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Dutch Institute for Emergent Phenomena
@emergencediep.bsky.social
Emergence across sciences.
Check out our website at https://www.d-iep.org and follow our YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/@dutchinstituteforemergentp6978?si=1m-SQKcGY0NNfFPh
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...
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November 27, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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
November 24, 2025 at 8:58 PM
🌳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!
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 ...
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November 19, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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...
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.
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November 12, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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!
November 5, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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...
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...
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October 29, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Reminder that the deadline to apply to the Global South Fellowship is on 15/11!
Please share around to potential candidates 😊
🥼Global South Fellowship!
DIEP is co-hosting one fellowship for a researcher from the Global South to work on subjects related to the Research Priority Area: Emergent Phenomena in Society in Amsterdam!
🚨Deadline to apply: 15/11 midnight
Please share!
More info: www.uva.nl/en/about-the...
Global South Fellowship Scheme
The Global South Plan of the Faculty of Science (FNWI) at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) offers four fellowships to talented scientists from the Global South to visit our Faculty for a few months a...
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October 28, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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...
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...
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October 22, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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 👇
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...
arxiv.org
October 17, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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...
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.
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October 16, 2025 at 7:29 AM
We are very excited to announce the KICKOFF MEETING of the Emergence At All Scales (EAAS) consortium on October 27th!✨
Come attend expert talks, community updates and a Science & Cocktails event with world-leading cosmologist Neil Turok 🔭
More info: www.d-iep.org/eaaskickoff
KICK OFF MEETING | DIEP
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October 14, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Next DIEP seminar is tomorrow 11am!
👨‍🔬Join us and attend a talk by Deepak Gupta (from @tuberlin.bsky.social) about the Control of Nonequilibrium Systems.
📲Abstract and registration here: ias.uva.nl/content/even...
Control of Nonequilibrium Systems - Institute for Advanced Study IAS
In this edition of the DIEP seminar series, Deepak Gupta from Technische Universität Berlin will be giving a talk about the Control of Nonequilibrium Systems. His research lies at the intersection of ...
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October 8, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Tomorrow’s DIEP seminar at 11am is given by Pierre Haas
@lepuslapis.bsky.social, group leader at @mpipks.bsky.social and @mpi-cbg.de!
🌿Pierre will tell us about examples of emergence in ecology and morphogenesis.
🧐More info and registration: ias.uva.nl/content/even...
Examples of emergence in ecology and morphogenesis - Institute for Advanced Study IAS
In this edition of the DIEP seminar series, Pierre Haas from Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems will be giving a talk about examples of emergence in ecology and morphogenesis. His...
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October 1, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Our next DIEP seminar is tomorrow at 11am, IAS second floor library!
👉Come listen to Daniel Maria Busiello (from the University of Padua) for the following talk:
✨Information propagation in multiscale systems, from biochemical signaling to transduction mechanisms✨
September 24, 2025 at 12:02 PM
🥼Global South Fellowship!
DIEP is co-hosting one fellowship for a researcher from the Global South to work on subjects related to the Research Priority Area: Emergent Phenomena in Society in Amsterdam!
🚨Deadline to apply: 15/11 midnight
Please share!
More info: www.uva.nl/en/about-the...
Global South Fellowship Scheme
The Global South Plan of the Faculty of Science (FNWI) at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) offers four fellowships to talented scientists from the Global South to visit our Faculty for a few months a...
www.uva.nl
September 19, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Tomorrow 11am, we are glad to have Karsten Kruse (University of Geneva) giving a talk at the DIEP seminar!
🧑‍🔬His research lies at the intersection of active matter and biophysics
👉More info + registration: ias.uva.nl/content/even...
Physics of Tissue Development: How Defects Can Organize Morphogenesis - Institute for Advanced Study IAS
In this edition of the DIEP seminar series,  Karsten Kruse from the University of Geneva will talk about the physics of tissue development. His research lies at the intersection of active matter and ...
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September 17, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Next DIEP seminar is tomorrow 11am! 🌟
We have the honor to have Ruben Lier, a DIEP fellow, give a talk on "A microscopically reversible kinetic theory of flocking"
More info and registration here: ias.uva.nl/content/even...
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September 10, 2025 at 7:50 AM
✨Open PhD position at @unileiden.bsky.social in strongly correlated Quantum Matter!
As part of the Emergence at All Scales consortium, positions are gradually opening. Please share and forward to potential candidates!
Deadline to apply: 15/08
More info: www.d-iep.org/openeaasposi...
DIEP | Dutch Institute for Emergent Phenomena
Open positions in the Emergence at All Scales consortium
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July 30, 2025 at 7:44 AM
✨As the end of the academic year slowly makes its way, we are proud to announce 2 more preprints by DIEP fellows in 2025!
You can find all our publications on the DIEP website: www.d-iep.org/publications
June 25, 2025 at 12:17 PM
🍸Save the date! The next edition of Science & Cocktails will take place on Tuesday 16/06 at the Tolhuistuin starting 7pm

Topic: Rivaling World Powers and Democracy
Speaker: Haroon Sheikh

Join us for an exciting evening! You can get your ticket here
www.scienceandcocktails.org/en/events/am...
Rivaling World Powers and Democracy | Science and Cocktails
Science and Cocktails platform of science events around the globe, lecture recordings, interviews and podcast series.
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June 10, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Next DIEP seminar is tomorrow 11am!
✨We have the honor to host Mirta Galesic (from @sfiscience.bsky.social) for a talk that goes “Beyond collective intelligence: Collective adaptation”.
🧠More info and registration here: ias.uva.nl/content/even...
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June 4, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Tomorrow 11am is our next DIEP seminar!
👉This time we have the pleasure to host Marta C. Couto (postdoc @ UvA) who will give a talk on “Evolution of boundedly rational learning in games”.
🎲More info and registration on

ias.uva.nl/content/even...
Evolution of boundedly rational learning in games - Institute for Advanced Study IAS
In this edition of the DIEP seminar series, Marta C. Couto, postdoctoral researcher at the University of Amsterdam, will explore how people adapt their strategies in social interactions, like negotiat...
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May 21, 2025 at 8:46 AM
🖇️ New paper by DIEP fellows:

"Effective dimensional reduction of complex systems based on tensor networks"

Curious? The paper has been published in open access here iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
May 13, 2025 at 1:44 PM
👉Join us today 11am for a DIEP seminar given by Jaehyeok Jin (from @columbiauniversity.bsky.social) on “Bottoms Up! Pouring Molecular Insights into Multiscale Modeling”!
🧬Curious? You can find more info and register at ias.uva.nl/content/even...
Bottoms Up! Pouring Molecular Insights into Multiscale Modeling - Institute for Advanced Study IAS
In this edition of the DIEP seminar series, Jaehyeok Jin, Beckman postdoc felllow from Columbia University will be presenting his line of research on coarse-graining microscopic dynamics of soft matte...
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May 8, 2025 at 6:46 AM
👩‍🎓Upcoming DIEP workshops:

- 15/05: the role of analogies in (artificial) intelligence, Amsterdam
- 2/06: network renormalization, as part of NetSci2025 Maastricht
- 4/06: polarisation and segregation in social networks, Amsterdam

📌You can learn more and register at www.d-iep.org/workshops
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May 1, 2025 at 7:52 AM