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1705 - Applications of Optimal Transportation in the Natural Sciences
[OWR-2017-7] (2017) - (29 Jan - 04 Feb 2017)The aim of this workshop was to gather a mixed group of experts and young researchers from different areas of applied mathematics in which optimal transport plays a central role. Applications in one of the classical areas ... -
2108 - Applications of Optimal Transportation in the Natural Sciences (online meeting)
[OWR-2021-10] (2021) - (21 Feb - 27 Feb 2021)Concepts and methods from the mathematical theory of optimal transportation have reached significant importance in various fields of the natural sciences. The view on classical problems from a "transport perspective'' ... -
1741 - Arbeitsgemeinschaft: Additive Combinatorics, Entropy, and Fractal Geometry
[OWR-2017-47] (2017) - (08 Oct - 13 Oct 2017)The aim of the workshop was to survey recent developments in fractal geometry, specifically those related to projections and slices of planar self-similar sets, and dimension and absolute continuity of self-similar measures ... -
1241 - Arbeitsgemeinschaft: Ergodic Theory and Combinatorial Number Theory
[OWR-2012-50] (2012) - (07 Oct - 13 Oct 2012)The aim of this Arbeitsgemeinschaft was to introduce young researchers with various backgrounds to the multifaceted and mutually perpetuating connections between ergodic theory, topological dynamics, combinatorics, and ... -
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 ... -
1841 - Arbeitsgemeinschaft: Rigidity of Stationary Measure
[OWR-2018-47] (2018) - (07 Oct - 12 Oct 2018)The aim of this Arbeitsgemeinschaft was to understand the classification of stationary measures for semisimple random walks on a finite volume homogeneous space and its applications as described in the two papers [1] and [2]. -
1414 - Arbeitsgemeinschaft: Superrigidity
[OWR-2014-16] (2014) - (30 Mar - 05 Apr 2014)The purpose of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft was to review old and new phenomenas of rigidity in mathematics. The broad spectrum of such results was covered, such as Margulis-Zimmer superrigidity, cocyle and character rigidity. -
1119 - Billiards, Flat Surfaces, and Dynamics on Moduli Spaces
[OWR-2011-25] (2011) - (08 May - 14 May 2011)This workshop brought together people working on the dynamics of various flows on moduli spaces, in particular the action of SL2(R) on flat surfaces. The new results presented covered properties of interval ... -
2203 - Groups and Dynamics: Topology, Measure, and Borel Structure
[OWR-2022-3] (2022) - (16 Jan - 22 Jan 2022)While the subjects of topological dynamics, ergodic theory, and descriptive set theory have long interacted in a variety of profitable ways, recent developments have ushered in a vigorous new phase of interplay between ... -
Hölder-Differentiability of Gibbs Distribution Functions
[OWP-2007-13] (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 ... -
2323 - Incidence Problems in Harmonic Analysis, Geometric Measure Theory, and Ergodic Theory
[OWR-2023-25] (2023) - (04 Jun - 09 Jun 2023)The workshop "Incidence Problems in Harmonic Analysis, Geometric Measure Theory, and Ergodic Theory" covered interactions between geometric problems involving fractals, dimensions, patterns, projections and incidences, and ... -
1751 - Mathematical Instruments between Material Artifacts and Ideal Machines: Their Scientific and Social Role before 1950
[OWR-2017-58] (2017) - (17 Dec - 23 Dec 2017)Since 1950, mathematicians have become increasingly familiar with the digital computer in their professional practice. Previously, however, many other instruments, now mostly forgotten, were commonly used to compute numerical ... -
Mesh Ratios for Best-Packing and Limits of Minimal Energy Configurations
[OWP-2013-13] (Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, 2013-06-10)For N-point best-packing configurations ωN on a compact metric space (A,ρ), we obtain estimates for the mesh-separation ratio γ(ρN,A), which is the quotient of the covering radius of ωN ... -
1440c - Mini-Workshop: Differentiable Ergodic Theory, Dimension Theory and Stable Foliations
[OWR-2014-46] (2014) - (28 Sep - 04 Oct 2014)The mini-workshop Differentiable Ergodic Theory, Dimension Theory and Stable Foliations brought together experts in thermodynamical formalism, hyperbolic dynamics and dimension theory from several countries. The geographic ... -
0715b - Mini-Workshop: Geometric Measure Theoretic Approaches to Potentials on Fractals and Manifolds
[OWR-2007-19] (2007) - (08 Apr - 14 Apr 2007)The workshop brought together researchers and graduate students from different areas of mathematics, such as analysis, probability theory, geometry, and number theory. The topics of joint interest were motivated by recent ... -
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 ... -
1201c - Mini-Workshop: Thermodynamic Formalism, Geometry and Stochastics
[OWR-2012-3] (2012) - (01 Jan - 07 Jan 2012)Thermodynamic formalism and all its branches and applications in conformal dynamics, probability theory, stochastics and fractal geometry represent highly important fields in modern Mathematics, which are currently very ... -
1337 - Noncommutative Geometry
[OWR-2013-45] (2013) - (08 Sep - 14 Sep 2013)Noncommutative Geometry applies ideas from geometry to mathematical structures determined by noncommuting variables. This meeting emphasized the connections of Noncommutative Geometry to number theory and ergodic theory. -
1113 - Operator Algebras and Representation Theory: Frames, Wavelets and Fractals
[OWR-2011-17] (2011) - (27 Mar - 02 Apr 2011)The central focus of the workshop was Kadison-Singer conjecture and its connection to operator algebras, harmonic analysis, representation theory and the theory of fractals. The program was intrinsically interdisciplinary ... -
1006a - Optimal Constants in the Theory of Sobolev Spaces and PDEs
[OWR-2010-8] (2010) - (07 Feb - 13 Feb 2010)Recent research activities on sharp constants and optimal inequalities have shown their impact on a deeper understanding of geometric, analytical and other phenomena in the context of partial differential equations and ...