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Now showing items 621-640 of 1986

    • 0904 - Random Trees 

      [OWR-2009-3] (2009) - (18 Jan - 24 Jan 2009)
      The meeting was devoted to random trees, a central concept in mathematics that provides a key way of thinking about relationships between objects such as particles in a fluid, individuals in a population, or labels in a ...

    • 0911 - Enveloping Algebras and Geometric Representation Theory 

      [OWR-2009-15] (2009) - (08 Mar - 14 Mar 2009)
      The meeting brought together experts investigating Lie theory from the geometric, algebraic and combinatorial points of view to discuss recent progress and bring forward the research in this area by fostering scientific ...

    • 0910b - Mini-Workshop: The Pisot Conjecture - From Substitution Dynamical Systems to Rauzy Fractals and Meyer Sets 

      [OWR-2009-13] (2009) - (01 Mar - 07 Mar 2009)
      This mini-workshop brought together researchers with diverse backgrounds and a common interest in facets of the Pisot conjecture, which relates certain properties of a substitution to dynamical properties of the associated ...

    • 0917 - Kommutative Algebra 

      [OWR-2009-22] (2009) - (19 Apr - 25 Apr 2009)
      The workshop brought together researchers on various areas of Commutative Algebra. New results in combinatorial commutative algebra, homological methods and invariants, characteristic p-methods, and in general commutative ...

    • 0915a - Homotopy Theory of Function Spaces and Related Topics 

      [OWR-2009-19] (2009) - (05 Apr - 11 Apr 2009)
      This workshop brought together researchers studying a variety of problems related to the homotopy theory of function spaces. Topics covered included: evaluation maps and Gottlieb groups, the classification of gauge groups ...

    • 0905 - Numerical Techniques for Optimization Problems with PDE Constraints 

      [OWR-2009-4] (2009) - (25 Jan - 31 Jan 2009)
      The development, analysis and implementation of efficient and robust numerical techniques for optimization problems associated with partial differential equations (PDEs) is of utmost importance for the optimal control of ...

    • Proof mining in metric fixed point theory and ergodic theory 

      [OWP-2009-05] Leuştean, Laurenţiu (Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, 2009)
      In this survey we present some recent applications of proof mining to the fixed point theory of (asymptotically) nonexpansive mappings and to the metastability (in the sense of Terence Tao) of ergodic averages in uniformly ...

    • Geometric quantization of integrable systems with hyperbolic singularities 

      [OWP-2009-01] Hamilton, Mark D.; Miranda, Eva (Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, 2009)
      We construct the geometric quantization of a compact surface using a singular real polarization coming from an integrable system. Such a polarization always has singularities, which we assume to be of nondegenerate type. ...

    • 0949 - Convex Geometry and its Applications 

      [OWR-2009-53] (2009) - (29 Nov - 05 Dec 2009)
      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 ...

    • 0906 - The Arithmetic of Fields 

      [OWR-2009-5] (2009) - (01 Feb - 07 Feb 2009)
      The workshop “The Arithmetic of Fields” focused on a series of problems concerning the interplay between number theory, arithmetic and algebraic geometry, Galois theory, and model theory, such as: the Galois theory of ...

    • 0926 - Algebraische Zahlentheorie 

      [OWR-2009-30] (2009) - (21 Jun - 27 Jun 2009)
      The workshop brought together researchers from Europe, the US and Japan, who reported on various recent developments in algebraic number theory and related fields. Dominant themes were p-adic methods, L-functions and ...

    • 0946c - Mini-Workshop: Feinstrukturtheorie und Innere Modelle 

      [OWR-2009-51] (2009) - (08 Nov - 14 Nov 2009)
      This workshop presented recent advances in fine structure and inner model theory. There were extended tutorials on hod mice and the Mouse Set Conjecture, suitable extender sequences and their fine structure, and the construction ...

    • 0919 - Mathematical Biology 

      [OWR-2009-24] (2009) - (03 May - 09 May 2009)
      Mathematical biology is a fast growing field of research, which on one hand side faces challenges resulting from the enormous amount of data provided by experimentalists in the recent years, on the other hand new mathematical ...

    • 0933 - Linear and Nonlinear Eigenproblems for PDEs 

      [OWR-2009-37] (2009) - (09 Aug - 15 Aug 2009)
      The workshop discussed the numerical solution of linear and nonlinear eigenvalue problems for partial differential equations. It included the theoretical analysis the development of new (adaptive) methods, the iterative ...

    • Minimal Riesz energy on the sphere for axis-supported external fields 

      [OWP-2009-04] Brauchart, Johann S.; Dragnev, Peter D.; Saff, Edward B. (Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, 2009)
      Abstract. We investigate the minimal Riesz $s$-energy problem for positive measures on the d-dimensional unit sphere $\mathbb{S}^d$ in the presence of an external field induced by a point charge, and more generally by ...

    • 0950c - Mini-Workshop: Geometry of Quantum Entanglement 

      [OWR-2009-56] (2009) - (06 Dec - 12 Dec 2009)
      The workshop aimed at developing interactions between researchers from quantum information theory and from asymptotic geometric analysis. A central notion discussed was the phenomenon of quantum entanglement, which naturally ...

    • 0938 - PDE and Materials 

      [OWR-2009-42] (2009) - (13 Sep - 19 Sep 2009)
      This workshop brought together mathematicians, physicists and material to discuss emerging applications of mathematics in materials science.

    • 0922 - Manifold Perspectives 

      [OWR-2009-27] (2009) - (24 May - 30 May 2009)
      The study of the global properties of manifolds and their symmetries has had a great impact on both geometric and algebraic topology, and also on other branches of mathematics, such as algebra, differential geometry and ...

    • 0939 - Singularities 

      [OWR-2009-43] (2009) - (20 Sep - 26 Sep 2009)
      Local/global Singularity Theory is concerned with the local/global structure of maps and spaces that occur in differential topology or theory of algebraic or analytic varieties. It uses methods from algebra, topology, ...

    • 0920 - Quadratic Forms and Linear Algebraic Groups 

      [OWR-2009-25] (2009) - (10 May - 16 May 2009)
      Topics discussed at the workshop Quadratic forms and linear algebraic groups included besides the algebraic theory of quadratic and Hermitian forms and their Witt groups several aspects of the theory of linear algebraic ...