced Study IAS In this edition of the DIEP seminar series, Ben Martin who is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Theoretical and Computational Ecology at the University of Amsterdam will be speaking about Me...

Join our next DIEP seminar tomorrow at 11am!
👨‍🔧Ben Martin (from @uva.nl ) will give a talk called “Towards a Mechanics of Predation and Escape”.
💻Abstract + registration: ias.uva.nl/content/even...

Reminder that the deadline to apply to the Global South Fellowship is on 15/11!
Please share around to potential candidates 😊

Coupling natural selection and epidemiology - Institute for Advanced Study IAS In this edition of the DIEP seminar series, Sebastien Lion, a CNRS researcher at Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, Montpellier, France will be speaking about coupling natural selection an...

Next DIEP seminar is tomorrow at 11am!
🫏We are pleased to have Sebastien Lion for a talk: Coupling Natural Selection and Epidemiology
🌟Abstract and registration here: ias.uva.nl/content/even...

Möbius transforms and Shapley values for vector-valued functions on weighted directed acyclic multigraphs We generalize the concept of Möbius inversion and Shapley values to directed acyclic multigraphs and weighted versions thereof. We further allow value functions (games) and thus their Möbius transform...

Möbius transforms and Shapley values for vector-valued functions on weighted directed acyclic multigraphs: arxiv.org/abs/2510.05786 by Patrick Forré and @abelaer.bsky.social

Engineering Emergence A defining property of complex systems is that they have multiscale structure. How does this multiscale structure come about? We argue that within systems there emerges a hierarchy of scales that cont...

We are happy to announce the publication of 2 articles involving DIEP fellows!! ✨

Engineering Emergence: arxiv.org/abs/2510.02649 by @abelaer.bsky.social and Erik Hoel

Go to the comment section for the second article 👇

Multi-agent learning models for social dynamics - Institute for Advanced Study IAS In this edition of the DIEP seminar series, Ben Meylahn will be giving a talk about multi-agent learning models for social dynamics.

Join our DIEP seminar TODAY at 11am in the IAS second floor library!
We are happy to have Ben Meylahn for a talk about multi-agent learning models for social dynamics 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦
More info and registration: ias.uva.nl/content/even...