Past Programmes and Workshops

partly with links to proceedings or additional information

2013

   Programmes

   Workshops and conferences outside of programmes

  • ESI ANNIVERSARY, Two Decades at the Interface of Mathematics and Physics: The [un]reasonable effectiveness of the mathematics in natural sciences, Schedule and Abstracts (pdf, 4 pages), April 29 - 30
  • Word maps and stability of representations (G. Arzhantseva, N. Monod, A. Valette), April 11 - 13
    Web page of the workshop

2012

   Programmes

   Workshops and conferences outside of programmes

   ESI Scholars, Research in Teams

  • The effects of disorder on many-body quantum systems (B. Nachtergaele, R. Sims, G. Stolz) Jun 18 - Aug 5
  • Twisted conjugacy classes in discrete groups (A. Felshty'n, E. Troitsky) Jul 23 - Aug 23
  • Whittaker periods of automorphic forms (E.M. Lapid, Z. Mao) Jul 1 - 31
  • Resolution of surface singularities in positive characteristics (D. Cutkosky, H. Hauser, H. Kawanoue, S. Perlega, B. Schober) Nov 5 - Dec 21

     Graduate courses by senior fellows:

      Courses in Spring term 2012:

  • "Fundamentals and highlights of algebraic quantum field theory"
    by Prof. Detlev Buchholz (Universität Göttingen, Germany)
    Web page of the course
  • "Mathematics and complete fluid systems"
    by Prof. Eduard Feireisl (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic)
    Web page of the course

 

2011

   Programmes

   Workshops and conferences outside of programmes

  • Harmonic and Complex Analysis and its Applications (H.G. Feichtinger), January 10 - 12
    Web page of the activity.
  • Erwin Schrödinger Symposium (C. Dellago, W.L. Reiter, J. Yngvason, A. Zeilinger), January 13 - 15
    Folder of the activity.
  • Follow-up workshop to the 2009 ESI programme on "Selected topics in spectral theory" (B. Helffer, T. Hoffmann-Ostenhof, A. Laptev), January 17 - 27
    Web page of the activity.
  • Follow-up workshop to the 2010 ESI programme on "Quantitative Studies of Nonlinear Wave Phenomena" (P.C. Aichelburg, P. Bizon, W. Schlag), January 24 - 29
    Web page of the activity.
  • Seminar on Mathematical Relativity (R. Beig, P. Bizon, P. Chrusciel, H. Friedrich), January 28 - 29
    Web page of the activity.
  • Non-commutative geometry, scattering theory and the Witten index (A.L. Carey, H. Grosse, F. Gesztesy, F. Sukochev) January 31 - February 4
    Web page of the activity, Programme.
  • The Vienna ETH-Day (H. Hauser, E. Faber, C. Bruschek) March 4.
  • Topological Heterotic Strings and (0,2) Mirror Symmetry (J. Distler, J. Knapp, M. Kreuzer †, I. Melnikov), June 20 - 24
    Web page of the workshop.
  • Memorial Conference for Maximilian Kreuzer (L. Katzarkov, J. Knapp, A. Rebhan, E. Scheidegger) June 25 - 28
    Web page of the conference
  • ESF-EMS-ERCOM Conference "Completely Integrable Systems and Applications" (G. Teschl), July 3 - 8
    Web page of the conference
  • Cartan connections, geometry of homogeneous spaces, and dynamics (A. Cap, C. Frances, K. Melnick) July 10 - 23
    Web page of the workshop
  • Summer School in Mathematical Physics (C. Hainzl, R. Seiringer), August 16 - 24
    Web page of the activity
  • Rigorous Quantum Field Theory in the LHC Era (C. Jäkel, C. Kopper, G. Lechner), September 20 - October 1
    Web page of the activity and Schedule.
  • Algebraic versus Analytic Geometry (H. Hauser, J. Kollar, J. Schicho, D. van Straten) November 19 - December 13
    Week 1: Artin Approximation and Arcs
    Week 2: Local Analytic Geometry
    Week 3: Minimal Model Program
  • 8th Vienna Central European Seminar on Particle Physics and Quantum Field Theory, (H. Hüffel): Particle Physics and the LHC, November 25 - 27
    Web page of the activity
  • Infinite Monster Groups (G. Arzhantseva, M. Sapir), December 12 - 21
    Web page of the activity.

     Graduate courses and lectures by senior fellows:

      Courses in Spring term 2011:

  • "Free Probability Theory"
    by Prof. Kenneth Dykema (Texas A & M University)
    and Prof. Roland Speicher (Universität des Saarlandes)
    Web page of the course
  • "Quantum Spin Systems. An introduction to the general theory and discussion of recent developments."
    by Prof. Bruno Nachtergaele (UC Davis)
    Web page of the course
  • "Spektraltheorie dynamischer Systeme und aperiodische Ordnung"
    by Prof. Michael Baake (Universität Bielefeld)
    Web page of the course
  • Short course: "Symmetries of Strings and Branes"
    by Prof. Peter West (King's College London)
    Information on the course

      Lectures during spring term 2011: Lectures in May, Lectures in June

      Course in Fall term 2011:

  • "L-functions and Functoriality"
    by Prof. James W. Cogdell (Ohio State University, Columbus, USA)
    Web page of the course

 

2010

   Programmes

   Workshops and conferences outside of programmes

  • ESI May Seminar 2010 in Number Theory (J. Schwermer), May 2 - 9
    Web page of the activity.
  • Symposium "Diskrete Mathematik" (C. Krattenthaler) May 14 - 15
    Web page of the activity.
  • Konferenz "40 Jahre Quantentheorie am Institut fuer Theoretische Chemie der Universität Wien" (H. Lischka, P. Schuster, P. Wolschann), September 27
    Web page of the activity.
  • MORE 2010: Meeting on Optical Response of Extended Systems (K. Hummer) November 3 - 5
    Web page of the activity.
  • 7th Vienna Central European Seminar on Particle Physics and Quantum Field Theory (H. Hüffel) November 26 - 28
    Web page of the activity.
  • Follow-up workshop to the 2009 ESI programme on "The dbar-Neumann Problem: Analysis, Geometry and potential Theory" (F. Haslinger, B. Lamel, E. Straube) December 13 - 22
    Web page of the activity.

     Graduate courses taught by senior fellows:

       Spring term 2010:

       Fall term 2010/11:

  • "Representations contributing to Cohomology of Arithmetic Groups"
    by Prof. Tyakal N. Venkataramana (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai)
    Web page of the course

 

2009

   Programmes

   Workshops and conferences outside of programmes

  • Mathematics at the Turn of the 20th Century: Explorations and Beyond (D.D Fenster, J. Schwermer), January 7 - 12
    Web page of the activity
  • 29th Winter school on geometry and physics, Srni (Czech republic), January 17 - 24, 2009
    Organized jointly with the Czech Union of Mathematicians and Physicists
    Proceedings will appear in Arch. Math. (Brno) 45, no. 5
  • Workshop "Catalysis from First Principles" (J. Hafner, J. Norskov, M. Scheffler), May 25 - 30
    Programme of the workshop.
  • Workshop "Architecture and Evolution of Genetic Systems" (R. Bürger, A.G. Jones, S.J. Arnold), July 20 - 25
    Programme of the workshop.
  • ESI Junior Research Fellow Day, October 5
    Programme of the activity
  • Workshop "Quanta and Geometry" (A. Carey, J. Schwermer, J.Yngvason) October 8 - 9
    Web page of the workshop
  • "Kontexte": Abschlusstagung des Initiativkollegs "Naturwissenschaften im historischen Kontext", November 27 - 28
    Web page of the activity.
  • "Effective Field Theories", 6th Vienna Central European Seminar on Particle Physics and Quantum Information (H. Hüffel), November 27 - 29
    Web page of the activity.
  • "(Un)Conceived Alternatives". Underdetermination of Scientific Theories between Philosophy and Physics (M. Arndt, R. Dawid, E. Nemeth, W. Reiter, D. Romizi, F. Stadler), December 18 - 19
    Web page of the activity.

     Graduate courses taught by senior fellows:

       Spring term 2009:

  • "Spektrale Tripel in nichtkommutativer Geometrie und Quantenfeldtheorie"
    by Prof. Raimar Wulkenhaar (Wilhelms-Universität Münster)
    Web page of the course
  • "Spectral Inequalities and their Applications to Variational Problems and Evolution Equations"
    by Prof. Michael Loss (Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta)
    Web page of the course

       Fall term 2009/10:

 

2008

   Programmes

   Workshops and conferences outside of programmes

  • 28th Winter school on geometry and physics, Srni (Czech republic), January 12 - 19, 2008
    Organized jointly with the Czech Union of Mathematicians and Physicists
    Proceedings have appeared in Arch. Math. (Brno) 44, no. 5 (2008) and
    are available online at http://www.emis.de/journals/AM/08-5/index.html
  • Workshop "Tensor network methods and entanglement in quantum many-body systems" (F. Verstraete, G. Vidal, M. Wolf), ESI, January 16-18, 2008
    Web page of the workshop
  • ESI - 15th Anniversary Celebration (W.L. Reiter, K. Schmidt, J. Schwermer, J. Yngvason), April 14, 2008
    Programme of the celebration
  • Workshop "Frontiers in Mathematical Biology" (R. Bürger, J. Hermisson), April 14 - April 18, 2008
    Web page of the workshop
  • The Vienna Geometry Day (H. Hauser, D. Wagner), April 25, 2008
    Web page of the workshop
  • Symposium on the 65th birthday of Hans Lischka (A. Aquino, K. Wolschann), July 3 - July 4
    Web page of the symposium
  • Summer School "Combinatorics and Statistical Physics" (C. Krattenthaler) July 7 - 18, 2008
    Web page of the school
  • Summer School on Current topics in Mathematical Physics (C. Hainzl, R. Seiringer) July 21-31, 2008
    Web page of the school
  • Workshop "Developments in Mathematical Relativity" (R. Beig, J.M. Heinzle), August 20 - August 21, 2008
    Web page of the activity
  • Workshop "Groups and Infinite Graphs" (B. Krön), August 25 - 27, 2008
    Web page of the activity
  • Workshop "Random Spatial Models in Physics and Biology" (E. Baake, A. Wakolbinger), October 2 - 3
    Web page of the activity
  • Workshop "Mathematical Challenges in String Phenomenology" (R. Blumenhagen, M. Douglas, M. Kreuzer, E. Scheidegger), October 5 - October 19
    Web page of the workshop
  • Workshop "Structural Probability" (V. Kaimanovich, K. Schmidt), November 2 - November 16
    Programme for week 1
    Programme for week 2
  • "Routes to Mauthausen" (G. Botz), November 27 - 29
    Information on the activity
  • Highlights in computational quantum field theory, 5th Vienna Central European Seminar on particle physics and quantum field theory (H. Hüffel), November 28-30
    Web page of the workshop
  • Supersymmetry and Noncommutative QFT Workshop in Memoriam Julius Wess (H. Grosse, P. Schupp), December 4 - 6
    Web page of the workshop

     Graduate courses taught by senior fellows:
       Fall term 2008/09:

  • "Selected Topics in the Theory of Automorphic Forms for Reductive Groups"
    by Prof. Goran Muic (University of Zagreb)
    Web page of the course
  • "Operator Algebras and Conformal Field Theory"
    by Prof. Feng Xu (University of California, Riverside)
    Web page of the course
  • "Index Theory, Groupoids and Noncommutative Geometry"
    by Prof. Nigel Higson (Penn State University)
    Web page of the course

2007

   Programmes

   Workshops and conferences outside of programmes

  • 27th Winter school on geometry and physics, Srni (Czech republic), January 13 - 20, 2007
    Organized jointly with the Czech Union of Mathematicians and Physicists
    Proceedings have appeared in Arch. Math. (Brno) 43, No. 5 (2007) and
    are available online at http://www.emis.de/journals/AM/07-5/index.html
  • "Automorphic Forms, Geometry and Arithmetic" (S.S. Kudla, M. Rapoport and J. Schwermer) ESI, February 11 to February 24, 2007, follow-up workshop to the 2006 programme
    Programme of the workshop
  • "Lieb-Robinson Bounds and Applications" (F. Verstraete and J. Yngvason) ESI, February 20 - February 24, 2007
  • "Deterministic Dynamics meets Stochastic Dynamics" (C. Dellago, P. Hänggi, H. Kauffmann and H. Posch), ESI, April 18 - April 20, 2007
    Web page of the activity
  • "Thirringfest" clebrating the 80th birthday of Walter Thirring, ESI, May 15, 2007
    Web page of the activity
  • "Theory meets Industry" (J. Hafner), ESI, June 12 - June 14, 2007
  • Central European Joint Programme of Doctoral Studies in Theoretical Physics (H. Grosse, H. Hüffel und J. Yngvason), ESI, September 24 - 28
    Web page of the activity
  • Spectra of arithmetic groups (J. Schwermer), ESI, October 8-13
    programme of the activity
  • ESF workshop "Noncommutative Quantum Field Theory" (H. Grosse), ESI, November 26-29, 2007
    web page of the workshop
  • "Operator Algebras and Ergodic Theory" (K. Schmidt), ESI, December 3-14, 2007
    web page of the workshop
  • EU Network in Noncommutative Geometry
    web page of the activity
  • "Spectral Theory and Partial Differential Equations" (T. Hoffmann-Ostenhof, A. Laptev), ESI, December 10-21, 2007
    web page of the workshop
  • "Ergodic Theory - Limit Theorems and Dimensions" F. Hofbauer, R. Zweimüller), ESI, December 17-21, 2007
    web page of the workshop

     Graduate courses taught by senior fellows:
       Spring term 2007:

  • "Analysis on Complex Symmetric Spaces"
    by Prof. Miroslav Englis (Academy of Sciences, Prague)
    Web page of the course
  • "Boundaries of groups: geometric and probabilistic aspects"
    by Prof. Vadim Kaimanovich (Internationale Universität Bremen)
    Web page of the course
  • "Black holes, supersymmetry and strings (Part II)"
    by Prof. Thomas Mohaupt (University of Liverpool)
    Web page of the course

       Fall term 2007/08:

  • "Introduction to Theoretical Soft Matter Physics"
    by Prof. Christos N. Likos (Universität Düsseldorf)
    Web page of the course
  • "Dualities between gauge theories and strings"
    by Prof. Radoslav Rashkov (Sofia University)
    Web page of the course
  • "Two short courses on theoretical physics"
    by Prof. John Barrett (Nottingham) and Prof. Richard Szabo (Edinburgh)
    Web page of the courses

2006

   Programmes

   Workshops and conferences outside of programmes

  • 26th Winter school on geometry and physics, Srni (Czech republic), January 14 - 21, 2006
    Organized jointly with the Czech Union of Mathematicians and Physicists
    Proceedings have appeared in Arch. Math. (Brno) 42 Suppl. 1-327. and
    are available online at http://www.emis.de/journals/AM/06-S/index.html
  • Workshop "Aspects of Spectral Theory", ESI, January 15-19, 2006
    organized by M. Baake, W. Kirsch, and K. Schmidt
    Web page of the workshop
  • Meeting of the EU-Network "Analysis of Large Quantum Systems", ESI, March 4--6 2006
    Web page of the meeting
  • "Boltzmann's Legacy" International Symposium, ESI, June 7-9, 2006
    Web page of the symposium
    An associated exhibition "Ludwig Boltzmann - 1844-1906" took place at the ESI.
  • Seminar Sophus Lie, ESI, November 3 and 4, 2006
    web page of the meeting
  • "Complex Analysis, Operator Theory and Applications to Mathematical Physics", two followup workshops to the 2005 programme, ESI, October 1 to October 15, 2006, and November 6 to November 17, 2006
    Web page of the workshops
  • "Modern Methods of Time-Frequency Analysis" (J.J. Benedetto, H.G. Feichtinger and K. Gröchenig) follow-up workshop to the 2005 programme, ESI, November 20 to November 24, 2006
  • "Quantum Statistics" (K. Audenaert, F. Verstraete and M. Wolf), ESI, November 27 - December 1, 2006
  • "Challenges in Particle Phenomenology", 3rd Vienna Central European Seminar on Particle Physics and Quantum Field Theory, Department of Theoretical Physics of the University of Vienna, December 1-3, 2006
    web page of the seminar.
  • "Causes of Ecological and Genetic Diversity", (R. Bürger and U. Dieckmann)
    ESI, December 11 to December 16, 2006

     Graduate courses taught by senior fellows:
       Spring term 2006:

       Fall term 2006/07:

  • "Representation Theory of the General Linear Group over a Division Algebra"
    by Prof. Ioan Badulescu, (Université de Poitiers)
    Web page of the course
  • "Black holes, supersymmetry and strings"
    by Prof. Thomas Mohaupt (University of Liverpool)
    Web page of the course
  • "Analysis on Complex Symmetric Spaces"
    by Prof. Miroslav Englis (Academy of Sciences, Prague)
    Web page of the course

2005

   Programmes

   Workshops and conferences outside of programmes

  • 25th Winter school on geometry and physics, Srni (Czech republic), January 15 - 22, 2005
    Organized jointly with the Czech Union of Mathematicians and Physicists
    Proceedings have appeared in Suppl. Rend. Circ. Mat. Palermo, II. Ser. 79 (2006) 1-192.
  • Summer School "Vertex Algebras and Related Topics", ESI, June 12 - July 2, 2005
    organized by Edward Frenkel, Victor Kac, and Joachim Schwermer
    Web page of the school
  • History of Mathematics and Physics, ESI, spring term 2005, organized by Della D. Fenster and Joachim Schwermer
    Web page of the activity
  • Conference "Geometrical Aspects of Spectral Theory", Matrei, July 2-12, 2005
    organized by Michel van den Berg, Lennie Friedlander, and Thomas Hoffmann-Ostenhof
    Web page of the conference
  • 2nd Vienna Central European Seminar on Particle Physics and Quantum Field Theory, Dept. of Theoretical Physics of the University of Vienna, November 25 - 27, 2005, organized by H. Hüffel
    Web page of the seminar
  • Workshop on Bose-Einstein Condensation and Quantum information, ESI, December 18-20, 2005
    Advisory committee: H. Grosse, E. Lieb, W. Thirring. P. Zoller
    Web page of the workshop

     Graduate courses taught by senior fellows:
       Spring term 2005:

  • "Kählergeometrie"
    by Prof. Werner Ballmann (Universität Bonn, Germany)
    Web page of the course
  • "Operator algebras and their applications in physics"
    by Prof. Jan Derezinski (Warsaw University)
    Web page of the course
  • "Representation theory of symmetric groups, graphs, universality"
    by Prof. Anatoly Vershik (Steklov Institute St. Petersburg)
    Web page of the course
  • "The L2-Sobolev theory of the d-bar-Neumann problem"
    by Prof. Emil Straube (Texas A&M University)
    Web page of the course

       Fall term 2005/06:

  • "The L2-Sobolev theory of the d-bar-Neumann problem"
    by Prof. Emil Straube (Texas A&M University)
    Web page of the course
  • "Introduction to the spectral theory for Schrödinger operators with magnetic fields and application"
    by Prof. Bernard Helffer (University Paris Sud-Orsay)
    Web page of the course

2004

   Programmes

  • Geometric and analytic problems related to Cartan connections (T. Branson, A. Cap, J. Slovak) January - April
    Web page of the programme
  • String theory in curved backgrounds and boundary conformal field theory (H. Grosse, A. Recknagel, V. Schomerus) April - June
    Included the workshops "Mathematical and physical aspects of branes in Calabi-Yau spaces" (April 29 - May 11) and "String theory on non-compact and time-dependent backgrounds" (June 7 - 18)
    Web page of the programme
    Schedule of first workshop
    Schedule of second workshop
  • Tensor categories in Mathematics and Physics (J. Fuchs, Y.-Z. Huang, A. Kirillov, M. Kreuzer, J. Lepowsky, C. Schweigert), June - July
    Included the workshop "Tensor Categories", June 21 - July 2
    Web page of the programme
    Web page of the workshop
  • Singularity formation in non-linear evolution equations (P.C. Aichelburg, P. Bizon, S. Klainerman), July - August
    Web page of the programme
  • Many body quantum theory (M. Salmhofer, J. Yngvason), September - December
    Web page of the programme

   Workshops and conferences outside of programmes

  • Seminar Sophus Lie, 27th meeting, ESI, January 9 and 10, 2004
    Web page of the meeting
  • 24nd Winter school on geometry and physics, Srni (Czech republic), January 17 - 24, 2004
    Organized jointly with the Czech Union of Mathematicians and Physicists
    Proceedings have appeared in Suppl. Rend. Circ. Mat. Palermo, II. Ser. 75 (2005), 1-356
  • Ludwigfest: Conference celebrating Ludwig Faddeev's 70th birthday, ESI, March 22 - 27, 2004
    organized by A. Alekseev and N. Reshetikhin.
    Web page of the conference.
  • NLW-HYKE summer school and workshop "Nonlinear Wave Equations", ESI, July 7 - 14, 2004
    organized by Y. Brenier, J.-Y. Chemin, S. Klainerman, A. Komech, N. Mauser, A. Selberg
    Web page of the activity.
  • Workshop on Penrose Inequalities, ESI, July 26 - August 8, 2004
    organized by R. Beig, P. Chrusciel, W. Simon
  • Workshop on Stochastic and Deterministic Dynamics in Equilibrium and Nonequilibrium Systems, ESI, August 25 - 28, 2004
    organized by C. Dellago and H. Posch.
    Web page of the workshop.
  • Workshop "Stochastic processes from physics and biology", ESI, November 26 and 27, 2004
    organized by Anton Wakolbinger
    Web page of the workshop.
  • 1st Vienna Central European Seminar on Particle Physics and Quantum Field Theory, Dept. of Theoretical Physics of the University of Vienna, November 26 - 28, 2004
    organized by H. Hüffel.
    Web page of the Seminar.
  • Workshop "Automorphic Representations", ESI, December 6 - 9, 2004
    organized by Joachim Schwermer.
    Web page of the workshop.

     Graduate courses taught by senior fellows:
       Spring term 2004:

       Fall term 2004/05:

  • Renormalization Theory - Analysis and Applications
    by Prof. Manfred Salmhofer (Universität Leipzig)
    Web page or the course
  • Stochastische Prozesse aus der Populationsgentik
    by Prof. Anton Wakolbinger (Universität Frankfurt)
    Web page or the course
  • Foundations of Quantum Information
    by Prof. Vlatko Vedral (Imperial College, London)
    Web page or the course
  • Introduction to Descriptive Set Theory
    by Prof. Boban Velickovic, (Jussieu, Paris)
    Web page or the course

2003

   Programmes

   Workshops and conferences outside of programmes

  • 23nd Winter school on geometry and physics, Srni (Czech republic), January 18 - 25, 2003
    Organized jointly with the Czech Union of Mathematicians and Physicists
    Proceedings have appeared in Suppl. Rend. Circ. Mat. Palermo, II. Ser. 72 (2004)
  • Workshop Idempotent Mathematics and Mathematical Physics (Gregory Litvinov, Victor Maslov), February 2 - February 10, 2003
    Web page of the workshop
  • 2nd Workshop on Entanglement and Decoherence of Complex Quantum Systems, ESI, Septermber 5 - 7, 2003
    Web page of the workshop
  • Conference on Diophantine Approximation in celebration of Wolfgang Schmidt's 70th birthday, ESI, October 6 - 10, 2003, organized by Hans Peter Schlickewei, Klaus Schmidt, and Robert Tichy
    Web page of the conference.
  • 2nd meeting of the IHP network "Mathematical Analysis of Large Quantum Systems" supported by the European Union, ESI, December 6 - 7, 2003
    web page of the meeting

     Graduate courses taught by senior fellows:
       Spring term 2003:

  • "Recent trends in Fourier analysis"
    by Michael Lacey (Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta)
    Web page of the course.
  • "N=1 and N=2 Supersymmetry and Supergravity"
    by Peter van Nieuwenhuizen (C. N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics, Stony Brook)
    Web page of the course.
 
       Fall term 2003/04:
  • "Sobolev spaces with applications to PDE"
    by Vladimir Maz'ya (Linköping University, Sweden)
    Web page of the course.
  • "Algebraic Groups over number fields and related geometric questions"
    by Jürgen Rohlfs (Kath. Universität Eichstätt, Deutschland)
    Web page of the course.
  • Continuation of the course "N=1 and N=2 Supersymmetry and Supergravity"
    by Peter van Nieuwenhuizen (C. N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics, Stony Brook)
    Web page of the course.
  • The planned course "Quantenfeldtheorie auf nichtkommutativen Räumen" by Prof. Julius Wess (Universität München, Deutschland) had to be cancelled because of a serious illness of the lecturer

2002

    Scientific report for the year 2002 [ PS , PDF ]

   Programmes

  • Aspects of foliation theory in geometry, topology and physics (J. Glazebrook, F. Kamber and K. Richardson)
    Web page of the programme
  • Noncommutative geometry and quantum field theory, Feynman diagrams in mathematics and physics (H. Grosse, J. Madore and J. Mickelsson; D. Kreimer and I. Todorov)
    Web page of the programme
  • Developed turbulence (K. Gawedzki, A. Kupiainen, M. Vergassola)
    Web page of the programme
  • Arithmetic, automata, and asymptotics (R. Tichy, P. Grabner)
  • Quantum field theory on curved space time (K. Fredenhagen, R. Wald and J. Yngvason)
    Web page of the programme
   Workshops and conferences outside of programmes
  • 22nd Winter school on geometry and physics, Srni (Czech republic), January 12 - 19, 2002
    Organized jointly with the Czech Union of Mathematicians and Physicists
    Proceedings have appeared in Suppl. Rend. Circ. Mat. Palermo, II. Ser. 71 (2003), 3--207
  • Arithmetic Groups and Automorphic Forms
    workshop organized by Joachim Schwermer (University of Vienna), ESI, January 27 - February 2, 2002
    Web page of the workshop
  • "Stability Matters"
    A Symposium on Mathematical Physics in honor of Elliott H. Lieb on the occasion of his 70th birthday, July 28 - August 2, 2002
    Web page of the workshop
   Senior fellows
  • Anton Alekseev, November 19 - November 24, 2002
  • Shrikrishna G. Dani, March 28 - July 12, 2002
  • Yurii A. Neretin, Jannuary 1 - February 28, 2002
  • Arkadi Onishchik, September 30 - December 18, 2002
  • Ivan Todorov, March 1 - April 16 and November 4 - December 31, 2002
  • Anatoly Vershik, October 25 - December 25, 2002

     Graduate courses taught by senior fellows (fall term 2002)

  • "Real representation theory of Lie algebras and Lie groups" by Arkadi Onishchik
  • "Measure theoretic constructions and their applications in ergodic theory, asymptotics, combinatorics, and geometry" by Anatoly Vershik

 

2001

   Scientific report for the year 2001 [ PS , PDF ]

   Programmes

  • Scattering Theory (V. Petkov,A. Vasy,M. Zworski)
    Web page of the programme
  • Random Walks (V. Kaimanovich, K. Schmidt, W. Woess)
    Web page of the programme
    Abstracts of talks in the part "Random Walks and Geometry"
  • Mathematical Cosmology (P.C. Aichelburg, G.F.R. Ellis, V. Moncrief, J. Wainwright)
    Web page of the programme
  • Mathematical Aspects of String Theory (M. Blau, J. Figueroa O'Farrill, A. Schwarz)
    Web page of the programme
  • Nonlinear Schrödinger and Quantum Boltzmann Equations (P. Gerard, P. Markowich, N.J. Mauser, G. Papanicolau)
    included four workshops "Nonlinear Dispersive Equations", "Hydrodynamical Limits: Results and Perspectives", "Semiclassical Limits: WKB methods vs Wigner Transforms", and "(Asymptotic) Analysis of the Dirac-Maxwell System" as well as two schools on nonlinear Schrödinger equations
    Web pages of the programme (including information on the workshops and schools)
   Workshops and conferences outside of programmes
  • 21st Winter school on geometry and physics, Srni (Czech republic), January 13 - 20, 2001
    Organized jointly with the Czech Union of Mathematicians and Physicists
    Proceedings have appeared in Suppl. Rend. Circ. Mat. Palermo, II. Ser., 69 (2002) 3-254.
  • "75 Jahre Schrödinger-Gleichung"
    Series of lectures at ESI to commemorate the 75th anniversay of the Schrödinger equation
    Organized by W. Reiter and J. Yngvason
   Senior fellows
  • Anton Alekseev, May 16 - July 2, 2001
  • Vladimir Popov, July 19 - December 31, 2001
  • Yurii A. Neretin, May 3 - June 29 and November 5 - December 31, 2001
  • Ivan Todorov, February 1 - May 31 and November 1 - December 31, 2001
  • Shrikrishna G. Dani, March 22 - August 31, 2001
  • Anatoly Vershik, October 16 - December 15, 2001

 

2000

   Scientific report for the year 2000 [ PS , PDF ]

   Programmes

  • Duality, String Theory and M-Theory (H. Grosse, M. Kreuzer, S. Theisen)
    Web pages of the programme
  • Confinement (W. Lucha, A. Martin, F. Schoeberl)
  • Representation Theory (V. Kac, A. Kirillov)
  • Algebraic Groups, Invariant Theory, and Applications (B. Kostant, P.W. Michor, F. Pauer, V. Popov)
  • Quantum Measurement and Information (A. Zeilinger, A. Eckert, P. Zoller)
    Included a meeting of the TMR network The Physics of Quantum Information and the conference Quantum [un]speakables in commemoration of John S. Bell
    Web page of the programme
    Web page of the conference
   Workshops and conferences outside of programmes    Senior fellows
  • Vladimir Popov, August 5 - December 31, 2000
  • Yurii A. Neretin, September 6 - December 20, 2000

 

1999

   Scientific report for the year 1999 [ PS , PDF ]

   Programmes

  • Functional Analysis (J.B. Cooper)
    included three international colloquiums with the titles "Operator Algebras" (February 12 - 14, Landschloß Orth, Austria), "Convexity" (April 9 - 11, Schloß Winberg, Kefernmarkt, Austria), and "Complex Function Theory and Functional Analysis" (June 3 - 5, St. Wolfgang, Austria)
    Web pages of the programme, including information on the workshops.
  • Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics (G. Gallavotti, H.Posch, H. Spohn)
    Web page of the programme
  • Holonomy Groups in Differential Geometry (D. Alekseevsky, K. Galicki, C. LeBrun)
    The programme opened with the "Second Meeting on Quaternionic Structures in Mathematics and Physiscs", September 6 - 10, Rome (Italy)
    Web page of the programme
    Web page of the meeting
    Proceedings of the meeting available via the electronic library of the EMS
  • Complex Analysis (F. Haslinger, H. Upmeier)
    Web page of the programme
  • Applications of Integrability (A. Alekseev, L. Faddeev, H. Grosse)
    Web page of the programme
   Workshops and conferences outside of programmes
  • 19th Winter school on geometry and physics, Srni (Czech republic), January 9 - 16, 1999
    Organized jointly with the Czech Union of Mathematicians and Physicists
    Proceedings have appeared in Suppl. Rend. Circ. Mat. Palermo, II. Ser. 63 (2000) 7-196
  • Workshop "Geometrical aspects of scattering theory", Matrei (Austria), July 5 - 12, 1999
    This workshop grew out of the two 1998 programmes "Spectral Geometry and its Applications" and "Schrödinger Operators with magnetic Fields". Abstracts of all talks, references and open problems can be found in ESI preprint 768, [ PS , PDF ].

 

1998

   Scientific report for the year 1998 [ PS , PDF ]

   Programmes

   Workshops and conferences outside of programmes
  • 18th Winter school on geometry and physics, Srni (Czech republic), January 10 - 17, 1998
    Organized jointly with the Czech Union of Mathematicians and Physicists
    Proceedings have appeared in Suppl. Rend. Circ. Mat. Palermo, II. Ser. 59 (2000) 7-228
  • Conference "Epistemological and Experimental Perspectives on Quantum Physics", Vienna, September 3 - 6
    organized jointly with the "Institut Wiener Kreis".
  • Conference "Classification of Filtrations of Stochastic Processes", Vienna, November 30 - December 4, 1998
    Organized by W. Schachermayer and K. Schmidt
    Time schedule of the conference

 

1997

   Scientific report for the year 1997 [ PS , PDF ]

   Programmes

  • Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems (A. Katok, K. Schmidt, G. Margulis)
    included the conference "Ergodic Theory, Geometry and Arithmetic", Vienna, February 3-14, 1997
    Web page of the programme
    Web page and preliminary version of the time schedule of the conference
  • Mathematic Relativity (R. Beig)
  • Spaces of Geodesics and Complex Structures in General Relativity and Differential Geometry (L. Mason, P. Nurwoski, H. Urbantke)
    Web page of the programme
  • Nonlinear Therory of Generalized Functions (M. Oberguggenberger, M. Kunzinger, M. Grosser)
    included a workshop under the same title, Vienna September 29 - October 4, 1997
    Web page of the programme
  • Local Quantum Physics (D. Buchholz, H. Narnhofer, J. Yngvason)
    included a workshop under the same title, Vienna September 29 - October 4, 1997
    Web page of the programme
    Time schedule of the workshop
   Workshops and conferences outside of programmes
  • 17th Winter school on geometry and physics, Srni (Czech republic), January 11 - 18, 1997
    Organized jointly with the Czech Union of Mathematicians and Physicists
    Proceedings have appeared in Suppl. Rend. Circ. Mat. Palermo, II. Ser. 54 (1998) 13-124
  • Conference "Formal power series and algebraic combinatorics 97", Vienna, July 14 - 18, 1997
    The 9th conference of this series organized by C. Krattenthaler

 

1996

   Scientific report for the year 1996 [ PS , PDF ]

   Programmes

  • Condensed Matter Physics - Dynamics, Geometry and Spectral Theory. (V. Bach, R. Seiler)
    The 1996 part of this programme included two workshops under the titles "Field theoretic methods for fermion systems" and "Condensed matter physics and discrete geometry".
  • Topological, conformal and integrable Field Theory (K. Gawedzki, H. Grosse)
  • Representation Theory with Applications to Mathematical Physics (I. Penkov, J.A. Wolf)
    Web page of the programme
  • Mathematical Problems of Quantum Gravity (A. Ashtekhar, P. Aichelburg)
    Web page of the programme
  • Hyperbolic Dynamical Systems with Singularities (D. Szász)
    Web page of the programme
   Workshops and conferences outside of programmes
  • 16th Winter school on geometry and physics, Srni (Czech republic), January 14 - 21, 1996
    Organized jointly with the Czech Union of Mathematicians and Physicists
    Proceedings have appeared in Suppl. Rend. Circ. Mat. Palermo, II. Ser. 46 (1997) 9-176
  • Conference "Aspects of Spectral Theory", Vienna, July 15 - 18, 1996
    Satellite conference of the European Mathematical Congress
    Programme Committee: M. Hoffmann-Ostenhof (Vienna), T. Hoffmann-Ostenhof (Vienna), H. Langer (Vienna), R. Mennicken (Regensburg)
  • Conference "Statistical mechanics as a branch of probability theory", Vienna, September 16 - 20, 1996
    dedicated to the memory of Roland L. Dobrushin
    Web page of the conference
  • Workshop "The changing Metaphysics of Science", Vienna
    organized jointly with the "Internationales Institut für Kulturwissenschaften in Wien".

 

1995

   Scientific report for the year 1995 [ PS , PDF ]

   Programmes

  • Complex Analysis (F. Haslinger)
    included a workshop with the same title, Vienna, February 20 - 24, 1995
    Collection of abstracts of all lectures of the workshop (Preprint ESI 195): [ PS , PDF ]
  • Noncommutative Differential Geometry (A. Connes, M. Dubois-Voilette, P.W. Michor)
    included a conference with the same title, Trest (Czech Republic), May 7 - 13, 1995
  • Field Theory and Differential Geometry (G. Marmo, P.W. Michor)
  • Geometry of Nonlinear Partial differential Equations (A. Vinogradov)
  • Gibbs Random Fields and Phase Transitions (R. Dobrushin, R. Kozecky)
  • Reaction-Diffusion Equations in Biological Context (K. Sigmund, R. Buerger, J. Hofbauer)
  • Condensed Matter Physics - Dynamics, Geometry and Spectral Theory. (V. Bach, R. Seiler)
    took place partly in 1995 and partly in 1996. The 1995 part included three workshops under the titles "Transport phenomena and chaos", "Heisenberg and Hubbard model", and "Singular spectra".
    Collection of abstracts of all lectures of the workshop "Singular spectra" (Preprint ESI 280): [ PS , PDF ]
   Workshops and conferences outside of programmes
  • 15th Winter school on geometry and physics, Srni (Czech republic), January 14 - 21, 1995
    Organized jointly with the Czech Union of Mathematicians and Physicists
    Proceedings have appeared in Suppl. Rend. Circ. Mat. Palermo, II. Ser. 43 (1996) 9-228
  • Workshop "Semi-Classical Limits and Kinetic Equations", Vienna, November 27 - 28, 1995
    Organized by C. Schmeiser as a preparation for a programme in 1997

 

1994

   Scientific report for the year 1994 [ PS , PDF ]

   Programmes

  • Ergodicity in Non-Commutative Algebras (H. Narnhofer)
  • Mathematical Relativity (P. Aichelburg, R. Beig)
    included a workshop with the same title, Vienna, July 25 - 29, 1994
    Collection of abstracts of all lectures of the workshop (Preprint ESI 144): [ PS , PDF ]
  • Quanternionic and Hyper-Kähler Manifolds. (D. Alekseevsky, S. Salamon) included the conference "Quaternionic Manifolds", Trieste (Italy), September 1 - 6, 1994
    Proceedings availiable via the electronic library of the EMS
  • Spinors, Twistors and Conformal Invariants (A. Trautman, V. Soucek, H. Urbantke)
    included a workshop with the same title, Vienna, September 19 - 23, 1994
  • Gibbsian Random Fields (R. Dobrushin)
    included the workshop "On the Ising Model and Around it in Eight Days", Vienna, October 17 - 24, 1994
    Collection of abstracts of all lectures of the workshop (Preprint ESI 183): [ PS , PDF ]
   Workshops and conferences outside of programmes
  • 14th Winter school on geometry and physics, Srni (Czech republic), January 15-22, 1994
    Organized jointly with the Czech Union of Mathematicians and Physicists
    Proccedings have appeared in Suppl. Rend. Circ. Mat. Palermo, II. Ser.  39 (1996) 9-148.
  • International Symposium in Honour of Boltzmann's 150th Birthday, Vienna, February 23 - 26, 1994
    List of ESI Preprints containing talks from this symposium

 

1993

   Scientific report for the year 1993 [ PS , PDF ]

   Programmes

  • Two Dimensional Quantum Field Theory (H. Grosse)
    included a workshop with the same title
  • Schrödinger Operators (T. Hofmann-Ostenhof)
    included a workshop with the same title.
    Collection of abstracts of all lectures of the workshop (Preprint ESI 088): [ PS , PDF ]
  • Differential Geometry (P.W. Michor)

 

1992

   Workshops and conferences outside of programmes
  • Conference "Interfaces between Mathematics and Physics", Vienna, March 2 - 6, 1992
    This conference took place before the actual founding of the ESI. It consisted of invited two-hour lectures.     list of lectures
  • Conference "75 years of Radon transform", Vienna, August 31 - September 4, 1992
    Organized by Simon Gindikin and Peter W. Michor.
    This conference celebrated the 75th anniversary of the publication of Johann Radon's paper on the transform which later was named after him, and which set the mathematical background for computer tomography.
    The proceedings of this conference were published, with an (auto-) biographical section at the beginning: 75 Years of Radon Transform, S. Gindikin, P. Michor (eds.), Conference Proceedings and Lecture Notes in Mathematical Physics, Vol. IV, International Press, Boston MA, 1994, ISBN 1-57146-008-X.
 
       
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