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

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

ESI Medal Award Ceremony 2024 Pictures

Published on Dec. 13, 2024

ESI Medal Award Ceremony 2024 will take place on December 6

Published on Oct. 28, 2024

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Current and Upcoming Activities

Fufa Beyene (Kotebe U of Education): The Cyclic Sieving Phenomenon (CSP) - Postponed March 1, 2025 — April 30, 2025 Junior Research Fellow

Saikat Mondal (IIT Kanpur): Carroll and large-N March 3, 2025 — May 2, 2025 Junior Research Fellow

Uniform Distribution of Sequences April 22, 2025 — April 25, 2025 Workshop

Quantum Harmonic Analysis May 5, 2025 — May 9, 2025 Workshop

Entanglement in Many-body Quantum Matter: Dynamics, Dissipation, Equilibration May 12, 2025 — June 13, 2025 Thematic Programme

Research in Teams: Projective Geometry, Combinatorics and Representation Theory from Polytopes May 17, 2025 — June 25, 2025 Research in Teams

Individual Visiting Scientists 2025 May 27, 2025 — June 27, 2025 Individual Scientists

Research in Teams: Towards q-characters for quantum affine symmetric pairs June 8, 2025 — June 21, 2025 Research in Teams

Extremal Statistics in Biology June 10, 2025 — June 13, 2025 Workshop

Research in Teams: Exploring the infrared triangle beyond Lorenz Symmetry June 15, 2025 — July 15, 2025 Research in Teams

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Upcoming Talks

May 05. 2025

Discrete Time-Frequency Analysis via MATLAB Hans G. Feichtinger (U of Vienna) May 05. 2025, 11:15 - 12:00 Part of Quantum Harmonic Analysis (Workshop).

Spectral deviation of Toeplitz operators on vector-valued reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces Michael Speckbacher (Acoustics Research Institute, Vienna) May 05. 2025, 13:30 - 14:00 Part of Quantum Harmonic Analysis (Workshop).

A large sieve principle for the operator STFT with applications to Cohen's class Erling Svela (NTNU, Trondheim) May 05. 2025, 14:00 - 14:30 Part of Quantum Harmonic Analysis (Workshop).

Approximation properties and characterization of operator coorbit spaces Lukas Köhldorfer (Acoustics Research Institute, Vienna) May 05. 2025, 14:30 - 15:00 Part of Quantum Harmonic Analysis (Workshop).

Classical phase space representations of density operators with classical and quantum Gabor transforms Luis Daniel Abreu (U of Vienna) May 05. 2025, 15:30 - 16:30 Part of Quantum Harmonic Analysis (Workshop).

New classes of hermitian algebras Are Austad (U Oslo) May 05. 2025, 16:30 - 17:00 Part of Quantum Harmonic Analysis (Workshop).

May 06. 2025

WIGNER ANALYSIS OF OPERATORS. CONTROLLING GHOST FREQUENCIES Elena Cordero (U Torino) May 06. 2025, 09:30 - 10:30 Part of Quantum Harmonic Analysis (Workshop).

Understanding of linear operators through Wigner analysis Edoardo Pucci (U Torino) May 06. 2025, 11:00 - 11:30 Part of Quantum Harmonic Analysis (Workshop).

Fourier-Wigner multipliers in Quantum Harmonic Analysis Helge Jørgen Samuelsen (NTNU, Trondheim) May 06. 2025, 11:30 - 12:00 Part of Quantum Harmonic Analysis (Workshop).

Heisenberg-smooth operators and QHA Robert Fulsche (Leibniz U Hannover) May 06. 2025, 14:00 - 15:00 Part of Quantum Harmonic Analysis (Workshop).