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Now showing items 641-660 of 1986

    • 0951 - Material Theories 

      [OWR-2009-57] (2009) - (13 Dec - 19 Dec 2009)
      This biennial workshop brings together mathematicians, mechanicians and theoretical physicists interested in developing new mathematical models of complex materials, medias and systems. The workshop covers a wide range of ...

    • 0931 - Differentialgeometrie im Großen 

      [OWR-2009-35] (2009) - (26 Jul - 01 Aug 2009)
      The meeting continued the biannual conference series Differentialgeometrie im Großen at the MFO which was established in the 60’s by Klingenberg and Chern. Global Riemannian geometry with its connections to geometric analysis, ...

    • 0903 - Discrete Differential Geometry 

      [OWR-2009-2] (2009) - (11 Jan - 17 Jan 2009)
      This is the collection of extended abstracts for the 26 lectures and the open problems session at the second Oberwolfach workshop on Discrete Differential Geometry.

    • 0908b - Mini-Workshop: Product Systems and Independence in Quantum Dynamics 

      [OWR-2009-9] (2009) - (15 Feb - 21 Feb 2009)
      Quantum dynamics, both reversible (i.e., closed quantum systems) and irreversible (i.e., open quantum systems), gives rise to product systems of Hilbert spaces or, more generally, of Hilbert modules. When we consider ...

    • 0921 - Topological and Variational Methods for Partial Differential Equations 

      [OWR-2009-26] (2009) - (17 May - 23 May 2009)
      In recent years, there has been a major impact of topological and variational methods on the study of nonlinear elliptic and parabolic partial differential equations. In particular, surprising results for classical open ...

    • Heisenberg-Weyl algebra revisited: combinatorics of words and paths 

      [OWP-2009-02] Blasiak, Pawel; Duchamp, Gérard H. E.; Horzela, Andrzej; Penson, Karol A.; Solomon, Allan I. (Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, 2009)
      The Heisenberg–Weyl algebra, which underlies virtually all physical representations of Quantum Theory, is considered from the combinatorial point of view. We provide a concrete model of the algebra in terms of paths on a ...

    • 0950b - Mini-Workshop: Modeling and Understanding Random Hamiltonians: Beyond Monotonicity, Linearity and Independence 

      [OWR-2009-55] (2009) - (06 Dec - 12 Dec 2009)
      The mini-workshop was devoted to the spectral analysis of random Schr¨dinger-type operators. While this topic has been intensively studo ied by physicists and mathematicians for several decades, more recently there has ...

    • 0936 - Mathematics of Complex Quantum Systems 

      [OWR-2009-40] (2009) - (30 Aug - 05 Sep 2009)
      A mathematical physics workshop focusing on the mathematics of complex quantum systems was held at MFO in September 2009. The physcs topics covered included quantum chemistry, nonrelativistic QED, statistical mechanics, ...

    • 0947 - Complexity Theory 

      [OWR-2009-52] (2009) - (15 Nov - 21 Nov 2009)
      Computational Complexity Theory is the mathematical study of the intrinsic power and limitations of computational resources like time, space, or randomness. The current workshop focused on recent developments in various ...

    • 0932 - Partielle Differentialgleichungen 

      [OWR-2009-36] (2009) - (02 Aug - 08 Aug 2009)
      The workshop dealt with partial differential equations in geometry and technical applications. The main topics were the combination of nonlinear partial differential equations and geometric problems, regularity of free ...

    • 0914 - Arbeitsgemeinschaft: Optimal Transport and Geometry 

      [OWR-2009-18] (2009) - (29 Mar - 04 Apr 2009)
      This Arbeitsgemeinschaft was devoted to recent developments in optimal transport with emphasis on links and applications to geometry. The topics reached from the origin of optimal transport as a variational problem, where ...

    • 0930 - Mathematical Aspects of Hydrodynamics 

      [OWR-2009-34] (2009) - (19 Jul - 25 Jul 2009)
      The workshop was devoted to discussions of recent developments and possible future directions of research in the field of mathematical hydrodynamics. Many of the leading experts in the theory of PDE’s arising in fluid dynamics ...

    • 0945 - Design and Analysis of Infectious Disease Studies 

      [OWR-2009-48] (2009) - (01 Nov - 07 Nov 2009)
      This workshop gathered 45 participants from 16 countries and had a correspondingly multifaceted program covering various infectious diseases, public health applications, and methodological innovations. The discussions and ...

    • 0928 - Dynamische Systeme 

      [OWR-2009-32] (2009) - (05 Jul - 11 Jul 2009)
      This workshop, organized by Hakan Eliasson (Paris), Helmut Hofer (Princeton) and Jean-Christophe Yoccoz (Paris), continued the biannual series at Oberwolfach on Dynamical Systems that started as the “Moser– Zehnder meeting” ...

    • 0934 - Scaling Limits in Models of Statistical Mechanics 

      [OWR-2009-38] (2009) - (16 Aug - 22 Aug 2009)
      The workshop brought together researchers interested in spatial random processes and their connection to statistical mechanics. The principal subjects of interest were scaling limits and, in general, limit laws for various ...

    • 0950a - Mini-Workshop: The Escaping Set in Transcendental Dynamics 

      [OWR-2009-54] (2009) - (06 Dec - 12 Dec 2009)
      The escaping set of a transcendental entire or meromorphic function consists of all points which tend to infinity under iteration. Its importance in transcendental dynamics has increased significantly in recent years. The ...

    • 0944a - History and Philosophy of Mathematical Notations and Symbolism 

      [OWR-2009-47] (2009) - (25 Oct - 31 Oct 2009)
      The conference aimed to discuss the nature of mathematical language with the focus set on the history of mathematical symbolism and symbolisation in a wide sense. Its contents were arranged along three main topics—symbolization ...

    • 0935 - Challenges in Statistical Theory: Complex Data Structures and Algorithmic Optimization 

      [OWR-2009-39] (2009) - (23 Aug - 29 Aug 2009)
      Technological developments have created a constant incoming stream of complex new data structures that need analysis. Modern statistics therefore means mathematically sophisticated new statistical theory that generates or ...

    • 0925 - Computational Multiscale Methods 

      [OWR-2009-29] (2009) - (14 Jun - 20 Jun 2009)
      Computational Multiscale Methods play an important role in many modern computer simulations in material sciences with different time scales and different scales in space. Besides various computational challenges, the meeting ...

    • 0913 - Representations of Finite Groups 

      [OWR-2009-17] (2009) - (22 Mar - 28 Mar 2009)
      The workshop Representations of Finite Groups was organised by Joseph Chuang (London), Markus Linckelmann (Aberdeen), Gunter Malle (Kaiserslautern) and Jeremy Rickard (Bristol). It covered a wide variety of aspects of the ...