EINSTEIN is the "European Institute for Nonlinear Studies via Transnationally Extended INterchanges", a Russian-European Union initiative to foster the collaboration and the scientific interchange between Russian and European Union scientists. The research project "Integrability in topological string and field theory" is a collaboration between the Lecce and ITEP nodes of Einstein.

EINSTEIN's web page in Lecce: http://www.fisica.unisalento.it/EINSTEIN/

Members of the research teams:

Alexei Morozov (team leader), Petr Dunin-Barkowski, Sergei Kharchev, Andrei Marshakov, Andrei Mironov, Vladimir Rubtsov, Shamil Shakirov, Alexei Sleptsov.

Ugo Bruzzo (team leader), Claudio Bartocci, Andrea Brini, Gregorio Falqui, Fabio Ferrari, Annibale Magni, Igor Mencattini, Giovanni Ortenzi, Marco Pedroni, Alessandro Tanzini.