Browsing Oberwolfach Reports by MSC "83"

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    • 0734 - Analysis and Geometric Singularities 

      [OWR-2007-41] Workshop Report 2007,41 (2007) - (19 Aug - 25 Aug 2007)
      This workshop focused on several main areas of current research concerning analysis on singular and noncompact spaces. Topics included classical areas like spectral asymptotics, propagation of singularities and scattering ...

    • 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

    • 1039 - Deformation Methods in Mathematics and Physics 

      [OWR-2010-43] Workshop Report 2010,43 (2010) - (26 Sep - 01 Oct 2010)
      Deformations of mathematical structures play an important role in most parts of mathematics but also in theoretical physics. In this interdisciplinary workshop, different aspects of deformations and their applications were ...

    • 0603 - Deformations and Contractions in Mathematics and Physics 

      [OWR-2006-3] Workshop Report 2006,3 (2006) - (15 Jan - 21 Jan 2006)
      Deformations of mathematical structures are not only important in most parts of mathematics but also to a large extend in physics. Contractions are in some respect dual to deformations. The workshop brought together world ...

    • 0727 - Differentialgeometrie im Grossen 

      [OWR-2007-32] Workshop Report 2007,32 (2007) - (01 Jul - 07 Jul 2007)
      Abstract. 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 ...

    • 0532 - Differentialgeometrie im Großen 

      [OWR-2005-35] Workshop Report 2005,35 (2005) - (07 Aug - 13 Aug 2005)
      The meeting continued the biannual conference series Differentialgeometrie im Großen at the MFO which was established in the 60’s by Klingenberg and Chern. While global Riemannian geometry with its connections to geometric ...

    • 1607b - Hochschild Cohomology in Algebra, Geometry, and Topology 

      [OWR-2016-10] Workshop Report 2016,10 (2016) - (14 Feb - 20 Feb 2016)
      In 1945 Gerhard Hochschild published "On the cohomology groups of an associative algebra" in the Annals of Mathematics and thereby created what is now called Hochschild theory. In 1963, Murray Gerstenhaber proved that the ...

    • 0602 - Mathematical Aspects of General Relativity 

      [OWR-2006-2] Workshop Report 2006,2 (2006) - (08 Jan - 14 Jan 2006)
      The conference covered mathematical general relativity. The Einstein equations, the key to the subject, can be split into constraints and evolution equations. Many of the talks at the conference concerned the constraints ...

    • 1231 - Mathematical Aspects of General Relativity 

      [OWR-2012-37] Workshop Report 2012,37 (2012) - (29 Jul - 04 Aug 2012)
      Mathematical general relativity, the subject of this workshop, is a remarkable confluence of different areas of mathematics. Einstein’s equation, the focus of mathematical relativity, is one of the most fruitful nonlinear ...

    • 1529 - Mathematical Aspects of General Relativity 

      [OWR-2015-33] Workshop Report 2015,33 (2015) - (12 Jul - 18 Jul 2015)
      The general theory of relativity is a remarkably accurate theory of gravitation, describing phenomena from the level of isolated bodies to the universe as a whole. The mathematical study of this theory leads to fascinating ...

    • 0942 - Mathematical Aspects of General Relativity 

      [OWR-2009-46] Workshop Report 2009,46 (2009) - (11 Oct - 17 Oct 2009)
      Mathematical relativity, the subject of this conference, has recently become more and more devoted to the theory of nonlinear evolution equations, with global questions becoming ever more accessible. This is reflected by ...

    • 2135 - Mathematical Aspects of General Relativity (hybrid meeting) 

      [OWR-2021-40] Workshop Report 2021,40 (2021) - (29 Aug - 04 Sep 2021)
      General relativity is an area that naturally combines differential geometry, partial differential equations, global analysis and dynamical systems with astrophysics, cosmology, high energy physics, and numerical analysis. ...

    • 1832 - Mathematical General Relativity 

      [OWR-2018-36] Workshop Report 2018,36 (2018) - (05 Aug - 11 Aug 2018)
      General Relativity is one of the triumphs of twentieth century physics. Its spectacular predictions include gravitational waves, black holes, and spacetime singularities. The mathematical study of this theory leads to deep ...

    • 0807c - Mini-Workshop: Attraction to Solitary Waves and Related Aspects of Physics 

      [OWR-2008-8] Workshop Report 2008,8 (2008) - (10 Feb - 16 Feb 2008)

    • 1409c - Mini-Workshop: Batalin-Vilkovisky Algebras, Operads, and Hopf Algebroids 

      [OWR-2014-11] Workshop Report 2014,11 (2014) - (23 Feb - 01 Mar 2014)
      This workshop brought together 17 researchers whose work involves Batalin–Vilkovisky algebras, operads, and related structures such as Gerstenhaber algebras and cyclic homology. It featured introductory lectures on some ...

    • 2051a - Mini-Workshop: Relativistic Fluids at the Intersection of Mathematics and Physics (online meeting) 

      [OWR-2020-42] Workshop Report 2020,42 (2020) - (13 Dec - 19 Dec 2020)
      Relativistic Hydrodynamics is the description of fluid motion in regimes where relativistic effects are important. This is the case for fluids moving at high velocities or interacting with very strong gravitational fields, ...

    • 1507c - Mini-Workshop: Singularities in G2-geometry 

      [OWR-2015-8] Workshop Report 2015,8 (2015) - (08 Feb - 14 Feb 2015)
      All currently known construction methods of smooth compact $\mathrm G_2$-manifolds have been tied to certain singular $\mathrm G_2$-spaces, which in Joyce’s original construction are $\mathrm G_2$-orbifolds and in Kovalev’s ...

    • 1006b - Noncommutative Geometry and Loop Quantum Gravity: Loops, Algebras and Spectral Triples 

      [OWR-2010-9] Workshop Report 2010,9 (2010) - (07 Feb - 13 Feb 2010)
      Spectral triples have recently turned out to be relevant for different approaches that aim at quantizing gravity and the other fundamental forces of nature in a mathematically rigorous way. The purpose of this workshop was ...

    • 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 ...

    • 2222 - Universality: Random Matrices, Random Geometry and SPDEs 

      [OWR-2022-27] Workshop Report 2022,27 (2022) - (29 May - 04 Jun 2022)
      The postulate that large random systems can be described by limiting objects whose characteristic do not depend on the exact details of the models one started from is central in probability theory, under the name of ...