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: Supersymmetric Solutions of 3D Minimal Massive Supergravity Aug. 10, 2024 — Sept. 29, 2024 Research in Teams
Linking Microscopic Processes to the Macroscopic Rheological Properties in Inert and Living Soft Materials Aug. 19, 2024 — Oct. 11, 2024 Thematic Programme
Individual Visiting Scientists 2024 Aug. 28, 2024 — Oct. 11, 2024 Individual Scientists
Spin-Orbit Entangled Quantum Magnetism Sept. 23, 2024 — Sept. 27, 2024 Workshop
Research in Teams: Entropy methods for evolutionary systems: Analysis and Numerics Oct. 3, 2024 — Oct. 13, 2024 Research in Teams
Algebraicity and Transcendence for Singular Differential Equations Oct. 7, 2024 — Oct. 19, 2024 Workshop
Thomas Strobl (U of Lyon): Geometry of Gauge theories: old and new Oct. 15, 2024 — Dec. 15, 2024 SRF Course
Erwin Schrödinger Lecture by Martina Krämer (U of Mainz): "Ice clouds over the Asian monsoon and their role in the global climate" Oct. 23, 2024, 17:00 — 18:00 Lecture
IMO Training 2024 Oct. 28, 2024 — Oct. 31, 2024 Graduate School
ESI Medal Award Ceremony 2024 Dec. 6, 2024 Symposium
Lensing and Wave Optics in Strong Gravity Dec. 9, 2024 — Dec. 13, 2024 Workshop
Isao Sauzedde (University of Warwick): Jan. 5, 2025 — March 5, 2025 Junior Research Fellow
Infinite-dimensional Geometry: Theory and Applications Jan. 13, 2025 — Feb. 14, 2025 Thematic Programme
Research in Teams: Weyl Pseudodifferential Calculus with Applications Feb. 1, 2025 — Feb. 28, 2025 Research in Teams
Recent Perspectives on Non-crossing Partitions through Algebra, Combinatorics, and Probability Feb. 17, 2025 — Feb. 21, 2025 Workshop
Degenerate and Singular PDEs Feb. 24, 2025 — Feb. 28, 2025 Workshop
Fufa Beyene (Kotebe University of Education): The Cyclic Sieving Phenomenon (CSP) March 1, 2025 — April 30, 2025 Junior Research Fellow
Saikat Mondal (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur): March 3, 2025 — May 2, 2025 Junior Research Fellow
Structures in Banach Spaces March 17, 2025 — March 21, 2025 Workshop
Entanglement in Many-body Quantum Matter: Dynamics, Dissipation, Equilibration May 12, 2025 — June 13, 2025 Thematic Programme
Reverse Mathematics June 23, 2025 — Aug. 29, 2025 Thematic Programme
ISAPP2025: Gravitational Waves: From Theory to Detection July 7, 2025 — July 18, 2025 Graduate School
Free Boundary Problems Sept. 29, 2025 — Dec. 19, 2025 Thematic Programme

Sep 23. 2024

Lattice effects in spin-orbit Mott insulators Giniyat Khaliullin (MPI Stuttgart) Sep 23. 2024, 09:40 - 10:40 Part of Spin-Orbit Entangled Quantum Magnetism (Workshop).
Vibronic vs. orbital order in magnetic insulators Liviu Chibotaru (KU Leuven) Sep 23. 2024, 10:40 - 11:20 Part of Spin-Orbit Entangled Quantum Magnetism (Workshop).
Probing and controlling multipolar orders via strain and phonons Arun Paramekanti (U Toronto) Sep 23. 2024, 11:50 - 12:30 Part of Spin-Orbit Entangled Quantum Magnetism (Workshop).
Selected problems of two-dimensional magnetism Mikhail Katsnelson (Radboud U) Sep 23. 2024, 14:00 - 14:40 Part of Spin-Orbit Entangled Quantum Magnetism (Workshop).
Magnetocrystalline anisotropy of heavy rare-earth atoms on graphene: From DFT to crystal field theory Johanna Paulina Carbone (TU Vienna) Sep 23. 2024, 14:40 - 15:00 Part of Spin-Orbit Entangled Quantum Magnetism (Workshop).
Probing 2D magnetic materials with magnetotransport Alberto Morpurgo (UNIGE, Geneve) Sep 23. 2024, 15:30 - 16:10 Part of Spin-Orbit Entangled Quantum Magnetism (Workshop).
What can spintronics do for quantum magnetism and vice versa? Branislav Nikolic (U Delaware) Sep 23. 2024, 16:10 - 16:30 Part of Spin-Orbit Entangled Quantum Magnetism (Workshop).

Sep 24. 2024

Signatures of fractionalization in quantum spin liquids and predictions for experiments Nandini Trived (Ohio State U, Columbus) Sep 24. 2024, 09:00 - 09:40 Part of Spin-Orbit Entangled Quantum Magnetism (Workshop).
Dynamical signatures of fractionalization in dipolar-octupolar quantum spin ice Yong Baek Kim (U Toronto) Sep 24. 2024, 09:40 - 10:00 Part of Spin-Orbit Entangled Quantum Magnetism (Workshop).
Possible spin-liquid and cluster Mott states on a breathing Kagome lattice Sergey Streltsov (RAS, Moscow) Sep 24. 2024, 10:00 - 10:20 Part of Spin-Orbit Entangled Quantum Magnetism (Workshop).
Transforming from Kitaev to Disguised Ising Chain Hae-Young Kee (U Toronto) Sep 24. 2024, 11:00 - 11:40 Part of Spin-Orbit Entangled Quantum Magnetism (Workshop).
RIXS Study of Excitations in Kitaev Honeycomb Iridates Jungho Kim (Argonne National Laboratory) Sep 24. 2024, 11:40 - 12:00 Part of Spin-Orbit Entangled Quantum Magnetism (Workshop).
Non-trivial spin dynamics in quantum spin liquid candidates with and without applied pressure Jeffrey Quilliam (U of Sherbrooke) Sep 24. 2024, 13:40 - 14:20 Part of Spin-Orbit Entangled Quantum Magnetism (Workshop).
Relativistic effects for exchange interactions and spin-dynamics simulation Olle Eriksson (Uppsala U) Sep 24. 2024, 14:20 - 15:00 Part of Spin-Orbit Entangled Quantum Magnetism (Workshop).
Expanding the portfolio of two-dimensional magnetic materials and their applications from first principles Marco Gibertini (U Modena) Sep 24. 2024, 15:40 - 15:20 Part of Spin-Orbit Entangled Quantum Magnetism (Workshop).
Tuning magnetoelectricity in a mixed-anisotropy antiferromagnet Ellen Fogh (EPFL, Lausanne) Sep 24. 2024, 16:20 - 17:00 Part of Spin-Orbit Entangled Quantum Magnetism (Workshop).

Sep 25. 2024

Hidden magnetic order with and without spin-orbit coupling Nicola Spaldin (ETH Zurich) Sep 25. 2024, 09:00 - 09:40 Part of Spin-Orbit Entangled Quantum Magnetism (Workshop).
Type II multiferroic order in 2D materials from first principles calculations Thomas Olsen (Technical U Denmark, Kongens Lyngby) Sep 25. 2024, 09:40 - 10:00 Part of Spin-Orbit Entangled Quantum Magnetism (Workshop).
Multiferroicity and magnetoelectricity in the flatland Silvia Picozzi (CNR-SPIN, Chieti) Sep 25. 2024, 10:00 - 10:40 Part of Spin-Orbit Entangled Quantum Magnetism (Workshop).
Light- induced couplings and spin-orbit coupling Maria Daghofer (U Stuttgart) Sep 25. 2024, 11:10 - 11:50 Part of Spin-Orbit Entangled Quantum Magnetism (Workshop).
Light induced metastable spin-orbital order in Ca2RuO4 Xinwei Li (NUS, Singapore) Sep 25. 2024, 11:50 - 12:30 Part of Spin-Orbit Entangled Quantum Magnetism (Workshop).
Spin-orbit related phenomena in magnets from density functional theory Stefan Bluegel (FZ Jülich) Sep 25. 2024, 14:00 - 15:00 Part of Spin-Orbit Entangled Quantum Magnetism (Workshop).
Density functionals for spin-orbit entangled systems: from theory to practice Stefano Pittalis (CNRNANO, Modena) Sep 25. 2024, 15:00 - 15:20 Part of Spin-Orbit Entangled Quantum Magnetism (Workshop).
Predicting the magnetic ground state with VASP Marie Therese Huebsch (VASP, Vienna) Sep 25. 2024, 15:40 - 16:20 Part of Spin-Orbit Entangled Quantum Magnetism (Workshop).
Hidden covalent insulator and spin excitations in SrRu2O6 Diana Csontosova (Masaryk U, Brno) Sep 25. 2024, 16:20 - 16:40 Part of Spin-Orbit Entangled Quantum Magnetism (Workshop).

Sep 26. 2024

Multipolar Order and Fluctuations in 5d Double Perovskites Bruce Gaulin (McMaster U, Hamilton) Sep 26. 2024, 09:00 - 09:40 Part of Spin-Orbit Entangled Quantum Magnetism (Workshop).
Multipole orders in 5d transition metal double perovskites and pyrochlores Daigorou Hirai (Nagoya U) Sep 26. 2024, 09:40 - 10:20 Part of Spin-Orbit Entangled Quantum Magnetism (Workshop).
Multipolar order in the 5d double perovskite Ba2MgReO6 from DFT+DMFT Claude Ederer (ETH Zurich) Sep 26. 2024, 11:00 - 11:20 Part of Spin-Orbit Entangled Quantum Magnetism (Workshop).
Interplay of superexchange and vibronic effects in the hidden order of Ba2MgReO6 unravelled from first principles Dario Fiore Mosca (École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, U of Vienna) Sep 26. 2024, 11:20 - 11:40 Part of Spin-Orbit Entangled Quantum Magnetism (Workshop).
The origin of magnetism in a supposedly nonmagnetic osmium oxide Marco Moretti (Politecnico Milano) Sep 26. 2024, 11:40 - 12:20 Part of Spin-Orbit Entangled Quantum Magnetism (Workshop).
Effect of electron-doping in Ba2Na1−xCaxOsO6 Mott insulator with strong spin orbit coupling Samuele Sanna (U Bologna) Sep 26. 2024, 14:00 - 14:40 Part of Spin-Orbit Entangled Quantum Magnetism (Workshop).
Jahn-Teller spin-orbital bipolarons in doped magnetic oxides Lorenzo Celiberti (U of Vienna) Sep 26. 2024, 14:40 - 15:00 Part of Spin-Orbit Entangled Quantum Magnetism (Workshop).
Ordering of spin-orbit-lattice entangled states in 5d1 double perovskites Naoya Iwahara (U Chiba) Sep 26. 2024, 15:00 - 15:20 Part of Spin-Orbit Entangled Quantum Magnetism (Workshop).
Finding true Kugel-Khomskii materials Eva Pavarini (FZ Jülich) Sep 26. 2024, 15:40 - 16:20 Part of Spin-Orbit Entangled Quantum Magnetism (Workshop).
CaIrO3: a nonmagnetic semimetal, a magnetic insulator, or something in-between? Marjana Lezaic (FZ Jülich) Sep 26. 2024, 16:20 - 16:40 Part of Spin-Orbit Entangled Quantum Magnetism (Workshop).

Sep 27. 2024

Hund's exchange in electrochemistry: Electronic properties of cathode materials for battery applications Silke Biermann (École Polytechnique, Palaiseau) Sep 27. 2024, 09:00 - 09:40 Part of Spin-Orbit Entangled Quantum Magnetism (Workshop).
Towards the modelling of VBS states in IrTe2 Sergey Artyukhin (IIT, Genova) Sep 27. 2024, 09:40 - 10:20 Part of Spin-Orbit Entangled Quantum Magnetism (Workshop).
Exotic Phenomena Due to Multipolar Superexchange Interactions in f-Electron Systems Sergii Khmelevskyi (TU Vienna) Sep 27. 2024, 10:20 - 11:00 Part of Spin-Orbit Entangled Quantum Magnetism (Workshop).
Pulling order from the brink of disorder: Observation of a nodal line spin liquid and fluctuation stabilized order in the FCC lattice K2IrCl6 Kemp Plumb (Brown U, Providence) Sep 27. 2024, 11:30 - 12:10 Part of Spin-Orbit Entangled Quantum Magnetism (Workshop).
Competing magnetisms and onset of the static magnetic order in Sr2RuO4 Bongjae Kim (KNU, Daegu) Sep 27. 2024, 12:10 - 12:50 Part of Spin-Orbit Entangled Quantum Magnetism (Workshop).

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