The Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematics and Physics (ESI)
Faculty of Mathemtaics
Faculty of Mathematics
Faculty of Physics

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

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

New CECAM/ESI Collaboration

Published on Feb. 3, 2025

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Current and Upcoming Activities

Individual Visiting Scientists 2025 Sept. 9, 2025 — Oct. 17, 2025 Individual Scientists
Free Boundary Problems Sept. 29, 2025 — Dec. 19, 2025 Thematic Programme
Fufa Beyene (Kotebe U of Education): The Cyclic Sieving Phenomenon (CSP) Oct. 10, 2025 — Dec. 8, 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, 14:00 — 14:15 Symposium
Erwin Schrödinger Lecture by Magdalene und Martin Gronau (ZfL Berlin): Überschrittene Grenzen. Erwin Schrödinger und die Herausforderungen der Wissenschaftsbiografik Nov. 12, 2025 Lecture
Quantum Many-body Systems and Bose-Einstein Condensation: A Mathematical Physics Perspective Nov. 24, 2025 — Nov. 28, 2025 Workshop
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

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Upcoming Talks

Oct 03. 2025

Optimal rates for Mullins-Sekerka relaxation Wenhui Shi (RWTH Aachen) Oct 03. 2025, 09:30 - 10:30 Part of Free Boundary Problems (Thematic Programme).
Boundary continuity of nonlocal minimal surfaces in domains with singularities Enrico Valdinoci (UWA, Perth) Oct 03. 2025, 11:00 - 12:00 Part of Free Boundary Problems (Thematic Programme).