TENSOR25

16 Nov 2025, 09:00 → 21 Nov 2025, 12:45 Europe/Berlin

Alfred Hessel Hall (Pauliner Church)

Fabian Heidrich-Meisner (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen), Frank Pollmann (GNOI), Frank Verstraete (Ghent University and University of Cambridge), Norbert Schuch (Universität Wien), Salvatore R. Manmana (UPTP)

International European Tensor Network PhD School TENSOR25

Topics

• Matrix product states and density matrix renormalization group
• Tensor networks for two-dimensional systems
• Mathematical aspects of tensor networks
• Scrambling, driven systems, random unitary circuits
• Tree tensor networks
• Applications of DMRG to quantum chemistry
• Applications of tensor networks to partial differential equations

Invited Lecturers

• Mari Carmen Bañuls, MPQ Garching
• Natalia Chepiga, Delft University of Technology
• Ignacio Cirac, MPQ Garching 
• Dieter Jaksch, University of Hamburg
• Örs Legeza, Wigner Research Centre for Physics Budapest
• Tibor Rakovszky, Budapest University of Technology and Economics
• Matteo Rizzi, University of Cologne
• Laurens Vanderstraeten, Université libre de Bruxelles 

Organizers

• Fabian Heidrich-Meisner, Universität Göttingen
• Salvatore Manmana, Universität Göttingen
• Frank Pollmann, TUM Munich
• Norbert Schuch, Universität Wien
• Frank Verstraete, Ghent University and University of Cambridge

Contact

• Fabian Heidrich-Meisner: fabian.heidrich-meisner@uni-goettingen.de
• Salvatore Manmana: smanman@uni-goettingen.de
• Anke Oude-Aost: anke.oude-aost@theorie.physik.uni-goettingen.de

 

This event is supported by the European Tensor Network, the Excellence Cluster MCQST, and the Unibund Göttingen e.V..

 

 

Sunday 16 November

1 Get Together

Monday 17 November

Lectures

2 Lecture I - Introduction to MPS

Speaker: Natalia Chepiga (Delft University of Technology)

10:30 Coffee Break

Lectures

3 Lecture II - Introduction to MPS

Speaker: Natalia Chepiga (Delft University of Technology)

12:30 Lunch Break

4 Tutorial

Speaker: Natalia Chepiga (Delft University of Technology)

15:30 Coffee Break

Poster Sessions

5 Poster Session

Tuesday 18 November

Lectures

6 Lecture III - Basic Concepts in Tensor Networks and Applications

Speaker: Ignacio Cirac (MPQ Garching)

10:30 Coffee Break

Lectures

7 Lecture IV - Basic Concepts in Tensor Networks and Applications

Speaker: Ignacio Cirac (MPQ Garching)

12:30 Lunch Break

Lectures

8 Lecture V - Introduction to projected entangled pair states: formalism and algorithms

Speaker: Laurens Vanderstraeten (Université libre de Bruxelles)

15:30 Coffee Break

Research Data Management in the Tensor Network Community

9 Introduction to Research Data Management

Speaker: Timo Henne (ULSB)

10 Best Practice Examples

Speaker: Kadir Çeven (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)

11 Best Practice Examples

Speaker: Simone Fodera (LMU)

12 Best Practice Examples

Speaker: Simon Kochsiek (GNOI)

13 Interfacing Tensor Network Packages

Speaker: Frank Pollmann (GNOI)

14 General Discussion

15 Social Event: Dinner (tbc)

Wednesday 19 November

16 Social Event: Science Tour

Lectures

17 Lecture VI - Introduction to projected entangled pair states: formalism and algorithms

Speaker: Laurens Vanderstraeten (Université libre de Bruxelles)

15:30 Coffee Break

18 Tutorial

Speaker: Laurens Vanderstraeten (Université libre de Bruxelles)

19 Workshop Dinner

Thursday 20 November

Lectures

20 Lecture VII - Exploring 2D in- and out-of-equilibrium with Tensor Networks

Speaker: Matteo Rizzi (University of Cologne)

10:30 Coffee Break

Lectures

21 Lecture VIII - Recent advances in quantum chemical tensor network state methods: a journey from mathematical aspects towards industrial perspectives

Speaker: Örs Legeza (Wigner Research Centre for Physics Budapest)

12:30 Lunch Break

Lectures

22 Lecture IX - TNS for Lattice Gauge Theories

Speaker: Mari Carmen Bañuls (MPQ Garching)

15:30 Coffee Break

Poster Sessions

23 Poster Session

24 Social Event: Dinner

Friday 21 November

Lectures

25 Lecture X - Random unitary circuits as solvable models of generic quantum dynamics

Speaker: Tibor Rakovszky (Budapest University of Technology and Economics)

10:30 Coffee Break

Lectures

26 Lecture XI - Variational Tensor Network Methods for Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations

Speaker: Dieter Jaksch (University of Hamburg)

27 Concluding Remarks