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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

New Members of the ESI Board 2026

Published on Jan. 26, 2026

The World in One Line – Schrödinger’s Equation Turns 100: Symposium January 22 & 23, 2026

Published on Dec. 16, 2025

ESI Medal Award Ceremony 2025 Pictures

Published on Nov. 18, 2025

Interview with Magdalena Gronau available at the Ö1 podcast

Published on Nov. 14, 2025

Erwin Schrödinger Lecture by Magdalena und Martin Gronau (ZfL, Berlin), Nov 12, 2025

Published on Oct. 15, 2025

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Current and Upcoming Activities

Probabilistic Mass Transport - from Schrödinger to Stochastic Analysis Feb. 9, 2026 — Feb. 13, 2026 Workshop

Amplitudes and Algebraic Geometry Feb. 16, 2026 — March 27, 2026 Thematic Programme

Joachim Escher (Leibniz U of Hannover): Fluid Mechanics, covering Rotational Water Waves and Rayleigh-Taylor Instabilities for Potential Flows March 1, 2026 — June 30, 2026 SRF Course

Benedict Leimkuhler (U of Edinburgh): Langevin Sampling Algorithms April 13, 2026 — May 31, 2026 SRF Course

Random Matrices and Operators April 13, 2026 — April 17, 2026 Workshop

ESI Fellows Activities

Lea Mele (UMONS): Carrollian higher-spin holography March 1, 2026 — April 30, 2026 Junior Research Fellow

Research in Teams: Aperiodic Order and Complexity in Substitution Base Systems March 9, 2026 — May 10, 2026 Research in Teams

Research in Teams: Gabor frames in Higher Dimensions April 6, 2026 — May 5, 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

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Upcoming Talks

Feb 10. 2026

Entropic regularisation and Optimal Martingale Transport Jean-David Benamou (INRIA Paris) Feb 10. 2026, 09:30 - 10:05 Part of Probabilistic Mass Transport - from Schrödinger to Stochastic Analysis (Workshop).

Markov Decision Processes of the Third Kind: Learning Distributions by Policy Gradient Descent Nicole Bäuerle (KIT, Karlsruhe) Feb 10. 2026, 10:35 - 11:10 Part of Probabilistic Mass Transport - from Schrödinger to Stochastic Analysis (Workshop).

Preference robust distortion risk measures Carole Bernard (Vrije U Brussels) Feb 10. 2026, 11:10 - 11:45 Part of Probabilistic Mass Transport - from Schrödinger to Stochastic Analysis (Workshop).

Football Model, Martingale and Entropic Optimal Transport Nicolas Juillet (U of Haute-Alsace) Feb 10. 2026, 13:40 - 14:15 Part of Probabilistic Mass Transport - from Schrödinger to Stochastic Analysis (Workshop).

Optimal transport for point processes Martin Huesmann (U Münster) Feb 10. 2026, 14:15 - 14:50 Part of Probabilistic Mass Transport - from Schrödinger to Stochastic Analysis (Workshop).

Scaling Limits for Exponential Hedging in the Brownian Framework Yan Dolinsky (HU of Jerusalem) Feb 10. 2026, 15:20 - 15:55 Part of Probabilistic Mass Transport - from Schrödinger to Stochastic Analysis (Workshop).

Kinetic Optimal Transport Giovanni Brigati (ISTA, Klosterneuburg) Feb 10. 2026, 15:55 - 16:30 Part of Probabilistic Mass Transport - from Schrödinger to Stochastic Analysis (Workshop).

Feb 11. 2026

Geodesic convexity and strengthened functional inequalities on submanifolds of Wasserstein space Daniel Lacker (Columbia U, New York) Feb 11. 2026, 09:30 - 10:05 Part of Probabilistic Mass Transport - from Schrödinger to Stochastic Analysis (Workshop).

Adapted optimal transport: the Gaussian case Ting-Kam Leonard Wong (U Toronto) Feb 11. 2026, 10:35 - 11:10 Part of Probabilistic Mass Transport - from Schrödinger to Stochastic Analysis (Workshop).

G-causal Optimal Transport Vlad Tuchilus (U of Oxford) Feb 11. 2026, 11:10 - 11:45 Part of Probabilistic Mass Transport - from Schrödinger to Stochastic Analysis (Workshop).