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

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
Hajer Bahouri (Sorbonne U): Profile Decomposition March 1, 2027 — March 31, 2027 SRF Course
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

Sep 09. 2026

$\Sigma_2$ variants of Supercompactness and the HOD Conjecture Shoshana Friedman (CUNY, New York) Sep 09. 2026, 09:40 - 10:40 Part of FLINTA* in Set Theory (Workshop).
Breaking Patterns Revisited Sabine Theresia Köszegi (TU Wien) Sep 09. 2026, 11:00 - 12:00 Part of FLINTA* in Set Theory (Workshop).
Menas Theorem and Strong Compactness on \(P_\kappa(\lambda)\) Catalina Torres (U of Barcelona) Sep 09. 2026, 14:00 - 14:30 Part of FLINTA* in Set Theory (Workshop).
Condensed Sets and the Solovay Model Dianthe Basak (Paris Cité U) Sep 09. 2026, 14:30 - 15:00 Part of FLINTA* in Set Theory (Workshop).
A Finite Square Principle Juliette Kennedy (U Helsinki) Sep 09. 2026, 15:30 - 16:30 Part of FLINTA* in Set Theory (Workshop).

Sep 10. 2026

Filter extension games with mini supercompactness measures Victoria Gitman (CUNY, New York) Sep 10. 2026, 09:00 - 10:00 Part of FLINTA* in Set Theory (Workshop).
On the definability and cardinality of mad families Julia Millhouse (TU Wien) Sep 10. 2026, 10:30 - 11:00 Part of FLINTA* in Set Theory (Workshop).
Structural Infinite-Exponent Partition Relations and Weak Choice Principles Lyra Gardiner (U of Cambridge) Sep 10. 2026, 11:00 - 11:30 Part of FLINTA* in Set Theory (Workshop).
Descending Distributive Forcing Calliope Ryan-Smith (--) Sep 10. 2026, 11:30 - 12:00 Part of FLINTA* in Set Theory (Workshop).
Diagonalising Generic Filters Over $\omega^k$ Heike Mildenberger (Albert Ludwigs U of Freiburg) Sep 10. 2026, 14:00 - 15:00 Part of FLINTA* in Set Theory (Workshop).

Sep 11. 2026

Automorphism groups of Fraïssé structures and ultrametric spaces Aleksandra Kwiatkowska (U of Wroclaw) Sep 11. 2026, 09:30 - 10:30 Part of FLINTA* in Set Theory (Workshop).
Topological realizations of CBERs Allison Wang (UCLA) Sep 11. 2026, 11:00 - 11:30 Part of FLINTA* in Set Theory (Workshop).
On lifting maps to the Wallman compactification Elena Pozzan (U Torino) Sep 11. 2026, 11:30 - 12:00 Part of FLINTA* in Set Theory (Workshop).
Determinacy and Large Cardinals: Connections, Obstacles and Scenarios for Solutions Sandra Müller (TU Wien) Sep 11. 2026, 14:00 - 15:00 Part of FLINTA* in Set Theory (Workshop).
Strong Logical Axioms and Self-Distributive Algebras: Recent Results and Open Problems Sheila Miller Edwards (ASU, Phoenix) Sep 11. 2026, 15:30 - 16:30 Part of FLINTA* in Set Theory (Workshop).

Sep 14. 2026

Alternating Sign Matrices and Plane Partitions Ilse Fischer (U of Vienna) Sep 14. 2026, 09:30 - 10:50 Part of Statistical Mechanics and Combinatorics of Discrete Planar Structures (Thematic Programme).

Sep 21. 2026

Classification of (non)-frustrated 2D Ising models in genus 1 Beatrice de Tiliere (U Paris-Dauphine) Sep 21. 2026, 10:00 - 10:50 Part of Statistical Mechanics and Combinatorics of Discrete Planar Structures (Thematic Programme).
Small perturbations of the classical Heisenberg model Christophe Garban (U Lyon 1) Sep 21. 2026, 11:30 - 12:20 Part of Statistical Mechanics and Combinatorics of Discrete Planar Structures (Thematic Programme).
Off-giant Criticality in the Mean-field Arboreal Gas Tyler Helmuth (Durham U) Sep 21. 2026, 14:15 - 15:05 Part of Statistical Mechanics and Combinatorics of Discrete Planar Structures (Thematic Programme).
The phase transition of the directed polymer in dimension $3$ is smooth, and we can quantify it Hubert Lacoin (IMPA) Sep 21. 2026, 15:45 - 16:35 Part of Statistical Mechanics and Combinatorics of Discrete Planar Structures (Thematic Programme).

Sep 22. 2026

Mixing time and cutoff for a lifted lazy TASEP Cristina Toninelli (CEREMADE, Paris) Sep 22. 2026, 09:00 - 09:50 Part of Statistical Mechanics and Combinatorics of Discrete Planar Structures (Thematic Programme).
Dimers on Speyer crosses-and-wrenches graphs Cedric Boutillier (SU, Paris) Sep 22. 2026, 10:30 - 11:20 Part of Statistical Mechanics and Combinatorics of Discrete Planar Structures (Thematic Programme).
Scaling limit of simple random walk on 2D critical percolation Yizheng Yuan (Uni Wien) Sep 22. 2026, 11:30 - 12:20 Part of Statistical Mechanics and Combinatorics of Discrete Planar Structures (Thematic Programme).
From Dimers to Maximal Surfaces in Minkowski Space R^{2,2} Marianna Russkikh (Notre Dame du Lac) Sep 22. 2026, 14:15 - 15:05 Part of Statistical Mechanics and Combinatorics of Discrete Planar Structures (Thematic Programme).
On reversing the Simon—Lieb inequality in high-dimensional percolation Romain Panis (U Lyon 1) Sep 22. 2026, 15:45 - 16:35 Part of Statistical Mechanics and Combinatorics of Discrete Planar Structures (Thematic Programme).

Sep 23. 2026

Renormalised two-point functions of CLE_4 gaskets Titus Lupu (SU, Paris) Sep 23. 2026, 09:00 - 09:50 Part of Statistical Mechanics and Combinatorics of Discrete Planar Structures (Thematic Programme).
The censored stochastic six vertex model and parabolic Kazhdan Lusztig R-polynomials Levi Haunschmid-Sibitz (KTH Stockholm) Sep 23. 2026, 11:30 - 12:20 Part of Statistical Mechanics and Combinatorics of Discrete Planar Structures (Thematic Programme).

Sep 24. 2026

Macroscopic fluctuations of random lozenge tilings via discrete beta ensembles Vadim Gorin (UC, Berkeley) Sep 24. 2026, 09:00 - 09:50 Part of Statistical Mechanics and Combinatorics of Discrete Planar Structures (Thematic Programme).

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