• 1645 - Analytic Number Theory 

      [OWR-2016-53] (2016) - (06 Nov - 12 Nov 2016)
      Analytic number theory has flourished over the past few years, and this workshop brought together world leaders and young talent to discuss developments in various branches of the subject
    • 1616 - Combinatorics and Probability 

      [OWR-2016-22] (2016) - (17 Apr - 23 Apr 2016)
      For the past few decades, Combinatorics and Probability Theory have had a fruitful symbiosis, each benefitting from and influencing developments in the other. Thus to prove the existence of designs, probabilistic methods ...
    • 1614 - Arbeitsgemeinschaft: The Geometric Langlands Conjecture 

      [OWR-2016-20] (2016) - (03 Apr - 09 Apr 2016)
      The Langlands program is a vast, loosely connected, collection of theorems and conjectures. At quite different ends, there is the geometric Langlands program, which deals with perverse sheaves on the stack of $G$-bundles ...
    • 1623 - Geometrie 

      [OWR-2016-28] (2016) - (05 Jun - 11 Jun 2016)
      The workshop Geometry, organized by John Lott (Berkeley), André Neves (London), Iskander Taimanov (Novosibirsk) and Burkhard Wilking (Münster) was well attended with over 53 participants with broad geographic representation ...
    • 1604 - Mathematical Imaging and Surface Processing 

      [OWR-2016-4] (2016) - (24 Jan - 30 Jan 2016)
      Within the last decade image and geometry processing have become increasingly rigorous with solid foundations in mathematics. Both areas are research fields at the intersection of different mathematical disciplines, ranging ...
    • 1612 - Geometric Numerical Integration 

      [OWR-2016-18] (2016) - (20 Mar - 26 Mar 2016)
      The subject of this workshop was numerical methods that preserve geometric properties of the flow of an ordinary or partial differential equation. This was complemented by the question as to how structure preservation ...
    • The Willmore Conjecture 

      [SNAP-2016-011-EN] Nowaczyk, Nikolai (Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, 2016)
      The Willmore problem studies which torus has the least amount of bending energy. We explain how to think of a torus as a donut-shaped surface and how the intuitive notion of bending has been studied by mathematics over time.
    • 1634 - C*-Algebras 

      [OWR-2016-40] (2016) - (21 Aug - 27 Aug 2016)
      The field of operator algebras is a flourishing area of mathematics with strong ties to many other areas including functional/harmonic analysis, topology, (non-commutative) geometry, group theory and dynamical systems. The ...
    • 1608a - Asymptotic Geometric Analysis 

      [OWR-2016-11] (2016) - (21 Feb - 27 Feb 2016)
      The workshop was dedicated to new developments in Asymptotic Geometric Analysis, the study of high-dimensional geometric objects by analytic and probabilistic means, and its interplay with other fields such as functional ...
    • 1651c - Mini-Workshop: Surreal Numbers, Surreal Analysis, Hahn Fields and Derivations 

      [OWR-2016-60] (2016) - (18 Dec - 23 Dec 2016)
      New striking analogies between H. Hahn’s fields of generalised series with real coefficients, G. H. Hardy’s field of germs of real valued functions, and J. H. Conway’s field No of surreal numbers, have been lately discovered ...
    • 1638a - Adaptive Algorithms 

      [OWR-2016-44] (2016) - (18 Sep - 24 Sep 2016)
      Overwhelming empirical evidence in computational science and engineering proved that self-adaptive mesh-generation is a must-do in real-life problem computational partial differential equations. The mathematical understanding ...
    • 1651b - Mini-Workshop: Max Dehn: his Life, Work, and Influence 

      [OWR-2016-59] (2016) - (18 Dec - 23 Dec 2016)
      This mini-workshop is part of a long-term project that aims to produce a book documenting Max Dehn’s singular life and career. The meeting brought together scholars with various kinds of expertise, several of whom gave ...
    • 1624 - Classical Algebraic Geometry 

      [OWR-2016-29] (2016) - (12 Jun - 18 Jun 2016)
      Progress in algebraic geometry often comes through the introduction of new tools and ideas to tackle the classical problems the development of the field. Examples include new invariants that capture some aspect of geometry ...
    • Polyhedra and commensurability 

      [SNAP-2016-009-EN] Guglielmetti, Rafael; Jacquement, Matthieu (Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, 2016)
      This snapshot introduces the notion of commensurability of polyhedra. At its bottom, this concept can be developed from constructions with paper, scissors, and glue. Starting with an elementary example, we formalize it ...
    • 1632 - Arithmetic Geometry 

      [OWR-2016-38] (2016) - (07 Aug - 13 Aug 2016)
      Arithmetic geometry is at the interface between algebraic geometry and number theory, and studies schemes over the ring of integers of number fields, or their $p$-adic completions. An emphasis of the workshop was on p-adic ...
    • Wie man einen Sieger wählt: die Mathematik der Sozialwahl 

      [SNAP-2015-009-DE] Powers, Victoria Ann (Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, 2016)
      Angenommen, eine Gruppe von Einzelpersonen möchte unter verschiedenen Optionen wählen, zum Beispiel einen von mehreren Kandidaten für ein politisches Amt oder den besten Teilnehmer einer Eiskunstlaufmeisterschaft. Man ...
    • Eine visuelle Analyse der Sterblichkeit männlicher Spanier 

      [SNAP-2015-012-DE] Marron, J. S. (Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, 2016)
      Die statistische Visualisierung benutzt graphische Methoden um Erkenntnisse aus Daten zu gewinnen. Wir zeigen wie mit dem Verfahren der Hauptkomponentenanalyse die Sterblichkeit in Spanien im Laufe der letzten hundert Jahre ...
    • 1607a - Topological Recursion and TQFTs 

      [OWR-2016-9] (2016) - (14 Feb - 20 Feb 2016)
      The topological recursion is an ubiquitous structure in enumerative geometry of surfaces and topological quantum field theories. Since its invention in the context of matrix models, it has been found or conjectured to ...
    • Real group orbits on flag ind-varieties of SL (∞, C) 

      [OWP-2016-01] Ignatyev, Mikhail V.; Penkov, Ivan; Wolf, Joseph A. (Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, 2016-05-10)
      We consider the complex ind-group $G=SL (\infty, \mathbb{C})$ and its real forms $G^0=SU(\infty,\infty)$, $SU(p,\infty)$, $SL(\infty,\mathbb{R})$, $SL(\infty,\mathbb{H})$. Our main object of study are the $G^0$-orbits on ...
    • A graphical interface for the Gromov-Witten theory of curves 

      [OWP-2016-06] Cavalieri, Renzo; Johnson, Paul; Markwig, Hannah; Ranganathan, Dhruv (Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, 2016-05-10)
      We explore the explicit relationship between the descendant Gromov–Witten theory of target curves, operators on Fock spaces, and tropical curve counting. We prove a classical/tropical correspondence theorem for descendant ...