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

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
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
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
Differential Complexes: Theory, Discretization, and Applications April 20, 2026 — June 5, 2026 Thematic Programme
Individual Visiting Scientists 2026 April 20, 2026 — April 24, 2026 Workshop
Priyadarshini Pandit (TIFR): Boundary Carrollian Symmetries and Null Open Strings May 1, 2026 — June 30, 2026 Junior Research Fellow
Research in Teams: Convergence of Lorentzian Spaces June 1, 2026 — June 30, 2026 Research in Teams
Applications of Tomographic Methods June 8, 2026 — June 12, 2026 Workshop
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Toric Geometry: Bridging Mathematics, Computation, and String Theory June 15, 2026 — July 17, 2026 Thematic Programme
Analysis and Applications June 22, 2026 — June 26, 2026 Graduate School
New Paradigms for Harnessing Quantum Field Theory at Colliders July 27, 2026 — Aug. 28, 2026 Thematic Programme
FLINTA* in Set Theory Sept. 9, 2026 — Sept. 11, 2026 Workshop
Statistical Mechanics and Combinatorics of Discrete Planar Structures Sept. 14, 2026 — Oct. 30, 2026 Thematic Programme
Quantum Probes of Gravity Nov. 9, 2026 — Nov. 13, 2026 Workshop
Microstructures in Materials Nov. 16, 2026 — Nov. 20, 2026 Workshop
New Frontiers in Nonequilibrium Statistical Physics of Glasses Nov. 30, 2026 — Dec. 4, 2026 Workshop
Mathematical Analysis of Interfaces in Cell Biology Dec. 14, 2026 — Dec. 18, 2026 Workshop

Jan 26. 2026

Can we predict wavelength changes in models for banded vegetation patterns? Lukas Eigentler (U Warwick) Jan 26. 2026, 09:30 - 10:00 Part of Modelling Diffusive Systems: Theory & Biological Applications (MoDiS) (Workshop).
Surviving the winds through pattern formation Toyo Vignal (Okinawa IST) Jan 26. 2026, 10:00 - 10:30 Part of Modelling Diffusive Systems: Theory & Biological Applications (MoDiS) (Workshop).
Diffusion of the Dead – The mathematics of zombie invasion. Thomas Woolley (Cardiff U) Jan 26. 2026, 14:00 - 15:00 Part of Modelling Diffusive Systems: Theory & Biological Applications (MoDiS) (Workshop).

Jan 27. 2026

Mean-fields limits and the multiscale approach to cell movements Roberto Natalini (CNR-IAC) Jan 27. 2026, 11:00 - 11:30 Part of Modelling Diffusive Systems: Theory & Biological Applications (MoDiS) (Workshop).
Phenotype-structured PDE models for chemotaxis self-organisation. Kevin Painter (Politecnico, Torino) Jan 27. 2026, 14:30 - 15:00 Part of Modelling Diffusive Systems: Theory & Biological Applications (MoDiS) (Workshop).

Jan 28. 2026

Segregation and instabilities in a Lotka–Volterra competition model with diffusion and avoidance Gaetana Gambino (UniPa) Jan 28. 2026, 09:30 - 10:00 Part of Modelling Diffusive Systems: Theory & Biological Applications (MoDiS) (Workshop).
Communicating Nonlinear Dynamics Across Boundaries via Interactive Simulations Andrew Krause (Durham U) Jan 28. 2026, 11:00 - 11:30 Part of Modelling Diffusive Systems: Theory & Biological Applications (MoDiS) (Workshop).

Jan 29. 2026

Singular limits for PDE in biology Bao Quoc Tang (U of Graz) Jan 29. 2026, 14:00 - 14:30 Part of Modelling Diffusive Systems: Theory & Biological Applications (MoDiS) (Workshop).
Asymptotic analysis of an integro-differential model from quantitative genetics Sepideh Mirrahimi (U Paul Sabatier, Toulouse) Jan 29. 2026, 14:30 - 15:00 Part of Modelling Diffusive Systems: Theory & Biological Applications (MoDiS) (Workshop).

Jan 30. 2026

How spatial patterns can lead to less resilient ecosystems David Pinto-Ramos (HZDR) Jan 30. 2026, 09:30 - 10:00 Part of Modelling Diffusive Systems: Theory & Biological Applications (MoDiS) (Workshop).
Aggregation-diffusion in heterogeneous environments Jonathan Potts (U of Sheffield) Jan 30. 2026, 10:00 - 10:30 Part of Modelling Diffusive Systems: Theory & Biological Applications (MoDiS) (Workshop).

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