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]

News

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

Workshops at the ESI in 2025

Published on Jan. 14, 2025

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If you are interested in applying for an ESI activity, please check out the links below:

Current and Upcoming Activities

Individual Visiting Scientists 2025 May 15, 2025 — July 19, 2025 Individual Scientists
Research in Teams: Exploring the infrared triangle beyond Lorenz Symmetry June 15, 2025 — July 15, 2025 Research in Teams
Reverse Mathematics June 23, 2025 — Aug. 29, 2025 Thematic Programme
IMO 2025 June 30, 2025 — July 4, 2025 Graduate School
Research in Teams: Waves interacting with the Antarctic Circumpolar Current July 5, 2025 — July 25, 2025 Research in Teams
ISAPP2025: Gravitational Waves: From Theory to Detection July 7, 2025 — July 18, 2025 Graduate School
Eisenstein Series, Spaces of Automorphic Forms, and Applications Sept. 1, 2025 — Sept. 5, 2025 Workshop
Charged Soft Matter: Bridging Theory and Experiment Sept. 8, 2025 — Sept. 12, 2025 Workshop
Putting the Cosmic Large-scale Structure on the Map: Theory Meets Numerics Sept. 22, 2025 — Sept. 26, 2025 Workshop
Free Boundary Problems Sept. 29, 2025 — Dec. 19, 2025 Thematic Programme

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Upcoming Talks

Jul 03. 2025

On the Luzin-Novikov theorem Miroslav Zeleny (Charles U, Prague) Jul 03. 2025, 09:30 - 10:15 Part of Reverse Mathematics (Thematic Programme).
Analysis of HOD for Admissible Structures Jan Kruschewski (TU Wien) Jul 03. 2025, 10:45 - 11:30 Part of Reverse Mathematics (Thematic Programme).
Classical versions of effective Borel uniformizations Vassilios Gregoriades (National and Technical U of Athens) Jul 03. 2025, 11:30 - 12:15 Part of Reverse Mathematics (Thematic Programme).

Jul 04. 2025

Higher Type Recursion in Transfinite Computational models Philip Welch (U Bristol) Jul 04. 2025, 10:15 - 11:00 Part of Reverse Mathematics (Thematic Programme).
Generic Muchnik reducibility Joseph Miller (U of Wisconsin-Madison) Jul 04. 2025, 11:30 - 12:15 Part of Reverse Mathematics (Thematic Programme).
Some reducibilities in computability theory Selwyn Ng (NTU Singapore) Jul 04. 2025, 12:15 - 13:00 Part of Reverse Mathematics (Thematic Programme).

Jul 07. 2025

Introduction to Gravitational Waves, Lecture 1 Clifford M. Will (U of Florida, Gainesville) Jul 07. 2025, 13:30 - 14:50 Part of ISAPP2025: Gravitational Waves: From Theory to Detection (Graduate School).
Introduction to Gravitational Waves, Lecture 2 Clifford M. Will (U of Florida, Gainesville) Jul 07. 2025, 15:20 - 16:40 Part of ISAPP2025: Gravitational Waves: From Theory to Detection (Graduate School).

Jul 08. 2025

Multimessenger Astronomy, Lecture 1 Zoltan Haiman (ISTA, Klosterneuburg) Jul 08. 2025, 09:00 - 10:20 Part of ISAPP2025: Gravitational Waves: From Theory to Detection (Graduate School).
Gravitational Wave Detectors, Lecture 1 Jessica Steinlechner (U of Maastricht) Jul 08. 2025, 10:50 - 12:10 Part of ISAPP2025: Gravitational Waves: From Theory to Detection (Graduate School).