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Erwin Schrödinger Institute for Mathematics and Physics
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The Erwin Schrödinger International Institute is a visitors-oriented research institute for mathematics and physics at the University of Vienna @univie.ac.at
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The Quantum Many-body Systems & Bose-Einstein Condensation workshop has wrapped up. Thank you to everyone who joined us! It was wonderful to see so many familiar faces and to celebrate the achievements of Jakob Yngvason ahead of his 80th birthday.
Talk recordings: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
December 1, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Full house today, with excellent talks from Jan Philip Solovej, Benjamin Schlein, Arnaud Triay, and many more to come.
November 24, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Great talk by Magdalena and Martin Gronau at the ESI. An informative and insightful lecture on Erwin Schrödinger. Full house and lots of discussion!
Interview with Magdalena Gronau on “Schrödinger’s scandal” is available on the Ö1 podcast:
oe1.orf.at/programm/202...
November 14, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Join us for the Erwin Schrödinger Lecture by Magdalena & Martin Gronau (ZfL Berlin):
“Überschrittene Grenzen. Erwin Schrödinger und die Herausforderungen der Wissenschaftsbiografik.”
📅 Nov 12, 2025, 17:30
📍 ESI Boltzmann Lecture Hall
(in German, followed by a reception)
🔗 www.esi.ac.at/events/e597/
November 11, 2025 at 12:05 PM
What a wonderful evening! 🌟
It was an honour to welcome Michele Parrinello to our institute. Thank you to Georg Kresse, @mahrossi.bsky.social & Giuseppe Foffi for their inspiring talks & to @sdirocco.bsky.social & @chhdellago.bsky.social for presenting the award. 🏅 Thanks to everyone who joined us!
November 10, 2025 at 1:14 PM
We’re getting ready for the ESI Medal Award Ceremony 2025, taking place on November 7, 2025 (14:00–18:00) at the ESI Boltzmann Lecture Hall. 🏅🎶
Join us for an afternoon of celebration with live music, a reception, and the chance to connect!
📎 More info: www.esi.ac.at/news/n66
November 4, 2025 at 11:10 AM
The week is slowly coming to an end. 🌌 Missed a session? Rewatch talks from Zoltan Haiman, Chiara Moretti, David Alonso & many more here:
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
September 26, 2025 at 8:35 AM
We’ve just started the workshop Putting the Cosmic Large-scale Structure on the Map: Theory Meets Numerics, organised by @cosmohahn.bsky.social, Cornelius Rampf & Cora Uhlemann. A full week of exciting talks and discussions is ahead. 🌌
📎 Info: www.esi.ac.at/events/e576/
September 22, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Our workshop Charged Soft Matter: Bridging Theory and Experiment is coming to an end. Thanks to all participants for a great and insightful week full of talks, discussions, and exchanges! 🙏

📸 Group photo at the Strudlhofstiege
📎 Missed something? Find all info here: www.esi.ac.at/events/e571/
September 12, 2025 at 1:23 PM
The Workshop: Charged Soft Matter – Bridging Theory and Experiment is taking place Sept 8–12, 2025.
Organized by Emanuela Bianchi, Peter Košovan, Christos Likos & Roman Stano, the workshop will explore key systems like charged colloids, proteins, polyelectrolytes & disordered proteins.
September 9, 2025 at 10:30 AM
The Workshop: Eisenstein Series, Spaces of Automorphic Forms, and Applications, organized by Neven Grbac, Marcela Hanzer, Stephen S. Kudla & Joachim Schwermer, has just begun—and it's off to a fantastic start!
September 1, 2025 at 10:32 AM
It’s always amazing to see the many talents of the people we welcome here at the ESI—scientific and artistic! 🎨🧠

As a goodbye gift, Prof. Andreas Weiermann brought us a beautiful self-made acrylic painting of Erwin Schrödinger. Thank you so much! 🙏
July 28, 2025 at 12:34 PM
The Graduate School ISAPP2025: Gravitational Waves – From Theory to Detection, organized by @cosmohahn.bsky.social, Gianluca Inguglia, Josef Pradler, Jochen Schieck & Glenn van de Ven, is taking place at the ESI over the next two weeks.

🎥 Missed a talk?
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
July 8, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Juan Aguilera, Linda Brown Westrick, Noam Greenberg & Denis Hirschfeldt are currently organizing the Thematic Programme Reverse Mathematics. The workshop focuses on its deep connections with Higher Computability Theory.
More: www.esi.ac.at/events/e554/
July 1, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Our current Workshop: Extremal Statistics in Biology, organized by Prof. Ariel Amir, @chhdellago.bsky.social & Prof. Ethan Levien, has been great so far—engaging talks and a wonderful group!

📸 Cute group picture on the Strudlhofstiege

🎥 Missed a talk?
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
June 12, 2025 at 11:03 AM
📢 The Thematic Programme Entanglement in Many-body Quantum Matter: Dynamics, Dissipation, Equilibration is now underway!

🧠 Organized by Dr. Mari Carmen Bañuls, Prof. Hannes Pichler, Prof. Norbert Schuch & Prof. Maksym Serbyn.
June 3, 2025 at 1:22 PM
The ESI Medal of @esivienna.bsky.social, awarded in 2020 for the first time, has been created to recognize outstanding achievements in any area of mathematics or physics. www.esi.ac.at/esi-medal
May 12, 2025 at 7:40 AM
@esivienna.bsky.social is proud to announce that the ESI Medal 2025 goes to Prof. Michele Parrinello (ETH Zürich & IIT Genova) for his groundbreaking computer simulation algorithms that advanced condensed matter physics, chemistry & biology.
Ceremony: Nov 7, 2025, Vienna
More: www.esi.ac.at/news/n65
May 12, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Our workshop Quantum Harmonic Analysis, organized by Markus Faulhuber, Hans G. Feichtinger & Franz Luef, just started and it’s going great! 🎉 It explores links between QHA, Toeplitz operators, mathematical physics, quantum info, ML & time-frequency analysis.
May 6, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Beautiful spring weather in Vienna today! 🌞 A view from the secretary’s office and a quiet hallway at our institute.
April 2, 2025 at 10:12 AM
This week’s "Structures in Banach Spaces" workshop is amazing so far! Great vibes and fantastic community! 🙌 Organized by Antonio Aviles, Vera Fischer, Grzegorz Plebanek, and Damian Sobota.

Missed a talk or want to rewatch? Check out the playlist here: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
March 20, 2025 at 11:15 AM
CECAM (@cecamevents.bsky.social) and ESI (@ESIVienna.bsky.social) call for researchers to organize the first annual CECAM-ESI workshop.

🔗 Check out the announcement here: www.esi.ac.at/news/n63
March 17, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Some nice colors on the hallway floor at @esivienna.bsky.social
March 5, 2025 at 2:00 PM
This week’s workshop, Recent Perspectives on Non-crossing Partitions through Algebra, Combinatorics, and Probability, has been fantastic so far!

We’ve had incredible research talks alongside three mini-courses by:

📌 Emily Barnard
📌 Philippe Biane
📌 Christian Stump

🎥 youtube.com/playlist?lis...
February 20, 2025 at 12:59 PM
The ESI’s scientific activities are centered around four to six main thematic programmes per year, complemented by several workshops and individual lectures! 👩‍⚕️👨‍⚕️

Find below an outline of our activities this year or visit: www.esi.ac.at/events/
February 13, 2025 at 10:34 AM