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: Quivers, VOAs, and Generalised Symmetries June 1, 2026 — Aug. 7, 2026 Research in Teams
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

[past activities]