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0533a - Mini-Workshop: Operators on Spaces of Analytic Functions
[OWR-2005-36] (2005) - (14 Aug - 20 Aug 2005)The major topics discussed in this workshop were invariant subspaces of linear operators on Banach spaces of analytic functions, the ideal structure of H ∞ , asymptotics for condition numbers of large matrices, and questions ... -
0518c - Mini-Workshop: Particle Systems with Several Conservation Laws: Fluctuations and Hydrodynamic Limit
[OWR-2005-22] (2005) - (01 May - 07 May 2005)The Mini-Workshop is concerned with the large-scale description of microscopic many-particle systems with two or more conservation laws. This is topic of common interest for statistical mechanics, probability theory and ... -
1609a - Mini-Workshop: PBW Structures in Representation Theory
[OWR-2016-13] (2016) - (28 Feb - 05 Mar 2016)The PBW structures play a very important role in the Lie theory and in the theory of algebraic groups. The importance is due to the huge number of possible applications. The main goal of the workshop was to bring together ... -
1743a - Mini-Workshop: PDE Models of Motility and Invasion in Active Biosystems
[OWR-2017-48] (2017) - (22 Oct - 28 Oct 2017)Cell migration is crucial for the development and functioning of multicellular organisms; it plays an essential role in, e.g., morphogenesis, immune system dynamics, wound healing, angiogenesis, bacterial motion and biofilm ... -
1706c - Mini-Workshop: Perspectives in High-dimensional Probability and Convexity
[OWR-2017-10] (2017) - (05 Feb - 11 Feb 2017)Understanding the geometric structure of systems involving a huge amount of parameters is a central problem in mathematics and applied sciences today. Here, geometric and analytical ideas meet in a non-trivial way and ... -
0715c - Mini-Workshop: Positional Games
[OWR-2007-20] (2007) - (08 Apr - 14 Apr 2007)Positional games is one of rapidly developing subjects of modern combinatorics, researching two player perfect information games of combinatorial nature, ranging from recreational games like Tic-Tac-Toe to purely abstract ... -
1840a - Mini-Workshop: Positional Games
[OWR-2018-44] (2018) - (30 Sep - 06 Oct 2018)This mini-workshop focused on Positional Games and related fields. Positional Games Theory is a branch of Combinatorics whose main aim is to systematically develop an extensive mathematical basis for a variety of two-player ... -
1738b - Mini-Workshop: Positivity in Higher-dimensional Geometry: Higher-codimensional Cycles and Newton-Okounkov Bodies
[OWR-2017-43] (2017) - (17 Sep - 23 Sep 2017)There are several flavors of positivity in Algebraic Geometry. They range from conditions that determine vanishing of cohomology, to intersection theoretic properties, and to convex geometry. They offer excellent invariants ... -
0434c - Mini-Workshop: Probability Theory on Trees and Analysis of Algorithms
[OWR-2004-41] (2004) - (15 Aug - 21 Aug 2004) -
0908b - Mini-Workshop: Product Systems and Independence in Quantum Dynamics
[OWR-2009-9] (2009) - (15 Feb - 21 Feb 2009)Quantum dynamics, both reversible (i.e., closed quantum systems) and irreversible (i.e., open quantum systems), gives rise to product systems of Hilbert spaces or, more generally, of Hilbert modules. When we consider ... -
0733b - Mini-Workshop: Projective Normality of Smooth Toric Varieties
[OWR-2007-39] (2007) - (12 Aug - 18 Aug 2007)The mini-workshop on ”Projective Normality of Smooth Toric Varieties” focused on the question of whether every projective embedding of a smooth toric variety is projectively normal. Equivalently, this question asks whether ... -
2240b - Mini-Workshop: Quantization of Complex Symplectic Varieties
[OWR-2022-45] (2022) - (02 Oct - 08 Oct 2022)The mini-workshop featured two main series of lectures: "Functoriality in non-abelian Hodge theory" by Tony Pantev, and "Quantization of the Hitchin system and the analytic Langlands program" by Jörg Teschner. In ... -
1345a - Mini-Workshop: Quaternion Kähler Structures in Riemannian and Algebraic Geometry
[OWR-2013-53] (2013) - (03 Nov - 09 Nov 2013)Metrics of special holonomy are of central interest in both Riemannian and complex algebraic geometry. We focus on an important classification problem of a particular type of special holonomy manifolds, namely compact ... -
1117c - Mini-Workshop: Random Trees, Information and Algorithms
[OWR-2011-23] (2011) - (24 Apr - 30 Apr 2011)The subject of this Mini-Workshop is the probabilistic analysis of random tree models that originate from applications in Computer Science. Emphasis is put on their connections to algorithms and information theory. Trees ... -
1946b - Mini-Workshop: Rank One Groups and Exceptional Algebraic Groups
[OWR-2019-52] (2019) - (10 Nov - 16 Nov 2019)Rank one groups are a class of doubly transitive groups that are natural generalizations of the groups $ \operatorname{SL}_2(k) $. The most interesting examples arise from exceptional algebraic groups of relative rank ... -
1546b - Mini-Workshop: Recent Developments in Statistical Methods with Applications to Genetics and Genomics
[OWR-2015-52] (2015) - (08 Nov - 14 Nov 2015)Recent progress in high-throughput genomic technologies has revolutionized the field of human genetics and promises to lead to important scientific advances. With new improvements in massively parallel biotechnologies, it ... -
1545c - Mini-Workshop: Recent Developments on Approximation Methods for Controlled Evolution Equations
[OWR-2015-50] (2015) - (01 Nov - 07 Nov 2015)This mini-workshop brought together mathematicians engaged in partial differential equations, functional analysis, numerical analysis and systems theory in order to address a number of current problems in the approximation ... -
1915a - Mini-Workshop: Recent Progress in Path Integration on Graphs and Manifolds
[OWR-2019-16] (2019) - (07 Apr - 13 Apr 2019)Ever since Richard Feynman's PhD thesis, path integrals have played a decisive role in mathematical physics. While it is well-known that such formulae can hold only formally, it was Mark Kac who realized that by replacing ... -
1915b - Mini-Workshop: Reflection Groups in Negative Curvature
[OWR-2019-17] (2019) - (07 Apr - 13 Apr 2019)Discrete groups generated by reflections constitute an important source of examples of lattices in simple Lie groups of real rank $1$ (whose associated symmetric spaces are negatively curved). Yet a classification for ... -
1449c - Mini-Workshop: Reflection Positivity in Representation Theory, Stochastics and Physics
[OWR-2014-55] (2014) - (30 Nov - 06 Dec 2014)The central focus of the workshop was reflection positivity, its occurrence in physics, representation theory, abstract harmonic analysis, and stochastic analysis. The program was intrinsically interdisciplinary and included ...