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0529 - Explicit Methods in Number Theory
[OWR-2005-32] (2005) - (17 Jul - 23 Jul 2005)These notes contain extended abstracts on the topic of explicit methods in number theory. The range of topics included modular forms, varieties over finite fields, rational and integral points on varieties, class groups, ... -
0729 - Explicit Methods in Number Theory
[OWR-2007-34] (2007) - (15 Jul - 21 Jul 2007)These notes contain extended abstracts on the topic of explicit methods in number theory. The range of topics includes asymptotics for field extensions and class numbers, random matrices and L-functions, rational points ... -
0929 - Explicit Methods in Number Theory
[OWR-2009-33] (2009) - (12 Jul - 18 Jul 2009)These notes contain extended abstracts on the topic of explicit methods in number theory. The range of topics includes asymptotics for field extensions and class numbers, random matrices and L-functions, rational points on ... -
1202 - Explicit Versus Tacit Knowledge in Mathematics
[OWR-2012-4] (2012) - (08 Jan - 14 Jan 2012)This workshop aimed to bring together an international group of historians of mathematics to reflect upon the role played by tacit knowledge in doing mathematics at various times and places. The existence of tacit knowledge ... -
1317b - Extremes in Branching Random Walk and Branching Brownian Motion
[OWR-2013-20] (2013) - (21 Apr - 27 Apr 2013)Branching random walk (BRW) and branching Brownian motion (BBM) are mathematical models for population growth and spatial displacement. When resources are plentiful, population sizes grow exponentially in time. In such a ... -
1619 - Factorization Algebras and Functorial Field Theories
[OWR-2016-25] (2016) - (08 May - 14 May 2016)Factorization algebras are a new mathematical approach to quantum field theory. They are related to functorial field theories, another approach to quantum field theory. Factorization algebras also figure in current research ... -
0428b - Fast Numerical Methods for Non-local Operators
[OWR-2004-33] (2004) - (04 Jul - 10 Jul 2004) -
1823a - Field Arithmetic
[OWR-2018-25] (2018) - (03 Jun - 09 Jun 2018)Field Arithmetic studies the interrelation between arithmetic properties of fields and their absolute Galois groups. It is an interdisciplinary area that uses methods of algebraic number theory, commutative algebra, algebraic ... -
0406 - Finite and Infinite Dimensional Complex Geometry and Representation Theory
[OWR-2004-6] (2004) - (01 Feb - 07 Feb 2004) -
0450 - Finite Fields: Theory and Applications
[OWR-2004-54] (2004) - (05 Dec - 11 Dec 2004)Finite fields are the focal point of many interesting geometric, algorithmic and combinatorial problems. The workshop was devoted to progress on these questions, with an eye also on the important applications of finite field ... -
1120a - Finite-dimensional Approximations of Discrete Groups
[OWR-2011-26] (2011) - (15 May - 21 May 2011)The main objective of this workshop was to bring together experts from various fields, which are all interested in finite and finite-dimensional approximations of infinite algebraic and analytic objects, such as groups, ... -
1838 - Flat Surfaces and Algebraic Curves
[OWR-2018-42] (2018) - (16 Sep - 22 Sep 2018)This workshop brought together two distinct communities: “flat” geometers, studying the moduli of flat surfaces, and Teichmüller dynamics, and algebraic geometers studying the moduli space of curves. While both communities ... -
1413 - Flat Surfaces and Dynamics on Moduli Space
[OWR-2014-15] (2014) - (23 Mar - 29 Mar 2014)Dynamics of the Teichmüller geodesic flow on the moduli space of curves and asymptotic monodromy of the Hodge bundle along this flow have numerous applications to dynamics and geometry of measured foliations, to billiards ... -
1922 - Foundations and New Horizons for Causal Inference
[OWR-2019-25] (2019) - (26 May - 01 Jun 2019)While causal inference is established in some disciplines such as econometrics and biostatistics, it is only starting to emerge as a valuable tool in areas such as machine learning and artificial intelligence. The ... -
2118 - Foundations of Bayesian Inference for Complex Statistical Models (hybrid meeting)
[OWR-2021-22] (2021) - (02 May - 08 May 2021)In this virtual workshop a variety of recent developments in Bayesian high-dimensional and nonparametric statistics were discussed in depth. There were 12 in depth talks delivered via zoom in the afternoons (to allow for ... -
0632 - Four-dimensional Manifolds
[OWR-2006-35] (2006) - (06 Aug - 12 Aug 2006)This workshop has provided a broad panorama of recent developments in the study of topological, smooth, and symplectic 4-manifolds. Related invariants of knots and 3-manifolds were also discussed. -
2309c - Free Boundary Problems Arising in Fluid Mechanics
[OWR-2023-11] (2023) - (26 Feb - 04 Mar 2023)Fluid mechanics is one of the classical areas in the study of partial differential equations and has been a vast subject of research in the last centuries. A relevant class of problems are those in which the evolution of ... -
1524 - Free Probability Theory
[OWR-2015-28] (2015) - (07 Jun - 13 Jun 2015)The workshop brought together leading experts, as well as promising young researchers, in areas related to recent developments in free probability theory. Some particular emphasis was on the relation of free probability ... -
1849 - Free Probability Theory
[OWR-2018-53] (2018) - (02 Dec - 08 Dec 2018)The workhop brought together leading experts, as well as promising young researchers, in areas related to recent developments in free probability theory. Some particular emphasis was on the relation of free probability ... -
0513 - Free Probability Theory
[OWR-2005-15] (2005) - (27 Mar - 02 Apr 2005)Free probability theory is a line of research which parallels aspects of classical probability, in a non-commutative context where tensor products are replaced by free products, and independent random variables are replaced ...