Browsing Oberwolfach Reports by MSC "49"

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    • 0709 - Analysis and Numerics for Rate-Independent Processes 

      [OWR-2007-11] Workshop Report 2007,11 (2007) - (25 Feb - 03 Mar 2007)
      This conference brought together the mathematicians and engineers concerned with the study of rate-independent processes. The topics involved the physical and mechanical modeling, the analytical treatment as well as the ...

    • 2406 - Applications of Optimal Transportation 

      [OWR-2024-7] Workshop Report 2024,7 (2024) - (04 Feb - 09 Feb 2024)
      The mathematical theory of optimal transportation is constantly expanding its range of application, while applications give impulses for new research directions in the field. This workshop was specifically devoted to ...

    • 0941 - Arbeitsgemeinschaft: Minimal Surfaces 

      [OWR-2009-45] Workshop Report 2009,45 (2009) - (04 Oct - 09 Oct 2009)
      The theory of Minimal Surfaces has developed rapidly in the past 10 years. There are many factors that have contributed to this development: Sophisticated construction methods [14,29,31] have been developed and have ...

    • 0914 - Arbeitsgemeinschaft: Optimal Transport and Geometry 

      [OWR-2009-18] Workshop Report 2009,18 (2009) - (29 Mar - 04 Apr 2009)
      This Arbeitsgemeinschaft was devoted to recent developments in optimal transport with emphasis on links and applications to geometry. The topics reached from the origin of optimal transport as a variational problem, where ...

    • 1429 - Calculus of Variations 

      [OWR-2014-33] Workshop Report 2014,33 (2014) - (13 Jul - 19 Jul 2014)
      The Calculus of Variations is at the same time a classical subject, with long-standing open questions which have generated deep discoveries in recent decades, and a modern subject in which new types of questions arise, ...

    • 1831 - Calculus of Variations 

      [OWR-2018-35] Workshop Report 2018,35 (2018) - (29 Jul - 04 Aug 2018)
      The Calculus of Variations is at once a classical subject, and a very modern one. Its scope encompasses a broad range of topics in geometric analysis, and deep questions about PDE. New frontiers are constantly emerging, ...

    • 1029 - Calculus of Variations 

      [OWR-2010-31] Workshop Report 2010,31 (2010) - (18 Jul - 24 Jul 2010)
      Since its invention by Newton, the calculus of variations has formed one of the central techniques for studying problems in geometry, physics, and partial differential equations. This trend continues even today. On the one ...

    • 1628 - Calculus of Variations 

      [OWR-2016-34] Workshop Report 2016,34 (2016) - (10 Jul - 16 Jul 2016)
      The Calculus of Variations is subject with a long and distinguished history, a great deal of diverse current activity, and close connections to other fields such as geometry and mathematical physics. The July 2016 workshop ...

    • 1230 - Calculus of Variations 

      [OWR-2012-36] Workshop Report 2012,36 (2012) - (22 Jul - 28 Jul 2012)
      Since its invention, the calculus of variations has been a central field of mathematics and physics, providing tools and techniques to study problems in geometry, physics and partial differential equations. On the one hand, ...

    • 2233 - Calculus of Variations 

      [OWR-2022-37] Workshop Report 2022,37 (2022) - (14 Aug - 20 Aug 2022)
      The Calculus of Variations is at the same time a classical subject, with long-standing open questions which have generated exciting discoveries in recent decades, and a modern subject in which new types of questions ...

    • 0828 - Calculus of Variations 

      [OWR-2008-31] Workshop Report 2008,31 (2008) - (06 Jul - 12 Jul 2008)
      The Calculus of Variations is at the same time a classical subject, with long-standing open questions which have generated exciting discoveries in recent decades, and a modern subject in which new types of questions arise, ...

    • 0628 - Calculus of Variations 

      [OWR-2006-31] Workshop Report 2006,31 (2006) - (09 Jul - 15 Jul 2006)
      Research in the Calculus of Variations has always been motivated by questions generated within the field itself as well as by problems arising in other areas of Mathematics, and applied sciences. The purpose of this meeting ...

    • 2032 - Calculus of Variations (hybrid meeting) 

      [OWR-2020-22] Workshop Report 2020,22 (2020) - (02 Aug - 08 Aug 2020)
      Calculus of Variations touches several interrelated areas. In this workshop we covered several topics, such as minimal submanifolds, mean curvature and related flows, free boundary problems, variational models of ...

    • 1815 - Challenges in Optimal Control of Nonlinear PDE-Systems 

      [OWR-2018-16] Workshop Report 2018,16 (2018) - (08 Apr - 14 Apr 2018)
      The workshop focussed on various aspects of optimal control problems for systems of nonlinear partial differential equations. In particular, discussions around keynote presentations in the areas of optimal control of ...

    • 2107 - Challenges in Optimization with Complex PDE-Systems (hybrid meeting) 

      [OWR-2021-9] Workshop Report 2021,9 (2021) - (14 Feb - 20 Feb 2021)
      The workshop concentrated on various aspects of optimization problems with systems of nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs) or variational inequalities (VIs) as constraints. In particular, discussions around ...

    • 2050 - Computational Inverse Problems for Partial Differential Equations (hybrid meeting) 

      [OWR-2020-39] Workshop Report 2020,39 (2020) - (06 Dec - 12 Dec 2020)
      Inverse problems in partial differential equations (PDEs) consist in reconstructing some part of a PDE such as a coefficient, a boundary condition, an initial condition, the shape of a domain, or a singularity from ...

    • 2345 - Control Methods in Hyperbolic Partial Differential Equations 

      [OWR-2023-52] Workshop Report 2023,52 (2023) - (05 Nov - 10 Nov 2023)
      Control of hyperbolic partial differential equations (PDEs) is a truly interdisciplinary area of research in applied mathematics nurtured by challenging problems arising in most modern applications ranging from road traffic, ...

    • 0616 - Differential-Algebraic Equations 

      [OWR-2006-18] Workshop Report 2006,18 (2006) - (16 Apr - 22 Apr 2006)
      Differential-Algebraic Equations (DAE) are today an independent field of research, which is gaining in importance and becoming of increasing interest for applications and mathematics itself. This workshop has drawn the ...

    • 1844 - Emergence of Structures in Particle Systems: Mechanics, Analysis and Computation 

      [OWR-2018-49] Workshop Report 2018,49 (2018) - (28 Oct - 03 Nov 2018)
      The meeting focused on the last advances in particle systems. The talks covered a broad range of topics, ranging from questions in crystallization and atomistic systems to mesoscopic models of defects to machine learning ...

    • 1704 - Emerging Developments in Interfaces and Free Boundaries 

      [OWR-2017-6] Workshop Report 2017,6 (2017) - (22 Jan - 28 Jan 2017)
      The field of the mathematical and numerical analysis of systems of nonlinear partial differential equations involving interfaces and free boundaries is a well established and flourishing area of research. This workshop ...