Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematical Physics

The Erwin Schrödinger Institute for Mathematical Physics ( Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematical Physics, ESI ) is a Department of Mathematical Physics in Vienna, which was founded in 1993 and today is part of the University of Vienna. It is named after Erwin Schrödinger, is designed as an international meeting of mathematicians and physicists and is especially thanks to its location in Central Europe maintain connections to Eastern Europe.

Director of the Institute is Joachim Schwermer, deputies are Jacob Yngvason and Goulnara Arzhantseva.

History

Formally, the Institute was moved from its foundation until the end of May, 2011 by an association of the same ( ZVR number 298 034 776 ), which was financed by the Austrian Ministry of Education and Science. Instrumental in the founding was Walter Thirring, who established a school of mathematical physics in Vienna.

The Institute was the first in the Pasteurgasse ( in the same building, in which Schrödinger lived at times) and is since 1996, located in the Boltzmanngasse 9, near the Faculties of Mathematics and Physics at the University of Vienna.

The Austrian Ministry of Science intended to January 1, 2011, the adjustment to the financial support of the Institute. The public announcement in November 2010 had provoked protest in the scientific community. The Institute has been run by the University of Vienna since 1 June 2011.

2013 celebrated the institution with a high-profile anniversary workshop its 20th anniversary.