The Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematics and Physics (ESI)
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Faculty of Mathematics
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Welcome to the ESI

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

Individual Visiting Scientists 2025 Sept. 9, 2025 — Oct. 17, 2025 Individual Scientists
Research in Teams: Waves interacting with the Antarctic Circumpolar Current Sept. 15, 2025 — Sept. 26, 2025 Research in Teams
Putting the Cosmic Large-scale Structure on the Map: Theory Meets Numerics Sept. 22, 2025 — Sept. 26, 2025 Workshop
Free Boundary Problems Sept. 29, 2025 — Dec. 19, 2025 Thematic Programme
Fufa Beyene (Kotebe U of Education): The Cyclic Sieving Phenomenon (CSP) Oct. 1, 2025 — Nov. 30, 2025 Junior Research Fellow
IMO 2025 Oct. 25, 2025 — Oct. 31, 2025 Graduate School
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 Symposium
Quantum Many-body Systems and Bose-Einstein Condensation: A Mathematical Physics Perspective Nov. 24, 2025 — Nov. 28, 2025 Workshop
Research in Teams: Towards q-characters for quantum affine symmetric pairs Jan. 11, 2026 — Jan. 24, 2026 Research in Teams

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Upcoming Talks

Sep 22. 2025

Projected clustering: the information in N-point statistics David Alonso (U Oxford) Sep 22. 2025, 10:00 - 10:20 Part of Putting the Cosmic Large-scale Structure on the Map: Theory Meets Numerics (Workshop).
Field-Level BAO Reconstruction and Beyond Adrian E. Bayer (Princeton U) Sep 22. 2025, 10:20 - 10:40 Part of Putting the Cosmic Large-scale Structure on the Map: Theory Meets Numerics (Workshop).
4-point correlation function measurement from DESI Y1 Jiamin Hou (U of Cambridge) Sep 22. 2025, 10:40 - 11:00 Part of Putting the Cosmic Large-scale Structure on the Map: Theory Meets Numerics (Workshop).
Measuring dark energy without prior-volume effects Chiara Moretti (SISSA, Trieste) Sep 22. 2025, 11:00 - 11:20 Part of Putting the Cosmic Large-scale Structure on the Map: Theory Meets Numerics (Workshop).
Accelerated forward modelling of dark matter dynamics: ML-safety and perfect parallelism Florent Leclercq (IAP, Paris) Sep 22. 2025, 11:20 - 11:40 Part of Putting the Cosmic Large-scale Structure on the Map: Theory Meets Numerics (Workshop).
Perturbative Forward-Modeling of Galaxy Surveys for Field-Level Cosmology Julia Stadler (MPI for Astrophysics, Garching) Sep 22. 2025, 14:00 - 14:20 Part of Putting the Cosmic Large-scale Structure on the Map: Theory Meets Numerics (Workshop).
Do we really gain from field-level inference? A comparison with joint power spectrum and bispectrum analysis Kazuyuki Akitsu (KEK, Tsukuba) Sep 22. 2025, 14:20 - 14:40 Part of Putting the Cosmic Large-scale Structure on the Map: Theory Meets Numerics (Workshop).

Sep 23. 2025

Differentiable modeling of the Universe in the age of machine learning Yin Li (PCL) Sep 23. 2025, 09:00 - 09:20 Part of Putting the Cosmic Large-scale Structure on the Map: Theory Meets Numerics (Workshop).
Implicit vs Explicity field level inference Carolina Cuesta-Lazaro (Harvard U, Cambridge) Sep 23. 2025, 09:20 - 09:40 Part of Putting the Cosmic Large-scale Structure on the Map: Theory Meets Numerics (Workshop).
HalfDome Cosmological Simulations Jia Liu (Kavli IPMU) Sep 23. 2025, 09:40 - 10:00 Part of Putting the Cosmic Large-scale Structure on the Map: Theory Meets Numerics (Workshop).