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

ESI Medal Award Ceremony 2024 will take place on December 6

Published on Oct. 28, 2024

Erwin Schrödinger Lecture by Prof. Martina Krämer (U of Mainz), Oct. 23, 2024

Published on Oct. 14, 2024

Senior Research Fellow Lecture Course of this term by Prof. Thomas Strobl starts on October 16, 2024

Published on Oct. 11, 2024

We welcome our new member of the ESI Kollegium, Professor Norbert Schuch, Faculty of Physics

Published on Oct. 1, 2024

Submission deadline for proposals for thematic programmes in 2026: October 1, 2024

Published on Sept. 24, 2024

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Current and Upcoming Activities

Research in Teams: Entropy methods for evolutionary systems: Analysis and Numerics Dec. 8, 2024 — Dec. 20, 2024 Research in Teams
Lensing and Wave Optics in Strong Gravity Dec. 9, 2024 — Dec. 13, 2024 Workshop
Research in Teams: Towards a Noncommutative Geometrical Approach to BV Quantisation Dec. 16, 2024 — Dec. 20, 2024 Research in Teams
Research in Teams: Improving the Precision of Predictions for Event-Shape Distributions Jan. 3, 2025 — Feb. 28, 2025 Research in Teams
Isao Sauzedde (U of Warwick): Jan. 5, 2025 — March 5, 2025 Junior Research Fellow
Research in Teams: On Parabolic Induction for General Linear Groups Jan. 8, 2025 — Jan. 22, 2025 Research in Teams
Infinite-dimensional Geometry: Theory and Applications Jan. 13, 2025 — Feb. 14, 2025 Thematic Programme
Research in Teams: Weyl Pseudodifferential Calculus with Applications Feb. 1, 2025 — Feb. 28, 2025 Research in Teams
Recent Perspectives on Non-crossing Partitions through Algebra, Combinatorics, and Probability Feb. 17, 2025 — Feb. 21, 2025 Workshop
Degenerate and Singular PDEs Feb. 24, 2025 — Feb. 28, 2025 Workshop

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Upcoming Talks

Dec 09. 2024

M87* and Sgr A*: Imaging supermassive black holes Luciano Rezzolla (Goethe U Frankfurt) Dec 09. 2024, 09:30 - 10:30 Part of Lensing and Wave Optics in Strong Gravity (Workshop).
Gravitational Wave Lensing: Current Searches and Future Prospects Jose M. Ezquiaga (NBI, Copenhagen) Dec 09. 2024, 11:15 - 12:15 Part of Lensing and Wave Optics in Strong Gravity (Workshop).
Gaussian beams and caustic avoidance Nezihe Uzun (CFT PAN) Dec 09. 2024, 14:30 - 15:00 Part of Lensing and Wave Optics in Strong Gravity (Workshop).
Exact wave-optical imaging of black hole spacetimes Felix Willenborg (ZARM, Bremen) Dec 09. 2024, 16:00 - 16:30 Part of Lensing and Wave Optics in Strong Gravity (Workshop).

Dec 10. 2024

Black holes as laboratories: searching for ultralight fields Richard Brito (IST Lisboa) Dec 10. 2024, 09:00 - 09:30 Part of Lensing and Wave Optics in Strong Gravity (Workshop).
Bi-local approach to geometrical optics in GR Mikołaj Korzyński (CFT PAN) Dec 10. 2024, 09:45 - 10:15 Part of Lensing and Wave Optics in Strong Gravity (Workshop).
Gravitational wave lensing in the deep wave-optics regime: results and future directions Giulia Cusin (IAP) Dec 10. 2024, 11:00 - 11:30 Part of Lensing and Wave Optics in Strong Gravity (Workshop).
The Black Hole Photon Ring Alex Lupsasca (Vanderbilt U, Nashville) Dec 10. 2024, 11:45 - 12:15 Part of Lensing and Wave Optics in Strong Gravity (Workshop).
Multi-messenger gravitational lensing and the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Graham Smith (U of Birmingham) Dec 10. 2024, 14:30 - 15:00 Part of Lensing and Wave Optics in Strong Gravity (Workshop).
Analytical Studies of Higher-Order Photon Rings in the Images of Spherically Symmetric Black Holes Oleg Tsupko (ZARM, Bremen) Dec 10. 2024, 16:00 - 16:30 Part of Lensing and Wave Optics in Strong Gravity (Workshop).