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
The ESI Medal 2026 is awarded to Ingrid DaubechiesPublished on June 1, 2026
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
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If you are interested in applying for an ESI activity, please check out the links below:
Current and Upcoming Activities
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Differential Complexes: Theory, Discretization, and Applications
April 20, 2026 — June 5, 2026
Thematic Programme
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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
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Applications of Tomographic Methods
June 8, 2026 — June 12, 2026
Workshop
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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Toric Geometry: Bridging Mathematics, Computation, and String Theory
June 15, 2026 — July 17, 2026
Thematic Programme
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Analysis and Applications
June 22, 2026 — June 26, 2026
Graduate School
ESI Fellows Activities
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Beatrice Balzarotti (U of Milan): Nonlocal-to-local convergence results for Cahn-Hilliard equations
May 1, 2026 — June 30, 2026
Junior Research Fellow
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Research in Teams: O-Minimality in Interaction
May 25, 2026 — July 5, 2026
Research in Teams
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Research in Teams: Convergence of Lorentzian Spaces
June 1, 2026 — June 30, 2026
Research in Teams
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Research in Teams: Quivers, VOAs, and Generalised Symmetries
June 1, 2026 — Aug. 7, 2026
Research in Teams
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Research in Teams: Eliminating (or correcting?) topology violations in dissipative particle Dynamics
Aug. 1, 2026 — Sept. 1, 2026
Research in Teams
Upcoming Talks
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Jun 08. 2026
- Mathematical Analysis on the Limitation of Bone Density Mineral Measurement by X-Ray Ming Jiang (Peking U) Jun 08. 2026, 10:00 - 10:30 Part of Applications of Tomographic Methods (Workshop).
- A self-adjoint model for iQuad wavefront sensing in adaptive optics Victoria Laidlaw (JKU, Linz) Jun 08. 2026, 10:40 - 11:10 Part of Applications of Tomographic Methods (Workshop).
- Spherical means and regularization in distribution spaces Thomas Schuster (U of Saarland) Jun 08. 2026, 15:10 - 15:40 Part of Applications of Tomographic Methods (Workshop).
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Jun 09. 2026
- MINFLUX for dynamic structural cell biology Jonas Ries (U of Vienna) Jun 09. 2026, 09:00 - 09:30 Part of Applications of Tomographic Methods (Workshop).
- Faster Sampling for Bayesian Inverse Imaging Problems Andreas Habring (TU Graz) Jun 09. 2026, 09:40 - 10:10 Part of Applications of Tomographic Methods (Workshop).
- Quantitative passive imaging using cross-correlation data for helioseismology Florian Faucher (Inria) Jun 09. 2026, 14:10 - 14:40 Part of Applications of Tomographic Methods (Workshop).
- One shot inverse scattering revisited Martin Hanke (U Mainz) Jun 09. 2026, 15:10 - 15:40 Part of Applications of Tomographic Methods (Workshop).
- Diffraction Tomography with Generalized Incident Fields Noemi Naujoks (U of Vienna) Jun 09. 2026, 16:00 - 16:45 Part of Applications of Tomographic Methods (Workshop).
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Jun 10. 2026
- Flowing Cells, Label-Free 3D Imaging: Progress in Holographic Tomography Pietro Ferraro (CNR - ISASI) Jun 10. 2026, 09:00 - 09:30 Part of Applications of Tomographic Methods (Workshop).
- Optical Near-field Electron Microscopy (ONEM): Damage-free, label-free super-resolution imaging of interfaces Thomas Juffmann (U of Vienna) Jun 10. 2026, 10:40 - 11:10 Part of Applications of Tomographic Methods (Workshop).