Browsing Oberwolfach Reports by Title

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    • 1032 - Mathematical Theory and Modelling in Atmosphere-Ocean-Science 

      [OWR-2010-34] Workshop Report 2010,34 (2010) - (08 Aug - 14 Aug 2010)
      Participants from around the world gathered to review application and development of mathematics in relation to problems in the atmospheric, oceanic and climate sciences.

    • 0646a - Mathematical Theory of Water Waves 

      [OWR-2006-50] Workshop Report 2006,50 (2006) - (12 Nov - 18 Nov 2006)
      The water-wave problem is the study of the two- and threedimensional irrotational flow of a perfect fluid bounded above by a free surface subject to the forces of gravity and surface tension. It is a paradigm for most ...

    • 1929a - Mathematical Theory of Water Waves 

      [OWR-2019-32] Workshop Report 2019,32 (2019) - (14 Jul - 20 Jul 2019)
      Water waves, that is waves on the surface of a fluid (or the interface between different fluids) are omnipresent phenomena. However, as Feynman wrote in his lecture, water waves that are easily seen by everyone, and which ...

    • 1516a - Mathematical Theory of Water Waves 

      [OWR-2015-19] Workshop Report 2015,19 (2015) - (12 Apr - 18 Apr 2015)
      The water-wave problem is the study of the two- and three-dimensional flow of a perfect fluid bounded above by a free surface subject to the forces of gravity and surface tension. From a mathematical viewpoint, the water-wave ...

    • 1015 - Mathematics and Algorithms in Tomography 

      [OWR-2010-18] Workshop Report 2010,18 (2010) - (11 Apr - 17 Apr 2010)
      This is the eighth Oberwolfach conference on the mathematics of tomography. Modalities represented at the workshop included X-ray tomography, sonar, radar, seismic imaging, ultrasound, electron microscopy, impedance imaging, ...

    • 1433 - Mathematics and Algorithms in Tomography 

      [OWR-2014-37] Workshop Report 2014,37 (2014) - (10 Aug - 16 Aug 2014)
      This was the ninth Oberwolfach conference on the mathematics of tomography. Modalities represented at the workshop included X-ray tomography, radar, seismic imaging, ultrasound, electron microscopy, impedance imaging, ...

    • 2122 - Mathematics and its Ancient Classics Worldwide: Translations, Appropriations, Reconstructions, Roles (hybrid meeting) 

      [OWR-2021-26] Workshop Report 2021,26 (2021) - (30 May - 05 Jun 2021)
      The workshop analyzes the constitution, recovery, and role of the classical texts in mathematical practice throughout history. It aims at problematizing the notion of "classic", to make it a historical category and to study ...

    • 0419 - Mathematics and Physics of Disordered Systems 

      [OWR-2004-22] Workshop Report 2004,22 (2004) - (02 May - 08 May 2004)

    • 0550 - Mathematics in the Physical Sciences, 1650-2000 

      [OWR-2005-56] Workshop Report 2005,56 (2005) - (11 Dec - 17 Dec 2005)
      The workshop “Mathematics in the Physical Sciences, 1650-2000” was organised by Niccolò Guicciardini (Siena), Tinne Hoff Kjeldsen (Roskilde), and David Rowe (Mainz). By focusing on the interplay between mathematics and ...

    • 0416 - Mathematics in the Supply Chain 

      [OWR-2004-19] Workshop Report 2004,19 (2004) - (11 Apr - 17 Apr 2004)

    • 1450 - Mathematics in Undergraduate Study Programs: Challenges for Research and for the Dialogue between Mathematics and Didactics of Mathematics 

      [OWR-2014-56] Workshop Report 2014,56 (2014) - (07 Dec - 13 Dec 2014)
      The topic of undergraduate mathematics is of considerable concern for mathematicians in universities, but also for those teaching mathematics as part of undergraduate studies other than mathematics, for employers seeking ...

    • 0936 - Mathematics of Complex Quantum Systems 

      [OWR-2009-40] Workshop Report 2009,40 (2009) - (30 Aug - 05 Sep 2009)
      A mathematical physics workshop focusing on the mathematics of complex quantum systems was held at MFO in September 2009. The physcs topics covered included quantum chemistry, nonrelativistic QED, statistical mechanics, ...

    • 1709 - Mathematics of Quantitative Finance 

      [OWR-2017-13] Workshop Report 2017,13 (2017) - (26 Feb - 04 Mar 2017)
      The workshop on Mathematics of Quantitative Finance, organised at the Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach from 26 February to 4 March 2017, focused on cutting edge areas of mathematical finance, with an emphasis ...

    • 1825b - Matrix Estimation Meets Statistical Network Analysis: Extracting low-dimensional structures in high dimension 

      [OWR-2018-29] Workshop Report 2018,29 (2018) - (17 Jun - 23 Jun 2018)
      The study of complex relationships among the elements of a large collection of random variables lead to the development of a number of areas in probability and statistics such as probabilistic network analysis or random ...

    • 1336 - Matrix Factorizations in Algebra, Geometry, and Physics 

      [OWR-2013-44] Workshop Report 2013,44 (2013) - (01 Sep - 07 Sep 2013)
      Let $W$ be a polynomial or power series in several variables, or, more generally, a nonzero element in some regular commutative ring. A matrix factorization of $W$ consists of a pair of square matrices $X$ and $Y$ of the ...

    • 2136a - MATRIX-MFO Tandem Workshop: Invariants and Structures in Low-Dimensional Topology (hybrid meeting) 

      [OWR-2021-42] Workshop Report 2021,42 (2021) - (05 Sep - 11 Sep 2021)
      The first ever MATRIX-MFO tandem workshop addressed several research questions in low-dimensional topology and related areas.

    • 2310a - MATRIX-MFO Tandem Workshop: Stochastic Reinforcement Processes and Graphs 

      [OWR-2023-12] Workshop Report 2023,12 (2023) - (05 Mar - 10 Mar 2023)
      Stochastic processes with reinforcement are the central theme of the present tandem workshop. We assembled a diverse group of international experts that worked on reinforcement dynamics from several different perspectives. ...

    • 1635 - Measured Group Theory 

      [OWR-2016-41] Workshop Report 2016,41 (2016) - (28 Aug - 03 Sep 2016)
      The workshop aimed to study discrete and Lie groups and their actions using measure theoretic methods and their asymptotic invariants, such as $\ell^2$-invariants, the rank gradient, cost, torsion growth, entropy-type ...

    • 1212 - Mechanics of Materials 

      [OWR-2012-15] Workshop Report 2012,15 (2012) - (18 Mar - 24 Mar 2012)
      The rapid advances of modern fabrications technologies require a thorough understanding of physical and mechanical properties of materials as influenced by their atomic composition, processing history and structure at the ...

    • 0604 - Mechanics of Materials 

      [OWR-2006-4] Workshop Report 2006,4 (2006) - (22 Jan - 28 Jan 2006)
      All up-to-date engineering applications of advanced multi-phase materials necessitate a concurrent design of materials (including composition, processing routes, microstructures and properties) with structural components. ...