Ferienakademie 2026: Apply now!

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We are offering a summer school course in this year’s Ferienakademie. The Ferienakademie is an opportunity for students to dive into a current computational research topic over the course of twelve days in the setting of the Northern Italian/Tyrolian Alps.

Ferienakademie 2026 · Course 9

Learning Rules for Life-Like Emergent Behavior

How can complex, adaptive behavior arise from simple local interactions? In this course, we explore self-organization, collective intelligence, and emergent dynamics in natural, physical, and artificial systems — and learn how to discover rules that generate them.

Lecturers: Michael Engel (Erlangen), Thomas Speck (Stuttgart)
Language: English
Participants: Physics, Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, or related disciplines (Bachelor from 3rd year or Master)

Please click here to learn more. Application deadline: 3 May 2026.