Browsing Oberwolfach Reports by MSC "51"

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    • 0804 - Buildings: Interactions with Algebra and Geometry 

      [OWR-2008-3] Workshop Report 2008,3 (2008) - (20 Jan - 26 Jan 2008)
      The focus of the conference was on buildings and their applications. Buildings are combinatorial structures (metric cell complexes) which may be viewed as simultaneous generalizations of trees and projective spaces. There ...

    • 1912 - Contemporary Coding Theory 

      [OWR-2019-13] Workshop Report 2019,13 (2019) - (17 Mar - 23 Mar 2019)
      Coding Theory naturally lies at the intersection of a large number of disciplines in pure and applied mathematics. A multitude of methods and means has been designed to construct, analyze, and decode the resulting ...

    • 0931 - Differentialgeometrie im Großen 

      [OWR-2009-35] Workshop Report 2009,35 (2009) - (26 Jul - 01 Aug 2009)
      The meeting continued the biannual conference series Differentialgeometrie im Großen at the MFO which was established in the 60’s by Klingenberg and Chern. Global Riemannian geometry with its connections to geometric analysis, ...

    • 1327 - Differentialgeometrie im Großen 

      [OWR-2013-33] Workshop Report 2013,33 (2013) - (30 Jun - 06 Jul 2013)
      The meeting continued the biannual conference series Differentialgeometrie im Großen at the MFO which was established in the 60’s by Klingenberg and Chern. Global Riemannian geometry with its connections to topology, ...

    • 1127 - Differentialgeometrie im Großen 

      [OWR-2011-33] Workshop Report 2011,33 (2011) - (03 Jul - 09 Jul 2011)
      The meeting continued the biannual conference series Differentialgeometrie im Großen at the MFO which was established in the 60’s by Klingenberg and Chern. Global Riemannian geometry with its connections to topology, ...

    • 1623 - Geometrie 

      [OWR-2016-28] Workshop Report 2016,28 (2016) - (05 Jun - 11 Jun 2016)
      The workshop Geometry, organized by John Lott (Berkeley), André Neves (London), Iskander Taimanov (Novosibirsk) and Burkhard Wilking (Münster) was well attended with over 53 participants with broad geographic representation ...

    • 1920 - Geometry and Physics of Higgs Bundles 

      [OWR-2019-23] Workshop Report 2019,23 (2019) - (12 May - 18 May 2019)
      This workshop focused on interactions between the various perspectives on the moduli space of Higgs bundles over a Riemann surface. This subject draws on algebraic geometry, geometric topology, geometric analysis and ...

    • 0510 - Groups and Geometries 

      [OWR-2005-12] Workshop Report 2005,12 (2005) - (06 Mar - 12 Mar 2005)
      The workshop Groups and Geometries was one of a series of Oberwolfach workshops which takes place every 3 years. It focused on finite simple groups, Lie-type groups and their interactions with geometry.

    • 0817 - Groups and Geometries 

      [OWR-2008-20] Workshop Report 2008,20 (2008) - (20 Apr - 26 Apr 2008)
      This was one of series of Oberwolfach workshops on Groups and Geometries which has taken place every 3 years for some time. There were three main inter-related themes: buildings and their relationship with algebraic groups; ...

    • 2249b - History of Mathematics through Collaboration: Toward a Composite Portrait of Oswald Veblen 

      [OWR-2022-56] Workshop Report 2022,56 (2022) - (04 Dec - 10 Dec 2022)
      Oswald Veblen played a pivotal role in the history of American mathematics in the twentieth century. His life, however, remains largely unstudied. This conference was designed to redress this issue by exploring Oswald ...

    • 1929b - Mathematical Foundations of Isogeometric Analysis 

      [OWR-2019-33] Workshop Report 2019,33 (2019) - (14 Jul - 20 Jul 2019)
      Isogeometric analysis is a recent technology for numerical simulation, unifying computer aided design and finite element analysis. It offers a true design-through-analysis pipeline by employing the same representation ...

    • 1751 - Mathematical Instruments between Material Artifacts and Ideal Machines: Their Scientific and Social Role before 1950 

      [OWR-2017-58] Workshop Report 2017,58 (2017) - (17 Dec - 23 Dec 2017)
      Since 1950, mathematicians have become increasingly familiar with the digital computer in their professional practice. Previously, however, many other instruments, now mostly forgotten, were commonly used to compute numerical ...

    • 2149a - Mini-Workshop: (Anosov)$^3$ (hybrid meeting) 

      [OWR-2021-56] Workshop Report 2021,56 (2021) - (05 Dec - 11 Dec 2021)
      Three different active fields are subsumed under the keyword Anosov theory: Spectral theory of Anosov flows, dynamical rigidity of Anosov actions, and Anosov representations. In all three fields there have been dynamic ...

    • 1440a - Mini-Workshop: Asymptotic Statistics on Stratified Spaces 

      [OWR-2014-44] Workshop Report 2014,44 (2014) - (28 Sep - 04 Oct 2014)
      Statistical analysis of non-Euclidean data such as data on manifolds is an active and established topic of research, for instance, in the statistical analysis of shape. However, many types of data naturally reside in metric ...

    • 2047b - Mini-Workshop: Dimers, Ising and Spanning Trees beyond the Critical Isoradial Case (online meeting) 

      [OWR-2020-35] Workshop Report 2020,35 (2020) - (15 Nov - 21 Nov 2020)
      The goal of this mini-workshop is to gather specialists of the dimer, Ising and spanning tree models around recent and ongoing progress in two directions. One is understanding the connection to the spectral curve of these ...

    • 1215a - Mini-Workshop: Generalizations of Symmetric Spaces 

      [OWR-2012-18] Workshop Report 2012,18 (2012) - (08 Apr - 14 Apr 2012)
      This workshop brought together experts from the areas of algebraic Lie theory, invariant theory, Kac–Moody theory and the theories of Tits buildings and of symmetric spaces. The main focus was on topics related to symmetric ...

    • 0950c - Mini-Workshop: Geometry of Quantum Entanglement 

      [OWR-2009-56] Workshop Report 2009,56 (2009) - (06 Dec - 12 Dec 2009)
      The workshop aimed at developing interactions between researchers from quantum information theory and from asymptotic geometric analysis. A central notion discussed was the phenomenon of quantum entanglement, which naturally ...

    • 1606c - Mini-Workshop: Mathematical Foundations of Isogeometric Analysis 

      [OWR-2016-8] Workshop Report 2016,8 (2016) - (07 Feb - 13 Feb 2016)
      Isogeometric Analysis (IgA) is a new paradigm which is designed to merge two so far disjoint disciplines, namely, numerical simulations for partial differential equations (PDEs) and applied geometry. Initiated by the ...

    • 2106c - Mini-Workshop: Nonpositively Curved Complexes (online meeting) 

      [OWR-2021-8] Workshop Report 2021,8 (2021) - (07 Feb - 13 Feb 2021)
      The leading theme of the meeting was to understand nonpositively curved complexes and groups acting on them. Motivations, questions, results, and techniques being presented and discussed come from various areas of ...

    • 1915b - Mini-Workshop: Reflection Groups in Negative Curvature 

      [OWR-2019-17] Workshop Report 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 ...