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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

Erwin Schrödinger Lecture by Magdalena Gronau und Martin Gronau (ZfL, Berlin), Nov 12, 2025

Published on Oct. 15, 2025

ESI Medal Award Ceremony 2025 will take place on November 7

Published on Oct. 1, 2025

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

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Current and Upcoming Activities

Free Boundary Problems Sept. 29, 2025 — Dec. 19, 2025 Thematic Programme

Yoshihiro Tonegawa (Inst. of Science Tokyo): Introduction to Brakke's Mean Curvature Flow Oct. 26, 2025 — Nov. 15, 2025 SRF Course

ESI Medal Award Ceremony 2025 Nov. 7, 2025, 14:00 — 14:15 Symposium

Erwin Schrödinger Lecture by Magdalena und Martin Gronau (ZfL Berlin): Überschrittene Grenzen. Erwin Schrödinger und die Herausforderungen der Wissenschaftsbiografik Nov. 12, 2025, 17:30 — 19:00 Lecture

Quantum Many-body Systems and Bose-Einstein Condensation: A Mathematical Physics Perspective Nov. 24, 2025 — Nov. 28, 2025 Workshop

ESI Fellows Activities

Fufa Beyene (Kotebe U of Education): The Cyclic Sieving Phenomenon (CSP) Oct. 10, 2025 — Dec. 8, 2025 Junior Research Fellow

Research in Teams: Waves interacting with the Antarctic Circumpolar Current Dec. 1, 2025 — Dec. 23, 2025 Research in Teams

Research in Teams: Towards q-characters for quantum affine symmetric pairs Jan. 11, 2026 — Jan. 24, 2026 Research in Teams

Research in Teams: Gabor frames in Higher Dimensions April 6, 2026 — May 5, 2026 Research in Teams

Priyadarshini Pandit (Indian I of Technology Kanpur): May 1, 2026 — June 30, 2026 Junior Research Fellow

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Upcoming Talks

Nov 10. 2025

Quantitative estimates for the Dirichlet energy Melanie Rupflin (U Oxford) Nov 10. 2025, 09:15 - 09:55 Part of Free Boundary Problems (Thematic Programme).

A (tentative) phase-field approach for the curvature flow of non-oriented boundaries Antonin Chambolle (CEREMADE, Paris) Nov 10. 2025, 09:55 - 10:35 Part of Free Boundary Problems (Thematic Programme).

Periodic tilings with minimal energy Annalisa Cesaroni (U Padova) Nov 10. 2025, 11:00 - 11:40 Part of Free Boundary Problems (Thematic Programme).

Isoperimetric planar Tilings with unequal cells Francesco Nobili (U Pisa) Nov 10. 2025, 11:40 - 12:20 Part of Free Boundary Problems (Thematic Programme).

Rigidity of critical points of hydrophobic capillary functionals Antonio De Rosa (U Bocconi, Milano) Nov 10. 2025, 14:00 - 14:40 Part of Free Boundary Problems (Thematic Programme).

Generic regularity of area minimising hypersurfaces up to dimension 11 Felix Schulze (U Warwick) Nov 10. 2025, 14:40 - 15:20 Part of Free Boundary Problems (Thematic Programme).

Regularity estimates of a fluid-free surface evolution Sebastian Schwarzacher (Uppsala U) Nov 10. 2025, 15:45 - 16:15 Part of Free Boundary Problems (Thematic Programme).

Obstacle problems for elastic membranes – Existence, regularity, and rigidity Fabian Rupp (U of Vienna) Nov 10. 2025, 16:15 - 16:45 Part of Free Boundary Problems (Thematic Programme).

Nov 11. 2025

Sharp Interface Limit of a Navier-Stokes/Allen-Cahn System with Vanishing Mobility Helmut Abels (U of Regensburg) Nov 11. 2025, 09:00 - 09:40 Part of Free Boundary Problems (Thematic Programme).

On Minimal and Capillary Surfaces with Bounded Slopes José Francisco Rodrigues (U Lisbon) Nov 11. 2025, 09:40 - 10:20 Part of Free Boundary Problems (Thematic Programme).