Browsing by Title
Now showing items 1178-1197 of 1984
-
1034a - Mini-Workshop: Mechanics of Cell Motion
[OWR-2010-36] (2010) - (22 Aug - 28 Aug 2010)This mini-workshop brought together established researchers and newer entrants in the field of cell motility, a challenging research area located at the crossroads of biology, mathematics and physics. Cell locomotion ... -
0950b - Mini-Workshop: Modeling and Understanding Random Hamiltonians: Beyond Monotonicity, Linearity and Independence
[OWR-2009-55] (2009) - (06 Dec - 12 Dec 2009)The mini-workshop was devoted to the spectral analysis of random Schr¨dinger-type operators. While this topic has been intensively studo ied by physicists and mathematicians for several decades, more recently there has ... -
1507a - Mini-Workshop: Modern Applications of s-numbers and Operator Ideals
[OWR-2015-6] (2015) - (08 Feb - 14 Feb 2015)The main aim of this mini-workshop was to present and discuss some modern applications of the functional-analytic concepts of $s$-numbers and operator ideals in areas like Numerical Analysis, Theory of Function Spaces, ... -
1117a - Mini-Workshop: Modular Representations of Symmetric Groups and Related Objects
[OWR-2011-21] (2011) - (24 Apr - 30 Apr 2011)The mini-workshop focussed on the modular representation theory of the symmetric group and other closely related objects, including Hecke algebras and Schur algebras. The topics and problems discussed include computations ... -
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 ... -
0404b - Mini-Workshop: Multiscale Modeling in Epitaxial Growth
[OWR-2004-4] (2004) - (18 Jan - 24 Jan 2004) -
2339b - Mini-Workshop: Multivariate Orthogonal Polynomials: New synergies with Numerical Analysis
[OWR-2023-43] (2023) - (24 Sep - 29 Sep 2023)Multivariate polynomials and, in particular, multivariate orthogonal polynomials (MOPs) are research areas within the fields of special functions, Lie groups, quantum groups, computer algebra to name only some of them. ... -
1409b - Mini-Workshop: Negative Curves on Algebraic Surfaces
[OWR-2014-10] (2014) - (23 Feb - 01 Mar 2014)Negative curves play a prominent role in the geometry of projective surfaces. They occur naturally as the irreducible components of exceptional loci of resolutions of surface singularities, at the same time, they are closely ... -
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 ... -
1134b - Mini-Workshop: New Developments in Newton-Okounov Bodies
[OWR-2011-41] (2011) - (21 Aug - 27 Aug 2011)The theory of Newton-Okounkov bodies, also called Okounkov bodies, is a new connection between algebraic geometry and convex geometry. It generalizes the well-known and extremely rich correspondence between geometry of ... -
1651a - Mini-Workshop: New Interactions between Homotopical Algebra and Quantum Field Theory
[OWR-2016-58] (2016) - (18 Dec - 23 Dec 2016)Recent developments in quantum field theory strongly call for techniques from homotopical algebra to develop the mathematical foundations of quantum gauge theories. This mini-workshop brought together experts working at ... -
1240a - Mini-Workshop: Nichols Algebras and Weyl Groupoids
[OWR-2012-47] (2012) - (30 Sep - 06 Oct 2012)Nichols algebras are graded braided Hopf algebras satisfying a universal property. Many structural results of a Nichols algebra can be obtained by studying itsWeyl groupoid and its homology. In the mini-workshop, introductions ... -
0910c - Mini-Workshop: Non-Negativity is a Quantum Phenomenon
[OWR-2009-14] (2009) - (01 Mar - 07 Mar 2009)In recent publications, the same combinatorial description has arisen for three separate objects of interest: non-negative cells in the real grassmannian (Postnikov, Williams); torus orbits of symplectic leaves in the ... -
2106a - Mini-Workshop: Non-semisimple Tensor Categories and Their Semisimplification (online meeting)
[OWR-2021-7] (2021) - (07 Feb - 13 Feb 2021)Finite tensor categories are, despite their many applications and great interest, notoriously hard to classify. Among them, the semisimple ones (called fusion categories) have been intensively studied. Those with ... -
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 ... -
0408a - Mini-Workshop: Nonlinear Spectral and Eigenvalue Theory with Applications to the p-Laplace Operator
[OWR-2004-8] (2004) - (15 Feb - 21 Feb 2004) -
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 ... -
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. -
0404a - Mini-Workshop: Numerical Methods for Instationary Control Problems
[OWR-2004-3] (2004) - (18 Jan - 24 Jan 2004)