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    • 1304 - Computational Electromagnetism and Acoustics 

      [OWR-2013-3] (2013) - (20 Jan - 26 Jan 2013)
      Computational electromagnetics and acoustics revolve around a few key challenges, among which are the non-local nature of the underlying phenomena and resonance effects. The bulk of the contributions to the workshop addressed ...

    • 1330a - Mini-Workshop: Direct and Inverse Spectral Theory of Almost Periodic Operators 

      [OWR-2013-36] (2013) - (21 Jul - 27 Jul 2013)
      This mini-workshop brought together researchers working on direct and inverse spectral theory for Schrödinger operators, Jacobi matrices, and related operators. The talks reported on recent work on these models and related ...

    • 1317a - Mathematical Statistics of Partially Identified Objects 

      [OWR-2013-19] (2013) - (21 Apr - 27 Apr 2013)
      The workshop brought together leading experts in mathematical statistics, theoretical econometrics and bio-mathematics interested in mathematical objects occurring in the analysis of partially identified structures. The ...

    • 1349 - Classical and Quantum Mechanical Models of Many-Particle Systems 

      [OWR-2013-57] (2013) - (01 Dec - 07 Dec 2013)
      This meeting was focused on recent results on the mathematical analysis of many-particle systems, both classical and quantum-mechanical in scaling regimes such that the methods of kinetic theory can be expected to apply. ...

    • 1308 - Geophysical Fluid Dynamics 

      [OWR-2013-10] (2013) - (17 Feb - 23 Feb 2013)
      The workshop “Geophysical Fluid Dynamics” addressed recent advances in analytical, stochastic, modeling and computational studies of geophysical rotating fluids models. Of particular interest on the analytical and stochastic ...

    • 1341 - Arbeitsgemeinschaft: Sofic Entropy 

      [OWR-2013-50] (2013) - (06 Oct - 11 Oct 2013)
      The notion of soficity for a group is a weak type of finite approximation property that simultaneously generalizes both amenability and residual finiteness. In 2008 L. Bowen discovered how it can be used to significantly ...

    • 1345b - Mini-Workshop: Inelastic and Non-equilibrium Material Behavior: from Atomistic Structure to Macroscopic Constitutive Relations 

      [OWR-2013-54] (2013) - (03 Nov - 09 Nov 2013)
      The workshop brought together 15 scientists, which included leaders in the fields of mathematics (partial differential equations, statistical mechanics and calculus of variations) and mechanics (continuum mechanics, ...

    • 1339 - Statistical Inference for Complex Time Series Data 

      [OWR-2013-48] (2013) - (22 Sep - 28 Sep 2013)
      During recent years the focus of scientific interest has turned from low dimensional stationary time series to nonstationary time series and high dimensional time series. In addition new methodological challenges are coming ...

    • 1331 - Multiscale and High-Dimensional Problems 

      [OWR-2013-39] (2013) - (28 Jul - 03 Aug 2013)
      High-dimensional problems appear naturally in various scientific areas, such as PDEs describing complex processes in computational chemistry and physics, or stochastic or parameter-dependent PDEs leading to deterministic ...

    • 1328 - Dynamische Systeme 

      [OWR-2013-34] (2013) - (07 Jul - 13 Jul 2013)
      This workshop continued the biannual series at Oberwolfach on Dynamical Systems that started as the “Moser-Zehnder meeting” in 1981. The main themes of the workshop are the new results and developments in the area of ...

    • 1318b - Geometric Knot Theory 

      [OWR-2013-22] (2013) - (28 Apr - 04 May 2013)
      Geometric knot theory studies relations between geometric properties of a space curve and the knot type it represents. As examples, knotted curves have quadrisecant lines, and have more distortion and more total curvature ...

    • Jahresbericht | Annual Report - 2012 

      Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach (Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, 2013)

    • 1307a - Mini-Workshop: Numerical Upscaling for Media with Deterministic and Stochastic Heterogeneity 

      [OWR-2013-7] (2013) - (10 Feb - 16 Feb 2013)
      This minisymposium was third in series of similar events, after two very successful meetings in 2005 and 2009. The aim was to provide a forum for an extensive discussion on the theoretical aspects and on the areas of ...

    • 1332 - Partial Differential Equations 

      [OWR-2013-40] (2013) - (04 Aug - 10 Aug 2013)
      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, and fourth order ...

    • 1329 - Explicit Methods in Number Theory 

      [OWR-2013-35] (2013) - (14 Jul - 20 Jul 2013)
      These notes contain extended abstracts on the topic of explicit methods in number theory. The range of topics includes effectiveness in rational points on curves and especially on modular curves, modularity, L-functions, ...

    • 1322 - Complex Algebraic Geometry 

      [OWR-2013-27] (2013) - (26 May - 01 Jun 2013)
      The conference focused on several topics, classical and modern, in the classification theory of compact algebraic and Kähler varieties, and on several methods, from singularity theory, topology, homological algebra, Geometric ...

    • 1324 - Hyperbolic Techniques for Phase Dynamics 

      [OWR-2013-29] (2013) - (09 Jun - 15 Jun 2013)
      The progress in the theory of hyperbolic conservation laws has always been and still is driven strongly by new fields of applications. The workshop addressed aspects of modelling, analysis and numerics for fundamental ...

    • 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 ...

    • Supertropical Quadratic Forms I 

      [OWP-2013-27] Knebusch, Manfred; Rowen, Louis; Izhakian, Zur (Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, 2013)
      We initiate the theory of a quadratic form q over a semiring $R$. As customary, one can write $q(x+y)=q(x)+q(y)+b(x,y)$, where b is a companion bilinear form. But in contrast to the ring-theoretic case, the companion ...

    • 1330c - Mini-Workshop: New Crossroads between Mathematics and Field Theory 

      [OWR-2013-38] (2013) - (21 Jul - 27 Jul 2013)
      In the last few years, it has been strongly emphasized the need to use new mathematical tools and structures which are not part of the traditional pool of expertise of the community working on the analysis of the mathematical ...