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 — May 1, 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
Modern Representation Theory and Algebraic Geometry March 15, 2027 — May 7, 2027 Thematic Programme
Dynamics beyond the Pisot Condition May 10, 2027 — June 25, 2027 Thematic Programme

Mar 09. 2026

Toric Amplitudes and Universal Adjoints Simon Telen (MPI MIS, Leipzig) Mar 09. 2026, 09:30 - 10:30 Part of Amplitudes and Algebraic Geometry (Thematic Programme).
Positive charts of toric varieties Veronica Calvo Cortes (MPI MIS, Leipzig) Mar 09. 2026, 10:45 - 11:45 Part of Amplitudes and Algebraic Geometry (Thematic Programme).
Reciprocal A-determinants Saiei-Jaeyeong Matsubara-Heo (Tohoku U) Mar 09. 2026, 11:45 - 12:45 Part of Amplitudes and Algebraic Geometry (Thematic Programme).
Positive geometries and canonical forms via mixed Hodge theory Clément Dupont (Université de Montpellier) Mar 09. 2026, 14:15 - 15:15 Part of Amplitudes and Algebraic Geometry (Thematic Programme).
Positive del Pezzo geometry Claudia He Yun (Arctic U) Mar 09. 2026, 15:45 - 16:45 Part of Amplitudes and Algebraic Geometry (Thematic Programme).

Mar 10. 2026

Negative Geometry Expansion of Scattering Amplitudes Jaroslav Trnka (UC Davis) Mar 10. 2026, 09:30 - 10:30 Part of Amplitudes and Algebraic Geometry (Thematic Programme).
The (loop) amplituhedron, squared amplituhedron and correlahedron. Paul Heslop (Durham U) Mar 10. 2026, 10:45 - 11:45 Part of Amplitudes and Algebraic Geometry (Thematic Programme).
Tilings of the Amplituhedron beyond m=4 Chaim Even-Zohar (Technion Haifa) Mar 10. 2026, 14:15 - 15:15 Part of Amplitudes and Algebraic Geometry (Thematic Programme).

Mar 11. 2026

Tropical(ized) quantum field theory Michael Borinsky (Perimeter Institute, Waterloo) Mar 11. 2026, 09:15 - 10:15 Part of Amplitudes and Algebraic Geometry (Thematic Programme).
Graphical Scattering Equations Viktoriia Borovik (MPI MIS, Leipzig) Mar 11. 2026, 11:45 - 12:45 Part of Amplitudes and Algebraic Geometry (Thematic Programme).

Mar 12. 2026

Cluster algebraic structures in Feynman integrals Ömer Gürdoğan (U Southampton) Mar 12. 2026, 09:30 - 10:30 Part of Amplitudes and Algebraic Geometry (Thematic Programme).
Landau Analysis on the Grassmannian Matteo Parisi (OIST, Okinawa) Mar 12. 2026, 14:15 - 15:15 Part of Amplitudes and Algebraic Geometry (Thematic Programme).
Improving Tools for Perturbation Theory Jacob Bourjaily (Penn State U) Mar 12. 2026, 15:45 - 16:45 Part of Amplitudes and Algebraic Geometry (Thematic Programme).

Mar 13. 2026

Combinatorics of the cosmohedron Federico Ardila (QMU London) Mar 13. 2026, 10:45 - 11:45 Part of Amplitudes and Algebraic Geometry (Thematic Programme).

Mar 17. 2026

Hypergeometric Integrals on a Punctured Riemann Surface Carlos Rodriguez (MPI MIS, Leipzig) Mar 17. 2026, 10:30 - 11:30 Part of Amplitudes and Algebraic Geometry (Thematic Programme).

Mar 18. 2026

Novel cluster-algebraic letters for six- and five-point QCD processes Georgios Papathanasiou (UOA) Mar 18. 2026, 10:30 - 11:30 Part of Amplitudes and Algebraic Geometry (Thematic Programme).

Mar 19. 2026

A First Look at Bootstrapping QCD Amplitudes Qinglin Yang (MPP, Munich) Mar 19. 2026, 10:30 - 11:30 Part of Amplitudes and Algebraic Geometry (Thematic Programme).

Mar 20. 2026

Black hole scattering, Feynman graph expansions and Calabi-Yau geometries Albrecht Klemm (U of Sheffield) Mar 20. 2026, 10:30 - 11:30 Part of Amplitudes and Algebraic Geometry (Thematic Programme).

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