Simons Science School in Mathematics
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.
The participants of the Simons Science School in Mathematics are recruited from two of Ukraine’s most successful science high schools: the Ukrainian Physics and Mathematics Lyceum in Kyiv and Boiko Super Math in Kharkiv.
Program
Sunday, September 15
- 11:30 Arrivals in Vienna
- 11:30 - 13:00 Check-in at Hotel Geblergasse
- 13:30 - 14:30 Lunch at Pizzeria Riva
- 14:30 - 18:30 Free time, sports on the Donauinsel
- 19:00 - 20:00 Dinner at Centimeter
Monday, September 16
Location: Erwin Schrödinger Institute,
Schrödinger Lecture Hall
- 07:30 - 08:00 Breakfast at Hotel Geblergasse
- 09:00 - 10:30 Lecture by TBA
- 11:00 - 12:30 Lecture by Yurii Malitskyi
- 13:00 - 14:00 Lunch at the University of Vienna's Cafeteria
- 16:30 - 18:00 Guided tour of Vienna's city center with Kateryna Kinsel
- 18:00 - 19:00 Dinner at GRND Restaurant
Tuesday, September 17
Location: Erwin Schrödinger Institute,
Schrödinger Lecture Hall
- 07:30 - 08:00 Breakfast at Hotel Geblergasse
- 09:00 - 10:30 Lecture by Alberto Minguez
- 11:00 - 12:30 Lecture by Balasz Szendroi
- Reflection patters
- 12:30 - 13:30 Lunch at the University of Vienna's Cafeteria
- 14:00 - 15:30 Lecture by Gramoz Goranci
- Randomized algorithms
- 15:30 - 18:00 Free time, visit to Belvedere
- 18:00 - 19:00 Dinner at ESI, prepared by GRND Restaurant
- 19:00 - 21:00 Board games and mafia at ESI
Wednesday, September 18
Location: Erwin Schrödinger Institute,
Schrödinger Lecture Hall
- 07:30 - 08:00 Breakfast at Hotel Geblergasse
- 09:30 - 10:45 Lecture by Nathanael Berestycki
- 11:00 - 12:15 Lecture by Nathanael Berestycki
- 12:30 - 13:30 Lunch at the University of Vienna Cafeteria
- 14:00 - 15:15 Lecture by TBA
- 15:30 - 18:00 Free time, e.g., Naturhistorisches Museum and Kunsthistorisches Museum
- 18:00 - 19:00 Dinner at ESI, prepared by GRND Restaurant
Thursday, September 19
Location: Institute of Science and Technology Austria
- 07:30 - 08:00 Breakfast at Hotel Geblergasse
- 10:00 - 11:15 Lecture by Tim Browning
- Sums of squares
- 11:30 - 12:15 Guided tour of ISTA
- 12:30 - 13:00 Lunch at ISTA's cafeteria
- 13:15 - 14:30 Lecture by TBA
- 14:45 - 15:45 Grow Trails
- 16:00 - 17:00 Hiking
- 18:00 - 19:00 Dinner at Redlinger Hütte
Friday, September 20
Location: Faculty of Mathematics of the University of Vienna
- 09:00 - 10:15 Lecture by Vera Fischer
- Introduction to sentential and first order logic
- 10:30 - 12:00 Lecture by Yurii Malitskyi
- 12:15 - 13:15 Lunch at the University of Vienna's Cafeteria
- 14:30 - 16:00 United Nations Office and International Atomic Energy Agency
- Guided tour
- Meeting with Ukrainian diplomats
- 16:00 - 18:00 Free time in Donaupark
- 19:00 - 21:00 Dinner with scientists at Centimeter
Saturday, September 21
- 07:30 - 08:00 Breakfast at Hotel Geblergasse
- 09:00 - 10:15 Lecture by Vera Fischer
- Axiomatic Set Theory and the Real Numbers
- 11:00 - 13:00 Guided tour of Schönbrunn Palace with Kateryna Kinsel
- 13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
- 14:30 - 16:30 Free time in Prater and the campus of the Vienna University of Economics and Business
- 18:00 - 19:00 Dinner
Sunday, September 22
- 07:30 - 08:00 Breakfast at Hotel Geblergasse
- 09:00 - 12:00 Free time, e.g., visit to Albertina
- 12:30 - 13:30 Lunch at Pizzeria Riva
- 16:30 Departure to Ukraine