Browsing 5 - Oberwolfach Reports (OWR) by Title

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    • 2248c - Mini-Workshop: Subvarieties in Projective Spaces and Their Projections 

      [OWR-2022-54] Workshop Report 2022,54 (2022) - (27 Nov - 03 Dec 2022)
      The major goals of this workshop are to lay paths for a systematic study of geproci (and related, e.g., projecting to almost complete intersections or full intersections) sets of points in projective spaces, study ...

    • 1816c - Mini-Workshop: Superexpanders and Their Coarse Geometry 

      [OWR-2018-19] Workshop Report 2018,19 (2018) - (15 Apr - 21 Apr 2018)
      It is a deep open problem whether all expanders are superexpanders. In fact, it was already a major challenge to prove the mere existence of superexpanders. However, by now, some classes of examples are known: Lafforgue’s ...

    • 2009b - Mini-Workshop: Superpotentials in Algebra and Geometry 

      [OWR-2020-10] Workshop Report 2020,10 (2020) - (23 Feb - 29 Feb 2020)
      Mirror symmetry has been at the epicenter of many mathematical discoveries in the past twenty years. It was discovered by physicists in the setting of super conformal field theories (SCFTs) associated to closed string ...

    • 0908c - Mini-Workshop: Support Varieties 

      [OWR-2009-10] Workshop Report 2009,10 (2009) - (15 Feb - 21 Feb 2009)
      The notion of support is a fundamental concept which provides a geometric approach for studying various algebraic structures. The prototype for this has been Quillen’s description of the algebraic variety corresponding to ...

    • 0748b - Mini-Workshop: Surface Modeling and Syzygies 

      [OWR-2007-54] Workshop Report 2007,54 (2007) - (25 Nov - 01 Dec 2007)
      The problem of determining the implicit equation of the image of a rational map φ : P2 99K P3 is of theoretical interest in algebraic geometry, and of practical importance in geometric modeling. There are essentially three ...

    • 1651c - Mini-Workshop: Surreal Numbers, Surreal Analysis, Hahn Fields and Derivations 

      [OWR-2016-60] Workshop Report 2016,60 (2016) - (18 Dec - 23 Dec 2016)
      New striking analogies between H. Hahn’s fields of generalised series with real coefficients, G. H. Hardy’s field of germs of real valued functions, and J. H. Conway’s field No of surreal numbers, have been lately discovered ...

    • 0847b - Mini-Workshop: Symmetric Varieties and Involutions of Algebraic Groups 

      [OWR-2008-53] Workshop Report 2008,53 (2008) - (16 Nov - 22 Nov 2008)
      This conference brought together experts from the areas of algebraic groups, Kac–Moody groups, Tits buildings, and symmetric varieties. The main theme presented and discussed during the workshop was the geometry of involutions ...

    • 0950a - Mini-Workshop: The Escaping Set in Transcendental Dynamics 

      [OWR-2009-54] Workshop Report 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] Workshop Report 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] Workshop Report 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] Workshop Report 2008,10 (2008) - (24 Feb - 01 Mar 2008)
      Science and technology have produced amazing developments in the design of electronics and machinery using smart materials. Some everyday items are already incorporating smart materials as electro-rheological and ...

    • 0836a - Mini-Workshop: The Mathematics of Growth and Remodelling of Soft Biological Tissues 

      [OWR-2008-39] Workshop Report 2008,39 (2008) - (31 Aug - 06 Sep 2008)
      Biology is becoming one of the most attractive fields of application of mathematics. The discoveries that have characterized the biological sciences in the last decades have become the most fertile matter for application ...

    • 1307b - Mini-Workshop: The p-Laplacian Operator and Applications 

      [OWR-2013-8] Workshop Report 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] Workshop Report 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] Workshop Report 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] Workshop Report 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] Workshop Report 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] Workshop Report 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] Workshop Report 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] Workshop Report 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 ...