• 1941c - Mini-Workshop: Self-adjoint Extensions in New Settings 

      [OWR-2019-47] (2019) - (06 Oct - 12 Oct 2019)
      The main focus of the workshop is on the analysis of boundary value problems for differential and difference operators in some non-classical geometric settings, such as fractal graphs, sub-Riemannian manifolds or non-elliptic ...
    • 1507c - Mini-Workshop: Singularities in G2-geometry 

      [OWR-2015-8] (2015) - (08 Feb - 14 Feb 2015)
      All currently known construction methods of smooth compact G2-manifolds have been tied to certain singular G2-spaces, which in Joyce’s original construction are G2-orbifolds and in Kovalev’s ...
    • 1702b - Mini-Workshop: Spaces and Moduli Spaces of Riemannian Metrics 

      [OWR-2017-3] (2017) - (08 Jan - 14 Jan 2017)
      The mini-workshop focused on central questions and new results concerning spaces and moduli spaces of Riemannian metrics with lower or upper curvature bounds on open and closed manifolds and, moreover, related themes from ...
    • 2009b - Mini-Workshop: Superpotentials in Algebra and Geometry 

      [OWR-2020-10] (2020) - (23 Feb - 29 Feb 2020)
      Mirror symmetry has been at the epicenter of many mathematical discoveries in the past twenty years. It was discovered by physicists in the setting of super conformal field theories (SCFTs) associated to closed string ...
    • 1330b - Mini-Workshop: The Willmore Functional and the Willmore Conjecture 

      [OWR-2013-37] (2013) - (21 Jul - 27 Jul 2013)
      The Willmore functional evaluated on a surface immersed into Euclidean space is given by the L2-norm of its mean curvature. The interest for studying this functional comes from various directions. First, it arises in ...
    • 0733c - Mini-Workshop: Topology of closed one-forms and Cohomology Jumping Loci 

      [OWR-2007-40] (2007) - (12 Aug - 18 Aug 2007)
      The purpose of this workshop was to bring together researchers from the two different fields mentioned in the title, and to create more interaction and connections between these fields. Among the topics which appear in ...
    • 1003b - Mini-Workshop: Valuations and Integral Geometry 

      [OWR-2010-4] (2010) - (17 Jan - 23 Jan 2010)
      As a generalization of the notion of measure, valuations have long played a central role in the integral geometry of convex sets. In recent years there has been a series of striking developments. Several examples were ...
    • 2240a - Mini-Workshop: Zero-Range and Point-Like Singular Perturbations: For a Spillover to Analysis, PDE and Differential Geometry 

      [OWR-2022-44] (2022) - (02 Oct - 08 Oct 2022)
      The field of contact interactions and perturbations of differential operators supported on subsets with non-trivial co-dimension is an increasingly active mainstream of mathematical physics (in particular, operator and ...
    • Minimal Codimension One Foliation of a Symmetric Space by Damek-Ricci Spaces 

      [OWP-2019-11] Knieper, Gerhard; Parker, John R.; Peyerimhoff, Norbert (Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, 2019-05-07)
      In this article we consider solvable hypersurfaces of the form Nexp(RH) with induced metrics in the symmetric space M=SL(3,C)/SU(3), where H a suitable unit length vector in the subgroup A ...
    • 1517b - Mirror Symmetry, Hodge Theory and Differential Equations 

      [OWR-2015-22] (2015) - (19 Apr - 25 Apr 2015)
      The following is the report on the Oberwolfach workshop Mirror Symmetry, Hodge Theory and Differential Equations (April 2015), which brought together researchers from various areas such as quantum cohomology, complex ...
    • 1526 - New Perspectives on the Interplay between Discrete Groups in Low-Dimensional Topology and Arithmetic Lattices 

      [OWR-2015-30] (2015) - (21 Jun - 27 Jun 2015)
      This workshop brought together specialists in areas ranging from arithmetic groups to topological quantum field theory, with common interest in arithmetic aspects of discrete groups arising from topology. The meeting showed ...
    • 1836 - New Trends in Teichmüller Theory and Mapping Class Groups 

      [OWR-2018-40] (2018) - (02 Sep - 08 Sep 2018)
      In this workshop, various topics in Teichmüller theory and mapping class groups were discussed. Twenty-three talks dealing with classical topics and new directions in this field were given. A problem session was organised ...
    • 1407 - New Trends in Teichmüller Theory and Mapping Class Groups 

      [OWR-2014-7] (2014) - (09 Feb - 15 Feb 2014)
      The program “New Trends in Teichmüller Theory and Mapping Class Groups” brought together people working in various aspects of the field and beyond. The focus was on the recent developments that include higher Teichmüller ...
    • Noncompact harmonic manifolds 

      [OWP-2013-08] Knieper, Gerhard; Peyerimhoff, Norbert (Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, 2013-04-10)
      The Lichnerowicz conjecture asserts that all harmonic manifolds are either flat or locally symmetric spaces of rank 1. This conjecture has been proved by Z.I. Szab ́o [Sz] for harmonic manifolds with compact universal ...
    • 1817 - Nonlinear Data: Theory and Algorithms 

      [OWR-2018-20] (2018) - (22 Apr - 28 Apr 2018)
      Techniques and concepts from differential geometry are used in many parts of applied mathematics today. However, there is no joint community for users of such techniques. The workshop on Nonlinear Data assembled researchers ...
    • 0825 - Nonlinear Evolution Equations 

      [OWR-2008-27] (2008) - (15 Jun - 21 Jun 2008)
      In this workshop three types of nonlinear evolution problems - geometric evolution equations (essentially all of parabolic type), nonlinear hyperbolic equations and dispersive equations - were the subject of 21 talks.
    • 1622 - Nonlinear Evolution Problems 

      [OWR-2016-27] (2016) - (29 May - 04 Jun 2016)
      The main themes of this workshop were geometric evolution equations and dispersive equations, including nonlinear wave and Schrödinger equations. Altogether there were 21 talks, presented by leading specialists from all ...
    • 1220 - Nonlinear Evolution Problems 

      [OWR-2012-26] (2012) - (13 May - 19 May 2012)
      In this workshop geometric evolution equations of parabolic type, nonlinear hyperbolic equations, and dispersive equations and their interrelations were the subject of 21 talks and several shorter special presentations.
    • 0522 - Nonlinear Evolution Problems 

      [OWR-2005-25] (2005) - (29 May - 04 Jun 2005)
      In this workshop three types of nonlinear evolution problems— geometric evolution equations (essentially of parabolic type), nonlinear hyperbolic equations, and dispersive equations— were the subject of 22 talks.
    • On the autonomous metric on groups of Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms of closed hyperbolic surfaces 

      [OWP-2013-18] Brandenbursky, Michael (Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, 2013-07-23)
      Let Σg be a closed hyperbolic surface of genus g and let Ham(Σg) be the group of Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms of Σg. The most natural word metric on this group is the autonomous metric. It has ...