Simons Science School in Mathematics 2025
From September 14 to September 21, 2025 in Vienna
STEM education and the training of future scientists, innovators, and high-tech entrepreneurs play a key role in Ukraine's future recovery. The Ukrainian education system excels at identifying gifted youths and at nurturing them in a highly-developed culture of science olympiads and research competitions. This experience should be studied and supported at the highest level, recognizing it as a national asset. Collaborative projects in STEM education between Ukraine and the EU will be to everyone's benefit and promote Ukraine's further integration into the EU.
The Simons Science School in Mathematics is a one-week program for Ukrainian high school students who have excelled at science competitions in mathematics and computer science. The goal is to foster the students’ interest in science, to introduce them to potential research careers, and to inspire them to apply their talents to shape Ukraine’s future. During their week in Vienna, participants will engage with leading mathematicians of the University of Vienna and the Institute of Science and Technology Austria.
This event is made possible by a generous gift of the Simons Foundation, the support of the Erwin Schrödinger Institute, our unbelievable volunteers, and the work of Dmytro Rzhemovskyi and his team from Projekt MmF.
Jim Simons sets an outstanding example to us all.
Simons Science School in Mathematics 2024
The participants of the Simons Science School in Mathematics are Ukrainian prize-winners of national and international science competitions in mathematics, physics, and computer science. They are students of Ukraine’s most successful specialized science schools: Boiko Super Math in Kharkiv, the Ukrainian Physics and Mathematics Lyceum in Kyiv, the Lviv Physics and Mathematics Lyceum, and the Kyiv Natural Sciences Lyceum No. 145.
Program
Sunday, September 14
- 11:30 Arrivals in Vienna
- 12:30 − 13:30 Lunch at TBA
- 14:00 − 15:00 Check-in at Hotel Geblergasse
- 16:00 − 18:30 Free time and sports in Donaupark
- 19:00 − 20:00 Dinner at TBA
Monday, September 15
Location:
University of Vienna
Faculty of Mathematics
Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1
Lecture Hall 3 (ground floor)
- 07:30 − 08:00 Breakfast at Hotel Geblergasse
- Opening ceremony
- 10:30 − 12:00 Lecture by Daniele Semola
- Introduction to Optimal Transport
- 12:15 − 13:00 Lunch at the University of Vienna's Cafeteria (Kolingasse)
- Cultural Program
- 18:30 − 19:15 Dinner by Radatz at the Faculty of Mathematics
Tuesday, September 16
Location:
University of Vienna
Faculty of Physics
Boltzmanngasse 5
Ernst Mach Lecture Hall
- 07:30 − 08:00 Breakfast at Hotel Geblergasse
- 09:30 – 12:00 Lectures by Norbert Schuch
- Quantum Information and Quantum Computers
- 12:15 − 13:00 Lunch at University of Vienna's Cafeteria (Kolingasse)
- 18:30 − 19:15 Dinner by Radatz at the Faculty of Mathematics
Wednesday, September 17
Location:
Institute of Science and Technology Austria
- 07:30 − 08:00 Breakfast at Hotel Geblergasse
- 09:10 − 09:45 Bus transfer to ISTA (Bus No. 400)
- 10:00 – 11:00 Lecture by László Erdös
- What is mathematical physics?
- 11:15 – 12:00 Presentation of ISTA
- 12:15 – 12:45 Lunch at ISTA's cafeteria
- 13:00 – 13:50 Meet&Greet with Ukrainian PhD students
- 14:00 – 15:15 Lecture by Tim Browning
- Partitions, Ramanujan's work on generating series and congruences
- 18:30 − 19:15 Dinner by Radatz at the Faculty of Mathematics
Thursday, September 18
Location:
University of Vienna
Kolingasse 14-16
Seminar Room 5 (ground floor)
- 07:30 − 08:00 Breakfast at Hotel Geblergasse
- 09:00 − 10:30 Lecture by Gramoz Goranci
- Algorithms with Predictions
- 10:45 − 12:15 Lecture by TBA
- TBA
- 12:30 − 13:00 Lunch at University of Vienna's Cafeteria (Kolingasse)
- 18:30 − 19:15 Dinner by Radatz at the Faculty of Mathematics
Friday, September 19
Location:
University of Vienna
Faculty of Mathematics
Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1
Lecture Hall 3 (ground floor)
- 07:30 − 08:00 Breakfast at Hotel Geblergasse
- Lecture by Matthias Aschenbrenner
- Lecture by Olga Mula
- Numerical Optimal Transport
- 12:15 − 13:00 Lunch at University of Vienna's Cafeteria (Kolingasse)
- 18:00 − 20:00 Dinner and Meet&Greet with scientists at Sägewerk
Saturday, September 20
Location:
University of Vienna
Faculty of Mathematics
Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1
Lecture Hall 3 (ground floor)
- 07:30 − 08:00 Breakfast at Hotel Geblergasse
- Lectures by Matija Bucic
- Finding order in chaos, the magic of Ramsey theory
- 12:15 − 12:45 Lunch by Radatz at the Faculty of Mathematics
- Cultural Program
- 18:30 − 19:30 Dinner at TBA
Sunday, September 21
- 07:30 − 08:00 Breakfast at Hotel Geblergasse
- 09:00 − 12:00 Free time / Cultural Program
- 12:30 − 13:30 Lunch at TBA
- 16:30 Departure to Ukraine
Speakers
Coordinator and Contact Person
For any questions regarding Simons Science School in Mathematics 2025, please feel free to contact Dmytro Rzhemovskyi via email at dmytro.rzhemovskyi@univie.ac.at .
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