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

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
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
Research in Teams: O-Minimality in Interaction May 25, 2026 — July 5, 2026 Research in Teams
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
Research in Teams: Eliminating (or correcting?) topology violations in dissipative particle Dynamics Aug. 1, 2026 — Sept. 1, 2026 Research in Teams
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
Functional Analysis, Higher Categories and Quantum Field Theory Jan. 11, 2027 — Jan. 15, 2027 Workshop
Dynamics across Scales: Bridging Kinetic Theory and Fluid Mechanics Jan. 25, 2027 — Jan. 29, 2027 Workshop
Particle Systems and Nonlinear PDEs: Analytical and Numerical Approaches Feb. 15, 2027 — Feb. 19, 2027 Workshop
Dynamics beyond the Pisot Condition May 10, 2027 — June 25, 2027 Thematic Programme

Feb 17. 2026

Kinematic Varieties II: Bernd Sturmfels (MPI MIS, Leipzig) Feb 17. 2026, 09:30 - 10:45 Part of Amplitudes and Algebraic Geometry (Thematic Programme).
Feynman Integrals II: Parametric representations (Schwinger, Feynman and Baikov) Lorenzo Tancredi (TU Munich) Feb 17. 2026, 11:15 - 12:30 Part of Amplitudes and Algebraic Geometry (Thematic Programme).
Amplituhedra II Melissa Sherman-Bennett (UC Davis) Feb 17. 2026, 14:15 - 15:30 Part of Amplitudes and Algebraic Geometry (Thematic Programme).

Feb 18. 2026

Kinematic Varieties III: Bernd Sturmfels (MPI MIS, Leipzig) Feb 18. 2026, 09:30 - 10:45 Part of Amplitudes and Algebraic Geometry (Thematic Programme).
Feynman Integrals III: Differential equations and canonical bases Lorenzo Tancredi (TU Munich) Feb 18. 2026, 11:15 - 12:30 Part of Amplitudes and Algebraic Geometry (Thematic Programme).
Amplituhedra III Melissa Sherman-Bennett (UC Davis) Feb 18. 2026, 14:15 - 15:30 Part of Amplitudes and Algebraic Geometry (Thematic Programme).

Feb 19. 2026

Kinematic Varieties IV: Bernd Sturmfels (MPI MIS, Leipzig) Feb 19. 2026, 09:30 - 10:45 Part of Amplitudes and Algebraic Geometry (Thematic Programme).
Feynman Integrals IV: Integrand analysis for polylogs and beyond Lorenzo Tancredi (TU Munich) Feb 19. 2026, 11:15 - 12:30 Part of Amplitudes and Algebraic Geometry (Thematic Programme).
Amplituhedra IV Melissa Sherman-Bennett (UC Davis) Feb 19. 2026, 14:15 - 15:30 Part of Amplitudes and Algebraic Geometry (Thematic Programme).

Feb 23. 2026

Classifying bounded ratios on cluster algebras with U-variables Zachary Greenberg (MPI MIS, Leipzig) Feb 23. 2026, 10:30 - 12:00 Part of Amplitudes and Algebraic Geometry (Thematic Programme).

Feb 26. 2026

Enumerative geometry and integrability Marvin Anas Hahn (Trinity College, Dublin) Feb 26. 2026, 10:30 - 12:00 Part of Amplitudes and Algebraic Geometry (Thematic Programme).

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