Browsing Oberwolfach Reports by MSC "78"

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    • 0816 - Analysis of Boundary Element Methods 

      [OWR-2008-19] Workshop Report 2008,19 (2008) - (13 Apr - 19 Apr 2008)
      At this workshop challenging problems in boundary element research were addressed. Diverse topics from high frequency acoustics/electromagnetic scattering to time domain problems describing wave propagation were covered. ...

    • 2242 - Arbeitsgemeinschaft: Quantitative Stochastic Homogenization 

      [OWR-2022-48] Workshop Report 2022,48 (2022) - (16 Oct - 22 Oct 2022)
      Homogenization means approximating the effective, i.e. macroscopic, behavior of a heterogeneous medium by a homogeneous one, which amounts to a substantial conceptual and practical reduction of complexity. Stochastic ...

    • 2006a - Boundary Element Methods 

      [OWR-2020-5] Workshop Report 2020,5 (2020) - (02 Feb - 08 Feb 2020)
      The field of boundary element methods (BEM) relies on recasting boundary value problems for (mostly linear) partial differential equations as (usually singular) integral equations on boundaries of domains or interfaces. ...

    • 1007 - Computational Electromagnetism and Acoustics 

      [OWR-2010-10] Workshop Report 2010,10 (2010) - (14 Feb - 20 Feb 2010)
      The challenge inherent in the accurate and efficient numerical modeling of wave propagation phenomena is the common grand theme in both computational electromagnetics and acoustics. Many excellent contributions at this ...

    • 1304 - Computational Electromagnetism and Acoustics 

      [OWR-2013-3] Workshop Report 2013,3 (2013) - (20 Jan - 26 Jan 2013)
      Computational electromagnetics and acoustics revolve around a few key challenges, among which are the non-local nature of the underlying phenomena and resonance effects. The bulk of the contributions to the workshop addressed ...

    • 0706 - Computational Electromagnetism and Acoustics 

      [OWR-2007-5] Workshop Report 2007,5 (2007) - (04 Feb - 10 Feb 2007)
      It is a moot point to stress the significance of accurate and fast numerical methods for the simulation of electromagnetic fields and sound propagation for modern technology. This has triggered a surge of research in ...

    • 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 ...

    • 1931 - Computational Multiscale Methods 

      [OWR-2019-35] Workshop Report 2019,35 (2019) - (28 Jul - 03 Aug 2019)
      Many physical processes in material sciences or geophysics are characterized by inherently complex interactions across a large range of non-separable scales in space and time. The resolution of all features on all scales ...

    • 1338b - High-Resolution Mathematical and Numerical Analysis of Involution-Constrained PDEs 

      [OWR-2013-47] Workshop Report 2013,47 (2013) - (15 Sep - 21 Sep 2013)
      Partial differential equations constrained by involutions provide the highest fidelity mathematical models for a large number of complex physical systems of fundamental interest in critical scientific and technological ...

    • 0710b - Inverse Problems in Wave Scattering 

      [OWR-2007-13] Workshop Report 2007,13 (2007) - (04 Mar - 10 Mar 2007)
      The workshop treated inverse problems for partial differential equations, especially inverse scattering problems, and their applications in technology. While special attention was paid to sampling methods, decomposition ...

    • 0951 - Material Theories 

      [OWR-2009-57] Workshop Report 2009,57 (2009) - (13 Dec - 19 Dec 2009)
      This biennial workshop brings together mathematicians, mechanicians and theoretical physicists interested in developing new mathematical models of complex materials, medias and systems. The workshop covers a wide range of ...

    • 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 ...

    • 1851c - Mini-Workshop: Mathematical and Numerical Analysis of Maxwell's Equations 

      [OWR-2018-57] Workshop Report 2018,57 (2018) - (16 Dec - 22 Dec 2018)
      In this mini-workshop 17 leading mathematicians from Europe and United States met at the MFO to discuss and present new developments in the mathematical and numerical analysis of Maxwell’s equations and related systems of ...

    • 2411b - Nonlinear Optics: Physics, Analysis, and Numerics 

      [OWR-2024-13] Workshop Report 2024,13 (2024) - (10 Mar - 15 Mar 2024)
      When high-intensity electromagnetic waves at optical frequencies interact with solids and/or nanostructures the materials' response cannot anymore be described via simple linear relations. The resulting science of nonlinear ...

    • 2215a - Structure-Preserving Discretizations for Nonlinear Systems of Hyperbolic, Involution-Constrained Partial Differential Equations on Manifolds 

      [OWR-2022-19] Workshop Report 2022,19 (2022) - (10 Apr - 16 Apr 2022)
      The topic of this workshop was the study of mathematical and numerical analysis for involution-constrained hyperbolic partial differential equations on manifolds. An example is the positivity of the density for the ...