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Now showing items 1240-1259 of 1954
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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 ... -
0633a - Mini-Workshop: The Hauptvermutung for High-Dimensional Manifolds
[OWR-2006-36] (2006) - (13 Aug - 19 Aug 2006)The meeting was devoted to the Kirby-Siebenmann structure theory for high-dimensional topological manifolds and the related disproof of the Hauptvermutung. We found nothing fundamentally wrong with the original work of ... -
1109a - Mini-Workshop: The Homotopy Interpretation of Constructive Type Theory
[OWR-2011-11] (2011) - (27 Feb - 05 Mar 2011)Over the past few years it has become apparent that there is a surprising and deep connection between constructive logic and higherdimensional structures in algebraic topology and category theory, in the form of an ... -
0809a - Mini-Workshop: The Mathematics of Electro-Active Smart Materials
[OWR-2008-10] (2008) - (24 Feb - 01 Mar 2008) -
0836a - Mini-Workshop: The Mathematics of Growth and Remodelling of Soft Biological Tissues
[OWR-2008-39] (2008) - (31 Aug - 06 Sep 2008) -
1307b - Mini-Workshop: The p-Laplacian Operator and Applications
[OWR-2013-8] (2013) - (10 Feb - 16 Feb 2013)There has been a surge of interest in the $p$-Laplacian in many different contexts from game theory to mechanics and image processing. The workshop brought together experts from many different schools of thinking to exchange ... -
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 ... -
0733a - Mini-Workshop: The Reception of the Work of Leonhard Euler (1707-1783)
[OWR-2007-38] (2007) - (12 Aug - 18 Aug 2007)2007 marked the tercentenary of the birth of Euler, famous as a major figure in mathematics. 16 scholars came together to discuss the influence of his work in some detail. The topics covered included not only pure but also ... -
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 ... -
0748a - Mini-Workshop: Theory and Numerics of Fluid-Solid Interaction
[OWR-2007-53] (2007) - (25 Nov - 01 Dec 2007)This volume contains the abstracts of a series of talks given at a mini-workshop in Oberwolfach on the theory and numerics of continuum mechanical fluid-solid/structure interaction. The characteristics of these coupled ... -
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 ... -
0608a - Mini-Workshop: Thick Subcategories - Classifications and Applications
[OWR-2006-8] (2006) - (19 Feb - 25 Feb 2006)Thick subcategories of triangulated categories arise in various mathematical areas, for instance in algebraic geometry, in representation theory of groups and algebras, or in stable homotopy theory. The aim of this workshop ... -
2142a - Mini-Workshop: Three Facets of R-Matrices (hybrid meeting)
[OWR-2021-51] (2021) - (17 Oct - 23 Oct 2021)By definition, an $R$-matrix with spectral parameter is a solution to the Yang-Baxter equation, introduced in the 1970's by C.N. Yang and R.J. Baxter. Such a matrix encodes the Boltzmann weights of a lattice model of ... -
0809c - Mini-Workshop: Time Series with Sudden Structural Changes
[OWR-2008-12] (2008) - (24 Feb - 01 Mar 2008) -
2248a - Mini-Workshop: Topological and Differential Expansions of o-minimal Structures
[OWR-2022-52] (2022) - (27 Nov - 03 Dec 2022)The workshop brought together researchers with expertise in areas of mathematics where model theory has had interesting applications. The areas of expertise spanned from expansions of o-minimal structures preserving tame ... -
1609c - Mini-Workshop: Topological Complexity and Related Topics
[OWR-2016-15] (2016) - (28 Feb - 05 Mar 2016)Topological complexity is a numerical homotopy invariant of topological spaces, of Lusternik-Schnirelmann type, introduced by Farber and motivated by the motion planning problem from topological robotics. This mini-workshop ... -
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 ... -
1240b - Mini-Workshop: Topology of Real Singularities and Motivic Aspects
[OWR-2012-48] (2012) - (01 Oct - 06 Oct 2012)This workgroup focusses on some recent issues in real singularities, concerning the topology of the Milnor fibre of a singular map and several motivic aspects of singularities of sets definable in some structures over the ... -
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 ... -
2149c - Mini-Workshop: Variable Curvature Bounds, Analysis and Topology on Dirichlet Spaces (hybrid meeting)
[OWR-2021-58] (2021) - (05 Dec - 11 Dec 2021)A Dirichlet form $\mathcal{E}$ is a densely defined bilinear form on a Hilbert space of the form $L^2(X,\mu)$, subject to some additional properties, which make sure that $\mathcal{E}$ can be considered as a natural ...