Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA)

Seminar by Morten Kjaergaard (Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen) on rapid FPGA-based feedback for superconducting qubits, including sparse-sampling techniques and on-FPGA inference enabling millisecond-timescale T1 estimation, ~100 ms readout optimization, and over 74,000 consecutive recalibrations in closed-loop operation.

Chemistry seminar by Prof. Yves Geerts (Université Libre de Bruxelles) on historical attempts by Pasteur and Curie to direct chiral symmetry breaking with external fields, why they failed, and how chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS) under non-equilibrium conditions now enables enantiomer separation and control of molecular handedness.

ISTA Lecture by Klaus Robert Müller (TU Berlin & Korea University, Seoul) on how machine learning and AI enable scientific research, particularly in medicine and chemistry, and on explainability techniques for extracting understanding from machine learning models.

Klemens Rottner (Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig) presents evidence that profilin acts as a master regulator of actin filament dynamics essential for cell migration and growth, controlling both formin- and Arp2/3 complex-dependent actin assembly pathways.