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

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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

ESI closed on July 23 and July 26, 2026 due to maintenance works

Published on July 20, 2026

Call for CECAM-ESI-Workshop

Published on June 9, 2026

The ESI Medal 2026 is awarded to Ingrid Daubechies

Published on June 1, 2026

Senior Research Fellow Lecture Course by Prof. Benedict Leimkuhler starts on April 16, 2026

Published on March 30, 2026

New SAB members in 2026

Published on March 27, 2026

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Current and Upcoming Activities

New Paradigms for Harnessing Quantum Field Theory at Colliders July 27, 2026 — Aug. 28, 2026 Thematic Programme
Individual Visiting Scientists 2026 Sept. 7, 2026 — Sept. 11, 2026 Workshop
FLINTA* in Set Theory Sept. 9, 2026 — Sept. 11, 2026 Workshop
Statistical Mechanics and Combinatorics of Discrete Planar Structures Sept. 14, 2026 — Oct. 30, 2026 Thematic Programme
ESI Medal Award Ceremony 2026 Oct. 30, 2026 — Nov. 1, 2026 Workshop

ESI Fellows Activities

Research in Teams: Quivers, VOAs, and Generalised Symmetries June 1, 2026 — Aug. 7, 2026 Research in Teams
Research in Teams: Eliminating (or correcting?) topology violations in dissipative particle Dynamics Aug. 1, 2026 — Sept. 1, 2026 Research in Teams
Priyadarshini Pandit (TIFR): Boundary Carrollian Symmetries and Null Open Strings Oct. 1, 2026 — Nov. 30, 2026 Junior Research Fellow

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Upcoming Talks

Aug 04. 2026

Energy Correlators as a New Probe of Hadron Structure Zhongbo Kang (UCLA) Aug 04. 2026, 10:00 - 10:40 Part of New Paradigms for Harnessing Quantum Field Theory at Colliders (Thematic Programme).
Generalized Detector Correlators Kyle Lee (Argonne National Laboratory) Aug 04. 2026, 11:30 - 12:10 Part of New Paradigms for Harnessing Quantum Field Theory at Colliders (Thematic Programme).

Aug 05. 2026

Collinear Factorization Violation and Reggeization Aditya Pathak (DESY Hamburg) Aug 05. 2026, 10:00 - 10:40 Part of New Paradigms for Harnessing Quantum Field Theory at Colliders (Thematic Programme).
The theory of jet quenching Varun Vaidya (U of South Dakota) Aug 05. 2026, 11:30 - 12:10 Part of New Paradigms for Harnessing Quantum Field Theory at Colliders (Thematic Programme).

Aug 06. 2026

Higher-point Energy Correlators: Factorization in the Back-to-Back Limit & Non-perturbative effects Ankita Budhraja (U of Amsterdam) Aug 06. 2026, 10:00 - 10:40 Part of New Paradigms for Harnessing Quantum Field Theory at Colliders (Thematic Programme).
Imaging Boosted Boson Jets with Energy Correlators Anjie Gao (SLAC, Menlo Park) Aug 06. 2026, 11:30 - 12:10 Part of New Paradigms for Harnessing Quantum Field Theory at Colliders (Thematic Programme).

Aug 11. 2026

QCD Factorization at Hadron Colliders Dominik Schwienbacher (U Bern) Aug 11. 2026, 10:00 - 10:40 Part of New Paradigms for Harnessing Quantum Field Theory at Colliders (Thematic Programme).
New Perspectives on Precision Nucleon Tomography Ding-Yu Shao (Fudan U, Shanghai) Aug 11. 2026, 11:30 - 12:10 Part of New Paradigms for Harnessing Quantum Field Theory at Colliders (Thematic Programme).

Aug 13. 2026

Diffraction from first principles Stella Schindler (LANL, Los Alamos) Aug 13. 2026, 10:00 - 10:40 Part of New Paradigms for Harnessing Quantum Field Theory at Colliders (Thematic Programme).