Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization

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Max Planck Institute
for Dynamics and Self-Organization
Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization
MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen
Category: research Institute
Carrier: Max Planck Society
Legal form of the carrier: Registered association
Seat of the wearer: Munich
Facility location: Goettingen
Type of research: Basic research
Subjects: Natural sciences
Areas of expertise: Physics , biology
Basic funding: Federal government (50%), states (50%)
Management: Eberhard Bodenschatz (Managing Director, as of September 2017)
Employee: 230
Homepage: www.ds.mpg.de

The Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization is a non-university research facility of the Max Planck Society based in Göttingen for investigations into complex non-linear systems ( chaos research ), especially in physics and biology.

Its foundation goes back to Ludwig Prandtl , who established the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Flow Research in Göttingen in 1925 . In 1948 it became part of the Max Planck Society as the Max Planck Institute for Flow Research , which was founded in this institute. In 2004 it was renamed the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization . It is one of 86 institutes of the Max Planck Society (as of 2020).

history

Institute founder Ludwig Prandtl , 1937

Shortly after the establishment of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society in 1911, Ludwig Prandtl tried to set up a Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for basic research in fluid physics in Göttingen. The negotiations for the establishment of the institute lasted over a decade, interrupted by the First World War. The inauguration of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Flow Research between Böttingerstrasse and Bunsenstrasse therefore did not take place until 1925 and was accompanied by a merger with the Aerodynamic Research Institute (AVA), which was also launched by Prandtl .

In the spring of 1945, Zuse Ingenieurbüro und Apparatebau relocated what was then the only powerful computer in Europe, the Zuse Z4 , to the aerodynamic research institute of the KWI. The computer was completed there and the first program-controlled calculations could be carried out before it was transported to the Allgäu.

After the Second World War, the institute was able to resume operations on August 1, 1946. In 1948 the Max Planck Society was founded as the successor organization to the Kaiser Wilhelm Society in the AVA's comradeship house , which became the Max Planck Institute for Flow Research . The aerodynamic research institute, whose test facilities had been dismantled, was not reopened until 1953.

In 1969 the aerodynamic research institute was spun off from the MPI and the German research and research institute for aerospace. V. (now DLR). At the same time, the institute was realigned to gas dynamics and kinetics as well as molecular physics according to the own plan (of the commission chairman Manfred Eigen). In the course of time, the research focus shifted towards laser physics and molecule-surface and cluster physics. In 1993, research in fluid physics was discontinued. From 2003 it was revived with the establishment of the departments Dynamics of Complex Fluids and Hydrodynamics, Structure Formation and Nanobiocomplexity (today: Fluid Physics, Structure Formation and Biocomplexity), which took place from the perspective of non-linear and self-organized phenomena. The name changed to the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization on November 19, 2004, goes back to this research approach.

After Theo Geisel retired, physicist Ramin Golestanian became director of the newly established Department of Living Matter Physics in 2018 .

In addition to the original location on Bunsenstrasse on a joint site with DLR , there has been a second location at Am Faßberg since spring 2011 on a joint site with the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry and the GWDG .

profile

Research topics are the investigation of highly complex , especially open systems that are characterized by energy throughput and entropy production ; also structure-building systems and their general principles.

An example is the hydrodynamic turbulence in systems of living nature, which is not deterministic and whose thermal fluctuation is not negligible. In the cells of biological systems, the substance of which is usually complex fluids, molecular transport and fluid dynamics take place on length scales below a micrometer and are influenced by the molecular structure of the flowing substance.

Research structure

Departments

The MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organization comprises three departments:

Research groups

The institute is particularly committed to promoting young scientists, for whom it provides research groups:

  • Biological Physics and Morphogenesis (Dr. Karen Alim)
  • Biomedical Physics (Prof. Dr. Stefan Luther)
  • Statistical physics of evolving systems (Dr. Armita Nourmohammad)
  • Neural Systems Theory (Dr. Viola Priesemann)
  • Theory of turbulent flows (Dr. Michael Wilczek)
  • Theory of Biological Fluids (Dr. David Zwicker)

International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS)

The institute is involved in the International Max Planck Research School for Physics of Biological and Complex Systems . An IMPRS is an English-language doctoral program that enables a structured doctorate. The University of Göttingen and the MPI for Biophysical Chemistry are also involved in the IMPRS. The IMPRS speakers are Helmut Grubmüller from the MPI for Biophysical Chemistry and Jörg Enderlein from the University of Göttingen.

Emeritus group

Personalities

Former scientific members of the institute and well-known employees

literature

  • Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (CPTS) , in: Eckart Henning , Marion Kazemi : Handbook on the history of the institute of the Kaiser Wilhelm / Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science 1911–2011 - Daten und Quellen , Berlin 2016, Volume 1: Institutes and Research Centers AL ( online, PDF, 75 MB ), pp. 386–392 (Chronology of the MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organization)
  • Kaiser Wilhelm / Max Planck Institute for Flow Research (CPTS) , in: Eckart Henning, Marion Kazemi: Handbook on the history of the institute of the Kaiser Wilhelm / Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science 1911–2011 - data and sources , Berlin 2016, 2 volumes, volume 2: Institutes and research centers MZ ( online ) pp. 1535–1555 (Chronology of the MPI for Fluid Research and the KWI for Fluid Research )

Web links

Commons : Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Organization of the MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organization . Max Planck Society. Retrieved January 3, 2015.
  2. ↑ http://www.ds.mpg.de/
  3. ↑ Konrad Zuse: The computer - my life's work . 5th, unchanged. Edition. Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-12095-4 (100 years of Zuse).
  4. ^ History of the Max Planck Society . www.mpg.de. Retrieved April 25, 2011.
  5. ↑ Golestanian. Retrieved March 29, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Research topics of the MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organization . www.ds.mpg.de. Archived from the original on April 13, 2011. Retrieved April 11, 2011.
  7. ↑ Information on IMPRS at uni-goettingen.de


Coordinates: 51 ° 33 '38.3 "  N , 9 ° 58' 2.5"  E