Browsing Oberwolfach Reports by Title

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    • 1609c - Mini-Workshop: Topological Complexity and Related Topics 

      [OWR-2016-15] Workshop Report 2016,15 (2016) - (28 Feb - 05 Mar 2016)
      Topological complexity is a numerical homotopy invariant of topological spaces, of Lusternik-Schnirelmann type, introduced by Farber and motivated by the motion planning problem from topological robotics. This mini-workshop ...

    • 0733c - Mini-Workshop: Topology of closed one-forms and Cohomology Jumping Loci 

      [OWR-2007-40] Workshop Report 2007,40 (2007) - (12 Aug - 18 Aug 2007)
      The purpose of this workshop was to bring together researchers from the two different fields mentioned in the title, and to create more interaction and connections between these fields. Among the topics which appear in ...

    • 1240b - Mini-Workshop: Topology of Real Singularities and Motivic Aspects 

      [OWR-2012-48] Workshop Report 2012,48 (2012) - (01 Oct - 06 Oct 2012)
      This workgroup focusses on some recent issues in real singularities, concerning the topology of the Milnor fibre of a singular map and several motivic aspects of singularities of sets definable in some structures over the ...

    • 1003b - Mini-Workshop: Valuations and Integral Geometry 

      [OWR-2010-4] Workshop Report 2010,4 (2010) - (17 Jan - 23 Jan 2010)
      As a generalization of the notion of measure, valuations have long played a central role in the integral geometry of convex sets. In recent years there has been a series of striking developments. Several examples were ...

    • 2149c - Mini-Workshop: Variable Curvature Bounds, Analysis and Topology on Dirichlet Spaces (hybrid meeting) 

      [OWR-2021-58] Workshop Report 2021,58 (2021) - (05 Dec - 11 Dec 2021)
      A Dirichlet form $\mathcal{E}$ is a densely defined bilinear form on a Hilbert space of the form $L^2(X,\mu)$, subject to some additional properties, which make sure that $\mathcal{E}$ can be considered as a natural ...

    • 0408c - Mini-Workshop: Wavelets and Frames 

      [OWR-2004-10] Workshop Report 2004,10 (2004) - (15 Feb - 21 Feb 2004)

    • 1050b - Mini-Workshop: Wellposedness and Controllability of Evolution Equations 

      [OWR-2010-56] Workshop Report 2010,56 (2010) - (12 Dec - 18 Dec 2010)
      This mini-workshop brought together mathematicians engaged in partial differential equations, operator theory, functional analysis and harmonic analysis in order to address a number of current problems in the wellposedness ...

    • 1702a - Mini-Workshop: Women in Mathematics: Historical and Modern Perspectives 

      [OWR-2017-2] Workshop Report 2017,2 (2017) - (08 Jan - 14 Jan 2017)
      The aim of the workshop is to build a bridge between research on the situation of women in mathematics at the beginning of coeducative studies and the current circumstances in academia. The issue of women in mathematics ...

    • 2240a - Mini-Workshop: Zero-Range and Point-Like Singular Perturbations: For a Spillover to Analysis, PDE and Differential Geometry 

      [OWR-2022-44] Workshop Report 2022,44 (2022) - (02 Oct - 08 Oct 2022)
      The field of contact interactions and perturbations of differential operators supported on subsets with non-trivial co-dimension is an increasingly active mainstream of mathematical physics (in particular, operator and ...

    • 0618b - Mini-Workshop: Zeta Functions, Index and Twisted K-Theory; Interactions with Physics 

      [OWR-2006-21] Workshop Report 2006,21 (2006) - (30 Apr - 06 May 2006)
      The meeting provided an opportunity for number theorists, physicists, topologists and analysts to discuss recent developments and interactions in the area of multiple zeta functions, twisted K-theory, Hopf algebras, and ...

    • 1517b - Mirror Symmetry, Hodge Theory and Differential Equations 

      [OWR-2015-22] Workshop Report 2015,22 (2015) - (19 Apr - 25 Apr 2015)
      The following is the report on the Oberwolfach workshop Mirror Symmetry, Hodge Theory and Differential Equations (April 2015), which brought together researchers from various areas such as quantum cohomology, complex ...

    • 1923 - Mixed-integer Nonlinear Optimization: a hatchery for modern mathematics 

      [OWR-2019-26] Workshop Report 2019,26 (2019) - (02 Jun - 08 Jun 2019)
      The second MFO Oberwolfach Workshop on Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Programming (MINLP) took place between 2nd and 8th June 2019. MINLP refers to one of the hardest Mathematical Programming (MP) problem classes, involving both ...

    • 1543 - Mixed-integer Nonlinear Optimization: A Hatchery for Modern Mathematics 

      [OWR-2015-46] Workshop Report 2015,46 (2015) - (18 Oct - 24 Oct 2015)
      The aim of this workshop was fostering the growth of new mathematical ideas arising from mixed-integer nonlinear optimization. In this regard, the workshop has been a resounding success. It has covered a very diverse ...

    • 2333 - Mixed-integer Nonlinear Optimization: A Hatchery for Modern Mathematics 

      [OWR-2023-35] Workshop Report 2023,35 (2023) - (13 Aug - 18 Aug 2023)
      Mixed-integer nonlinear programming (MINLP) is concerned with finding optimal solutions to mathematical formulations of optimization problems combining discrete and nonlinear phenomena. The scientific program was ...

    • 1405 - Mixing, Transport and Coherent Structures 

      [OWR-2014-4] Workshop Report 2014,4 (2014) - (26 Jan - 01 Feb 2014)
      The subject of this workshop was coherent structures, which play a significant role in the transport and mixing of passive and active scalars in fluids on a wide range of spatial scales. Participants coming from diverse ...

    • 0430 - Model Theory and Complex Analytic Geometry 

      [OWR-2004-35] Workshop Report 2004,35 (2004) - (18 Jul - 24 Jul 2004)
      The aim of the workshop was to discuss the connections between model theory and complex analytic geometry, a particularly fascinating point of interaction, where model-theoretic methods can both serve to extend the scope ...

    • 0703 - Model Theory and Groups 

      [OWR-2007-2] Workshop Report 2007,2 (2007) - (14 Jan - 20 Jan 2007)
      The aim of the workshop was to discuss the connections between model theory and group theory. Main topics have been the interaction between geometric group theory and model theory, the study of the asymptotic behaviour of ...

    • 1001 - Model Theory: Around Valued Fields and Dependent Theories 

      [OWR-2010-1] Workshop Report 2010,1 (2010) - (03 Jan - 09 Jan 2010)
      The general topic of the meeting was “Valued fields and related structures”. It included both applications of model theory, as well as so-called “pure” model theory: the classification of first order structures using new ...

    • 2302 - Model Theory: Combinatorics, Groups, Valued Fields and Neostability 

      [OWR-2023-2] Workshop Report 2023,2 (2023) - (08 Jan - 14 Jan 2023)
      The scope of contemporary model theory has expanded enormously over the last several decades, helped by the development of new tools applicable to an ever wider range of structures. In the spirit of the previous meetings ...

    • 2003 - Model Theory: Groups, Geometries and Combinatorics 

      [OWR-2020-2] Workshop Report 2020,2 (2020) - (12 Jan - 18 Jan 2020)
      The focus of the conference were recent interactions between model theory, group theory and combinatorics in finite geometries. In some cases, in particular in non-archimedean geometry or combinatorics in finite geometries, ...