Past Lectures

2024

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 -- Oct. 23, 2024 Lecture

Lecture Series by Abhiram M Kidambi (MPI MIS, Leipzig): "Automorphic forms and L-functions: Theory and applications" April 8, 2024 -- April 29, 2024 Lecture

2023

Nigel Hitchin (U of Oxford): ALE metrics and nodal curves Nov. 7, 2023 -- Nov. 7, 2023 Lecture

Naoyuki Kanomata (Tokyo University of Science): "The finite cubic-quartic matrix model" June 7, 2023 -- June 7, 2023 Lecture

Kaushlendra Kumar (U of Hannover): "Exact gauge elds from anti-de Sitter space" May 4, 2023 -- May 4, 2023 Lecture

Elliott H. Lieb (Princeton University): "Study of a simple equation that describes the ground-state energy of a Bose gas at low and high density and in dimensions one, two and three" March 16, 2023 -- March 16, 2023 Lecture

Erwin Schrödinger Lecture by Georg Kaser (U of Innsbruck): "Our changing climate system" March 8, 2023 -- March 8, 2023 Lecture

Ignacio Pagonabarraga (U of Barcelona): "Phase transitions and self assembly in active matter" March 7, 2023 -- March 7, 2023 Lecture

Sara Bonella (CECAM, EPF Lausanne): "Welcome to the MaZe, a new approach for simulating adiabatic systems" March 7, 2023 -- March 7, 2023 Lecture

2022

Erwin Schrödinger Lecture: Philip Walther (U of Vienna): "Photonic quantum computing – a bright future for many applications" Dec. 12, 2022 -- Dec. 12, 2022 Lecture

Vadim Kaimanovich (U Ottawa): Singularity of stationary measures Oct. 27, 2022 -- Oct. 27, 2022 Lecture

Yurii Sitenko (National Academy of Sciences Ukraine, Kiev): Self-adjointness and bounded systems in quantum theory Aug. 3, 2022 -- Aug. 3, 2022 Lecture

2021

Detlev Buchholz (U Göttingen): Classical dynamics, arrow of time, and the origin of Heisenberg's commutation relations Oct. 12, 2021 -- Oct. 12, 2021 Lecture

2020

Lecture Series: Simon Lentner (U Hamburg) on "Towards a derived Topological Field Theory" Nov. 9, 2020 -- Nov. 19, 2020 Lecture

2019

Erwin Schrödinger Lecture: Douglas N. Arnold (U of Minnesota) "Wave localization and its landscape" Dec. 16, 2019 -- Dec. 16, 2019 Lecture

ESI Colloquium: Ilse Fischer (U Vienna) "Where are the bijections? Plane Partitions and Alternating Sign Matrices" June 27, 2019 -- June 27, 2019 Lecture

Jos Uffink (U Minnesota): Schrödinger and the prehistory of the EPR argument June 19, 2019 -- June 19, 2019 Lecture

Alessio Figalli (ETH Zurich): On the regularity theory of optimal transport maps May 13, 2019 -- May 13, 2019 Lecture

Detlev Buchholz (U Göttingen): Linking numbers in quantum field theory April 4, 2019 -- April 4, 2019 Lecture

2018

Erwin Schrödinger Lecture: Monika Henzinger (U Vienna) "Dynamic Graph Algorithms: A Survey" Dec. 6, 2018 -- Dec. 6, 2018 Lecture

Prof. Giuseppe Mussardo (SISSA, Trieste): The Generalised Riemann Hypothesis April 23, 2018 -- April 23, 2018 Lecture

Erwin Schrödinger Lecture: Ngô Bảo Châu (U Chicago): Weierstrass preparation theorem and singularities in arc spaces March 16, 2018 -- March 16, 2018 Lecture

Nils Carqueville, Simons Junior Professor (ESI, U Vienna): Classical Physics and Symplectic Geometry March 6, 2018 -- June 28, 2018 Lecture

2017

Erwin Schrödinger Lecture: Sascha Husa (Universitat de les Balears): Gravitational Wave Astronomy: Recent Results and Challenges for the Future Dec. 19, 2017 -- Dec. 19, 2017 Lecture

David Jordan (U Edinburgh): Quantum character varieties in topology and representation theory Nov. 6, 2017 -- Nov. 9, 2017 Lecture

David Mukamel (The Weizmann Institute of Science): Mixed order phase transitions: from DNA denaturation to jamming processes Oct. 11, 2017 -- Oct. 11, 2017 Lecture

Nils Carqueville, Simons Junior Professor (ESI, U Vienna), Stefan Fredenhagen (U Vienna) & Frank Verstraete (U Vienna): Topological Phases of Matter and Topological Quantum Field Theory Oct. 4, 2017 -- Jan. 31, 2018 Lecture

Catherine Meusburger (U Erlangen): Kitaev lattice models as a Hopf algebra gauge theory March 30, 2017 -- March 30, 2017 Lecture

Catherine Meusburger (U Erlangen): Introduction to Poisson Lie-groups March 27, 2017 -- March 31, 2017 Lecture

Erwin Schrödinger Lecture: Mihalis Dafermos (U of Cambridge & Princeton U): On falling into black holes Feb. 23, 2017 -- Feb. 23, 2017 Lecture

2016

Erwin Schrödinger Lecture: Norbert Schappacher (IRMA, U Strasbourg): Mathematics, Physics, the search for a new man, and French-German politics - Claude Chevalley’s challenges in the 1930s Dec. 16, 2016 -- Dec. 16, 2016 Lecture

Elliott Lieb (Princeton University): A "liquid-solid" phase transition in a simple model for swarming Nov. 9, 2016 -- Nov. 9, 2016 Lecture

Simons Lecture Series: Paul Wedrich (Imperial College London): Knot homologies and higher representation theory Oct. 17, 2016 -- Oct. 21, 2016 Lecture

Nils Carqueville, Simons Junior Professor & Stefan Fredenhagen (U Vienna): Seminar: From Classical Physics to Factorisation Algebras Oct. 3, 2016 -- Jan. 30, 2017 Lecture

Dr. Ruggero Bandiera (U Rome, La Sapienza): Higher Deligne groupoids July 22, 2016 -- July 22, 2016 Lecture

Florian Schätz (U Luxembourg): The unit interval, Bernoulli numbers, and the Magnus expansion July 19, 2016 -- July 19, 2016 Lecture

Elliott Lieb (Princeton University): A Pfaffian formula for monomer-dimer partition functions March 15, 2016 -- March 15, 2016 Lecture

Nils Carqueville, Simons Junior Professor (U Vienna, ESI): Topological Quantum Field Theory 2 (Lecture Course) March 1, 2016 -- June 30, 2016 Lecture

Simons Lecture Series: Claudia Scheimbauer (MPI Bonn): Operads, factorization algebras, and (topological) quantum field theory with a flavor of higher categories Feb. 29, 2016 -- March 4, 2016 Lecture

Erwin Schrödinger Lecture: Alex Lubotzky (Hebrew U & ETH Zurich): Ramanujan complexes and topological expanders Feb. 18, 2016 -- Feb. 18, 2016 Lecture

2015

Erwin Schrödinger Lecture: Daniel Huybrechts (U Bonn): Symmetries and K3 surfaces Dec. 10, 2015 -- Dec. 10, 2015 Lecture

Nils Carqueville, Simons Junior Professor (U Vienna, ESI): Topological Quantum Field Theory (Lecture Course) Oct. 1, 2015 -- Jan. 31, 2016 Lecture

Junya Yagi (SISSA): Quiver gauge theories and integrable lattice models June 17, 2015 -- June 17, 2015 Lecture

Paige North (U Cambridge): Weak factorization systems for intensional type theory May 20, 2015 -- May 20, 2015 Lecture

Florian Schätz (U Aarhus): Representions of the based loop space May 15, 2015 -- May 15, 2015 Lecture

Daniel Tubbenhauer (U Louvain): From Dualities to Diagrams May 13, 2015 -- May 13, 2015 Lecture

Antonio Šiber (Institute of Physics, Zagreb): Conformations of circular DNA bundles in viruses May 11, 2015 -- May 11, 2015 Lecture

Simon Lentner (U Hamburg): BiGalois objects and the Brauer Picard group May 7, 2015 -- May 7, 2015 Lecture

Gregor Schaumann (MPI Bonn): Algebraic operations from topological field theory March 17, 2015 -- March 17, 2015 Lecture

Alain Connes (Collège de France): The Arithmetic Site (3 Lectures) March 5, 2015 -- March 11, 2015 Lecture

Nils Carqueville, Simons Junior Professor (ESI, U Vienna): Introduction to category theory (Lecture Course) March 5, 2015 -- June 30, 2015 Lecture

Erwin Schrödinger Lecture: Pierre Vanhove (IHES): Modular invariance and duality symmetries in Quantum Field Theory and String Theory March 4, 2015 -- March 4, 2015 Lecture

Alessandro Valentino (MPI Bonn): Boundary conditions for extended TQFTs and anomalies Feb. 18, 2015 -- Feb. 18, 2015 Lecture

Domenico Fiorenza (U Rome 1): Central extensions of mapping class groups from characteristic classes Feb. 18, 2015 -- Feb. 18, 2015 Lecture

Andrew Hone: Cluster algebras and discrete integrable systems (4 Lectures) Jan. 20, 2015 -- Jan. 30, 2015 Lecture

Wolfgang Wieland (Penn State University): Covariant loop quantum gravity Jan. 9, 2015 -- Jan. 9, 2015 Lecture

2014

Igor Ciganović (U Zagreb): Zelevinsky classification of irreducible unramified representations of the metaplectic group Dec. 17, 2014 -- Dec. 17, 2014 Lecture

Ivan Matić (U of Osijek): Composition series and Jacquet modules method Dec. 17, 2014 -- Dec. 17, 2014 Lecture

Anthony Blanc (ESI, U Vienna): Topological K-theory of dg-categories (part 2/2) Oct. 23, 2014 -- Oct. 23, 2014 Lecture

Alessandro Valentino (MPI Bonn): Topological quantum field theory via higher category theory (Simons Lecture Course on Mathematical Physics) Oct. 20, 2014 -- Oct. 24, 2014 Lecture

Anthony Blanc (ESI, U Vienna): Topological K-theory of dg-categories (part 1/2) Oct. 9, 2014 -- Oct. 9, 2014 Lecture

Nils Carqueville (ESI, U Vienna): Infinite-dimensional lie algebras (Seminar) Oct. 2, 2014 -- Jan. 31, 2015 Lecture

Nils Carqueville (ESI, U Vienna): Introduction to conformal field theory (Lecture course) Oct. 2, 2014 -- Jan. 31, 2015 Lecture

Magnus Engenhorst (U Bonn): Bridgeland stability and BPS states (Simons Lecture Course on Mathematical Physics) Sept. 15, 2014 -- Sept. 19, 2014 Lecture

Paul Wedrich (U Cambridge): Categorified colored HOMFLY invariants of rational tangles (Simons Lecture on Mathematical Physics) June 30, 2014 -- June 30, 2014 Lecture

Roberto Volpato (MPI Golm): Symmetries of N=(4,4) non-linear sigma models (Simons Lecture on Mathematical Physics) June 25, 2014 -- June 25, 2014 Lecture

Grischa Karssen (U of Cologne): The galactic center June 5, 2014 -- June 5, 2014 Lecture

Andrew Duncan (Newcastle U): Subgroups of the automorphism groups of partially commutative groups (RAAGs) April 9, 2014 -- April 9, 2014 Lecture

Christopher Cashen (U Vienna): Quasi-isometry invariants from decorated trees April 9, 2014 -- April 9, 2014 Lecture

Arye Juhasz (Technion, Haifa): The isoperimetric function of groups defined by a single positive word April 8, 2014 -- April 8, 2014 Lecture

Alexei Semikhatov (Lebedev Physics Institute, Moscow): From conformal field theory to Nichols algebras and back March 14, 2014 -- March 14, 2014 Lecture

Nils Carqueville (ESI, U Vienna): Introduction to topological quantum field theory March 4, 2014 -- June 24, 2014 Lecture

Nils Carqueville (ESI, U Vienna): Topological quantum field theory March 4, 2014 -- June 24, 2014 Lecture

Nils Carqueville (SUNY, Stony Brook): Equivariant completion of defect bicategories Feb. 26, 2014 -- Feb. 26, 2014 Lecture

Alan Carey (ANU Canberra): A geometric approach to twisted K-homology Feb. 25, 2014 -- Feb. 25, 2014 Lecture

Thang Le (Georgia Tech): The Habiro ring and invariants of 3-manifolds Feb. 25, 2014 -- Feb. 25, 2014 Lecture

Ingo Runkel (U Hamburg): Spin from defects in two-dimensional field theory Feb. 24, 2014 -- Feb. 24, 2014 Lecture

Jørgen Ellegaard Andersen (Aarhus U): Quantum representations of mapping class groups via geometric quantization of moduli spaces Feb. 24, 2014 -- Feb. 24, 2014 Lecture

Jeffrey Morton (U Hamburg): Towards extended TQFT from higher gauge theory Feb. 14, 2014 -- Feb. 14, 2014 Lecture

Sebastian Burciu (Simion Stoilow Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy): On the Grothendieck groups of equivariantized fusion categories Feb. 14, 2014 -- Feb. 14, 2014 Lecture

2013

Erwin Schrödinger Lecture: Hans Werner Ballmann (U Bonn and MPI of Mathematics, Bonn) Small eigenvalues on hyperbolic surfaces Dec. 3, 2013 -- Dec. 3, 2013 Lecture

Della Dumbaugh (U Richmond): Meet Margaret S. Matchett and her thesis "On the zeta function for ideles" (1946)" Oct. 18, 2013 -- Oct. 18, 2013 Lecture

Monica Guica: On black holes and star products Sept. 30, 2013 -- Sept. 30, 2013 Lecture

Jacopo Stoppa: Recent applications of wall-crossing to algebraic and differential geometry Sept. 27, 2013 -- Sept. 27, 2013 Lecture

Julie Rowlett: The Mathematics of "Hearing the Shape of a Drum" Sept. 27, 2013 -- Sept. 27, 2013 Lecture

Roland Donninger: Recent global results for nonlinear wave equations Sept. 27, 2013 -- Sept. 27, 2013 Lecture

Nils Carqueville (Stony Brook): Quantum field theory and higher algebra Sept. 16, 2013 -- Sept. 16, 2013 Lecture

M. Cacciari (LPTHE Paris), G. Soyez (IphT Saclay): Pileup and the underlying event July 11, 2013 -- July 11, 2013 Lecture

Simone Marzani (Durham University): Jet Substructure July 9, 2013 -- July 9, 2013 Lecture

Johan Steen (Norwegian University of Science and Technology): A simple-minded approach to the Orlov spectrum in type D July 4, 2013 -- July 4, 2013 Lecture

Sauro Succi (IAC-CNR, Rome): A crash-course on lattice Boltzmann May 31, 2013 -- June 3, 2013 Lecture