Activities

The Institute's scientific activities are centered around four to six main thematic programmes per year complemented by several workshops and individual lectures organized on short notice. Participation in thematic programmes and workshops is by invitation only.

To support the scientific education of graduate students and young researchers, the ESI regularly offers lecture courses at advanced graduate level held by so-called Senior Research Fellows. In addition, there are summer and winter schools in research areas of topical interest.

In 2012, the ESI has moreover initiated the Research in Teams programme offering individual visiting positions for teams of two to four researchers on application basis.

Since June 2016 the Junior Research Fellowship Programme supports external or local graduate students and recent postdocs.

For more information on the individual programmes and the application procedure, please select the activity you are interested in in the above menu.

On the right hand side you can find a list of all current and upcoming activities. To see the past activities, please use the link at the bottom.

Current and Upcoming

Individual Visiting Scientists 2025 Sept. 9, 2025 — Oct. 17, 2025 Individual Scientists
Free Boundary Problems Sept. 29, 2025 — Dec. 19, 2025 Thematic Programme
Fufa Beyene (Kotebe U of Education): The Cyclic Sieving Phenomenon (CSP) Oct. 10, 2025 — Dec. 8, 2025 Junior Research Fellow
IMO 2025 Oct. 25, 2025 — Oct. 31, 2025 Graduate School
Yoshihiro Tonegawa (Inst. of Science Tokyo): Introduction to Brakke's Mean Curvature Flow Oct. 26, 2025 — Nov. 15, 2025 SRF Course
ESI Medal Award Ceremony 2025 Nov. 7, 2025, 14:00 — 14:15 Symposium
Erwin Schrödinger Lecture by Magdalene und Martin Gronau (ZfL Berlin): Überschrittene Grenzen. Erwin Schrödinger und die Herausforderungen der Wissenschaftsbiografik Nov. 12, 2025 Lecture
Quantum Many-body Systems and Bose-Einstein Condensation: A Mathematical Physics Perspective Nov. 24, 2025 — Nov. 28, 2025 Workshop
Research in Teams: Waves interacting with the Antarctic Circumpolar Current Dec. 1, 2025 — Dec. 23, 2025 Research in Teams
Research in Teams: Towards q-characters for quantum affine symmetric pairs Jan. 11, 2026 — Jan. 24, 2026 Research in Teams
Hyperboloidal Foliations and their Application Jan. 12, 2026 — Jan. 16, 2026 Workshop
The World in One Line – Schrödinger’s Equation Turns 100 Jan. 22, 2026 — Jan. 23, 2026 Symposium
Modelling Diffusive Systems: Theory & Biological Applications (MoDiS) Jan. 26, 2026 — Jan. 30, 2026 Workshop
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
Differential Complexes: Theory, Discretization, and Applications April 20, 2026 — June 5, 2026 Thematic Programme
Priyadarshini Pandit (Indian I of Technology Kanpur): May 1, 2026 — June 30, 2026 Junior Research Fellow
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Toric Geometry: Bridging Mathematics, Computation, and String Theory June 15, 2026 — July 17, 2026 Thematic Programme
New Paradigms for Harnessing Quantum Field Theory at Colliders July 27, 2026 — Aug. 28, 2026 Thematic Programme
Statistical Mechanics and Combinatorics of Discrete Planar Structures Sept. 14, 2026 — Oct. 30, 2026 Thematic Programme
There are no talks scheduled at this point.

[past activities]