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 May 15, 2025 — July 19, 2025 Individual Scientists
Research in Teams: Exploring the infrared triangle beyond Lorenz Symmetry June 15, 2025 — July 15, 2025 Research in Teams
Reverse Mathematics June 23, 2025 — Aug. 29, 2025 Thematic Programme
Research in Teams: Waves interacting with the Antarctic Circumpolar Current July 5, 2025 — July 25, 2025 Research in Teams
ISAPP2025: Gravitational Waves: From Theory to Detection July 7, 2025 — July 18, 2025 Graduate School
Eisenstein Series, Spaces of Automorphic Forms, and Applications Sept. 1, 2025 — Sept. 5, 2025 Workshop
Charged Soft Matter: Bridging Theory and Experiment Sept. 8, 2025 — Sept. 12, 2025 Workshop
Putting the Cosmic Large-scale Structure on the Map: Theory Meets Numerics Sept. 22, 2025 — Sept. 26, 2025 Workshop
Free Boundary Problems Sept. 29, 2025 — Dec. 19, 2025 Thematic Programme
Yoshihiro Tonegawa (Inst. of Science Tokyo): Introduction to Brakke's Mean Curvature Flow Oct. 26, 2025 — Nov. 15, 2025 SRF Course
Quantum Many-body Systems and Bose-Einstein Condensation: A Mathematical Physics Perspective Nov. 24, 2025 — Nov. 28, 2025 Workshop
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
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
Differential Complexes: Theory, Discretization, and Applications April 20, 2026 — June 5, 2026 Thematic Programme
Joachim Escher (Leibniz U of Hannover): Fluid Mechanics, covering Rotational Water Waves and Rayleigh-Taylor Instabilities for Potential Flows May 1, 2026 — June 30, 2026 SRF Course
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

Jul 07. 2025

Introduction to Gravitational Waves, Lecture 1 Clifford M. Will (U of Florida, Gainesville) Jul 07. 2025, 13:30 - 14:50 Part of ISAPP2025: Gravitational Waves: From Theory to Detection (Graduate School).
Introduction to Gravitational Waves, Lecture 2 Clifford M. Will (U of Florida, Gainesville) Jul 07. 2025, 15:20 - 16:40 Part of ISAPP2025: Gravitational Waves: From Theory to Detection (Graduate School).

Jul 08. 2025

Multimessenger Astronomy, Lecture 1 Zoltan Haiman (ISTA, Klosterneuburg) Jul 08. 2025, 09:00 - 10:20 Part of ISAPP2025: Gravitational Waves: From Theory to Detection (Graduate School).
Gravitational Wave Detectors, Lecture 1 Jessica Steinlechner (U of Maastricht) Jul 08. 2025, 10:50 - 12:10 Part of ISAPP2025: Gravitational Waves: From Theory to Detection (Graduate School).

Jul 09. 2025

Multimessenger Astronomy, Lecture 2 Zoltan Haiman (ISTA, Klosterneuburg) Jul 09. 2025, 09:00 - 10:20 Part of ISAPP2025: Gravitational Waves: From Theory to Detection (Graduate School).
Gravitational Wave Detectors, Lecture 2 Jessica Steinlechner (U of Maastricht) Jul 09. 2025, 10:50 - 12:10 Part of ISAPP2025: Gravitational Waves: From Theory to Detection (Graduate School).

Jul 10. 2025

Data Analysis and Signal Processing, Lecture 1 Elena Cuoco (U Bologna) Jul 10. 2025, 09:00 - 10:20 Part of ISAPP2025: Gravitational Waves: From Theory to Detection (Graduate School).
Tests of General Relativity, Lecture 1 Lijing Shao (KAVLI Peking U) Jul 10. 2025, 10:50 - 12:10 Part of ISAPP2025: Gravitational Waves: From Theory to Detection (Graduate School).

Jul 11. 2025

Data Analysis and Signal Processing, Lecture 2 Elena Cuoco (U Bologna) Jul 11. 2025, 09:00 - 10:20 Part of ISAPP2025: Gravitational Waves: From Theory to Detection (Graduate School).
Tests of General Relativity, Lecture 2 Lijing Shao (KAVLI Peking U) Jul 11. 2025, 10:50 - 12:10 Part of ISAPP2025: Gravitational Waves: From Theory to Detection (Graduate School).

Jul 14. 2025

Gravitational Wave Cosmology, Lecture 1 Angelo Ricciardone (U Pisa) Jul 14. 2025, 09:00 - 10:20 Part of ISAPP2025: Gravitational Waves: From Theory to Detection (Graduate School).
Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background, Lecture 1 Tania Regimbau (LAPP Annecy) Jul 14. 2025, 10:50 - 12:10 Part of ISAPP2025: Gravitational Waves: From Theory to Detection (Graduate School).

Jul 15. 2025

Gravitational Wave Cosmology, Lecture 2 Angelo Ricciardone (U Pisa) Jul 15. 2025, 09:00 - 10:20 Part of ISAPP2025: Gravitational Waves: From Theory to Detection (Graduate School).
Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background, Lecture 2 Tania Regimbau (LAPP Annecy) Jul 15. 2025, 10:50 - 12:10 Part of ISAPP2025: Gravitational Waves: From Theory to Detection (Graduate School).

Jul 16. 2025

Sources of Gravitational Waves, Lecture 1 Michela Mapelli (U Heidelberg) Jul 16. 2025, 09:00 - 10:20 Part of ISAPP2025: Gravitational Waves: From Theory to Detection (Graduate School).
Quantum Sensing in Gravitational Wave Detection, Lecture 1 Jan Harms (Gran Sasso Science Institute, L'Aquila) Jul 16. 2025, 10:50 - 12:10 Part of ISAPP2025: Gravitational Waves: From Theory to Detection (Graduate School).

Jul 17. 2025

Sources of Gravitational Waves, Lecture 2 Michela Mapelli (U Heidelberg) Jul 17. 2025, 09:00 - 10:20 Part of ISAPP2025: Gravitational Waves: From Theory to Detection (Graduate School).
Quantum Sensing in Gravitational Wave Detection, Lecture 2 Jan Harms (Gran Sasso Science Institute, L'Aquila) Jul 17. 2025, 10:50 - 12:10 Part of ISAPP2025: Gravitational Waves: From Theory to Detection (Graduate School).

Jul 18. 2025

Gravitational Wave Probes of Fundamental Physics Costantino Pacilio (U Milano-Bicocca) Jul 18. 2025, 09:00 - 10:20 Part of ISAPP2025: Gravitational Waves: From Theory to Detection (Graduate School).
Public Outreach and Education Gideon Koekoek (U of Maastricht) Jul 18. 2025, 10:50 - 12:10 Part of ISAPP2025: Gravitational Waves: From Theory to Detection (Graduate School).

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