Browsing by MSC "49"
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0546a - Mini-Workshop: Dynamics of Cocycles and One-Dimensional Spectral Theory
[OWR-2005-51] (2005) - (13 Nov - 19 Nov 2005)Many spectral questions about one-dimensional Schrödinger operators with quasi-periodic potentials can be reduced to dynamical questions about certain quasi-periodic SL(2, R)-valued cocycles. This connection has recently ... -
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 ... -
1248c - Mini-Workshop: Geometries, Shapes and Topologies in PDE-based Applications
[OWR-2012-57] (2012) - (25 Nov - 01 Dec 2012)The aim of the workshop was to study geometrical objects and their sensitivities in applications based on partial differential equations or differential variational inequalities. Focus topics comprised analytical investigations, ... -
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, ... -
2119b - Mini-Workshop: Mathematics of Dissipation – Dynamics, Data and Control (hybrid meeting)
[OWR-2021-24] (2021) - (09 May - 15 May 2021)Dissipation of energy --- as well as its sibling the increase of entropy --- are fundamental facts inherent to any physical system. The concept of dissipativity has been extended to a more general system theoretic setting ... -
1644b - Mini-Workshop: Mathematics of Magnetoelastic Materials
[OWR-2016-51] (2016) - (30 Oct - 05 Nov 2016)The unifying theme of the workshop was the mathematical modeling, analysis, and numerical simulation of materials which involve magnetic and elastic interactions. During the workshop we identified several open problems ... -
0707a - Mini-Workshop: Multiscale and Variational Methods in Material Science and Quantum Theory of Solids
[OWR-2007-6] (2007) - (11 Feb - 17 Feb 2007)This workshop brought together 18 scientists from three different mathematical communities: (i) random Schrödinger operators, (ii) quantum mechanics of interacting atoms, and (iii) mathematical materials science. Several ... -
1103c - Mini-Workshop: Nonlinear Least Squares in Shape Identification Problems
[OWR-2011-5] (2011) - (16 Jan - 22 Jan 2011)This mini-workshop brought together mathematicians engaged in shape optimization and in inverse problems in order to address a specific class of problems on the reconstruction of geometries. Such a problem can be formulated ... -
1851a - Mini-Workshop: Numerical Analysis for Non-Smooth PDE-Constrained Optimal Control Problems
[OWR-2018-55] (2018) - (16 Dec - 22 Dec 2018)This mini-workshop brought together leading experts working on various aspects of numerical analysis for optimal control problems with nonsmoothness. Fifteen extended abstracts summarize the presentations at this mini-workshop. -
1546c - Mini-Workshop: Scales in Plasticity
[OWR-2015-53] (2015) - (08 Nov - 14 Nov 2015)This mini-workshop was devoted to the current state of our understanding of dislocations (essentially slips of lines of atoms in a crystalline solid) and of their impact on the macroscopic behavior of those solids. -
0715a - Mini-Workshop: Shape Analysis for Eigenvalues
[OWR-2007-18] (2007) - (08 Apr - 14 Apr 2007)The main goal of the meeting was to bring together two mathematical communities working on the shape analysis of eigenvalues by quite different methods. On the one hand explicit solutions to optimal shape problems for ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
1005 - New Directions in Simulation, Control and Analysis for Interfaces and Free Boundaries
[OWR-2010-7] (2010) - (31 Jan - 06 Feb 2010)The field of mathematical and numerical analysis of systems of nonlinear partial differential equations involving interfaces and free boundaries is a flourishing area of research. Many such systems arise from mathematical ... -
1305 - Numerical Methods for PDE Constrained Optimization with Uncertain Data
[OWR-2013-4] (2013) - (27 Jan - 02 Feb 2013)Optimization problems governed by partial differential equations (PDEs) arise in many applications in the form of optimal control, optimal design, or parameter identification problems. In most applications, parameters in ... -
0905 - Numerical Techniques for Optimization Problems with PDE Constraints
[OWR-2009-4] (2009) - (25 Jan - 31 Jan 2009)The development, analysis and implementation of efficient and robust numerical techniques for optimization problems associated with partial differential equations (PDEs) is of utmost importance for the optimal control of ... -
0609 - Numerical Techniques for Optimization Problems with PDE Constraints
[OWR-2006-11] (2006) - (26 Feb - 04 Mar 2006)Optimization problems with partial differential equation (PDE) constraints arise in many science and engineering applications. Their robust and efficient solution present many mathematical challenges and requires a tight ... -
0516 - Optimal Control of Coupled Systems of PDE
[OWR-2005-18] (2005) - (17 Apr - 23 Apr 2005)The Workshop Optimal Control of Coupled Systems of PDE was held from April 17th – April 23rd, 2005 in the Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach. The scientific program covered various topics such as controllability, ... -
0810 - Optimal Control of Coupled Systems of PDE
[OWR-2008-13] (2008) - (02 Mar - 08 Mar 2008)Current research in the control of PDEs is focused on highly nonlinear coupled systems of partial differential equations that arise from diverse applications in engineering and science. Dealing with associated control ... -
0502 - Optimization and Applications
[OWR-2005-2] (2005) - (09 Jan - 15 Jan 2005)Proceedings of a workshop devoted to optimization problems, their theory and resolution, and above all applications of them. The topics covered existence and stability of solutions; design, analysis, development and ...