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The Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematics and Physics (ESI) is a programme-oriented research institute for mathematics and physics at the University of Vienna. Since its opening in 1993 it has been the mission of the ESI to advance research in mathematics and physics through fruitful interaction between scientists from these disciplines. [more]

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News

The ESI Medal 2025 goes to Michele Parrinello

Published on May 6, 2025

Thematic Programmes at the ESI in 2026

Published on April 17, 2025

Call for CECAM-ESI Workshops

Published on March 17, 2025

New CECAM/ESI Collaboration

Published on Feb. 3, 2025

Workshops at the ESI in 2025

Published on Jan. 14, 2025

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Current and Upcoming Activities

Entanglement in Many-body Quantum Matter: Dynamics, Dissipation, Equilibration May 12, 2025 — June 13, 2025 Thematic Programme

Individual Visiting Scientists 2025 May 15, 2025 — June 30, 2025 Individual Scientists

Research in Teams: On Parabolic Induction for General Linear Groups May 15, 2025 — May 25, 2025 Research in Teams

Research in Teams: Projective Geometry, Combinatorics and Representation Theory from Polytopes May 17, 2025 — June 25, 2025 Research in Teams

Research in Teams: Towards q-characters for quantum affine symmetric pairs June 8, 2025 — June 21, 2025 Research in Teams

Extremal Statistics in Biology June 10, 2025 — June 13, 2025 Workshop

Research in Teams: Exploring the infrared triangle beyond Lorenz Symmetry June 15, 2025 — July 15, 2025 Research in Teams

Reverse Mathematics June 23, 2025 — Aug. 29, 2025 Thematic Programme

IMO 2025 June 30, 2025 — July 4, 2025 Graduate School

Research in Teams: Waves interacting with the Antarctic Circumpolar Current July 5, 2025 — Sept. 26, 2025 Research in Teams

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Upcoming Talks

May 21. 2025

Post-measurement Quantum Monte Carlo David Luitz (U Bonn) May 21. 2025, 11:00 - 12:10 Part of Entanglement in Many-body Quantum Matter: Dynamics, Dissipation, Equilibration (Thematic Programme).

A mixed-species atom array for quantum computing and simulation Giulia Semeghini (Harvard U, Cambridge) May 21. 2025, 14:30 - 15:15 Part of Entanglement in Many-body Quantum Matter: Dynamics, Dissipation, Equilibration (Thematic Programme).

Quantum Gas Microscopy of quantum many-body systems out-of-equilibrium Monika Aidelsburger (LMU Munich) May 21. 2025, 15:45 - 16:30 Part of Entanglement in Many-body Quantum Matter: Dynamics, Dissipation, Equilibration (Thematic Programme).

May 22. 2025

TBA Philipp Hauke (U of Trento) May 22. 2025, 09:30 - 10:15 Part of Entanglement in Many-body Quantum Matter: Dynamics, Dissipation, Equilibration (Thematic Programme).

TBA Jerôme Dubail (U Strasbourg) May 22. 2025, 11:00 - 12:10 Part of Entanglement in Many-body Quantum Matter: Dynamics, Dissipation, Equilibration (Thematic Programme).

Geometric quantum drives: Hyperbolically driven quantum systems and beyond Wen Wei Ho (NUS, Singapore) May 22. 2025, 14:30 - 15:15 Part of Entanglement in Many-body Quantum Matter: Dynamics, Dissipation, Equilibration (Thematic Programme).

Neural network simulation of a spin glass dynamics transition Juan Carrasquilla (ETH Zurich) May 22. 2025, 15:45 - 16:30 Part of Entanglement in Many-body Quantum Matter: Dynamics, Dissipation, Equilibration (Thematic Programme).

May 23. 2025

Probing Non-Equilibrium Topological Order on a Quantum Processor Frank Pollmann (TU Munich) May 23. 2025, 09:30 - 10:15 Part of Entanglement in Many-body Quantum Matter: Dynamics, Dissipation, Equilibration (Thematic Programme).

Many-body cages: disorder-free glassiness from flat bands in Fock space, and many-body Rabi oscillations Roderich Moessner (MPI Dresden) May 23. 2025, 11:00 - 11:45 Part of Entanglement in Many-body Quantum Matter: Dynamics, Dissipation, Equilibration (Thematic Programme).

Bottlenecks in quantum channels and defining quantum spin glass order Tibor Rakovszky (BME, Budapest) May 23. 2025, 11:45 - 12:30 Part of Entanglement in Many-body Quantum Matter: Dynamics, Dissipation, Equilibration (Thematic Programme).