The Future of the ESI

The Austrian Ministry of Science informed the ESI officially on November 8, 2010, that the Institute's funding will be terminated with effect from January 1, 2011.

News of the funding cut quickly spread among the scientific community and sparked off a large number of messages to Dr. Beatrix Karl, the Austrian Minister of Science and Research, in support of the ESI. The remarkable support for the ESI by the international research community was a major contributing factor in negotiations between the Austrian Ministry of Science and Research, the University of Vienna and the Erwin Schrödinger Institute, with the aim of allowing the Institute to continue its mission. The outcome of these negotiations is as follows:

The ESI will continue operation in its present form until May 31, 2011. On that date the University of Vienna will create a `Forschungsplattform' (Research Platform) under the name `Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematical Physics'. This new Forschungsplattform will continue the scientific tradition of the Institute - in its current location - and will in particular fund and support the scientific activities approved by the ESI for the years 2011 and 2012.

The Ministry of Science has promised funding of the new Forschungsplattform until 2014, and possibly until 2015. The current Junior Research Fellows Programme of the ESI cannot be extended by the new Forschungsplattform due to lack of financial support.

The Directors of the ESI would like to take this opportunity to express their gratitude to the international scientific community for their overwhelming support of the ESI during this difficult period.

The following mathematicians and mathematical physicists have sent messages to Dr. Karl in support of the ESI, with copies to the Erwin Schrödinger Institute. We apologize for any omissions - they are certainly not deliberate!

Jon Aaronson, Tel Aviv University, ISRAEL
Abdelmalek Abdesselam, University of Virginia, USA
Remi Abgrall, Institut Mathématique de Bordeaux, FRANCE
Boris Adamczewski, CNRS Lyon, FRANCE
Alejandro Adem, Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences, Vancouver, CANADA
Peter C. Aichelburg, University of Vienna, AUSTRIA
Anton Alekseev, University of Geneva, SWITZERLAND
Jean-Paul Allouche, Université Paris 6, FRANCE
Thomas Archibald, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, CANADA
Goulnara Arzhantseva, University of Vienna, AUSTRIA
Mahdi Asgari, Oklahoma State University, USA
Gerald Badurek, Technical University (TU) Vienna, AUSTRIA
Rudolf Baier, Universität Bielefeld, GERMANY
Viviane Baladi, CNRS Paris, FRANCE
Werner Ballmann, Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik Bonn, GERMANY
Jean-Marie Barbaroux, Université de Toulon-Var, FRANCE
Stephen Barreto, Padre Conceicao College of Engineering, Goa, INDIA
Wolfgang Bertram, Université Henri Poincaré, FRANCE
Imen Ben Tahar, Université Paris-Dauphine, FRANCE
Patrick Bernard, Université Paris-Dauphine, FRANCE
Sergey Bezuglyi, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, Kharkov, UKRAINE
Edward Bierstone, Fields Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Toronto, CANADA
Jean-Michel Bismut, Académie des Sciences, Paris, FRANCE
Zbigniew Blocki, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, POLAND
Al Boggess, Texas A & M University, College Station, USA
Peter J.M. Bongaarts, University of Leiden, THE NETHERLANDS
Virginie Bonnaillie-Noel, Université Rennes, FRANCE
Michel Bonnefont, Institut Mathématique de Bordeaux, FRANCE
Vincent Borrelli, CNRS Lyon, FRANCE
Jean-Marc Bouclet, Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse, FRANCE
Yann Bugeaud, Université de Strasbourg, FRANCE
Nicolas Bovetto, CNRS Lyon, FRANCE
Emmanuel Breuillard, Université Paris 11, Orsay, FRANCE
Joaquim Bruna, CRM Centre of Mathematical Research, Barcelona, SPAIN
Laurent Bruneau, Université de Cergy-Pontoise, FRANCE
Vincent Bruneau, Institut Mathématique de Bordeaux, FRANCE
Ugo Bruzzo, SISSA International School for Advanced Studies, Trieste, ITALY
David Brydges, University of British Columbia, CANADA
Yann Bugeaud, Université de Strasbourg, FRANCE
Jérome Buzzi, C.N.R.S., Université Paris-Sud, FRANCE
Isabelle Catto, Université Paris-Dauphine, FRANCE
Isabelle Chalendar, CNRS Lyon, FRANCE
Philippe Charpentier, Institut Mathématique de Bordeaux, FRANCE
Piotr T. Chrusciel, University of Vienna, AUSTRIA
Bruno Colbois, Swiss Mathematical Society, SWITZERLAND
Jean Michel Combes, Centre de Physique Théorique, Marseille, FRANCE
Alain Connes, College de France, Paris, FRANCE
Adrian Constantin, University of Vienna, AUSTRIA
Gunther Cornelissen, Utrecht University, THE NETHERLANDS
Vicente Cortes, Universität Hamburg, GERMANY
Ludwik Dabrowski, SISSA, Trieste, ITALY
Rose-Anne Dana, Université Paris-Dauphine, FRANCE
John P. D'Angelo, University of Illinois, Urbana, USA
S.G. Dani, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, INDIA
Stephan De Bièvre, Université de Lille, FRANCE
Karel Dekimpe, K.U. Leuven Campus Kortrijk, BELGIUM
Christophe Delaunay, CNRS Lyon, FRANCE
Jean-Marc Delort, Institut Galilée, Université de Paris- Nord, FRANCE
Maklouf Derridj, Université de Haute Normandie, FRANCE
Jean-Marc Deshouillers, Institut Mathématique de Bordeaux, FRANCE
Carl Dettmann, University of Bristol, USA
Klas Diederich, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, GERMANY
Philippe Di Francesco, CEA Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives, FRANCE
Robbert Dijkgraaf, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, NETHERLANDS
Jean Dolbeault, Université Paris-Dauphine, FRANCE
Simon Donaldson, Imperial College, London, UK
Dietmar Dorninger, Technical University (TU) Vienna, AUSTRIA
Charles Dossal, Institut Mathématique de Bordeaux, FRANCE
Michael R. Douglas, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, New York, USA
Michael Drmota, Österreichische Mathematische Gesellschaft, AUSTRIA
Detlef Dürr, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München, GERMANY
Thierry Dumont, CNRS Lyon, FRANCE
Anatolij Dvurecenskij, Institute of Mathematics SAS (Slovak Academy of Sciences), SLOVAKIA
Roman Dwilewicz, Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA
Peter Ebenfelt, University of California, San Diego, USA
Armen Edigarian, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, POLAND
Theresia Eisenkölbl, CNRS Lyon, FRANCE
Vladimir Ejov, University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes, AUSTRALIA
George A. Elliott, University of Toronto, CANADA
Henri Epstein, IHES, Bures-sur-Yvette, FRANCE,
Maria J. Esteban, Université Paris-Dauphine, FRANCE
David Evans, WIMCS, UK
Pavel Exner, Doppler Institute, IAMP Office, Prague, CZECH REPUBLIC
Ludwig Faddeev, Euler International Mathematical Institute, St. Petersburg, RUSSIA
Gerd Faltings, Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik Bonn, GERMANY
Jérémy Faupin, Institut Mathématique de Bordeaux, FRANCE
Della Fenster, University of Richmond, USA
Clotilde Fermanian, Université de Créteil, Paris 12, FRANCE
José Figueroa-O'Farrill, University of Edinburgh, UK
Reinhard Folk, Universität Linz, AUSTRIA
Alessandra Frabetti, CNRS Lyon, FRANCE
Klaus Fredenhagen, Universität Hamburg, GERMANY
Jürg Fröhlich, Fakultät für Theoretische Physik, ETH Zürich, SWITZERLAND
Siqi Fu, Rutgers University, Camden, USA
Jürgen Fuchs, Universität Karlstad, SWEDEN
Kenji Fukaya, Kyoto University, JAPAN
Yan Fyodorov, University of Nottingham, UK
Sébastian Gauthier, CNRS Lyon, FRANCE
Krzysztof Gawedzki, Laboratoire de Physique, C.N.R.S., FRANCE
Vladimir Georgescu, Université de Cergy-Pontoise, FRANCE
Christian Gérard, Université Paris Sud, FRANCE
Yves Gerard, CNRS Lyon, FRANCE
Fritz Gesztesy, University of Missouri, Columbia, USA
Nassif Ghoussoub, Banff International Research Station, CANADA
Viktor L. Ginzburg, University of California at Santa Cruz, USA
Alessandro Giuliani, Universitá di Roma, ITALY
Sylvain Golenia, Institut Mathématique de Bordeaux, FRANCE
Steve Gonek, University of Rochester, USA
Mikhail Gordin, Steklov Institute of Mathematics, Saint Petersburg, RUSSIA
Gert-Martin Greuel, Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, GERMANY
Maxim Grigoriev, Lebedev Physical Institute, Moscow, RUSSIA
Karlheinz Gröchenig, University of Vienna, AUSTRIA
Einar H. Gudmundsson, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, ICELAND
Jean-Claude Guillot, École Polytechnique, FRANCE
Peter Goddard, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA
Gian Michele Graf, Theoretische Physik, ETH Zürich, SWITZERLAND
Karlheinz Gröchenig, University of Vienna, AUSTRIA
Mikhail Gromov, Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, FRANCE
Hendrik Grundling, UNSW, Syndey, AUSTRALIA
Melchior Grützmann, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, CHINA
Paul E. Gunnells, University of Massachusetts, USA
Tony Guttmann, University of Melbourne, AUSTRALIA
Bernhard Haak, Institut Mathématique de Bordeaux, FRANCE
Bénédicte Haas, Université Paris-Dauphine 2, FRANCE
Laurent Habsieger, CNRS Lyon, FRANCE
Wolfgang Hackbusch, Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik, Leipzig, GERMANY
Günter Harder, MPI Bonn, GERMANY
Evans M. Harrell, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Michael Harris, Université Paris-Diderot Paris 7, FRANCE
Boris Hasselblatt, Tufts University, Somerville, USA
Jane M. Hawkins, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA
Bernard Helffer, Université Paris-Sud Orsay, FRANCE
Frédéric Hérau, Université de Nantes, FRANCE
Florian Herzig, Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton, USA
Helmut Hofer, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA
Stefan Hollands, WIMCS, UK
C.A .Hurst, University of Adelaide, AUSTRALIA
Jacques Hurtubise, Canadian Mathematical Society, Ottawa, CANADA
Alessandra Iacobucci, CNRS Engineer, Université Paris-Dauphine, FRANCE
Dragos Iftimie, CNRS Lyon, FRANCE
Noriaki Ikeda, Kyoto Sangyo University, JAPAN
Cyril Imbert, Université Paris-Dauphine, FRANCE
Kenji Iohara, CNRS Lyon, FRANCE
Howard Jacobowitz, Rutgers University, Camden, USA
Philippe Jaming, Institut Mathématique de Bordeaux, FRANCE
Arthur Jaffe, Harvard University, USA
George Jaiani, I. Vekua Institute of Applied Mathematics of Tbilisi State University, GEORGIA
Marek Jarnicki, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, POLAND
Thierry Jecko, Université de Cergy-Pontoise, FRANCE
Vaughan F. R. Jones, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Jürgen Jost, Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik, Leipzig, GERMANY
Alain Joye, Institut Fourier, Université de Grenoble, FRANCE
Manfred Karbe, European Mathematical Society Publishing House, Zürich, SWITZERLAND
Spyridon Kamvissis, University of Crete, GREECE
Yael Karshon, University of Toronto, CANADA
Ludmil Katzarkov, University of Vienna, AUSTRIA
Yasuyuki Kawahigashi, University of Tokyo, JAPAN
Lea Keshet, University of British Columbia, CANADA
Philippe Kerdelhue, Université de Paris-Sud, FRANCE
Dmitry Khavinson, University of South Florida, USA
A. A. Kirillov, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Rainer Klages, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
John R. Klauder, University of Florida, USA
Igor Klebanov, Princeton University, USA
Slawomir Kolodziej, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, POLAND
Joseph J. Kohn, Princeton University, USA
Christoph Kopper, Ecole Polytechnique, Centre de Physique Theoretique, FRANCE
Yvette Kosmann-Schwarzbach, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, FRANCE
Alexander Kovacek, University of Coimbra, PORTUGAL
Christian Krattenthaler, University of Vienna, AUSTRIA
Olga Kravchenko, CNRS Lyon, FRANCE
Matthias Kreck, Hausdorff Research Institute for Mathematics, Bonn, GERMANY
Joseph J. Kohn, Princeton University, USA
Maxim Kontsevich, IHES, Bures-sur-Yvette, FRANCE
Stephen S. Kudla, University of Toronto , CANADA
Rachel Kuske, University of British Columbia, CANADA
Stanislas Kupin, Institut Mathématique de Bordeaux, FRANCE
Izabella Laba, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, USA
Jean-Pierre Labesse, Université Aix-Marseille II, FRANCE
Michael Lacey, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Jimmy Lamboley, Université de Paris-Dauphine, FRANCE
Giovanni Landi, Universitá di Trieste, ITALY
Alain Lasjaunias, Institut Mathématique de Bordeaux, FRANCE
Erez Lapid, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, ISRAEL
Ari Laptev, Imperial College London, UK
Janko Latschev, Universität Hamburg, GERMANY
Peter Lax, Courant Institute, New York, USA
Joel L. Lebowitz, The State University of New Jersey, USA
Olaf Lechtenfeld, Hannover University, GERMANY
Guillaume Legendre, Université Paris-Dauphine, FRANCE
Jürgen Leiterer, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, GERMANY
Matthias Lesch, Universität Bonn, GERMANY
Mathieu Lewin, Université de Cergy- Pontoise, FRANCE
Elliott Lieb, Princeton University, USA
Ingo Lieb, Universität Bonn, GERMANY
Elon Lindenstrauss, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, ISRAEL
Andrey Lodkin, St. Petersburg State University, RUSSIA
Roberto Longo, University of Rome, ITALY
Jan Louis, Universität Hamburg, GERMANY
László Lovász, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, HUNGARY
Wendy Lowen, Research foundation FWO, Flanders, BELGIUM
Wolfgang Lück, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, GERMANY
Simon Lyakhovich, Tomsk State University, RUSSIA
Niall MacKay, University of York, UK
Jeffery D. McNeal, Ohio State University, Columbus, USA
Dominique Manchon, Université Blaise Pascal � C.N.R.S., FRANCE
Matilde Marcolli, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
Jens Marklof, University of Bristol, UK
Jacques Martinet, Université de Bordeaux, FRANCE
David Masser, Universität Basel, SWITZERLAND
Catherine Meusburger, Universität Hamburg, GERMANY
Joachim Michel, Université du Littoral Cote d'Opale, FRANCE
Nicolas Monod, Swiss Mathematical Society, SWITZERLAND
Elie Mosaki, CNRS Lyon, FRANCE
Giuseppe Mussardo, SISSA & ICTP, Trieste, ITALY
Bruno Nachtergaele, University of California, Davis, USA
Bruno Nazaret, Université Paris-Dauphine, FRANCE
Andreea C. Nicoara, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
Jean-Louis Nicolas, CNRS Lyon, FRANCE
Arnaldo Nogueira, Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille, FRANCE
Stéphane Nonnenmacher, Institut de Physique Théorique, CEA Saclay, FRANCE
Helga Nowotny, President of the European Research Council
El Maati Ouhabaz, Institut Mathématique de Bordeaux, FRANCE
Andrei Okounkov, Princeton University, USA
Felix Otto, Max-Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig, GERMANY
Annalisa Panati, Université de Toulon-Var, FRANCE
Athanase Papadopoulos, Université de Strasbourg et C.N.R.S., FRANCE
Konstantin Pankrashkin, Université Paris Sud, FRANCE
Pierre Parent, Institut Mathématique de Bordeaux, FRANCE
Serge Parmentier, CNRS Lyon, FRANCE
Yan Pautrat, Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, FRANCE
Robert Penner, Aarhus University, DENMARK
Yakov Pesin, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Christopher J. Pethick, University of Copenhagen, DENMARK
Gabriel Peyré, Université Paris-Dauphine, FRANCE
Gherardo Piacitelli, SISSA International School for Advanced Studies, Trieste, ITALY
Massimo Porrati, New York University, USA
Dipendra Prasad, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, INDIA
Karel Pravda-Starov, Université de Cergy- Pontoise, FRANCE
Mihai Putinar, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA
Helmut Rauch, Atominstitut, TU Vienna, AUSTRIA
Nicolas Raymond, Université de Rennes, FRANCE
Karl-Henning Rehren, Universität Göttingen, GERMANY
Bertrand Rémy, CNRS Lyon, FRANCE
Birgit Richter, Universität Hamburg, GERMANY
Christine Riedtman, Swiss Mathematical Society, SWITZERLAND
Vincent Rivoirard, Université Paris-Dauphin, FRANCE
Didier Robert, Université de Nantes, FRANCE
Claude Roger, CNRS Lyon, FRANCE
Volodya Roubtsov, Université d'Angers, FRANCE
Ingo Runkel, Universität Hamburg, GERMANY
Jean Ruppenthal, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, GERMANY
Peter Russell, Centre de Recherches Mathematiques, Montreal, CANADA
Manfred Salmhofer, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, GERMANY
Vladimir Salnikov, CNRS Lyon, FRANCE
Julien Salomon, Université Paris-Dauphine, FRANCE
Jenny Santoso, Universität Stuttgart, GERMANY
Marta Sanz-Solé, Universitat de Barcelona, SPAIN
Jean Savinien, CNRS Lyon, FRANCE
Walter Schachermayer, University of Vienna, AUSTRIA
Alfred Scharff Goldhaber, State University of New York, USA
Martin Schlichenmaier, University of Luxembourg , LUXEMBOURG
Wolfgang Schmidt, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
Volker Schomerus, Universität Hamburg, GERMANY
Peter Schneider, Universität Münster, GERMANY
Peter Schupp, Jacobs University Bremen, GERMANY
Christoph Schweigert, Universität Hamburg, GERMANY
Paul Seidel, MIT, Cambridge, USA
Konstadinos Sfetsos, University of Patras, GREECE
Eric Sharpe, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, USA
Nikolay Shcherbina, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, GERMANY
Scott Sheffield, New York University, USA
Hamza Si Kaddour, CNRS Lyon, FRANCE
Bernd Siebert, Universität Hamburg, GERMANY
Karl Sigmund, University of Vienna, AUSTRIA
Johannes Sjostrand, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, FRANCE
Yum-Tong Siu, Harvard University, USA
Sudhir Sivakumaran, SISSA/ISAS Trieste, ITALY
Gordon Slade, University of British Columbia, CANADA
Stanislav Smirnov, Université de Genéve, SWITZERLAND
Andrei Sobolevski, A.A. Kharkevich Inst. for Information Transmission Problems, Moscow, RUSSIA
Yan Soibelman, Kansas State University, Manhattan, USA
Wolfgang Steiner, CNRS, FRANCE
Emil J. Straube, Texas A&M University, USA
Thomas Strobl, CNRS Lyon, FRANCE
Andrew Strominger, Harvard University, USA
Domokos Szasz, Budapest University of Technology, HUNGARY
Mireille Summa, Université Paris-Dauphine, FRANCE
Andrew Swann, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, DENMARK
Rabah Tahraoui, Université Paris-Dauphine et Université de Rouen, FRANCE
Yoh Tanimoto, University of Rome II, ITALY
Peter Teichner, Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik Bonn, GERMANY
C.A. Terrero Escalante, Universidad de Colima, MEXICO
Jörg Teschner, Universität Hamburg, GERMANY
Robert Tichy, Institut für Analysis und Computational Number Theory, AUSTRIA
Ivan Todorov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, BULGARIA
Livio Triolo, Università di Roma, ITALY
Francoise Truc, Institut Fourier, Université de Grenoble, FRANCE
Boris Tsygan, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA
Juan A. Valiente Kroon, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
Alexander Vasiliev, University of Bergen, NORWAY
Evgeny Verbitskiy, University of Leiden, THE NETHERLANDS
Rainer Verch, Universität Leipzig, GERMANY
Anatoly Vershik, Mathematical Institute of Russian Academy of Science, RUSSIA
Marcelo Viana, Brazilian Mathematical Society, BRAZIL
Fabien Vignes-Tourneret, CNRS Lyon, FRANCE
Cédric Villani, Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris, FRANCE
Dan-Virgil Voiculescu, University of California at Berkeley, USA
Frank Wagner, CNRS Lyon, FRANCE
Michael Waldschmidt, Société Mathématique de France, FRANCE
Alan Weinstein, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Benjamin Weiss, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, ISRAEL
Peter West, King's College London, UK
Urs Achim Wiedemann, CERN Theoriegruppe, Genf, SWITZERLAND
Joan Wiegerinck, Korteweg-de Vries Institute, Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS
Jean-Pierre Wintenberger, Université de Strasbourg, FRANCE
Andreas Winter, University of Bristol, UK
Dimitri Yafaev, Université de Rennes, FRANCE
Don Zagier, Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik Bonn, GERMANY
Dmitri Zaitsev, The University of Dublin, IRELAND
Marco Zambon, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, SPAIN
Jean-Claude Zambrini, GFMUL, Lisbon, PORTUGAL
Giuseppe Zampieri, University of Padua, ITALY
Jorge Zanelli, Centro de Estudios Cientificos, CHILE
Eberhard Zeidler, Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik Leipzig, GERMANY
Jiang Zeng, CNRS Lyon, FRANCE
Gregory Zhislin, Nizhny Novgorod State Lobachevsky University, RUSSIA
Chenchang Zhu, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, GERMANY
Wlodzimierz Zwonek, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, POLAND

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