Erwin Schrödinger Institute for Mathematical Physics
The Erwin Schrödinger Institute for Mathematical Physics (Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematical Physics, ESI) is an institute for mathematical physics in Vienna that was founded in 1993 and is now part of the University of Vienna . It is named after Erwin Schrödinger , is designed as an international meeting place for mathematicians and physicists and, thanks in particular to its location in Central Europe, is intended to maintain connections to Eastern Europe.
The director of the institute is Joachim Schwermer , Jakob Yngvason and Goulnara Arzhantseva are deputies .
history
From its founding until the end of May 2011, the institute was formally supported by an association of the same name ( ZVR number 298034776), which was financed by the Austrian Ministry of Education and Science. Instrumental in the establishment were Walter Thirring , which established in Vienna a school of mathematical physics, and Peter W. Michor , its first director, and Heide Narnhofer , professor of theoretical physics in Vienna and from the school of Thirring.
The institute was first located in Pasteurgasse (in the same building in which Schrödinger temporarily lived) and has been located at Boltzmanngasse 9 since 1996 , near the Faculty of Physics and the former location of the Institute for Mathematics at the University of Vienna.
The Austrian Ministry of Science intended to discontinue financial support for the institute on January 1, 2011. The corresponding announcement in November 2010 provoked protests in the scientific community. The institute has been continued by the University of Vienna since June 1, 2011 .
In 2013 the institute celebrated its 20th anniversary with a top-class workshop, among others Alain Connes , David Ruelle , Yuri Tschinkel and Peter Goddard gave lectures.
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Individual evidence
- ^ Anniversary in the name of mathematics and physics , picture report in uni: view, the online newspaper of the University of Vienna, May 10, 2013
Coordinates: 48 ° 13 ′ 21.4 ″ N , 16 ° 21 ′ 22 ″ E