Browsing by MSC "53"
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0648c - Mini-Workshop: Dirac Operators in Differential and Noncommutative Geometry
[OWR-2006-53] (2006) - (26 Nov - 02 Dec 2006)Abstract. This mini-workshop brought together mathematicians and physicists working either on classical or on noncommutative differential geometry. Our aim was to show current interests, methods and results within each ... -
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 ... -
1215a - Mini-Workshop: Generalizations of Symmetric Spaces
[OWR-2012-18] (2012) - (08 Apr - 14 Apr 2012)This workshop brought together experts from the areas of algebraic Lie theory, invariant theory, Kac–Moody theory and the theories of Tits buildings and of symmetric spaces. The main focus was on topics related to symmetric ... -
1040c - Mini-Workshop: Higher Dimensional Elliptic Fibrations
[OWR-2010-46] (2010) - (03 Oct - 09 Oct 2010)Elliptic fibrations play a central role in the geometry of complex surfaces, and there is a comprehensive array of theory and examples. They arise also as a tool in many applications, such as the construction of rational ... -
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 ... -
0836c - Mini-Workshop: Mathematics of Biological Membranes
[OWR-2008-41] (2008) - (31 Aug - 06 Sep 2008) -
2048c - Mini-Workshop: Nonlocal Analysis and the Geometry of Embeddings (hybrid meeting)
[OWR-2020-37] (2020) - (22 Nov - 28 Nov 2020)Both self-avoidance and self-contact of geometric objects can be modeled using repulsive energies that separate isotopy classes. Giving rise to nonlocal operators, they are interesting objects in their own right. Moreover, ... -
2106c - Mini-Workshop: Nonpositively Curved Complexes (online meeting)
[OWR-2021-8] (2021) - (07 Feb - 13 Feb 2021)The leading theme of the meeting was to understand nonpositively curved complexes and groups acting on them. Motivations, questions, results, and techniques being presented and discussed come from various areas of ... -
1345a - Mini-Workshop: Quaternion Kähler Structures in Riemannian and Algebraic Geometry
[OWR-2013-53] (2013) - (03 Nov - 09 Nov 2013)Metrics of special holonomy are of central interest in both Riemannian and complex algebraic geometry. We focus on an important classification problem of a particular type of special holonomy manifolds, namely compact ... -
1915a - Mini-Workshop: Recent Progress in Path Integration on Graphs and Manifolds
[OWR-2019-16] (2019) - (07 Apr - 13 Apr 2019)Ever since Richard Feynman's PhD thesis, path integrals have played a decisive role in mathematical physics. While it is well-known that such formulae can hold only formally, it was Mark Kac who realized that by replacing ... -
1915b - Mini-Workshop: Reflection Groups in Negative Curvature
[OWR-2019-17] (2019) - (07 Apr - 13 Apr 2019)Discrete groups generated by reflections constitute an important source of examples of lattices in simple Lie groups of real rank $1$ (whose associated symmetric spaces are negatively curved). Yet a classification for ... -
1941c - Mini-Workshop: Self-adjoint Extensions in New Settings
[OWR-2019-47] (2019) - (06 Oct - 12 Oct 2019)The main focus of the workshop is on the analysis of boundary value problems for differential and difference operators in some non-classical geometric settings, such as fractal graphs, sub-Riemannian manifolds or non-elliptic ... -
1507c - Mini-Workshop: Singularities in G2-geometry
[OWR-2015-8] (2015) - (08 Feb - 14 Feb 2015)All currently known construction methods of smooth compact $\mathrm G_2$-manifolds have been tied to certain singular $\mathrm G_2$-spaces, which in Joyce’s original construction are $\mathrm G_2$-orbifolds and in Kovalev’s ... -
1702b - Mini-Workshop: Spaces and Moduli Spaces of Riemannian Metrics
[OWR-2017-3] (2017) - (08 Jan - 14 Jan 2017)The mini-workshop focused on central questions and new results concerning spaces and moduli spaces of Riemannian metrics with lower or upper curvature bounds on open and closed manifolds and, moreover, related themes from ... -
2009b - Mini-Workshop: Superpotentials in Algebra and Geometry
[OWR-2020-10] (2020) - (23 Feb - 29 Feb 2020)Mirror symmetry has been at the epicenter of many mathematical discoveries in the past twenty years. It was discovered by physicists in the setting of super conformal field theories (SCFTs) associated to closed string ... -
1330b - Mini-Workshop: The Willmore Functional and the Willmore Conjecture
[OWR-2013-37] (2013) - (21 Jul - 27 Jul 2013)The Willmore functional evaluated on a surface immersed into Euclidean space is given by the $L^2$-norm of its mean curvature. The interest for studying this functional comes from various directions. First, it arises in ... -
0733c - Mini-Workshop: Topology of closed one-forms and Cohomology Jumping Loci
[OWR-2007-40] (2007) - (12 Aug - 18 Aug 2007)The purpose of this workshop was to bring together researchers from the two different fields mentioned in the title, and to create more interaction and connections between these fields. Among the topics which appear in ... -
1003b - Mini-Workshop: Valuations and Integral Geometry
[OWR-2010-4] (2010) - (17 Jan - 23 Jan 2010)As a generalization of the notion of measure, valuations have long played a central role in the integral geometry of convex sets. In recent years there has been a series of striking developments. Several examples were ... -
2240a - Mini-Workshop: Zero-Range and Point-Like Singular Perturbations: For a Spillover to Analysis, PDE and Differential Geometry
[OWR-2022-44] (2022) - (02 Oct - 08 Oct 2022)The field of contact interactions and perturbations of differential operators supported on subsets with non-trivial co-dimension is an increasingly active mainstream of mathematical physics (in particular, operator and ... -
Minimal Codimension One Foliation of a Symmetric Space by Damek-Ricci Spaces
[OWP-2019-11] (Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, 2019-05-07)In this article we consider solvable hypersurfaces of the form $N \exp(\mathbb{R} H)$ with induced metrics in the symmetric space $M = SL(3,\mathbb{C})/SU(3)$, where $H$ a suitable unit length vector in the subgroup $A$ ...