Oberwolfach Reports: Recent submissions
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2508c - MFO-RIMS Tandem Workshop: Optimization, Theoretical Computer Science and Algebraic Geometry: Convexity and Beyond
[OWR-2025-9] (2025) - (16 Feb - 21 Feb 2025)The joint workshop brought together leading experts from real algebraic geometry, computational algebra, polynomial optimization, and theoretical computer science. The event fostered vibrant interdisciplinary exchange, ... -
2508b - Mini-Workshop: Statistical Challenges for Deep Generative Models
[OWR-2025-8] (2025) - (16 Feb - 21 Feb 2025)Over the last decade, deep generative modelling has emerged as a powerful probabilistic tool in machine learning. The idea behind generative modelling is simple: transform noise to create new data that matches a given ... -
2508a - Mini-Workshop: New Directions in Correlated Quantum Systems
[OWR-2025-7] (2025) - (16 Feb - 21 Feb 2025)The mathematical study of quantum many-body physics has seen significant breakthroughs in the past 15-20 years. Mathematical physicists have approached these systems from different perspectives with different methods. The ... -
2507 - Geometric Structures in Group Theory
[OWR-2025-6] (2025) - (09 Feb - 14 Feb 2025)The general subject of the conference was geometric group theory, that is the study of groups via suitable actions on spaces endowed with additional structures, for instance a distance, a measure (class), or both of them ... -
2506 - Mathematical Imaging and Surface Processing
[OWR-2025-5] (2025) - (02 Feb - 07 Feb 2025)The workshop "Mathematical Imaging and Surface Processing" is designed to foster exchange and collaboration between applied mathematicians and applied computer scientists on problems arising in computer graphics, geometry ... -
2505 - Overparametrization, Regularization, Identifiability and Uncertainty in Machine Learning
[OWR-2025-4] (2025) - (26 Jan - 31 Jan 2025)In machine learning, a field addressing the extraction of information and structure from finite data with the means of computer science and mathematics, maps from finite-dimensional spaces of data or computations into ... -
2504 - Cryptography
[OWR-2025-3] (2025) - (19 Jan - 24 Jan 2025)The science of cryptography lies at the very foundations of trust in current and future systems and devices for communication and computation. For example, secure communications over the internet today are possible thanks ... -
2503 - Set Theory
[OWR-2025-2] (2025) - (12 Jan - 17 Jan 2025)Set theory has experienced rapid development in the recent years, both in pure set theory and in its applications to other fields of mathematics. We have seen breakthroughs in combinatorial set theory, forcing, inner models, ... -
2502 - Graph Theory
[OWR-2025-1] (2025) - (05 Jan - 10 Jan 2025)The workshop provided a venue for discussing several recent major developments in graph theory, with a primary focus on results concerning the notion of twin-width and hereditary properties of graphs. Both areas have seen ... -
2451 - Convex Geometry and its Applications
[OWR-2024-58] (2024) - (15 Dec - 20 Dec 2024)The geometry of convex domains in Euclidean space plays a central role in several branches of mathematics: functional and harmonic analysis, the theory of PDEs, linear programming and, increasingly, in the study ... -
2450c - Mini-Workshop: Data-driven Modeling, Analysis, and Control of Dynamical Systems
[OWR-2024-57] (2024) - (08 Dec - 13 Dec 2024)With the rapid increase in data resources and computational power as well as the accompanying current trend to incorporate machine learning into existing methods, data-driven approaches for modelling, analysis, and control ... -
2450b - Mini-Workshop: High-Dimensional Control Problems and Mean-Field Equations with Applications in Machine Learning
[OWR-2024-56] (2024) - (08 Dec - 13 Dec 2024)High-dimensional control problems and mean field equations have been of increased interest in recent years and novel numerical tools tackling the curse of dimensionality have been developed. These optimization tasks are ... -
2450a - Mini-Workshop: Geometry of Random Fields and Random Walk Clusters: New Horizons
[OWR-2024-55] (2024) - (08 Dec - 13 Dec 2024)Critical phenomena represent a central theme in probability. Research has been going on for many decades and remains very active to date. Recently, models involving natural probabilistic objects such as random walks, loop ... -
2449 - Representations of p-adic Groups
[OWR-2024-54] (2024) - (01 Dec - 06 Dec 2024)Representation theory of $p$-adic groups is a topic at a crossroads. It links among others to harmonic analysis, algebraic geometry, number theory, Lie theory, and homological algebra. The atomic objects in the theory ... -
2447c - Mini-Workshop: Infinite-dimensional Kac-Moody Lie Algebras in Supergravity and M Theory
[OWR-2024-53] (2024) - (17 Nov - 22 Nov 2024)This mini-workshop explores the role played by infinite-dimensional Lie algebra of Kac-Moody type in supergravity and M theory. Deep conjectures about the role of affine, hyperbolic and other indefinite Kac-Moody algebras ... -
2447b - Mini-Workshop: Critical Phenomena of the XY Model
[OWR-2024-52] (2024) - (17 Nov - 22 Nov 2024)This mini-workshop focused on recent advances in probability theory concerned with the critical phenomena of the XY model and other related spin systems. There were 18 participants, all working at the forefront of this ... -
2447a - Mini-Workshop: Mixing Times in the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang Universality Class
[OWR-2024-51] (2024) - (17 Nov - 22 Nov 2024)The workshop covered new developments in the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) class of growth models and markov chain mixing, broadened by talks on random dimers, matrices and parking functions. Mixing is often related ... -
2446 - Combinatorial Optimization
[OWR-2024-50] (2024) - (10 Nov - 15 Nov 2024)Combinatorial optimization deals with optimization problems defined on polyhedral constraints or discrete structures such as graphs and networks. In the past thirty years the topic has developed into a rich mathematical ... -
2445 - Directions in Rough Analysis
[OWR-2024-49] (2024) - (03 Nov - 08 Nov 2024)Rough path theory emerged in the 1990s and was developed in the 2000s as an improved approach to understanding the interaction of complex random systems. As a broader alternative to stochastic calculus, it simultaneously settled ... -
2444 - Deep Learning for PDE-based Inverse Problems
[OWR-2024-48] (2024) - (27 Oct - 01 Nov 2024)Analysing learned concepts for PDE-based parameter identification problems requires input from different research areas such as inverse problems, partial differential equations, statistics and mathematical foundations ...