Deutsche Physikerinnentagung 2026

Session

Keynote III (Dr. Maria Azhar)

30 Sept 2026, 09:00

Room 115 (Audimax) (Building 42)

Conveners

Keynote III (Dr. Maria Azhar)

• Imke Schneider

120. More than Whirls – The Topology of Magnetic Textures

Maria Azhar (The University of Duisburg-Essen)

30/09/2026, 09:00

Keynote Talk

Humans have a natural instinct to characterize objects and sort them into categories. Topology builds on this idea in a particularly unusual way: everyday objects can be classified according to properties that survive continuous deformation. A coffee mug and a doughnut, for example, are topologically equivalent because each has one hole.

Similar ideas have become remarkably powerful in...