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

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
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
Dynamics beyond the Pisot Condition May 10, 2027 — June 25, 2027 Thematic Programme

Feb 09. 2026

Weak optimal transport with moment constraints: constraint qualification, dual attainment and entropic regularization Guillaume Carlier (CEREMADE, Paris) Feb 09. 2026, 09:30 - 10:05 Part of Probabilistic Mass Transport - from Schrödinger to Stochastic Analysis (Workshop).
Regularity of entropic potentials, stability of entropic optimal transport and convergence of Sinkhorn's algorithm Giovanni Conforti (U Padua) Feb 09. 2026, 10:35 - 11:10 Part of Probabilistic Mass Transport - from Schrödinger to Stochastic Analysis (Workshop).
Plug-in estimation of Schrödinger bridges Aram Alexandre Pooladian (Yale U, New Haven) Feb 09. 2026, 11:10 - 11:45 Part of Probabilistic Mass Transport - from Schrödinger to Stochastic Analysis (Workshop).
Dynamic universal approximation and modeling with neural and signature SDEs Christa Cuchiero (Uni Wien) Feb 09. 2026, 13:40 - 14:15 Part of Probabilistic Mass Transport - from Schrödinger to Stochastic Analysis (Workshop).
Outperforming a Benchmark with $\alpha$-Bregman Wasserstein divergence Silvana Pesenti (U Toronto) Feb 09. 2026, 14:15 - 14:50 Part of Probabilistic Mass Transport - from Schrödinger to Stochastic Analysis (Workshop).
Towards a Brenier theorem on $(P_2(…P_2(H)…),W_2)$ and adapted transport Gudmund Pammer (TU Graz) Feb 09. 2026, 15:20 - 15:55 Part of Probabilistic Mass Transport - from Schrödinger to Stochastic Analysis (Workshop).
Optimal transport with optimal transport cost: the Monge--Kantorovich problem on Wasserstein spaces Brendan Pass (U Alberta, Edmonton) Feb 09. 2026, 15:55 - 16:30 Part of Probabilistic Mass Transport - from Schrödinger to Stochastic Analysis (Workshop).

Feb 10. 2026

Entropic regularisation and Optimal Martingale Transport Jean-David Benamou (INRIA Paris) Feb 10. 2026, 09:30 - 10:05 Part of Probabilistic Mass Transport - from Schrödinger to Stochastic Analysis (Workshop).
Markov Decision Processes of the Third Kind: Learning Distributions by Policy Gradient Descent Nicole Bäuerle (KIT, Karlsruhe) Feb 10. 2026, 10:35 - 11:10 Part of Probabilistic Mass Transport - from Schrödinger to Stochastic Analysis (Workshop).
Preference robust distortion risk measures Carole Bernard (Vrije U Brussels) Feb 10. 2026, 11:10 - 11:45 Part of Probabilistic Mass Transport - from Schrödinger to Stochastic Analysis (Workshop).
Football Model, Martingale and Entropic Optimal Transport Nicolas Juillet (U of Haute-Alsace) Feb 10. 2026, 13:40 - 14:15 Part of Probabilistic Mass Transport - from Schrödinger to Stochastic Analysis (Workshop).
Optimal transport for point processes Martin Huesmann (U Münster) Feb 10. 2026, 14:15 - 14:50 Part of Probabilistic Mass Transport - from Schrödinger to Stochastic Analysis (Workshop).
Scaling Limits for Exponential Hedging in the Brownian Framework Yan Dolinsky (HU of Jerusalem) Feb 10. 2026, 15:20 - 15:55 Part of Probabilistic Mass Transport - from Schrödinger to Stochastic Analysis (Workshop).
Kinetic Optimal Transport Giovanni Brigati (ISTA, Klosterneuburg) Feb 10. 2026, 15:55 - 16:30 Part of Probabilistic Mass Transport - from Schrödinger to Stochastic Analysis (Workshop).

Feb 11. 2026

Geodesic convexity and strengthened functional inequalities on submanifolds of Wasserstein space Daniel Lacker (Columbia U, New York) Feb 11. 2026, 09:30 - 10:05 Part of Probabilistic Mass Transport - from Schrödinger to Stochastic Analysis (Workshop).
Adapted optimal transport: the Gaussian case Ting-Kam Leonard Wong (U Toronto) Feb 11. 2026, 10:35 - 11:10 Part of Probabilistic Mass Transport - from Schrödinger to Stochastic Analysis (Workshop).
G-causal Optimal Transport Vlad Tuchilus (U of Oxford) Feb 11. 2026, 11:10 - 11:45 Part of Probabilistic Mass Transport - from Schrödinger to Stochastic Analysis (Workshop).

Feb 12. 2026

Hamilton-Jacobi Equations defined in the Wasserstein space Daniela Tonon (U Padua) Feb 12. 2026, 09:30 - 10:05 Part of Probabilistic Mass Transport - from Schrödinger to Stochastic Analysis (Workshop).
Projecting probability measures onto Wasserstein geodesics Elsa Cazelles (U Toulouse) Feb 12. 2026, 10:35 - 11:10 Part of Probabilistic Mass Transport - from Schrödinger to Stochastic Analysis (Workshop).
Regularity of the quadratic Wasserstein projections in the convex order Benjamin Jourdain (ENPC, Paris) Feb 12. 2026, 11:10 - 11:45 Part of Probabilistic Mass Transport - from Schrödinger to Stochastic Analysis (Workshop).
Martingale Sinkhorn Algorithm Jan Obloj (U of Oxford) Feb 12. 2026, 13:40 - 14:15 Part of Probabilistic Mass Transport - from Schrödinger to Stochastic Analysis (Workshop).
Properties of diffusion transport maps via creation of log-semiconcavity along heat flows Katharina Eichinger (INRIA Saclay) Feb 12. 2026, 14:15 - 14:50 Part of Probabilistic Mass Transport - from Schrödinger to Stochastic Analysis (Workshop).
Schrödinger bridge with transport relaxation Yifan Jiang (Imperial College London) Feb 12. 2026, 15:20 - 15:55 Part of Probabilistic Mass Transport - from Schrödinger to Stochastic Analysis (Workshop).
Robust Hedging Gans and Ambiguity-Averse Deep Hedging with Feature Clustering Blanka Horvath (U of Oxford) Feb 12. 2026, 15:55 - 16:30 Part of Probabilistic Mass Transport - from Schrödinger to Stochastic Analysis (Workshop).

Feb 13. 2026

On the Mirror Langevin Diffusions Soumik Pal (U of Washington, Seattle) Feb 13. 2026, 09:30 - 10:05 Part of Probabilistic Mass Transport - from Schrödinger to Stochastic Analysis (Workshop).
Towards stability of trajectory inference Young-Heon Kim (U of BC, Vancouver) Feb 13. 2026, 10:35 - 11:10 Part of Probabilistic Mass Transport - from Schrödinger to Stochastic Analysis (Workshop).
Bridging Shrödinger and Bass for generative diffusion modeling Nizar Touzi (NYU, New York) Feb 13. 2026, 11:10 - 11:45 Part of Probabilistic Mass Transport - from Schrödinger to Stochastic Analysis (Workshop).

Feb 16. 2026

Kinematic Varieties I: Bernd Sturmfels (MPI MIS, Leipzig) Feb 16. 2026, 09:30 - 10:45 Part of Amplitudes and Algebraic Geometry (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).

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).

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).

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