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]
ESI on YouTube
ESI on Bluesky
ESI on Instagram
News
Senior Research Fellow Lecture Course by Prof. Benedict Leimkuhler starts on April 16, 2026Published on March 30, 2026
New SAB members in 2026Published on March 27, 2026
New directorate of the ESI appointedPublished on March 9, 2026
Senior Research Fellow Lecture Course by Prof. Joachim Escher starts on March 3, 2026Published on Feb. 27, 2026
Thematic Programmes at the ESI in 2027Published on Feb. 26, 2026
[All news entries]
If you are interested in applying for an ESI activity, please check out the links below:
Current and Upcoming Activities
-
Benedict Leimkuhler (U of Edinburgh): Langevin Sampling Algorithms
April 13, 2026 — May 31, 2026
SRF Course
-
Differential Complexes: Theory, Discretization, and Applications
April 20, 2026 — June 5, 2026
Thematic Programme
-
Gilles Vilmart (U of Geneva): High-order sampling of the invariant distribution of ergodic stochastic dynamics: preconditioning and postprocessing
May 27, 2026, 15:00 — 16:00
Lecture
-
Joachim Escher (Leibniz U of Hannover): Fluid Mechanics, covering Rotational Water Waves and Rayleigh-Taylor Instabilities for Potential Flows
June 1, 2026 — June 20, 2026
SRF Course
-
Applications of Tomographic Methods
June 8, 2026 — June 12, 2026
Workshop
ESI Fellows Activities
-
Research in Teams: Aperiodic Order and Complexity in Substitution Base Systems
April 27, 2026 — May 10, 2026
Research in Teams
-
Beatrice Balzarotti (U of Milan): Nonlocal-to-local convergence results for Cahn-Hilliard equations
May 1, 2026 — June 30, 2026
Junior Research Fellow
-
Priyadarshini Pandit (TIFR): Boundary Carrollian Symmetries and Null Open Strings
May 1, 2026 — June 30, 2026
Junior Research Fellow
-
Research in Teams: O-Minimality in Interaction
May 25, 2026 — July 5, 2026
Research in Teams
-
Research in Teams: Convergence of Lorentzian Spaces
June 1, 2026 — June 30, 2026
Research in Teams
Upcoming Talks
-
May 08. 2026
- A Riemannian version of the BGG construction Andreas Cap (U of Vienna) May 08. 2026, 10:45 - 11:30 Part of Differential Complexes: Theory, Discretization, and Applications (Thematic Programme).
- Compatibility complex for the conformal-to-Einstein operator Igor Khavkine (IM CAS, Prague) May 08. 2026, 11:30 - 12:15 Part of Differential Complexes: Theory, Discretization, and Applications (Thematic Programme).
-
May 18. 2026
- The bubble transform, a tool for analyzing finite element methods of high polynomial degree Ragnar Winther (U Oslo) May 18. 2026, 09:30 - 10:15 Part of Differential Complexes: Theory, Discretization, and Applications (Thematic Programme).
- The TDNNS method in ferroelectric material modeling Astrid Pechstein (JKU, Linz) May 18. 2026, 10:45 - 11:30 Part of Differential Complexes: Theory, Discretization, and Applications (Thematic Programme).
- Structure-preserving discretisation of SO(3)-rotation fields for finite Cosserat elasticity Adam Sky (U of Luxembourg) May 18. 2026, 11:30 - 12:15 Part of Differential Complexes: Theory, Discretization, and Applications (Thematic Programme).
- The Discrete De Rham method Daniele Di Pietro (Université de Montpellier) May 18. 2026, 14:00 - 14:45 Part of Differential Complexes: Theory, Discretization, and Applications (Thematic Programme).
- Continuous vs. fully discrete analysis: principles, and application to Discrete De Rham scheme for Stokes equations Jerome Droniou (CNRS, IMAG) May 18. 2026, 14:45 - 15:30 Part of Differential Complexes: Theory, Discretization, and Applications (Thematic Programme).
- Geometric Decompositions of Finite Element Spaces and Complexes Long Chen (UC Irvine) May 18. 2026, 16:00 - 16:45 Part of Differential Complexes: Theory, Discretization, and Applications (Thematic Programme).
-
May 19. 2026
- A simple and general framework for the construction of exactly div-curl-grad compatible discontinuous Galerkin finite element schemes on unstructured simplex meshes Michael Dumbser (U of Trento) May 19. 2026, 09:30 - 10:15 Part of Differential Complexes: Theory, Discretization, and Applications (Thematic Programme).
- Approximation of spectra of advection-diffusion problems for differential forms Daniele Boffi (KAUST, Thuwal) May 19. 2026, 10:45 - 11:30 Part of Differential Complexes: Theory, Discretization, and Applications (Thematic Programme).