• 0742 - Harmonische Analysis und Darstellungstheorie Topologischer Gruppen 

      [OWR-2007-49] (2007) - (14 Oct - 20 Oct 2007)
      This was a meeting in the general area of representation theory and harmonic analysis on reductive groups.
    • 0707a - Mini-Workshop: Multiscale and Variational Methods in Material Science and Quantum Theory of Solids 

      [OWR-2007-6] (2007) - (11 Feb - 17 Feb 2007)
      This workshop brought together 18 scientists from three different mathematical communities: (i) random Schrödinger operators, (ii) quantum mechanics of interacting atoms, and (iii) mathematical materials science. Several ...
    • 0708b - Recent Developments in Financial and Insurance Mathematics and the Interplay with the Industry 

      [OWR-2007-10] (2007) - (18 Feb - 24 Feb 2007)
      The workshop brought together leading experts from all over the world to exchange and discuss the latest developments in mathematical finance and actuarial mathematics. Researchers from the industry had the opportunity to ...
    • Tropical Algebraic Geometry 

      [OWS-35] Itenberg, Ilia; Mikhalkin, Grigory; Shustin, Eugenii (Birkhäuser Basel, 2007)
      Tropical geometry is algebraic geometry over the semifield of tropical numbers, i.e., the real numbers and negative infinity enhanced with the (max,+)-arithmetics. Geometrically, tropical varieties are much simpler than ...
    • 0709 - Analysis and Numerics for Rate-Independent Processes 

      [OWR-2007-11] (2007) - (25 Feb - 03 Mar 2007)
      This conference brought together the mathematicians and engineers concerned with the study of rate-independent processes. The topics involved the physical and mechanical modeling, the analytical treatment as well as the ...
    • 0739 - Coagulation and Fragmentation Models 

      [OWR-2007-46] (2007) - (23 Sep - 29 Sep 2007)
      Analysis of coagulation and fragmentation is crucial to understanding many processes of scientific and industrial importance. In recent years this has led to intensified research activities in the areas of differential ...
    • 0713 - Graph Theory 

      [OWR-2007-16] (2007) - (25 Mar - 31 Mar 2007)
      This week broadly targeted both finite and infinite graph theory, as well as matroids, including their interaction with other areas of pure mathematics. The talks were complemented by informal workshops focussing on specific ...
    • 0710a - Transport in Multi-Dimensional Random Schrödinger Operators 

      [OWR-2007-12] (2007) - (04 Mar - 10 Mar 2007)
      Random Schrödinger operators are a topic of common interest in Mathematical Physics that connects to both Functional Analysis and Probability theory. It is believed in Physics that these operators possess a spectral regime ...
    • A 3-local identification of the alternating group of degree 8, the McLaughlin simple group and their automorphism groups 

      [OWP-2007-02] Parker, Christopher; Rowley, Peter (Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, 2007-03-20)
      In this article we give 3-local characterizations of the alternating and symmetric groups of degree 8 and use these characterizations to recognize the sporadic simple group discovered by McLaughlin from its 3-local subgroups.
    • Resolution of symplectic cyclic orbifold singularities 

      [OWP-2007-03] Niederkrüger, Klaus; Pasquotto, Federica (Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, 2007-03-21)
      In this paper we present a method to obtain resolutions of symplectic orbifolds arising as quotients of pre-symplectic semi-free S1-actions. This includes, in particular, all orbifolds arising from symplectic reduction of ...
    • Vector bundles on degenerations of elliptic curves and Yang-Baxter equations 

      [OWP-2007-04] Burban, Igor; Kreußler, Bernd (Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, 2007-03-22)
      In this paper we introduce the notion of a gemetric associative r-matrix attached to a genus one fibration with a section and irreducible fibres. It allows us to study degenerations of solutions of the classical Yang-Baxter ...
    • On test sets for nonlinear integer maximization 

      [OWP-2007-05] Lee, Jon; Onn, Shmuel; Weismantel, Robert (Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, 2007-03-23)
      A finite test set for an integer maximation problem enables us to verify whether a feasible point atains the global maximum. We establish in this paper several general results that apply to integer maximization problems ...
    • Nonlinear matroid optimization and experimental design 

      [OWP-2007-06] Lee, Jon; Onn, Shmuel; Weismantel, Robert; Berstein, Yael; Maruri-Aguilar, Hugo; Riccomagno, Eva; Wynn, Henry P. (Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, 2007-03-24)
      We study the problem of optimizing nonlinear objective functions over matroids presented by oracles or explicitly. Such functions can be interpreted as the balancing of multi-criteria optimization. We provide a combinatorial ...
    • Self-dual polygons and self-dual curves 

      [OWP-2007-09] Fuks, Dmitrij B.; Tabachnikov, Serge (Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, 2007-03-25)
    • Zeta functions of 3-dimensional p-adic Lie algebras 

      [OWP-2007-10] Klopsch, Benjamin; Voll, Christopher (Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, 2007-03-26)
      We give an explicit formula for the subalgebra zeta function of a general 3-dimensional Lie algebra over the p-adic integers Zp. To this end, we associate to such a Lie algebra a ternary quadratic form over ...
    • Secondary heat flow between confocal ellipses: an application of extended thermodynamics 

      [OWP-2007-11] Barbera, Elvira; Müller, Ingo (Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, 2007-03-27)
      Much as non-Newtonian fluids exhibit secondary flows in elliptic pipes, rarefied gases exhibit secondary heat flows between elliptical cylinders. The phenomenon may be called non-Fourierian, because it is not covered by ...
    • Slowly oscillating wave solutions of a single species reaction-diffusion equation with delay 

      [OWP-2007-12] Trofimchuk, Elena; Tkachenko, Victor; Trofimchuk, Sergei I. (Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, 2007-03-28)
      We study positive bounded wave solutions u(t,x)=ϕ(νx+ct), ϕ()=0, of equation ut(t,x)=δu(t,x)u(t,x)+g(u(th,x)), xRm(*). It is supposed that Eq. (∗) has exactly two ...
    • Hölder-Differentiability of Gibbs Distribution Functions 

      [OWP-2007-13] Keßeböhmer, Marc; Stratmann, Bernd (Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, 2007-03-29)
      In this paper we give non-trivial applications of the thermodynamic formalism to the theory of distribution functions of Gibbs measures (devil’s staircases) supported on limit sets of finitely generated conformal iterated ...
    • Mathematik in Oberwolfach - Erinnerungen an die ersten Jahre 

      Remmert, Reinhold (Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, 2007-05-05)
      Greeting on the occasion of the dedication ceremony of the enlargement of the library building, 05 May 2007.
    • Hemodynamical Flows : Modeling, Analysis and Simulation 

      [OWS-37] Galdi, Giovanni P.; Robertson, Anne M.; Rannacher, Rolf; Turek, Stefan (Birkhäuser Basel, 2008)
      This volume consists of six contributions concerning mathematical tools and analysis for the blood flow in arteries and veins. … book will be handy for those who are interested in the description of the flows of fluids ...