• 0548 - Heat Kernels, Stochastic Processes and Functional Inequalities 

      [OWR-2005-54] (2005) - (27 Nov - 03 Dec 2005)
      The conference brought together mathematicians belonging to several fields, essentially analysis, probability and geometry. One of the main unifying topics was certainly the study of heat kernels in various contexts: ...
    • 0518c - Mini-Workshop: Particle Systems with Several Conservation Laws: Fluctuations and Hydrodynamic Limit 

      [OWR-2005-22] (2005) - (01 May - 07 May 2005)
      The Mini-Workshop is concerned with the large-scale description of microscopic many-particle systems with two or more conservation laws. This is topic of common interest for statistical mechanics, probability theory and ...
    • 0527 - Real Analysis, Harmonic Analysis and Applications to PDE 

      [OWR-2005-30] (2005) - (03 Jul - 09 Jul 2005)
      There have been important developments in the last few years in the point-of-view and methods of harmonic analysis, and at the same time significant concurrent progress in the application of these to partial differential ...
    • 0534b - Mathematical Population Genetics 

      [OWR-2005-40] (2005) - (21 Aug - 27 Aug 2005)
      The meeting was devoted to mathematical aspects of population genetics, a branch of theoretical biology that is concerned with the genetic structure of populations under the influence of various evolutionary processes such ...
    • 0550 - Mathematics in the Physical Sciences, 1650-2000 

      [OWR-2005-56] (2005) - (11 Dec - 17 Dec 2005)
      The workshop “Mathematics in the Physical Sciences, 1650-2000” was organised by Niccolò Guicciardini (Siena), Tinne Hoff Kjeldsen (Roskilde), and David Rowe (Mainz). By focusing on the interplay between mathematics and ...
    • 0524 - Geometric Topology and Connections with Quantum Field Theory 

      [OWR-2005-27] (2005) - (12 Jun - 18 Jun 2005)
      In recent years, the interplay between traditional geometric topology and theoretical physics, in particular quantum field theory, has played a significant role in the work of many researchers. The idea of this workshop ...
    • 0546b - Mini-Workshop: Analysis and Computation of Microstructures in Finite Plasticity 

      [OWR-2005-52] (2005) - (13 Nov - 19 Nov 2005)
      Plastic material behaviour is typically the result of the interaction of complex substructures on a microscopic scale. Common models of finite plasticity are based on macroscopic, phenomenological approaches and do not ...
    • 0537 - Arakelov Geometry 

      [OWR-2005-43] (2005) - (11 Sep - 17 Sep 2005)
      The workshop on Arakelov geometry was attended by 45 participants, many of them young researchers. In 19 talks an overview of recent developments in Arakelov geometry was given.
    • 0532 - Differentialgeometrie im Großen 

      [OWR-2005-35] (2005) - (07 Aug - 13 Aug 2005)
      The meeting continued the biannual conference series Differentialgeometrie im Großen at the MFO which was established in the 60’s by Klingenberg and Chern. While global Riemannian geometry with its connections to geometric ...
    • 0534a - Analysis and Geometric Singularities 

      [OWR-2005-39] (2005) - (21 Aug - 27 Aug 2005)
      This workshop focused on several of the main areas of current research concerning analysis on singular and noncompact spaces. Topics included harmonic analysis and Hodge theory on, and the theory of compactifications of, ...
    • 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.
    • 0539 - Low-Dimensional Manifolds 

      [OWR-2005-45] (2005) - (25 Sep - 01 Oct 2005)
    • 0549 - Set Theory 

      [OWR-2005-55] (2005) - (04 Dec - 10 Dec 2005)
      This meeting covered all important aspects of modern Set Theory, including large cardinal theory, combinatorial set theory, descriptive set theory, connections with algebra and analysis, forcing axioms and inner model ...
    • 0542 - Statistische und Probabilistische Methoden der Modellwahl 

      [OWR-2005-47] (2005) - (16 Oct - 22 Oct 2005)
      Aim of this conference with more than 50 participants, was to bring together leading researchers from roughly three different scientific communities who work on the same issue, data based model selection. Their different ...
    • 0533c - Mini-Workshop: Gerbes, Twisted K-Theory and Conformal Field Theory 

      [OWR-2005-38] (2005) - (14 Aug - 20 Aug 2005)
      The aim of the mini-workshop was to bring together people whose work in mathematics and mathematical physics centers around geometry and topology applicable in modern string theory. More specifically, whose interests are ...
    • 0540 - Arbeitsgemeinschaft mit aktuellem Thema: Modern Foundations for Stable Homotopy Theory 

      [OWR-2005-46] (2005) - (02 Oct - 08 Oct 2005)
      In recent years, spectral algebra or stable homotopical algebra over structured ring spectra has become an important new direction in stable homotopy theory. This workshop provided an introduction to structured ring spectra ...
    • 0513 - Free Probability Theory 

      [OWR-2005-15] (2005) - (27 Mar - 02 Apr 2005)
      Free probability theory is a line of research which parallels aspects of classical probability, in a non-commutative context where tensor products are replaced by free products, and independent random variables are replaced ...
    • 0508c - Mini-Workshop: Analytical and Numerical Methods in Image and Surface Processing 

      [OWR-2005-10] (2005) - (20 Feb - 26 Feb 2005)
      The workshop successfully brought together researchers from mathematical analysis, numerical mathematics, computer graphics and image processing. The focus was on variational methods in image and surface processing such ...
    • 0533a - Mini-Workshop: Operators on Spaces of Analytic Functions 

      [OWR-2005-36] (2005) - (14 Aug - 20 Aug 2005)
      The major topics discussed in this workshop were invariant subspaces of linear operators on Banach spaces of analytic functions, the ideal structure of H ∞ , asymptotics for condition numbers of large matrices, and questions ...
    • 0514 - Arbeitsgemeinschaft mit aktuellem Thema: Algebraic Cobordism 

      [OWR-2005-16] (2005) - (03 Apr - 09 Apr 2005)
      The aim of this Arbeitsgemeinschaft was to present the theory of Algebraic Cobordism due to Marc Levine and Fabien Morel through the lines of their original articles: Inspired by the work of Quillen on complex cobordism, ...