THE WPI INVITATION PROGRAM,
with funding from the Austrian Ministry of Science and Research ( BM.W_F^a "Bundesministerium für Wissenschaft und Forschung")

The WPI invitation program started in 2004, with funding from the ministry of research and science. Its aim is to strengthen both the international and the internal cooperations of Austrian research groups in the fields of mathematics, computer science, material science, physics and biology. The invitation program is structured into thematic programs lasting between three months and one year. Their subject is always related to the research projects of Austrian groups (not necessarily groups of members of the WPI). Every thematic program is organized by a group of organizers including at least one local organizer working in Vienna, and one or more (Olga Taussky) Pauli fellows.

WPI thematic programs typically involve research visits of scientists from abroad (for periods from a few days up to two months), working groups, workshops, summer/winter schools and conferences.

Institut CNRS Pauli (ICP), fellows 2012/2013

• Fellows of the Institut CNRS Pauli 2012/2013 (Organizers: N.J. Mauser (director ICP), P. Chossat (CNRS directeur adjoint INSMI) )

Thematic programs 2012

• Fusion and Turbulence (FUSTURB-12) (Organizers: Peter Catto (MIT), Steve Cowley (CCFE, UK), Uriel Frisch (Nice), Greg Hammett (U. Princeton), Bill Dorland (U. Maryland), Konstantin Khanin (Toronto), Felix Parra (Oxford & MIT), Alex Schekochihin (Oxford), Yakov Sinai (Princeton), Arkady Tsinober (Tel Aviv Univ.), PF Claude Bardos (U. Paris))
• Logic based reasoning and data mining on the web (LOGIWEB-12) (Organizers: Thomas Eiter (TU Wien), Monika Henzinger (WPI c/o, U. Wien), Georg Gottlob (WPI c/o TU Wien & U. Oxford), PF Diego Calvanese (U. Bozen))
• Mathematical-finance: Applications to Energy Markets, Risc Management and Pricing of Derivatives (FINANCE-12) (Organizers: Fred Espen Benth (U. Oslo), Valery Kholodnyi (Verbund), Peter Laurence (U.Roma), Walter Schachermayer (WPI c/o U. Wien), OTPF Almut Veraart (Imperial College))
• Relativity, Electromagnetism, Gravitation and Singularities (RELECTROGRASING-12) (Organizers: Yann Brenier (CNRS Nice), Simone Calogero (U. Granada), Mark Heinzle (WPI c/o U.Wien), PF Michael K.-H. Kiessling (Rutgers), N.J.Mauser (WPI c/o U. Wien), Arno Rauschenbeutel (WPI c/o TU Wien))
• Tailored Quantum Materials (QUANTMAT-12) (Organizers: Georg Kresse (CMS & WPI c/o U.Wien), Peter Mohn (CMS c/o TU Wien), Thorsten Schumm (WPI c/o TU Wien), Hans Peter Stimming (WPI c/o U.Wien), M. Trupke (TU Wien))

Thematic programs 2012, Prolongation from 2011

• Confined Quantum Systems (CONFINE-11-Prolongation) (Organizers: Weizhu Bao (U.Singapore), Stephane Descombes (U.Nice), Florian Mehats (U.Rennes), H.Christoph Nägerl (Innsbruck), J. Schmiedmayer (WPI c/o TU Wien), H.P. Stimming (WPI c/o Uni Wien), Rada Weishäupl (U.Wien),
  Remi Carles (U. Montpellier), PF Dieter Jaksch (U. Oxford))
• Kinetic Transport Theory: Analysis and Applications (KINETIC-11-Prolongation) (Organizers: Jean Dolbeault (CEREMADE, U. Paris 9), Sabine Hittmeir (DAMTP Cambridge), Ansgar Jüngel (TU Wien), Christian Schmeiser (WPI c/o U.Wien) )

Institut CNRS Pauli (ICP), fellows 2011/2012

• Fellows of the Institut CNRS Pauli 2011/2012 (Organizers: N.J. Mauser (director ICP), P. Chossat (CNRS directeur adjoint INSMI) )

Thematic programs 2011

• Coarse-Graining Strategies for Polymers and Biopolymers (POLYMER-11) (Organizers: Barbara Capone (U.Wien), Ivan Coluzza (U.Wien), Christos Likos (WPI c/o U. Wien), Jean-Pierre Hansen (U.Cambridge) , Vincent Krackoviak (ENS Lyon))
• Confined Quantum Systems (CONFINE-11) (Organizers: Weizhu Bao (U.Singapore), Stephane Descombes (U.Nice), Florian Mehats (U.Rennes), H.Christoph Nägerl (Innsbruck), J. Schmiedmayer (WPI c/o TU Wien), H.P. Stimming (WPI c/o Uni Wien), Rada Weishäupl (U.Wien), Remi Carles (U. Montpellier))
• Efficient mesh adaptation methods for evolution problems: theory and applications (MESH-11) (Organizers: Philippe LeFloch (U.Paris 6), OTPF Maria Lukacova (U.Mainz), Charalambos Makridakis (FORTH Heraklion), Sebastian Noelle (TU-Aachen), Dietmar Ölz (RICAM, Vienna branch), Nikolaos Sfakianakis (U. Mainz))
• Gyrokinetics for ITER—III (ITER-11) (Organizers: PF Peter Catto (MIT), Steve Cowley (CCFE, UK), PF Greg Hammett (U. Princeton), PF Bill Dorland (U. Maryland), Felix Parra (Oxford & MIT), Alex Schekochihin (Oxford))
• Kinetic Transport Theory: Analysis and Applications (KINETIC-11) (Organizers: Jean Dolbeault (CEREMADE, U. Paris 9), Sabine Hittmeir (DAMTP Cambridge), Ansgar Jüngel (TU Wien), Christian Schmeiser (WPI c/o U.Wien) )

Thematic programs 2011, Prolongation from 2010

• Financial Engineering for Energy Asset Management and hedging in commodity markets (ENERGY-10-Prolongation) (Organizers: PF. Fred Benth (U. Oslo), PF. Valery Kholodny (Verbund Wien), Peter Laurence (U. Roma), Walter Schachermayer (U. Wien))
• Logic based reasoning and data mining on the web (WEB-10-Prolongation) (Organizers: Thomas Eiter TU Wien), Monika Henzinger (WPI, U. Wien), Georg Gottlob (WPI, TU Wien & U. Oxford), Helmut Veith (TU Wien), PF Antoniou Grigoris (Univ. Greece))
• Modeling and Simulation of Nanostructures in biology and physics (NANO-10-Prolongation) (Organizers: Clemens Heitzinger (WPI c/o U. Wien & Cambridge), Dietmar Ölz (RICAM, Vienna branch), Vassil Palankovski (WPI c/o TU Wien))

Thematic programs 2010

• Financial Engineering for Energy Asset Management and hedging in commodity markets (ENERGY-10) (Organizers: PF. Fred Benth (U. Oslo), PF. Valery Kholodny (Verbund Wien), Peter Laurence (U. Roma), Walter Schachermayer (U. Wien))
• Gyrokinetics for ITER—II (ITER-10) (Organizers: Alex Schekochihin (U. Oxford), Michael Barnes (U. Oxford), Franceso Califano (U. Pisa), Bill Dorland (U. Maryland), PF Greg Hammett (U. Princeton), Arkady Tsinober (Univ. Tel Aviv), PF Charlie Doering (Univ. of Michigan))
• Logic based reasoning and data mining on the web (WEB-10) (Organizers: Thomas Eiter (TU Wien), Monika Henzinger (WPI, U. Wien), Georg Gottlob (WPI, TU Wien & U. Oxford), Helmut Veith (TU Wien), PF Antoniou Grigoris (Univ. Greece))
• Modeling and Simulation of Nanostructures in biology and physics (NANO-10) (Organizers: Clemens Heitzinger (Cambridge & WPI c/o U. Wiena) Dietmar Ölz (RICAM, Vienna branch on Biomathematics), Vassil Palankovski (WPI c/o TU Wien))
• Modelling of trophic interactions under climate fluctuations (CLIMATE-10) (Organizers: Sabine Hille (Boku Wien), Helga Kromp-Kolb (Boku Wien), PF Marcel Visser (U. Amsterdam), Thomas Ruf (U. Wien))
• Nonlinear Schrödinger equations with nontrivial boundary conditions : analysis, applications and numerics (NLS- 10) (Organizers: PF Jean-Claude Saut (U. Paris Sud), PF Avy Soffer (U. Rutgers), Hans-Peter Stimming (WPI c/o Uni Wien) Mechthild Thalhammer (U.Innsbruck) )
• Quantum thermodynamics of interacting many-body quantum systems (QUANTUM-10) (Organizers: Norbert Mauser (WPI, U. Wien), Thorsten Schumm (WPI, TU Wien), Alexander Gottlieb (WPI), Igor Mazets (TU Wien), Jörg Schmiedmayer (WPI, TU Wien), Markus Aspelmeyer (U. Wien))

Thematic programs 2010, Prolongation from 2009

• Cell movement and cell transport (CELL-09-Prolongation) (Organizers: Dietmar Ölz (U. Vienna), Vuk Milisic (WPI -CNRS, Grenoble), Christian Schmeiser (U. Vienna, RICAM Linz))
• Complexity features in fluid flows (COMPLEXFLUID-09-Prolongation) (Organizers: PF Didier Bresch (U. Savoie), PF Claude Bardos (U. Paris), OTPF Annie Colin (CEA))
• Databases and Ontologies in Advanced Information Systems (DATA-09-Prolongation) (Organizers: Thomas Eiter (TU Vienna), OTPF Monika Henzinger (U. EPFL, Lausanne))
• Gyrokinetics for ITER (ITER-09-Prolongation) (Organizers: Alexander Schekochihin (U. Oxford), PF Bill Dorland (U. Maryland), PF Greg Hammett (U. Princeton))
• Phase-Space methods in signal processing and quantum mechanics (PHASE-09-Prolongation) (Organizers: Agissilaos Athanassoulis (U. Paris), OTPF Silvia Bertoluzza (CNR Pavia), PF Thierry Paul (ENS Paris))
• Quantum many-body systems and NLS approximations: experiments and simulations (QUANTUM-09-Prolongation) (Organizers: Thorsten Schumm (TU Vienna), OTPF Isabelle Bouchoule (U. Paris Sud), PF Peter Schmelcher (U. Heidelberg), PF Jean- Claude Saut (U. Paris Sud) )
• The interplay between Financial and Insurance Mathematics, Statistics and Econometrics (FINANCE-09-Prolongation) (Organizers: Friedrich Hubalek (TU Vienna), PF Ludger Rüschendorf (U. Freiburg), PF Ivar Ekeland (UBC Vancouver), OTPF Claudia Klüppelberg (TU München) )

Thematic programs 2009

• (Quantum) Semiconductor modelling and simulations (SEMICON-09) (Organizers: Clemens Heitzinger (U. Vienna), OTPF Patricia Lustoza de Souza (U. Brazil), PF Gerald Bastard (ENS Paris,CNRS), PF Christian Ringhofer (ASU), Karl Unterrainer (TU Vienna) )
• Cell movement and cell transport (CELL-09) (Organizers: Dietmar Ölz (U. Vienna), Vuk Milisic (Grenoble, WPI-CNRS), Christian Schmeiser (U. Vienna, RICAM Linz))
• Complexity features in fluid flows (COMPLEXFLUID-09) (Organizers: PF Didier Bresch (U. Savoie), PF Claude Bardos (U. Paris), OTPF Annie Colin (CEA))
• Databases and Ontologies in Advanced Information Systems (DATA-09) (Organizers: Thomas Eiter (TU Vienna), OTPF Monika Henzinger (U. EPFL, Lausanne))
• Gyrokinetics for ITER (ITER-09) (Organizers: Alexander Schekochihin (U. Oxford) , PF Bill Dorland (U. Maryland), PF Greg Hammett (U. Princeton))
• Phase-Space methods in signal processing and quantum mechanics (PHASE-09) (Organizers: Agissilaos Athanassoulis, OTPF Silvia Bertoluzza (CNR Pavia), PF Thierry Paul (ENS Paris, CNRS))
• Quantum many-body systems and NLS approximations: experiments and simulations (QUANTUM-09) (Organizers: Thorsten Schumm (TU Vienna), OTPF Isabelle Bouchoule (U. Paris Sud), PF Peter Schmelcher (U. Heidelberg), PF Jean- Claude Saut (U. Paris Sud) )
• The interplay between Financial and Insurance Mathematics, Statistics and Econometrics (FINANCE-09) (Organizers: Friedrich Hubalek (TU Vienna), PF Ludger Rüschendorf (U. Freiburg), PF Ivar Ekeland (UBC Vancouver), OTPF Claudia Klüppelberg (TU München) )

Thematic programs 2008

• Applied Analysis and Fast Computation in Phase-Space (Organizers: Agissilaos Athanassoulis , OTPF Silvia Bertoluzza (CNRS Pavia), PF Thierry Paul (ENS Paris))
• Control of (Nonlinear) Schrödinger Equations (Organizers: Rada Weishäupl (U. Vienna), PF Claude Bardos (U. Paris))
• Correlation and quantum physics (Organizers: Thorsten Schumm (TU Vienna), PF Peter Schmelcher (U. Heidelberg), PF Ofri Alon (U. Heidelberg))
• Foundations of Knowledge and Information Handling / Continuation from 2007 (Organizers: Thomas Eiter (TU Vienna), Johann Eder (U. Vienna), Georg Gottlob (WPI c/o U. Oxford), Reinhard Pichler (TU Vienna))
• Gyrokinetic Plasma Turbulence (Organizers: Alexander Schekochihin (U. Oxford), OTPF Clarisse Bourdelle (CEA Caradache), PF Arkady Tsinober (ICL London & Tel Aviv), PF Yann Brenier (CNRS))
• Modelling of trophic interactions under climate fluctuations (Organizers: Sabine Hille (U. Boku- Vienna), PF Marcel Visser (U. Amsterdam) )
• Motility: from the molecular to the population scale (Organizers: Christian Schmeiser (U. Vienna), PF Michel Rascle (CNRS) )
• Nanostructures in biology and physics (Organizers: Clemens Heitzinger (U. Vienna), OTPF Patricia Lustoza de Souza (U. Brazil), PF Gerald Bastard (ENS Paris,CNRS), PF Christian Ringhofer (ASU))
• PDE methods in mathematical finance (Organizers: PF Peter Laurence (U. Roma), OTPF Mariko Arisawa (INRIA Rocqencourt))

Thematic programs 2007

• Adaptive numerical methods and simulation of PDEs (Organizers: Silvia Bertoluzza (CNRS Pavia), Albert Cohen (U. Paris), Norbert Mauser (U. Vienna, WPI), H. P. Stimming (U. Vienna), Christoph Überhuber (TU Vienna))
• Conceptual Aspects of Turbulence (CATURB-07) (Organizers: Bérengère Dubrulle (CNRS), Arkady Tsinober (U. Tel Aviv), Norbert Mauser (U. Vienna, WPI), Sergey Nazarenko (U. Warwick), Alexander Schekochihin (U. Oxford), Hendrik Kuhlmann (TU Vienna))
• Density functional theory and Material Science (DFT-MS-07) (Organizers: Jürgen Hafner (TU Vienna), Georg Kresse (U. Vienna), Raimund Podloucky (U. Vienna), Peter Mohn (TU Vienna))
• Dispersive nonlinear longwave PDE's and applications in physics (Organizers: Jean-Claude Saut (U. Paris), Remi Carles (CNRS), Norbert Mauser (U. Vienna, WPI), Christoph Sparber (U. Vienna))
• Foundations of Knowledge and Information Handling (Organizers: Thomas Eiter (TU Vienna), Johann Eder (U. Wien), Georg Gottlob (TU Vienna), Reinhard Pichler (TU Vienna))
• Optimal transportation structures, gradient flows and entropy methods for Applied PDEs (Organizers: José Carrillo (ICREA, UAB Barcelona), Marco Di Francesco (U. of L’Aquila), Yann Brenier (CNRS Nice), Peter A. Markowich (WPI c/o U.Vienna), Walter Schachermayer (WPI c/o TU Vienna), Juan Luis Vazquez (UAM Madrid))
• Quantum Semiconductor Structures (Organizers: Gottfried Strasser (TU Vienna) , Karl Unterrainer (TU Vienna), Armin Scrinzi (U. Munich), Norbert Mauser (U. Vienna, WPI))
• Random Phenomena in Partial Differential Equations (Organizers: Nina Uraltseva (U. St. Petersburg), Henrik Shahgholian (KTH Stockholm), Co-Organizers : Peter Markowich (WPI c/o U. Vienna), Josef Teichmann (TU Vienna))

Thematic programs 2006

• At the Interface of PDE, Self-Adjoint Operators and Stochastics: Models with Exclusion (Organizers: Jozef Lörinczi (WPI, TU Munich), Norbert Mauser (WPI, U. Vienna), Walter Schachermayer (WPI), Christian Schmeiser (WPI, U. Vienna), Herbert Spohn (TU Munich))
• Data and Knowledge Bases (Organizers: Johann Eder (U. Vienna), Thomas Eiter (TU Vienna), Georg Gottlob (WPI, U.Oxford))
• Long Time Semiclassical Evolution (Organizers: Thierry Paul (CNRS), Rafael de la Llave (Austin), Peter Markowich (WPI), Norbert Mauser (WPI, U. Vienna), Peter Szmolyan (WPI, TU Vienna))
• Multiscale Modeling in Cell Biology (Organizers: Yasmin Dolak-Struß (U. of Vienna), V. Small (IMBA, Vienna))
• Numerical Methods for the Solutions of PDEs (Organizers: Silvia Bertoluzza (CNR Pavia), Shi Jin (Madison and Beijing), Hans- Peter Stimming (WPI, U. Vienna))
• Semiconductor Photonic Nano-Structures (Organizers: Patricia Lustoza de Sousa (Rio de Janeiro), Karl Unterrainer (WPI, TU Vienna), Norbert Mauser (WPI, U. Vienna), Gottfried Strasser (TU Vienna))
• Stationary and Time Dependent Gross-Pitaevskii Equations (Organizers: Alberto Farina (CNRS Pauli, UPJV), Jean- Claude Saut (Orsay), Peter Markowich (WPI))
• Wavelets and Turbulence: From Modeling to Computing (Organizers: Claude Bardos (WPI, U.Paris),Marie Farge (U. Paris), Norbert Mauser (WPI, U. Vienna))

Thematic programs 2005

• Fundamentals of Queries and Data Exchange (Organizers: Georg Gottlob (WPI, U.Oxford), Michael Schrefl (JKU Linz), Johann Eder (U. Vienna))
• Nonlinear Analysis (Organizers: Henrik Shahgholian (Stockholm), Peter Markowich (WPI c/o Univ. Vienna) )
• Scientific Computing (Organizers: Wilfried Gansterer (U. Vienna) Martin Burger (Kepler U. Linz), Christoph Ueberhuber (TU Vienna), Johannes Grotendorst (FZ Juelich), Christian Schmeiser (WPI, TU Vienna))
• Time-dependent density functional theory (Organizers: Peter Weinberger (TU Vienna), Joachim Burgdörfer (TU Vienna), Robert Hammerling (TU Vienna), Norbert Mauser (WPI, U, Vienna), Armin Scrinzi (TU Vienna))

Thematic programs 2004

• Mathematical Biology (Organizers: Yasmin Dolak (U. Linz), Hans Othmer (U. Minneapolis), Benoit Perthame (U. Paris), Christian Schmeiser (U. Vienna), Angela Stevens (U. Heidelberg))
• Nanoscience (Organizers: Peter Markowich (Vienna), Karl Unterrainer (Vienna) )
• Nonlinear Waves (Organizers: Norbert Mauser (WPI c/o Univ. Vienna), Alfred Kluwick (WPI c/o TU-Vienna), PF Alexander Komech (U. Moscow and Vienna))
• Semi-Structured Data (Organizers: Georg Gottlob (Vienna))