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Workshops at the ESI in 2024

Published on Jan. 30, 2024, [View only this article]

The following workshops have been confirmed for 2024:

February 12 -- 16, 2024: Stochastic Partial Differential Equations
Organizers: Sandra Cerrai (U of Maryland), Martin Hairer (Imperial College London), Carlo Marinelli (IRIS), Eulalia Nualart (U Barcelona), Luca Scarpa (Politecnico Milano), Ulisse Stefanelli (U of Vienna)

March 04 -- 15, 2024: Chromatin Modeling: Integrating Mathematics, Physics, and Computation for Advances in Biology and Medicine
Organizers: Anton Goloborodko (IMBA, Vienna), Tamar Schlick (NYU, New York), Jan Smrek (U of Vienna)

March 18 -- 22, 2024: Rare Events in Dynamical Systems
Organizers: Françoise Pène (UBO, Brest), Tanja Schindler (U of Vienna), Roland Zweimüller (U of Vienna)

April 02 -- 05, 2024: Transport Properties in Soft Matter Systems
Organizers: Laura Alvarez (U Bordeaux), Olekandr Chepizhko (U of Vienna), Vittoria Sposini (U of Vienna)

May 21 -- 24, 2024: Synthetic Curvature Bounds for Non-Smooth Spaces: Beyond Finite Dimension
Organizers: Lorenzo Dello Schiavo (ISTA, Klosterneuburg), Christian Ketterer (ALU Freiburg), Chiara Rigoni (U of Vienna)

June 03 -- 07, 2024: One World Optimization Seminar in Vienna
Organizers: Radu Ioan Bot (U of Vienna), Yurii Malitskyi (U of Vienna)

June 24 -- 28, 2024: Determinacy, Inner Models and Forcing Axioms
Organizers: Takehiko Gappo (TU Vienna), Sandra Müller (TU Vienna), Grigor Sargsyan (Polish Academy of Science, Warsaw), Ralf Schindler (WWU Münster), John Steel (UC, Berkeley)

July 24 -- 26, 2024: Exactly Solvable Models
Organizers: Maja Buric (Belgrade University), Edwin Langmann (KTH Stockholm), Harold Steinacker (U of Vienna), Raimar Wulkenhaar (U Münster)

September 23 -- 27, 2024: Spin-Orbit Entangled Quantum Magnetism
Organizers: Cesare Franchini (U of Vienna), Vesna Mitrovic (Brown U, Providence), Leonid Pourovskii (Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau)

October 07 -- 19, 2024: Algebraicity and Transcendence for Singular Differential Equations
Organizers: Alin Bostan (INRIA Paris), Francis Brown (U Oxford), Herwig Hauser (U of Vienna), Shihoko Ishii (Tokyo U of Science), Hiraku Kawanoue (Chubu U, Kasugai City), Michael Singer (North Carolina State U)

December 09 -- 13, 2024: Lensing and Wave Optics in Strong Gravity
Organizers: Pedro Cunha (UAVR), Marius A. Oancea (U of Vienna), Miguel Zumalacárregui (MPI MiS Leipzig)


Panel discussion in AI in Academia on Tuesday, November 28 @ 16:30

Published on Nov. 21, 2023, [View only this article]

The Vienna School of Mathematics (VSM) and the Vienna Doctoral School Physics (VDSP) have organized an interdisciplinary panel discussion on GPTs in research and higher education, to which everybody is invited. The panelists are:

Margret Mundorf (Hochschule Kaiserslautern)
Mario Krenn (Artificial Science Lab, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Erlangen)
Philipp Petersen (Faculty of Mathematics, University of Vienna)

The discussion will be moderated by Christoph Dellago, ESI Director, and will take place 

Tuesday, November 28, 16:30
ESI, Boltzmanngasse 9, 1090 Vienna


Further information is available at 
https://vds-physics.univie.ac.at/activities/networking/docschools-meet/gpts-in-research-and-higher-education/

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ESI-Medalist 2023 Isabelle Gallagher interviewed by ORF

Published on Nov. 13, 2023, [View only this article]

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ESI@30 Birthday Symposium & ESI Medal 2023 pictures

Published on Nov. 11, 2023, [View only this article]


ESI@30 Birthday Symposium on November 9-10, 2023

Published on Nov. 7, 2023, [View only this article]

Join us for the ESI@30 Symposium to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Erwin Schrödinger Institute for Mathematics and Physics. Come in person to the ESI or follow the symposium online at:

https://esi.ustream.univie.ac.at/live/7f57b8b6-f65d-45a4-b68f-045bf77fabc9

The symposium starts on Thursday, November 9, at 14:00.

The program of the symposium is available at:

https://www.esi.ac.at/events/e523/


We are looking for an Administrative Assistant

Published on Oct. 6, 2023, [View only this article]

For futher information see: https://jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Organisationsassistentin/988218201/


Thematic Programmes at the ESI in 2024

Published on Oct. 3, 2023, [View only this article]

The following thematic programmes have been scheduled for 2024:

April 1 – 26, 2024: Carrollian Physics and Holography
Organizers: Andrea Campoleoni (U Mons), Laura Donnay (SISSA, Trieste), Stefan Fredenhagen (U of Vienna), Daniel Grumiller (TU Vienna)

April 29 – June 21, 2024: Nonlinear Waves and Relativity
Organizers: Roland Donninger (U of Vienna), David Fajman (U of Vienna), Birgit Schoerkhuber  (U of Innsbruck)

July 1 – August 9, 2024: The Landscape vs. the Swampland
Organizers: Gary Shiu (U of Wisconsin-Madison), Washington Taylor (MIT), Irene Valenzuela (Harvard U), Timm Wrase (TU Vienna & Lehigh U)

August 19 – October 11, 2024: Linking Microscopic Processes to the Macroscopic Rheological Properties in Inert and Living Soft Materials
Organizers: Roberto Cerbino (U Vienna), Emanuela Del Gado (Georgetown U, Washington DC), Giuseppe Foffi (U Paris-Sud)
 


Video about the ESI workshop "Blackbody Radiation Induced Effects and Phenomena" now online

Published on Oct. 3, 2023, [View only this article]

The organizers of the ESI workshop "Blackbody Radiation Induced Effects and Phenomena", which took place at the ESI in February of 2023, made a beautiful video about their workshop. Watch the video online on youtube (link below). 

Link to the video

Website of the workshop


Ukrainian high-school students to visit the ESI

Published on Sept. 22, 2023, [View only this article]

As part of the Kharkiv-Vienna International Science School (https://mmf.univie.ac.at/kharkiv-vienna/), 25 talented high-school students from Kharkiv, Ukraine, will spend a week in Vienna. The students, all finalists of the All-Ukrainian Science Olympiads in 2023, will visit various scientific institutions in Vienna and surroundings, including the ESI, and we are very much looking forward to welcome them here. 

https://mmf.univie.ac.at/kharkiv-vienna/vienna-2023/


Symposium ESI@30, November 9-10, 2023

Published on June 12, 2023, [View only this article]

This year, we celebrate the 30th anniversary of the ESI, and to mark this significant milestone, we are organising a two-day symposium that reflects the Institute's commitment to advancing excellence in research and stimulating discussion across all domains of mathematics and physics.

Further information: https://www.esi.ac.at/events/e523/

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Former ESI-SAB Member Luis Caffarelli awarded Abel Prize 2023

Published on May 26, 2023, [View only this article]

The ESI congratulates Professor Luis Caffarelli for receiving the Abel Prize 2023 for his work on non-linear partial differential equations. Professor Caffarelli was a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the ESI from 2001 to 2003.
You can read about his many achievements on the webpage of the Abel Prize, where you will also find a video of the Award Ceremony on May 23, 2023:

https://abelprize.no/

 

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The ESI-Medal 2023 goes to Isabelle Gallagher

Published on April 23, 2023, [View only this article]

The Medal of the Erwin Schrödinger Institute for Mathematics and Physics for the year 2023 is awarded to Isabelle Gallagher, Professor at the Department of Mathematics and its Applications of the École Normale Supérieure in Paris.

Professor Gallagher is honored for her numerous innovative and highly significant contributions to the mathematical theory of fluid dynamics. With rigorous mathematical analysis she has greatly advanced our understanding of the relationships between microscopic and macroscopic models of fluid. In particular, her work explains how the Boltzmann equation, which gives a statistical description of a gas, emerges from an atomic-level model of the gas as a vast collection of interacting particles moving and colliding according to Newton's laws.

In more recent work, she has shown how smooth solutions of the Boltzmann equation converge to solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations, which give a continuum model of the flow of a fluid. In her work on the Navier-Stokes equations, Professor Gallagher discovered unknown and unexpected examples of global solutions with arbitrarily large initial data. She is also a leading expert on strongly rotating fluids, which are of central importance in the atmospheric and oceanic sciences. Professor Gallagher’s groundbreaking work in mathematics has important implications for physics and advances our understanding of these fundamental equations governing fluid dynamics.

The Award Ceremony will take place on November 9, 2023 at the Erwin Schrödinger Institute for Mathematics and Physics in Vienna.

Isabelle Gallagher

Born in 1973 in Cagnes-sur-Mer, Isabelle Gallagher studied at the École Polytechnique from 1992 to 1995 before joining the Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie, where she obtained a diplôme d'études approfondies (DEA) in 1996 and a doctorate in 1998, working under the supervision of Jean-Yves Chemin on the dynamics of fluids. After that she was Chargée de Recherches of the CNRS at the University of Paris-Sud and the École Polytechnique and habilitated in 2002 at the Université Paris-Sud. From 2004, she was a professor at the Université Paris-Diderot and from 2003 to 2009, she also taught at the École Polytechnique. Since 2017 she is a Professor in Mathematics at the École Normale Supérieure, Paris, where she directed the Department of Mathematics and Applications from 2018 to 2019. Since 2019, she is the director of the Foundation Sciences Mathématiques in Paris.


Isabelle Gallagher has received numerous awards, including the Prix Paul Doistau–Émile Blutet and the Prix Sophie Germain of the French Academy of Sciences and the Silver Medal of the CNRS. In 2014 she was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians. From 2012 to 2016 she was a member of the International Scientific Advisory Board of the ESI.

Webpage of Prof. Gallagher: https://www.math.ens.psl.eu/~gallagher/indexenglish.php

 

The ESI Medal

The Medal of the Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematics and Physics, or ESI-Medal, awarded in 2020 for the first time, has been created to recognize outstanding achievements in any area of mathematics or physics, including contributions at the interface of the two fields. The previous recipients of the ESI-Medal are Anton Alekseev (2020), Elliott Lieb (2021) and Martin Hairer (2022).

The ESI-Medal is awarded annually and emphasis is generally given to recent achievements not older than ten years. There is no age limitation for the recipient and ordinarily the ESI-Medal is awarded to one person.

The recipient of the ESI-Medal receives a medal, a certificate and a monetary award of 4,000 Euro.

Nominations for the ESI Medal can be made by organizers of current and previous ESI Thematic Programmes, current and former ESI Senior Research Fellows, former members of the Scientific Advisory Board of the ESI, former recipients of the ESI Medal, former Directors of the ESI and the President of the ESI Association. The recipient is selected by the Scientific Advisory Board of the ESI.


Lecture by Elliott Lieb, March 16, 2023

Published on March 13, 2023, [View only this article]

A lecture by Prof. Elliott Lieb (University of Princeton) takes place on March 16, 2023.

See the website of the event: https://www.esi.ac.at/events/e520/ 


Erwin Schrödinger Lecture by Georg Kaser, March 8, 2023

Published on Feb. 9, 2023, [View only this article]

 

The Erwin Schrödinger Lecture by Prof. Georg Kaser takes place on March 8, 2023.

Website of the event: https://www.esi.ac.at/events/e509/


Workshops at the ESI in 2023

Published on Jan. 27, 2023, [View only this article]

The following workshops have been confirmed for 2023:

February 13 -- 17, 2023: Blackbody Radiation Induced Effects and Phenomena
Organizers: Philipp Haslinger (TU Vienna), Francesco Intravaia (Hu Berlin), Arkadiusz Kosior (U of Innsbruck), Dennis Rätzel (ZARM, Bremen)

February 20 -- 24, 2023: Between Regularity and Defects: Variational and Geometrical Methods in Materials Science
Organizers: Stefano Almi (U of Napoli), Anastasia Molchanova (U of Vienna)

March 13 -- 24, 2023: Non-regular Spacetime Geometry
Organizers: Piotr T. Chrušciel (U of Vienna), Melanie Graf (U of Tübingen), Michael Kunzinger (U of Vienna), Ettore Minguzzi (U of Florence), Roland Steinbauer (U of Vienna)

April 23 -- 28, 2023: Non-commutative Geometry meets Topological Recursion
Organizers: Gaëtan Borot (Hu Berlin), Elba Garcia Failde (Sorbonne U, Paris), Harald Grosse (U of Vienna), Masoud Khalkhali (Western U, Ontario), Hannah Markwig (U of Tübingen), Raimar Wulkenhaar (U of Münster)

July 17 -- 21, 2023: Geometric and Asymptotic Group Theory with Applications 2023 - Groups and Dynamics
Organizers: Christopher Cashen (U of Vienna), Alexandra Edletzberger (U of Vienna), Yash Lodha (U of Vienna)

Septembr 4 -- 8, 2023: Large-N Matrix Models and Emergent Geometry
Organizers: Sumit Ranjan Das (U Kentucky), Masanori Hanada (U Surrey), Sean Hartnoll (U Cambridge), Antal Jevicki (Browen U, Providence), Joanna Karczmarek (U of British Columbia, Kelowna), Harold Steinacker (U of Vienna)

November 20 -- 24, 2023: Analysis and Geometry in Several complex Variables
Organizers: Peter Ebenfelt (UC, San Diego), Purvi Gupta (IISC, Bangalore), Berhard Lamel (U of Vienna), Nordine Mir (Texas A&M U at Qatar)

December 11 -- 15, 2023: New perspective on Shape and Topology Optimization
Organizers: Elisa Davoli (TU Vienna), Idriss Mazari (CNRS, Paris), Kevin Strum (TU Vienna)

 

 


COVID-19 Security Measures, Update, January 16, 2023

Published on Jan. 12, 2023, [View only this article]

The following safety regulations in connection to the Covid-19 virus come into effect at the ESI from January 16, 2023 on:

  • Wearing an FFP2 face mask is no longer mandatory but highly recommended

  • Please don’t come to the Institute if you feel sick and have symptoms of Covid-19, unless you are Covid-19 negative tested and are sure not to have Covid.

  • Information on Covid testing options in Vienna can be found here: https://coronavirus.wien.gv.at/faq-english/#Testangebote

  • Information on the current Covid situation in Austria and travel information can be found here: https://www.austria.info/en/service-and-facts/coronavirus-information

  • Please note that in Vienna FFP2 masks remain compulsory on public transport and in pharmacies and hospitals.

 


Erwin Schrödinger Lecture by Philip Walther, December 12, 2022

Published on Dec. 6, 2022, [View only this article]

 

The Erwin Schrödinger Lecture by Prof. Philip Walther takes place on December 12, 2022.

Website of the event:  https://www.esi.ac.at/events/e497/ 


ESI Medal Award Ceremony 2022, November 4

Published on Nov. 3, 2022, [View only this article]

The Award Ceremony for the ESI Medal 2022 took place on November 4, 2022.

Further information is available here: https://www.esi.ac.at/esi-medal

Website of the event: https://www.esi.ac.at/events/e489/


Nobel Prize in Physics 2022 goes to A. Aspect, J. F. Clauser and A. Zeilinger

Published on Oct. 4, 2022, [View only this article]

The Erwin Schrödinger Institute congratulates Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger for the Nobel Prize in Physics 2022. They receive the prize "for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science". We are particularly thrilled that 86 years after Viktor Franz Hess received the 1936 Nobel Prize, the Physics Nobel Prize returns to the University of Vienna. The ESI applauds Anton Zeilinger, a frequent visitor to the institute.

A summary on the pioneering research of Aspect, Clauser and Zeilinger can be found on the website of the Nobel Prize:

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2022/summary/

Press release of the University of Vienna:

https://medienportal.univie.ac.at/media/aktuelle-pressemeldungen/detailansicht/artikel/physiknobelpreis-fuer-anton-zeilinger-1/


COVID-19 Security Measures, September 1, 2022

Published on Aug. 30, 2022, [View only this article]

Link to the Security Measures


The ESI-Medal 2022 goes to Martin Hairer

Published on May 16, 2022, [View only this article]

The Medal of the Erwin Schrödinger Institute for Mathematics and Physics for the year 2022 is awarded to Martin Hairer, Professor at the Department of Mathematics of Imperial College London.

Professor Hairer is honored for his groundbreaking work on stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs). Physicists and mathematicians use SPDEs to describe physical systems which evolve in an environment permeated by randomness. However, for the modeling of some fundamental physical phenomena such as random interface growth, the mathematical tools developed over the past several centuries are insufficient to make sense of these singular, nonlinear, noise-driven equations, much less to solve them. In a remarkable breakthrough, Hairer's theory of regularity structures overcomes this barrier. It provides a powerful and coherent toolbox, which has already enabled the solution of several important SPDEs by him and his coauthors and which opens a pathway to new discoveries.

The award ceremony will take place on November 4, 2022 at the Erwin Schrödinger Institute in Vienna.

Martin Hairer

Martin Hairer, born in 1975, obtained a BSc in Mathematics and a MSc and PhD in Physics (2001) from the University of Geneva. He was Postdoctoral Fellow, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Full Professor, and Regius Professor of Mathematics at the University of Warwick (2002–2017). He was Associate Professor at New York University (Courant Institute) in 2009. Since 2017 he is Professor of Pure Mathematics at the Department of Mathematics of Imperial College London. His research focuses on stochastic analysis, in particular stochastic partial differential equations. He received the Whitehead Prize (2008), the Philip Leverhulme Prize (2008), the Fermat Prize (2013), the Fröhlich Prize (2014), the Fields Medal (2014), and the Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics (2021).

In the course of his distinguished career, Martin Hairer has made many deep contributions to mathematics, often motivated by fundamental questions arising in physics. His work is characterised by a combination of mathematical virtuosity guided by profound physical intuition. Martin Hairer’s earliest research contributions deal with the non-equilibrium statistical mechanics of strongly anharmonic chains of oscillators. While Hairer subsequently made many deep and important contributions to various areas in mathematical physics, his main research focus is in the area of stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs), which describe a wide range of phenomena ranging from turbulent flows to financial markets. One of the highlights in Hairer’s earlier work is a proof of ergodicity for the 2D stochastic Navier-Stokes equation with Jonathan Mattingly. Subsequently, Hairer introduced a theory of regularity structures that allowed him and his collaborators to solve a wide class of singular SPDEs. Hairer’s work has transformed the field of SPDEs and it is inspiring the current generation of researchers in this area. Besides his numerous mathematical breakthroughs, Martin Hairer has provided extensive service to the mathematical community, e.g., as member of the advisory boards of the Hausdorff Center for Mathematics, Institute Henri Poincaré, Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, and the Institute for Theoretical Studies at the ETH. He currently serves as the Chair of the ICM 2022 Program Committee. Martin Hairer also stands out as a mentor for young mathematicians and he is widely admired for his generosity in sharing ideas.

Webpage of Prof. Hairer: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/m.hairer
 

The ESI Medal

The Medal of the Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematics and Physics, or ESI-Medal, awarded in 2020 for the first time, has been created to recognize outstanding achievements in any area of mathematics or physics, including contributions at the interface of the two fields. The previous recipients of the ESI-Medal are Anton Alekseev (2020) and Elliott Lieb (2021).

The ESI-Medal is awarded annually and emphasis is generally given to recent achievements not older than ten years. There is no age limitation for the recipient and ordinarily the ESI-Medal is awarded to one person.

The recipient of the ESI-Medal receives a medal, a certificate and a monetary award of 4,000 Euro.

Nominations for the ESI-Medal can be made by organizers of ESI Thematic Programmes taking place in the year of the award and in the four previous years, former members of the Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) of the ESI, former recipients of the ESI-Medal, former Directors of the ESI and the President of the ESI Association. The recipient is selected by the Scientific Advisory Board of the ESI.


Thematic Programmes at the ESI in 2023

Published on May 11, 2022, [View only this article]

After a long period of uncertainty we are confident that it will be possible to hold the following thematic programmes at the ESI scheduled for 2023:

April 11 – June 2, 2023: The Dynamics of Planetary- scale Fluid Flows
Organizers: Adrian Constantin (U of Vienna), David Dritschel (U of St. Andrews), Nathan Paldor (The Hebrew U of Jerusalem)

June 5 – July 28, 2023: Spectral Theory and Mathematical Relativity
Organizers: Piotr Chruściel (U of Vienna), Peter Hintz (MIT, Boston), Alexander Strohmaier (U of Leeds), Steven Morris Zelditch (Northwestern U)

July 31 – September 1, 2023: Quantum Field Theory at the Frontiers of the Strong Interaction
Organizers: André H. Hoang (U of Vienna), Iain W. Stewart (MIT, Cambridge), Simon Plätzer (U of Graz and U of Vienna), Massimiliano Procura (U of Vienna), Malin Sjödahl (Lund U)

September 11 – November 3, 2023: Geometry beyond Riemann: Curvature and Rigidity
Organizers: Ivan Izmestiev (TU Vienna), Athanase Papadopoulos (IRMA, U of Strasbourg), Marc Troyanov (EPFL, Lausanne), Sumio Yamada (Gakushuin U, Tokyo)


ORF-report on ESI visitor Anna Kosogor of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences

Published on April 26, 2022, [View only this article]

This is an external news entry. To read it, please follow this link.

ESI Special Research Fellowship for Ukrainian Scientists 🇺🇦

Published on March 7, 2022, [View only this article]

The Governing Board of the ESI condemns the war launched by the Russian Federation on the Ukraine and expresses its deep solidarity with the Ukrainian people. In order to support Ukrainian scientists, the ESI has started a special fellowship program for research stays of up to four months. At the ESI, fellows can work on their research projects and interact with scientists of the Faculties of Mathematics and Physics of the University of Vienna. 

With support from the Faculties of Mathematics and Physics, University of Vienna, and from the Association Erwin Schrödinger Institute.

Target group:

Ukrainian scientist in the fields of mathematics and physics with a PhD who are affiliated with a research institution in the Ukraine.

Duration and amount of funding:

Stays of up to 4 months at the ESI are possible. The financial support provided by the ESI consists of a daily allowance of 80 EUR for each day of the stay. Fellows will have a working place at the ESI in Vienna with access to the libraries of mathematics and physics of the University of Vienna.

Application:

Applications in English should be submitted in pdf format to secr@esi.ac.at

Applications should include:

- Brief description of the project (1 page)
- Curriculum vitae
- Copy of an identification document (passport)

Applications are accepted until April 6, 2022.
Deadline extended until April 26, 2022!
Currently no new applications are accepted. 

Contact:
Maria Marouschek
Tel.: +43-1-4277-28284
secr@esi.ac.at
https://www.esi.ac.at/

ESI - Erwin Schrödinger Institute for Mathematics and Physics
Boltzmanngasse 9, 1090 Vienna, Austria

 

 


IT Support wanted

Published on March 4, 2022, [View only this article]

The ESI is looking for an IT support to maintain the IT infrastructure and support the ESI Administration and some times also visitors. The part time position for eight hours per week will be filled as soon as possible. For more details see the attached announcement. For any questions regarding this position contact the ESI administration at secr@esi.ac.at or by phone +43 1 4277 28301.

Announcement

 


ESI Medal Award Ceremony 2021, November 5

Published on Nov. 9, 2021, [View only this article]

The Medal of the Erwin Schrödinger Institute for Mathematics and Physics was awarded to Prof. Elliott Lieb (Princeton University) on November 5th, 2021. The awardee participated online in the event.  Recording


The ESI Medal 2021 goes to Elliott Lieb

Published on May 4, 2021, [View only this article]

The Medal of the Erwin Schrödinger Institute for Mathematics and Physics for the year 2021 is awarded to Elliott Lieb, Professor Emeritus at Princeton University.

Professor Lieb is honoured for his deep and groundbreaking mathematical analysis of fundamental problems and models of many-body physics, foremost his works of recent years, which continue to be outstanding and inspiring to a new generation of mathematical physicists. Two highlights in the realm of Coulomb systems are a mathematically rigorous justification of the Local Density Approximation in Density Functional Theory, and a proof of the equivalence in the thermodynamic limit of three different definitions of the minimum energy of a homogeneous electron gas (joint work with M. Lewin and R. Seiringer).

The award ceremony will take place on November 5, 2021, at the Erwin Schrödinger Institute in Vienna.

Elliott Lieb

Elliott Hershel Lieb, born in 1932, obtained his B.S. degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 1953 until 1956 he studied at the University of Birmingham in England for his Ph.D. Back in the US he held postdoctoral appointments at the University of Illinois and at Cornell University and a permanent position at IBM. He then moved on to Yeshiva University in New York, Northeastern University in Boston and to MIT again. In 1975 he became a full Professor at Princeton University.

Elliott Lieb is one of the founding fathers of modern mathematical physics and one of the most influential personalities worldwide within this discipline. He has made important contributions to a broad range of topics such as models of statistical mechanics, especially exactly soluble models, many-body quantum physics, including the Bose gas and Bose-Einstein condensation, inequalities for quantum entropy, the quantum theory of Coulomb systems including density functional theory and exact results on atoms and molecules, stability of matter, matter in strong magnetic fields, harmonic maps and liquid crystals, quantum electrodynamics, the second and the third law of thermodynamics, and sharp constants in fundamental inequalities of functional analysis. His list of publications presently counts around 400 items and the number of his collaborators exceeds 90. This includes many younger colleagues who have become leading scientists on their own. His work has set a gold standard in mathematical physics through its extremely high quality and has inspired generations of mathematical physicists.

Webpage of Prof. Lieb:

http://web.math.princeton.edu/~lieb/
https://dof.princeton.edu/about/clerk-faculty/emeritus/elliott-hershel-lieb

The Medal of the Erwin Schrödinger Institute for Mathematics and Physics

The Medal of the Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematics and Physics, or ESI Medal, awarded in 2020 for the first time, has been created to recognize outstanding achievements in any area of mathematics or physics, including contributions at the interface of the two fields.

The ESI Medal is awarded annually and emphasis is generally given to recent achievements not older than ten years. There is no age limitation for the recipient and ordinarily the ESI Medal is awarded to one person.

The recipient of the ESI Medal receives a medal, a certificate and a monetary award of 4,000 Euro.

Nominations for the ESI Medal can be made by organizers of ESI Thematic Programmes taking place in the year following the nomination deadline, former members of the Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) of the ESI, former recipients of the ESI-Medal, former Directors of the ESI and the President of the ESI Association. The recipient is selected by the Scientific Advisory Board of the ESI.

Link to the ESI Medal Website:  https://www.esi.ac.at/esi-medal

 

 


Update concerning Covid-19 pandemic

Published on Dec. 14, 2020, [View only this article]

After a summer, in which at least some hybrid activities welcoming visitors on-site could take place, the ESI is closed again since the beginning of October. Nevertheless, thanks to the efforts of some organizers, some online activities could be offered. We very much hope we will be able to have on-site events soon, but currently it is unclear when that will happen. We will continue to monitor the situation closely and post any changes on the ESI webpage. With best wishes for the Holiday Season,


Christoph Dellago
Director of the ESI


2020 Physics Nobel Prize goes to Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez

Published on Oct. 6, 2020, [View only this article]

The Erwin Schrödinger Institute for Mathematics and Physics congratulates Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez, this year's winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics. They are awarded the prize for their groundbreaking work on black holes. 

A recent lecture of Prof. Penrose given at the ESI can be found here


ESI Medal Award Ceremony, September 24

Published on Sept. 18, 2020, [View only this article]

The Award Ceremony for the first ESI Medal will take place on September 24, 2020.

Further information is available here: https://www.esi.ac.at/esi-medal

 

 


First ESI-Medal goes to Anton Alekseev

Published on June 23, 2020, [View only this article]

The Medal of the Erwin Schrödinger Institute for Mathematics and Physics for the year 2020 is awarded to Anton Alekseev from the University of Geneva.

Prof. Alekseev is honoured for his recent outstanding contributions to mathematics, in particular for the discovery of the link between the Grothendieck-Teichmüller group and the long-standing Kashiwara-Vergne problem in Lie theory, for the program of tropicalization of Poisson structures, and for the proof of the Goldman-Turaev formality in 2-dimensional topology. His work unites brilliant intuition, deep knowledge, and remarkable technical skills.

The award ceremony will take place on September 24, 2020 at the Erwin Schrödinger Institute.

Anton Alekseev

Anton Alekseev studied at the Leningrad State University and was trained at the Steklov Mathematical Institute in St. Petersburg where he obtained his PhD in Mathematical Physics in 1991. After research positions in Zurich and Uppsala, he became full professor for mathematics at the University of Geneva in 2001.

Alekseev has worked on a wide range of topics in mathematical physics and pure mathematics including algebra and geometry, as well as mechanics and field theory. He has made seminal contributions in these disciplines, and often his work uncovers connections and unexpected links between them.

His works on the Kashiwara-Vergne conjecture on the structure of the Baker-Campbell-Hausdorff formula in Lie theory are groundbreaking. With E. Meinreken he obtained a proof in 2006, in further works with C. Torossian and others he uncovered surprising relations of this algebraic problem to the theory of Drinfeld associators and later also to the topology of 2-dimensional surfaces.

Webpage of Prof. Alekseev: https://www.unige.ch/math/en/people/alekseev/

 

The Medal of the Erwin Schrödinger Institute for Mathematics and Physics

The Medal of the Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematics and Physics, or ESI-Medal, awarded in 2020 for the first time, has been created to recognize outstanding achievements in any area of mathematics or physics, including contributions at the interface of the two fields.

The ESI-Medal is awarded annually and emphasis is generally given to recent achievements not older than ten years. There is no age limitation for the recipient and ordinarily the ESI-Medal is awarded to one person.

The recipient of the ESI-Medal receives a medal, a certificate and a monetary award of 4,000 Euro.

Nominations for the ESI-Medal can be made by organizers of ESI Thematic Programmes taking place in the year following the nomination deadline, former members of the Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) of the ESI, former recipients of the ESI-Medal, former Directors of the ESI and the President of the ESI Association. The recipient is selected by the Scientific Advisory Board of the ESI.


Wittgenstein-Award for ESI Kollegium Member Adrian Constantin

Published on June 22, 2020, [View only this article]

ESI-Kollegium Member Adrian Constantin has received the Wittgenstein-Award 2020 of the Austrian Science Foundation (FWF), the most prestigious science award in Austria. Adrian Constantin is a world leader in the theory and the application of nonlinear partial differential equations. Two of his articles are among the 10 most cited papers ever to be published by the journals in which they appear, which, in turn, rank among the most prestigious journals in all of mathematics: Acta Mathematica and Inventiones Mathematicae. Moreover, Adrian Constantin is listed as an ISI Highly Cited Researcher with more than 160 publications and 11000 citations.

The research of Adrian and his collaborators includes seminal contributions to fluid mechanics and geophysics, e.g. the proof of existence of rotational traveling water waves of large amplitude (with W. Strauss) and rigorous qualitative studies of wind-driven ocean currents. Adrian has developed and established novel analytical techniques that help unravel notoriously difficult wave phenomena in the oceans and in the atmosphere.

We congratulate Adrian on the Wittgenstein-Award 2020!

Link to the announcement of the FWF: https://www.fwf.ac.at/de/news-presse/news/nachricht/nid/20200617-2528/


Deadline for submission of ESI Thematic Programmes postponed to October 1

Published on April 23, 2020, [View only this article]

Due to the Coronavirus situation the deadline for the proposal submission for Thematic Programmes has been changed to October 1, 2020. Detailed submission guidelines for Thematic Programme proposals are available here (Link zu https://www.esi.ac.at/events/submission-guidelines-thematic-programmes)


Update concerning Covid-19 pandemic

Published on April 23, 2020, [View only this article]

Since March 11, 2020, the ESI has been closed and all activities planned until the end of June have been cancelled or postponed to a date to be determined. At the moment it is unclear when the ESI can resume operation and we are in touch about that with the organizers of activities due take place during the summer and fall.

We will continue to monitor the situation closely and post any changes on the ESI webpage.

Christoph Dellago
Director of the ESI


Information regarding coronavirus (updated on March 11, 2020)

Published on March 11, 2020, [View only this article]

Following a directive of the authorities, the University of Vienna has implemented a series of measures against the spread of the virus. These measures include cancellation of all events involving visitors starting on March 11, 2020 at least until April 3, 2020.

As a consequence, all activities at the ESI in the period March 11 - April 3, 2020 are cancelled. This includes workshops, research in teams as well as individual visits.

Current information about the situation at the University of Vienna is available here.

We will continue to monitor the situation closely and post any change of the situation here.

 

Christoph Dellago
Director of the ESI


VDSP-ESI Winter School: Case Studies Day

Published on Feb. 13, 2020, [View only this article]

Don't miss the

Case Studies & Discussion Day

of the   VDSP-ESI Winter School 2020

Machine Learning in Physics

Friday, 14 Feb 2020 
Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna

Further information on the school can be found here: https://vds-physics.univie.ac.at/winter-school-2020/

Attendance of the day is free of charge and without registration. Please feel free to spread the word among your colleagues.


Workshops at the ESI in 2020

Published on Feb. 5, 2020, [View only this article]

The following workshops have been confirmed for 2020:

January 20 -- 24, 2020: Mathematical Aspects of Geophysical Flows
Organizers:
 Adrian Constantin (U Vienna), George Haller (ETH Zürich)

February 10 -- 20, 2020: VDS-ESI Winter School: Machine Learning in Physics
Organizers:
 Markus Arndt (U Vienna), Christoph Dellago (U Vienna), Christiane Losert-Valiente Kroon (U Vienna), Massimiliano Procura (U Vienna)

March 30 -- April 3, 2020: Interdisciplinary Challenges in Nonequilibrium Physics
Organizers:
 Demian Levis (U Barcelona), Emanuele Locatelli (U Vienna), Jan Smrek (U Vienna), Francesco Turci (U Bristol)

April 20 -- 24, 2020: Topology, Disorder, and Hydrodynamics in Non-equilibrium Quantum Matter
Organizers:
 Jörg Schmiedmayer (TU Vienna), Maksym Serbyn (ISTA, Klosterneuburg), Romain Vasseur (UMass Amherst)

June 15 -- 19, 2020: Non-regular Spacetime Geometry
Organizers:
 Piotr Chrušciel (U Vienna), Michael Kunzinger (U Vienna), Ettore Minguzzi (U Florence), Roland Steinbauer (U Vienna)

June 29 – July 1, 2020: Memory Effects in Dynamical Processes: Theory and Computational Implementation
Organizers:
 Christoph Dellago (U Vienna), Anja Kuhnhold (U of Freiburg), Hugues Meyer (U of Luxembourg), Tanja Schilling (U of Freiburg)

July 5 -- 11, 2020: International Mathematical Olympiad Training 2020
Organizers:
 Lukas Andritsch (U Vienna), Michael Eichmair (U Vienna)

July 6 – 11, 2020: Set-Theory
Organizers:
 Vera Fischer (U Vienna), Sy David Friedman (U Vienna), Benjamin Miller (U Vienna)

July 20 -- 24, 2020: Arithmetic Statistics and Local-Global Principles
Organizers:
 Tim Browning (ISTA, Klosterneuburg), Daniel Loughran (U Bath), Rachel Newton (U of Reading)

September 7 -- 11, 2020: Spectral Theory of Differential Operators in Quantum Theory
Organizers:
 Jussi Behrndt (TU Graz), Fritz Gesztesy (Baylor U, Waco), Ari Laptev (Imperial College, London), Christiane Tretter (U Bern)

October 5 -- 16, 2020: Higher Structures Emerging from Renormalisation
Organizers:
 Pierre Clavier (U of Potsdam), Kurusch Ebrahimi-Fard (NTNU, Trondheim), Peter K. Friz (TU Berlin), Harald Grosse (U Vienna), Dominique Manchon (U of Auvergne), Sylvie Paycha (U of Potsdam)
 


Erwin Schrödinger Lecture, Dec. 16, 2019: Douglas N. Arnold "Wave localization and its landscape"

Published on Nov. 12, 2019, [View only this article]

On December 16, 2019, 5 pm, the ESI is going to host an Erwin Schrödinger Lecture featuring Douglas N. Arnold from the University of Minnesota.

As usual, this Erwin Schrödinger Lecture is directed towards a general audience of mathematicians and physicists. In particular it is an intention of these lectures to inform non-specialist and graduate students about recent developments and results in some area of mathematics or physics.

For more information see the event website.


Registration now open for the VDSP-ESI Winterschool "Machine Learning in Physics"

Published on Nov. 12, 2019, [View only this article]

Registration now open for the VDSP-ESI Winterschool "Machine Learning in Physics", Vienna, 10-20 February 2020

See: https://vds-physics.univie.ac.at/winter-school-2020/


Video recording system launched at ESI

Published on Nov. 12, 2019, [View only this article]

The ESI has now launched a video recoring system in the Boltzmann lecutre hall. From now on lectures will be recorded, given the consent of the speakers. The videos are made available through the ESI YouTube channel. We hope that this additional feature for documentation will be welcomed by all speakers and organizers and we hope for their support in this matter.


SCAM ALERT

Published on Nov. 11, 2019, [View only this article]

Dear organizers, Dear participants,

We are informed from time to time by visitors of scamming actions in connection with their accommodation booking. Please note that you in general will not be contacted directly by ESI partner hotels about any issue regarding your reservation or booking unless we inform you that they will get in contact with you or asked you to do this by yourself. The ESI has not authorized any travel agency to act on its behalf. If you are contacted by anybody else then the ESI administration to make a hotel booking or any down payment by credit card please ignore this message.

Please inform us if you have received a suspicious phone call/email. We are trying to do our best to identify the source and to verify the message.

With kind regards,
ESI administration


Thematic Programmes at the ESI in 2021

Published on Nov. 11, 2019, [View only this article]

The following thematic programmes at the ESI are scheduled for 2021:

February 1 – March 12, 2021: Mathematical Perspectives of Gravitation beyond the Vacuum Regime
Organizers: Håkan Andréasson (Chalmers U), David Fajman (U of Vienna), Jérémie Joudioux (Albert-Einstein-Institute), Todd Oliynyk (Monash U)

April 19 – May 28, 2021: Applied Functional Analysis and High-Dimensional Approximation
Organizers: Aicke Hinrichs (U Linz), Boris Kashin (Steklov Inst. Moscow), Denka Kutzarova (U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Vladimir Temlyakov (U of South Carolina), Sergey Tikhonov (ICREA Barcelona)

May 31 – July 9, 2021: The Landscape vs. the Swampland
Organizers: Gary Shiu (U of Wisconsin-Madison), Washington Taylor (MIT, Boston), Irene Valenzuela (Cornell U), Timm Wrase (TU of Vienna)

July 19 – August 20, 2021: Quantum Field Theory at the Frontiers of the Strong Interaction
Organizers: André H. Hoang (U Vienna), Iain W. Stewart (MIT Cambridge), Simon Plätzer (U Vienna), Massimiliano Procura (U Vienna)

August 23 – September 17, 2021: Geometry for Higher Spin Gravity: Conformal Structures, PDEs, and Q-manifolds
Organizers: Xavier Bekaert (Tours U), Andreas Cap (U of Vienna), Stefan Fredenhagen (U of Vienna), Maxim Grigoriev (Lebedev Inst. & Lomonosov MSU, Moscow), Alexei Kotov (Hradec-Kralove U)


New Website and Online Registration

Published on Nov. 11, 2019, [View only this article]

This summer the new website of the ESI has gone online. Thanks to Sascha Biberhofer for making this possible. From now on all ESI visitors are asked to register online via the ESI website “login”, manage their stays and submit their talks online.


Thematic Programmes at the ESI in 2020

Published on Feb. 26, 2019, [View only this article]

The following thematic programmes at the ESI are scheduled for 2020:

March 2 – March 27, 2020: Chromatin Modeling: Integrating Mathematics, Physics, and Computation for Advances in Biology and Medicine
Organizers: Tamar Schlick (New York U), Christos N. Likos (U Vienna)

May 4 – June 26, 2020: Computational Uncertainty Quantification: Mathematical Foundations, Methodology & Data
Organizers: Clemens Heitzinger (TU Vienna), Fabio Nobile (EPF Lausanne), Rob Scheichl (U of Bath), Christoph Schwab (ETH Zurich), Sara van de Geer (ETH Zurich), Karen Willcox (MIT Bosten & ICES UT Austin)

August 17 – October 9, 2020: Higher Structures and Field Theory
Organizers: Anton Alekseev (U Geneve), Stefan Fredenhagen (U Vienna), Nicolai Reshetikhin (U.C. Berkeley), Thomas Strobl(U Lyon), Chenchang Zhu (U Göttingen) 

October 19 – November 13, 2020: Large Deviations, Extremes and Anomalous Transport in Non-equilibrium Systems
Organizers: Christoph Dellago (U Vienna), Satya N. Majumdar (U Paris-Sud, Orsay), David Mukamel (Weizmann Inst. of Science), Harald A. Posch (U Vienna), Grégory Schehr (U Paris-Sud, Orsay)

November 16 – December 11, 2020: Mathematical Methods for the Study of Self-organization in the Biological Sciences
Organizers: Pierre Degond (Imperial College London), Marie Doumic (Inria & LJLL, Sorbonne U), Anna Kicheva (IST Austria), Sara Merino-Aceituno (U Vienna), Christian Schmeiser (U Vienna)


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

Published on Feb. 26, 2019, [View only this article]

On December 6, 2018 at 5 p.m. the ESI is going to host an Erwin Schrödinger Lecture, featuring Monika Henzinger, a professor of Computer Science at the University of Vienna and a former director of research at Google. She received a PhD from Princeton University in 1993 and subsequently held positions at Cornell University, Digital Equipment Corporation, the University of the Saarland and the École Polytechnique Fédérale in Lausanne. Monika Henzinger is the recipient of numerous grants and awards including an NSF Career Award, an honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Dortmund, as well as an ERC Advanced Grant. In her research, she focuses on combinatorial algorithms and data structure and their applications.

As usual, this Erwin Schroedinger Lecture is directed towards a general audience of mathematicians and physicists. In particular it is an intention of theses lectures to inform non-specalists and graduate students about recent developments and results in some area of mathematics or physics.

Abstract: Real-world graphs are huge and many of them change dynamically. Thus to compute properties of these graphs we need dynamic graph algorithms that efficiently maintain properties of dynamically changing graphs. We present the state-of-the-art in dynamic graph algorithms and explain some of the techniques that they use as well as recent progress in giving lower bounds for their running time.

Please visit the corresponding event page for more information.