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: O-Minimality in Interaction May 25, 2026 — July 5, 2026 Research in Teams
Research in Teams: Quivers, VOAs, and Generalised Symmetries June 1, 2026 — Aug. 7, 2026 Research in Teams
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
Research in Teams: Eliminating (or correcting?) topology violations in dissipative particle Dynamics Aug. 1, 2026 — Sept. 1, 2026 Research in Teams
Individual Visiting Scientists 2026 Sept. 7, 2026 — Sept. 11, 2026 Workshop
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
Priyadarshini Pandit (TIFR): Boundary Carrollian Symmetries and Null Open Strings Oct. 1, 2026 — Nov. 30, 2026 Junior Research Fellow
ESI Medal Award Ceremony 2026 Oct. 30, 2026 — Nov. 1, 2026 Workshop
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
Dmitry Shepelsky (NASU, Kharkiv): TBA April 1, 2027 — May 31, 2027 SRF Course
Dynamics beyond the Pisot Condition May 10, 2027 — June 25, 2027 Thematic Programme
Impossibility Results in Mathematics June 28, 2027 — Aug. 13, 2027 Thematic Programme
Non-regular Spacetime Geometry: from Synthetic Geometry to Mathematical Physics Oct. 4, 2027 — Nov. 26, 2027 Thematic Programme

Jul 06. 2026

Calabi-Yau complete intersections in fake weighted projective spaces Marco Ghirlanda (U Tübingen) Jul 06. 2026, 09:30 - 10:15 Part of The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Toric Geometry: Bridging Mathematics, Computation, and String Theory (Thematic Programme).
Machine and human learning the geometry of Calabi–Yau manifolds Vishnu Jejjala (U of Witwatersrand) Jul 06. 2026, 11:30 - 12:15 Part of The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Toric Geometry: Bridging Mathematics, Computation, and String Theory (Thematic Programme).
Beyond Algebraic Models of Stringy Spacetime Tristan Hübsch (Howard U) Jul 06. 2026, 14:00 - 14:45 Part of The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Toric Geometry: Bridging Mathematics, Computation, and String Theory (Thematic Programme).
Toric resolutions of non compact orbifolds for M-theory Nana Geraldine Cabo Bizet (GuanajuatoU) Jul 06. 2026, 14:45 - 15:30 Part of The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Toric Geometry: Bridging Mathematics, Computation, and String Theory (Thematic Programme).
Flopping through the landscape: A framework for numerical optimisation across fans Andreas Schachner (Cornell U, Ithaca) Jul 06. 2026, 16:00 - 16:45 Part of The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Toric Geometry: Bridging Mathematics, Computation, and String Theory (Thematic Programme).

Jul 07. 2026

Comments on heterotic/F-theory duality in 8d Anamaria Font (UCV, Caracas) Jul 07. 2026, 09:30 - 10:15 Part of The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Toric Geometry: Bridging Mathematics, Computation, and String Theory (Thematic Programme).
Projecting Tops, Building Blocks, and Matching for Twisted Connected Sum G2-Manifolds Elli Heyes (Imperial College London) Jul 07. 2026, 10:45 - 11:30 Part of The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Toric Geometry: Bridging Mathematics, Computation, and String Theory (Thematic Programme).
The reasonable ineffectiveness of non-toric geometry Johanna Knapp (U Melbourne) Jul 07. 2026, 11:30 - 12:15 Part of The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Toric Geometry: Bridging Mathematics, Computation, and String Theory (Thematic Programme).
Godeaux surfaces with 5-torsion and 3-torsion Miles Reid (U Warwick) Jul 07. 2026, 14:00 - 14:45 Part of The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Toric Geometry: Bridging Mathematics, Computation, and String Theory (Thematic Programme).
Exploring Line Bundle Standard Models with Transformers Alessandro Mininno (U of Wisconsin) Jul 07. 2026, 14:45 - 15:30 Part of The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Toric Geometry: Bridging Mathematics, Computation, and String Theory (Thematic Programme).
Global Sections, the Minimal Model Program and Birational Tomography Andrei Constantin (U of Oxford) Jul 07. 2026, 16:00 - 16:45 Part of The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Toric Geometry: Bridging Mathematics, Computation, and String Theory (Thematic Programme).

Jul 08. 2026

Toric Geometry of Multiple Zeta Values Abhiram Kidambi (MPI MIS, Leipzig) Jul 08. 2026, 09:30 - 10:15 Part of The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Toric Geometry: Bridging Mathematics, Computation, and String Theory (Thematic Programme).
On genus-one fibered Calabi-Yau threefolds Emanuel Scheidegger (Peking U) Jul 08. 2026, 10:45 - 11:30 Part of The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Toric Geometry: Bridging Mathematics, Computation, and String Theory (Thematic Programme).
Applications of Toric Birational Geometry to String Compactifications Elijah Sheridan (Cornell U, Ithaca) Jul 08. 2026, 11:30 - 12:15 Part of The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Toric Geometry: Bridging Mathematics, Computation, and String Theory (Thematic Programme).

Jul 09. 2026

Spectral Bounds of 6d F-theory and the Effectiveness of Toric Blowups Seung-Joo Lee (Yonsei University) Jul 09. 2026, 09:30 - 10:15 Part of The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Toric Geometry: Bridging Mathematics, Computation, and String Theory (Thematic Programme).
Machine Learning Brane Tilings and Toric Calabi-Yau 3-folds Rak-Kyeong Seong (UNIST) Jul 09. 2026, 10:45 - 11:30 Part of The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Toric Geometry: Bridging Mathematics, Computation, and String Theory (Thematic Programme).
Symmetries of Calabi-Yau Hypersurfaces in Toric Four-Folds Andre Lukas (U of Oxford) Jul 09. 2026, 11:30 - 12:15 Part of The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Toric Geometry: Bridging Mathematics, Computation, and String Theory (Thematic Programme).
Searching for Special Lagrangian cycles in Calabi-Yau Manifolds Fabian Ruehle (Northeastern U, Boston) Jul 09. 2026, 14:00 - 14:45 Part of The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Toric Geometry: Bridging Mathematics, Computation, and String Theory (Thematic Programme).
Beyond toric geometry and piecewise linear combinatorics Chris Manon (U Kentucky) Jul 09. 2026, 14:45 - 15:30 Part of The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Toric Geometry: Bridging Mathematics, Computation, and String Theory (Thematic Programme).
Which toric Deligne-Mumford stacks have infinitely many line bundles with trivial cohomology? Lev Borisov (Rutgers U) Jul 09. 2026, 16:00 - 16:45 Part of The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Toric Geometry: Bridging Mathematics, Computation, and String Theory (Thematic Programme).

Jul 10. 2026

Positive charts of toric varieties Simon Telen (MPI MIS, Leipzig) Jul 10. 2026, 09:30 - 10:15 Part of The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Toric Geometry: Bridging Mathematics, Computation, and String Theory (Thematic Programme).
Exploring the Fine adjunction spectrum Christian Haase (FU Berlin) Jul 10. 2026, 11:30 - 12:15 Part of The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Toric Geometry: Bridging Mathematics, Computation, and String Theory (Thematic Programme).
Calabi-Yau metrics with full moduli dependence Luca Nutricati (U of Oxford) Jul 10. 2026, 12:15 - 13:00 Part of The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Toric Geometry: Bridging Mathematics, Computation, and String Theory (Thematic Programme).

[past activities]