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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Current and Upcoming Activities

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): Gauge theory and Gaussian multiplicative chaos Jan. 5, 2025 — March 5, 2025 Junior Research Fellow
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
Fufa Beyene (Kotebe U of Education): The Cyclic Sieving Phenomenon (CSP) 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
Research in Teams: On Parabolic Induction for General Linear Groups March 12, 2025 — March 26, 2025 Research in Teams
Structures in Banach Spaces March 17, 2025 — March 21, 2025 Workshop

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Upcoming Talks

Feb 13. 2025

Poisson structures and isospectral matrices Alice Barbara Tumpach (WPI, Vienna) Feb 13. 2025, 09:00 - 09:30 Part of Infinite-dimensional Geometry: Theory and Applications (Thematic Programme).
Geometric Statistics with applications in Computational anatomy Xavier Pennec (INRIA at U Côte d'Azur) Feb 13. 2025, 09:30 - 10:30 Part of Infinite-dimensional Geometry: Theory and Applications (Thematic Programme).
Circle Patterns: Geometry, Analysis, and Applications Pooran Memari (CNRS LIX, Paris) Feb 13. 2025, 11:00 - 12:00 Part of Infinite-dimensional Geometry: Theory and Applications (Thematic Programme).
Transverse Symplectic Foliation Structure for Thermodynamics-Informed Neural Network and Lie-Groups Machine Learning Frédéric Barbaresco (Thalesgroup, Palaiseau) Feb 13. 2025, 14:00 - 15:00 Part of Infinite-dimensional Geometry: Theory and Applications (Thematic Programme).

Feb 14. 2025

Geometry of single-cell trajectories Elodie Maignant (Zuse, Berlin) Feb 14. 2025, 10:05 - 10:30 Part of Infinite-dimensional Geometry: Theory and Applications (Thematic Programme).
Geometric Statistics with applications in Computational anatomy Xavier Pennec (INRIA at U Côte d'Azur) Feb 14. 2025, 11:00 - 12:00 Part of Infinite-dimensional Geometry: Theory and Applications (Thematic Programme).
Geometric Learning via data-efficient PDE-G-CNNs: Training of Association Fields Remco Duits (TU Eindhoven) Feb 14. 2025, 13:30 - 14:30 Part of Infinite-dimensional Geometry: Theory and Applications (Thematic Programme).
Train-Free Segmentation in MRI with Cubical Persistent Homology Raphaël Tinarrage (ISTA) Feb 14. 2025, 14:35 - 15:00 Part of Infinite-dimensional Geometry: Theory and Applications (Thematic Programme).
The Sampling - Reconstruction Dual Stefan Ohrhallinger (TU Vienna) Feb 14. 2025, 15:30 - 16:30 Part of Infinite-dimensional Geometry: Theory and Applications (Thematic Programme).

Feb 17. 2025

Non-crossing partitions and combinatorics, from random matrices to free cumulants to parking functions Philippe Biane (U Gustave Eiffel, Champs-sur-Marne) Feb 17. 2025, 09:30 - 10:15 Part of Recent Perspectives on Non-crossing Partitions through Algebra, Combinatorics, and Probability (Workshop).