Oberwolfach Reports: Recent submissions

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    • 1144 - Emigration of Mathematicians and Transmission of Mathematics: Historical Lessons and Consequences of the Third Reich 

      [OWR-2011-51] Workshop Report 2011,51 (2011) - (30 Oct - 05 Nov 2011)
      This conference provided a focused venue to explore the intellectual migration of mathematicians and mathematics spurred by the Nazis and still influential today. The week of talks and discussions (both formal and informal) ...

    • 1143a - Correlations and Interactions for Random Quantum Systems 

      [OWR-2011-50] Workshop Report 2011,50 (2011) - (23 Oct - 29 Oct 2011)
      Random quantum systems cover a broad range of mathematical models from random Schrödinger operators to random matrices and quantum spin models with random parameters. Their understanding requires techniques which combine ...

    • 1141 - Arbeitsgemeinschaft: Quantum Ergodicity 

      [OWR-2011-49] Workshop Report 2011,49 (2011) - (09 Oct - 14 Oct 2011)
      Quantum Ergodicity aims at understanding the eigenstates of quantum mechanical systems admitting chaotic classical limiting dynamics. A paradigmatic system is the Laplace-Beltrami operator on a compact manifold of negative ...

    • 1140 - Very High Dimensional Semiparametric Models 

      [OWR-2011-48] Workshop Report 2011,48 (2011) - (02 Oct - 08 Oct 2011)
      Very high dimensional semiparametric models play a major role in many areas, in particular in signal detection problems when sparse signals or sparse events are hidden among high dimensional noise. Concrete examples are ...

    • 1139 - Complex Algebraic Geometry 

      [OWR-2011-47] Workshop Report 2011,47 (2011) - (25 Sep - 01 Oct 2011)
      The conference focused on several classical and modern topics in the realm of complex algebraic geometry, such as moduli spaces, birational geometry and the minimal model program, Mirror symmetry and Gromov–Witten invariants, ...

    • 1138 - Homotopy Theory 

      [OWR-2011-46] Workshop Report 2011,46 (2011) - (18 Sep - 24 Sep 2011)
      This workshop was a forum to present and discuss the latest result and ideas in homotopy theory and the connections to other branches of mathematics, such as algebraic geometry, representation theory and group theory.

    • 1137 - Noncommutative Geometry 

      [OWR-2011-45] Workshop Report 2011,45 (2011) - (11 Sep - 17 Sep 2011)
      Noncommutative Geometry applies ideas from geometry to mathematical structures determined by noncommuting variables. This meeting concentrated primarily on those aspects of Noncommutative Geometry that are related to index ...

    • 1136 - Discrete Geometry 

      [OWR-2011-44] Workshop Report 2011,44 (2011) - (04 Sep - 10 Sep 2011)
      A number of remarkable recent developments in many branches of discrete geometry have been presented at the workshop, some of them demonstrating strong interactions with other fields of mathematics (such as algebraic ...

    • 1135 - The Analytic Theory of Automorphic Forms 

      [OWR-2011-43] Workshop Report 2011,43 (2011) - (28 Aug - 03 Sep 2011)
      The workshop brought together leading experts in the theory of automorphic forms. Recently developed analytic, geometric and ergodic methods have enabled several important results in the theory for $GL(2)$, and also made ...

    • 1134c - Mini-Workshop: Mathematics of Machine Learning 

      [OWR-2011-42] Workshop Report 2011,42 (2011) - (21 Aug - 27 Aug 2011)
      This is a report for a mini-workshop on the mathematical theory of learning. The purpose of the workshop was to bring together internationally recognized experts and young researchers to discuss new approaches, trends, and ...

    • 1134a - Mini-Workshop: Dynamics of Stochastic Systems and their Approximation 

      [OWR-2011-40] Workshop Report 2011,40 (2011) - (21 Aug - 27 Aug 2011)
      The aim of this workshop was to bring together specialists in the area of stochastic dynamical systems and stochastic numerical analysis to exchange their ideas about the state of the art of approximations of stochastic ...

    • 1134b - Mini-Workshop: New Developments in Newton-Okounov Bodies 

      [OWR-2011-41] Workshop Report 2011,41 (2011) - (21 Aug - 27 Aug 2011)
      The theory of Newton-Okounkov bodies, also called Okounkov bodies, is a new connection between algebraic geometry and convex geometry. It generalizes the well-known and extremely rich correspondence between geometry of ...

    • 1133 - Applied Dynamics and Geometric Mechanics 

      [OWR-2011-39] Workshop Report 2011,39 (2011) - (14 Aug - 20 Aug 2011)
      This one week workshop was organized around several central subjects in applied dynamics and geometric mechanics. The specific organization with afternoons free for discussion led to intense exchanges of ideas. Bridges ...

    • 1132 - Partial Differential Equations 

      [OWR-2011-38] Workshop Report 2011,38 (2011) - (07 Aug - 13 Aug 2011)
      The workshop dealt with partial differential equations in geometry and technical applications. The main topics were the combination of nonlinear partial differential equations and geometric problems, regularity of free ...

    • 1131 - Computational Group Theory 

      [OWR-2011-37] Workshop Report 2011,37 (2011) - (31 Jul - 06 Aug 2011)
      This sixth workshop on Computational Group Theory proved that its main themes “finitely presented groups”, “$p$-groups”, “matrix groups” and “representations of groups” are lively and active fields of research. The talks ...

    • 1130 - Real Analysis, Harmonic Analysis and Applications 

      [OWR-2011-36] Workshop Report 2011,36 (2011) - (24 Jul - 30 Jul 2011)
      The workshop has focused on important developments within the last few years in the point of view and methods of real and harmonic Analysis as well as significant concurrent progress in the application of these to various ...

    • 1129 - Explicit Methods in Number Theory 

      [OWR-2011-35] Workshop Report 2011,35 (2011) - (17 Jul - 23 Jul 2011)
      These notes contain extended abstracts on the topic of explicit methods in number theory. The range of topics includes the Sato-Tate conjecure, Langlands programme, function fields, L-functions and many other topics.

    • 1128 - Dynamische Systeme 

      [OWR-2011-34] Workshop Report 2011,34 (2011) - (10 Jul - 16 Jul 2011)
      This workshop continued the biannual series at Oberwolfach on Dynamical Systems that started as the ”Moser-Zehnder meeting” in 1981. The main themes of the workshop are the new results and developments in the area of ...

    • 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, ...

    • 1126 - Mathematical Methods in Quantum Chemistry 

      [OWR-2011-32] Workshop Report 2011,32 (2011) - (26 Jun - 02 Jul 2011)
      The field of quantum chemistry is concerned with the analysis and simulation of chemical phenomena on the basis of the fundamental equations of quantum mechanics. Since the ‘exact’ electronic Schrödinger equation for a ...