The Spring School 2021 was planned as the Summer School 2020. Unfortunately, it had to be postponed to the following spring due the Corona Pandemic. In-person gatherings were still not possible at that point, so the Spring School 2021 became a strictly online event. Luckily, this didn’t pose any problems for the invited guests. Thus, the following series of very interesting online workshops was offered spread across two weeks from 23 March until 1 April:

Guido Kickelbick
Universität des Saarlandes
Chemistry of Inorganic-Organic Hybrid Materials and Nanocomposites

Georg Maret
Universität Konstanz
Photonics and Photonic Glasses

Alexander Hartmaier
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Machine Learning and Data Mining

Erik Bitzek
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Investigation of Lattice Defects by Atomistic Simulation

Francois Barthelat
University of Boulder Colorado
Three examples of segmented structures in nature and how they inspire better flexible armor, tougher glass and new morphing materials