• 1238 - Topologie 

      [OWR-2012-45] (2012) - (16 Sep - 22 Sep 2012)
      The Oberwolfach conference “Topologie” is one of the few occasions where researchers from many different areas in algebraic and geometric topology are able to meet and exchange ideas. Accordingly, the program covered a ...
    • Contractive Idempotents on Locally Compact Quantum Groups 

      [OWP-2012-19] Neufang, Matthias; Salmi, Pekka; Skalski, Adam; Spronk, Nico (Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, 2012)
      A general form of contractive idempotent functionals on coamenable locally compact quantum groups is obtained, generalising the result of Greenleaf on contractive measures on locally compact groups. The image of a convolution ...
    • 1223 - Invariants in Low-Dimensional Topology and Knot Theory 

      [OWR-2012-28] (2012) - (03 Jun - 09 Jun 2012)
      This meeting concentrated on topological invariants in low dimensional topology and knot theory. We include both three and four dimensional manifolds in our phrase “low dimensional topology”. The intent of the conference ...
    • 1237 - Scaling Limits in Models of Statistical Mechanics 

      [OWR-2012-44] (2012) - (09 Sep - 15 Sep 2012)
      This has been the third workshop around Statistical Mechanics organized in the last 6 years. The main topic consisted of spatial random processes and their connections to statistical mechanics. The common underlying theme ...
    • 1249 - Mathematical and Algorithmic Aspects of Atmosphere-Ocean Data Assimilation 

      [OWR-2012-58] (2012) - (02 Dec - 08 Dec 2012)
      The nomenclature “data assimilation” arises from applications in the geosciences where complex mathematical models are interfaced with observational data in order to improve model forecasts. Mathematically, data assimilation ...
    • 1215b - Mini-Workshop: Hypergraph Turan Problem 

      [OWR-2012-19] (2012) - (08 Apr - 14 Apr 2012)
      This mini-workshop focused on the hypergraph Turán problem. The interest in this difficult and old area was recently re-invigorated by many important developments such as the hypergraph regularity lemmas, flag algebras, ...
    • 1245a - Non-Archimedean Analytic Geometry 

      [OWR-2012-53] (2012) - (04 Nov - 10 Nov 2012)
      The workshop focused on recent developments in non-Archimedean analytic geometry with various applications to arithmetic and algebraic geometry. These applications include questions in Arakelov theory, p-adic differential ...
    • 1235 - Low-Dimensional Topology and Number Theory 

      [OWR-2012-42] (2012) - (26 Aug - 01 Sep 2012)
      The workshop brought together topologists and number theorists with the intent of exploring the many tantalizing connections between these areas.
    • 1226 - Learning Theory and Approximation 

      [OWR-2012-31] (2012) - (24 Jun - 30 Jun 2012)
      Learning theory studies data structures from samples and aims at understanding unknown function relations behind them. This leads to interesting theoretical problems which can be often attacked with methods from Approximation ...
    • 1228 - Discrete Differential Geometry 

      [OWR-2012-34] (2012) - (08 Jul - 14 Jul 2012)
      This is the collection of extended abstracts for the 24 lectures and the open problems session at the third Oberwolfach workshop on Discrete Differential Geometry.
    • 1250 - Convex Geometry and its Applications 

      [OWR-2012-59] (2012) - (09 Dec - 15 Dec 2012)
      The geometry of convex domains in Euclidean space plays a central role in several branches of mathematics: functional and harmonic analysis, the theory of PDE, linear programming and, increasingly, in the study of other ...
    • 1203 - Recent Developments in the Numerics of Nonlinear Hyperbolic Conservation Laws and their Use in Science and Engineering 

      [OWR-2012-5] (2012) - (15 Jan - 21 Jan 2012)
      Modern numerical methods for hyperbolic conservation laws rely on polynomials of high degree, mostly orthogonal polynomials, on triangular or quadrilateral meshes. Due to shocks stability is an issue and modern means of ...
    • 1201a - Mini-Workshop: Manifolds with Lower Curvature Bounds 

      [OWR-2012-1] (2012) - (01 Jan - 07 Jan 2012)
      The purpose of the meeting was to relate and study new developments in the geometry and topology of Riemannian manifolds with lower curvature bounds. Special emphasis was given to lower Ricci curvature bounds in the sense ...
    • 1244 - C*-Algebras, Dynamics, and Classification 

      [OWR-2012-52] (2012) - (28 Oct - 03 Nov 2012)
      Classification is a central theme in mathematics, and a particularly rich one in the theory of operator algebras. Indeed, one of the first major results in the theory is Murray and von Neumann’s type classification of ...
    • 1212 - Mechanics of Materials 

      [OWR-2012-15] (2012) - (18 Mar - 24 Mar 2012)
      The rapid advances of modern fabrications technologies require a thorough understanding of physical and mechanical properties of materials as influenced by their atomic composition, processing history and structure at the ...
    • 1204 - Interplay of Analysis and Probability in Physics 

      [OWR-2012-6] (2012) - (22 Jan - 28 Jan 2012)
      The main purpose of this workshop was to foster interaction between researchers in the fields of analysis and probability with the aim of joining forces to understand difficult problems from physics rigorously. 52 researchers ...
    • Jahresbericht | Annual Report - 2011 

      Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach (Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, 2012)
    • 1210 - Enveloping Algebras and Geometric Representation Theory 

      [OWR-2012-13] (2012) - (04 Mar - 10 Mar 2012)
      The workshop brought together experts investigating algebraic Lie theory from the geometric and combinatorial points of view.
    • 1225 - Classical Algebraic Geometry 

      [OWR-2012-30] (2012) - (17 Jun - 23 Jun 2012)
      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 ...
    • Invariants of Closed Braids via Counting Surfaces 

      [OWP-2012-15] Brandenbursky, Michael (Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, 2012)
      A Gauss diagram is a simple, combinatorial way to present a link. It is known that any Vassiliev invariant may be obtained from a Gauss diagram formula that involves counting subdiagrams of certain combinatorial types. In ...