Now showing items 1081-1100 of 1987

    • 1422a - Algebraic Structures in Low-Dimensional Topology 

      [OWR-2014-26] (2014) - (25 May - 31 May 2014)
      The workshop concentrated on important and interrelated invariants in low dimensional topology. This work involved virtual knot theory, knot theory, three and four dimensional manifolds and their properties.
    • 1446 - Combinatorial Optimization 

      [OWR-2014-51] (2014) - (09 Nov - 15 Nov 2014)
      Combinatorial Optimization is an area of mathematics that thrives from a continual influx of new questions and problems from practice. Attacking these problems has required the development and combination of ideas and ...
    • 1445a - Probability, Trees and Algorithms 

      [OWR-2014-50] (2014) - (02 Nov - 08 Nov 2014)
      The subject of this workshop were probabilistic aspects of algorithms for fundamental problems such as sorting, searching, selecting of and within data, random permutations, algorithms based on combinatorial trees or search ...
    • Swallowtail on the shore 

      [SNAP-2014-007-EN] Buchweitz, Ragnar-Olaf; Faber, Eleonore (Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, 2014)
      Platonic solids, Felix Klein, H.S.M. Coxeter and a flap of a swallowtail: The five Platonic solids tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, icosahedron and dodecahedron have always attracted much curiosity from mathematicians, not ...
    • 1440b - Mini-Workshop: Einstein Metrics, Ricci Solitons and Ricci Flow under Symmetry Assumptions 

      [OWR-2014-45] (2014) - (28 Sep - 04 Oct 2014)
      Symmetry reduction methods play an important role in the study of Einstein metrics, Ricci solitons and Ricci flow. The general aim of this mini workshop was to gather researchers who have expertise in the construction of ...
    • 1440c - Mini-Workshop: Differentiable Ergodic Theory, Dimension Theory and Stable Foliations 

      [OWR-2014-46] (2014) - (28 Sep - 04 Oct 2014)
      The mini-workshop Differentiable Ergodic Theory, Dimension Theory and Stable Foliations brought together experts in thermodynamical formalism, hyperbolic dynamics and dimension theory from several countries. The geographic ...
    • Central Limit Theorems for the Radial Spanning Tree 

      [OWP-2014-18] Schulte, Matthias; Thäle, Christoph (Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, 2014)
      Consider a homogeneous Poisson point process in a compact convex set in d-dimensional Euclidean space which has interior points and contains the origin. The radial spanning tree is constructed by connecting each point of ...
    • 1415 - Real Algebraic Geometry With A View Toward Systems Control and Free Positivity 

      [OWR-2014-17] (2014) - (06 Apr - 12 Apr 2014)
      New interactions between real algebraic geometry, convex optimization and free non-commutative geometry have recently emerged, and have been the subject of numerous international meetings. The aim of the workshop was to ...
    • 1432 - Analysis, Geometry and Topology of Positive Scalar Curvature Metrics 

      [OWR-2014-36] (2014) - (03 Aug - 09 Aug 2014)
      One of the fundamental problems in Riemannian geometry is to understand the relation of locally defined curvature invariants and global properties of smooth manifolds. This workshop was centered around the investigation ...
    • Statistics and dynamical phenomena 

      [SNAP-2014-006-EN] Tong, Howell (Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, 2014)
      A friend of mine, an expert in statistical genomics, told me the following story: At a dinner party, an attractive lady asked him, "What do you do for a living?" He replied, "I model." As my friend is a handsome man, the ...
    • 1451 - Variational Methods for Evolution 

      [OWR-2014-57] (2014) - (14 Dec - 20 Dec 2014)
      The workshop brought together researchers from geometry, nonlinear functional analysis, calculus of variations, partial differential equations, and stochastics around a common topic: systems whose evolution is driven by ...
    • 1443 - Dirichlet Form Theory and its Applications 

      [OWR-2014-48] (2014) - (19 Oct - 25 Oct 2014)
      Theory of Dirichlet forms is one of the main achievements in modern probability theory. It provides a powerful connection between probabilistic and analytic potential theory. It is also an effective machinery for studying ...
    • An Explicit Formula for the Dirac Multiplicities on Lens Spaces 

      [OWP-2014-19] Boldt, Sebastian; Lauret, Emilio A. (Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, 2014)
      We present a new description of the spectrum of the (spin-) Dirac operator $D$ on lens spaces. Viewing a spin lens space $L$ as a locally symmetric space $\Gamma \setminus Spin(2m)/Spin(2m-1)$ and exploiting the representation ...
    • 1419 - Stochastic Analysis in Finance and Insurance 

      [OWR-2014-23] (2014) - (04 May - 10 May 2014)
      This workshop brought together leading experts and a large number of younger researchers in stochastic analysis and mathematical finance from all over the world. During a highly intense week, participants exchanged many ...
    • What does ">" really mean? 

      [SNAP-2014-004-EN] Reznick, Bruce (Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, 2014)
      This Snapshot is about the generalization of ">" from ordinary numbers to so-called fields. At the end, I will touch on some ideas in recent research.
    • 1433 - Mathematics and Algorithms in Tomography 

      [OWR-2014-37] (2014) - (10 Aug - 16 Aug 2014)
      This was the ninth Oberwolfach conference on the mathematics of tomography. Modalities represented at the workshop included X-ray tomography, radar, seismic imaging, ultrasound, electron microscopy, impedance imaging, ...
    • 1430 - Real Analysis, Harmonic Analysis and Applications 

      [OWR-2014-34] (2014) - (20 Jul - 26 Jul 2014)
      The workshop has focused on important developments within the last few years in the point of view and methods of real and harmonic Analysis as well as significant concurrent progress in the application of these to various ...
    • 1413 - Flat Surfaces and Dynamics on Moduli Space 

      [OWR-2014-15] (2014) - (23 Mar - 29 Mar 2014)
      Dynamics of the Teichmüller geodesic flow on the moduli space of curves and asymptotic monodromy of the Hodge bundle along this flow have numerous applications to dynamics and geometry of measured foliations, to billiards ...
    • Dispersive Equations and Nonlinear Waves 

      [OWS-45] Koch, Herbert; Tataru, Daniel; Vişan, Monica (Birkhäuser Basel, 2014)
      The first part of the book provides an introduction to key tools and techniques in dispersive equations: Strichartz estimates, bilinear estimates, modulation and adapted function spaces, with an application to the generalized ...
    • 1444 - Valuation Theory and Its Applications 

      [OWR-2014-49] (2014) - (26 Oct - 01 Nov 2014)
      In recent years, the applications of valuation theory in several areas of mathematics have expanded dramatically. In this workshop, we presented applications related to algebraic geometry, number theory and model theory, ...