Oberwolfach Reports: Recent submissions

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    • 1110 - Automorphic Forms: New Directions 

      [OWR-2011-14] Workshop Report 2011,14 (2011) - (06 Mar - 12 Mar 2011)
      The workshop on Automorphic Forms: New Directions provided a nice glimpse of the many streams of current research activity in this very active area. Topics included the relative trace formula and periods of automorphic ...

    • 1109a - Mini-Workshop: The Homotopy Interpretation of Constructive Type Theory 

      [OWR-2011-11] Workshop Report 2011,11 (2011) - (27 Feb - 05 Mar 2011)
      Over the past few years it has become apparent that there is a surprising and deep connection between constructive logic and higherdimensional structures in algebraic topology and category theory, in the form of an ...

    • 1109b - Mini-Workshop: History of Numerical and Graphical Tables 

      [OWR-2011-12] Workshop Report 2011,12 (2011) - (27 Feb - 05 Mar 2011)
      Numerical tables were one of the most commonly used instruments of calculation from the earliest periods for which we have evidence of mathematical activity until the appearance of computing machines. Such tables (including ...

    • 1109c - Mini-Workshop: Level Sets and Depth Contours in High Dimensional Data 

      [OWR-2011-13] Workshop Report 2011,13 (2011) - (27 Feb - 05 Mar 2011)
      Extraction of information about the distribution underlying a high-dimensional data set is a formidable, complex problem dominating modern nonparametric statistics. Two general strategies are (i) to extract merely qualitative ...

    • 1108 - Representation Theory of Quivers and Finite Dimensional Algebras 

      [OWR-2011-10] Workshop Report 2011,10 (2011) - (20 Feb - 26 Feb 2011)
      Methods and results from the representation theory of quivers and finite dimensional algebras have led to many interactions with other areas of mathematics. Such areas include the theory of Lie algebras and quantum groups, ...

    • 1107 - Geometric Quantization in the Non-compact Setting 

      [OWR-2011-9] Workshop Report 2011,9 (2011) - (13 Feb - 19 Feb 2011)
      The purpose of the workshop was to bring together mathematicians interested in ”quantization of manifolds” in a broad sense: given classical data, such as a Lie group G acting on a symplectic manifold M, construct a quantum ...

    • 1106 - Topological and Geometric Combinatorics 

      [OWR-2011-8] Workshop Report 2011,8 (2011) - (06 Feb - 12 Feb 2011)
      The 2011 Oberwolfach meeting “Topological and Geometric Combinatorics” was organized by Anders Björner (Stockholm), Gil Kalai (Jerusalem), Isabella Novik (Seattle), and Günter M. Ziegler (Berlin). It covered a wide variety ...

    • 1105 - Trends in Mathematical Imaging and Surface Processing 

      [OWR-2011-7] Workshop Report 2011,7 (2011) - (30 Jan - 05 Feb 2011)
      Motivated both by industrial applications and the challenge of new problems, one observes an increasing interest in the field of image and surface processing over the last years. It has become clear that even though the ...

    • 1104 - Stochastic Analysis in Finance and Insurance 

      [OWR-2011-6] Workshop Report 2011,6 (2011) - (23 Jan - 29 Jan 2011)
      This workshop brought together leading experts and a large number of younger researchers in stochastic analysis and mathematical finance from all over the world. During a highly intense week, participants exchanged during ...

    • 1103b - Mini-Workshop: Mathematical Analysis for Peridynamics 

      [OWR-2011-4] Workshop Report 2011,4 (2011) - (16 Jan - 22 Jan 2011)
      A mathematical analysis for peridynamics, a nonlocal elastic theory, is the subject of the mini-workshop. Peridynamics is a novel multiscale mechanical model where the canonical divergence of the stress tensor is replaced ...

    • 1103a - Mini-Workshop: Dynamics of Trace Maps and Applications to Spectral Theory 

      [OWR-2011-3] Workshop Report 2011,3 (2011) - (16 Jan - 22 Jan 2011)
      Recently some exciting results for the spectrum of Schrödinger operators with self-similar potentials and the dynamics of the associated Schrödinger equation have been established using input from complex and smooth dynamics. ...

    • 1103c - Mini-Workshop: Nonlinear Least Squares in Shape Identification Problems 

      [OWR-2011-5] Workshop Report 2011,5 (2011) - (16 Jan - 22 Jan 2011)
      This mini-workshop brought together mathematicians engaged in shape optimization and in inverse problems in order to address a specific class of problems on the reconstruction of geometries. Such a problem can be formulated ...

    • 1102 - Set Theory 

      [OWR-2011-2] Workshop Report 2011,2 (2011) - (09 Jan - 15 Jan 2011)
      This stimulating workshop exposed some of the most exciting recent develops in set theory, including major new results about the proper forcing axiom, stationary reflection, gaps in P(ω)/Fin, iterated forcing, the tree ...

    • 1101 - Combinatorics 

      [OWR-2011-1] Workshop Report 2011,1 (2011) - (02 Jan - 08 Jan 2011)
      Combinatorics is a fundamental mathematical discipline which focuses on the study of discrete objects and their properties. The current workshop brought together researchers from diverse fields such as Extremal and ...

    • 1050b - Mini-Workshop: Wellposedness and Controllability of Evolution Equations 

      [OWR-2010-56] Workshop Report 2010,56 (2010) - (12 Dec - 18 Dec 2010)
      This mini-workshop brought together mathematicians engaged in partial differential equations, operator theory, functional analysis and harmonic analysis in order to address a number of current problems in the wellposedness ...

    • 1050a - Mini-Workshop: 1-Motives 

      [OWR-2010-55] Workshop Report 2010,55 (2010) - (12 Dec - 18 Dec 2010)
      One-motives were introduced by Deligne in 1974 [10], as a generalization of the theory of semiabelian varieties. Viewed today, after Voevodsky’s theory of mixed motives [31], it can be understood as motives of level ≤ 1. ...

    • 1050c - Mini-Workshop: Algebraic and Analytic Techniques for Polynomial Vector Fields 

      [OWR-2010-57] Workshop Report 2010,57 (2010) - (12 Dec - 18 Dec 2010)
      Polynomial vector fields are in the focus of research in various areas of mathematics and its applications. As a consequence, researchers from rather different disciplines work with polynomial vector fields. The main goal ...

    • 1049 - Classical and Quantum Mechanical Models of Many-Particle Systems 

      [OWR-2010-54] Workshop Report 2010,54 (2010) - (05 Dec - 11 Dec 2010)
      The topic of this meeting were non-linear partial differential and integro-differential equations (in particular kinetic equations and their macroscopic/fluid-dynamical limits) modeling the dynamics of many-particle systems ...

    • 1048 - Teichmüller Theory 

      [OWR-2010-53] Workshop Report 2010,53 (2010) - (28 Nov - 04 Dec 2010)
      This is a report on the workshop on Teichmüller theory held in Oberwolfach, from November 28 to December 4, 2010. The workshop brought together people working in various aspects of the field, with a focus on recent ...

    • 1046b - Representation Theory and Harmonic Analysis 

      [OWR-2010-52] Workshop Report 2010,52 (2010) - (14 Nov - 20 Nov 2010)
      The workshop gave an overview of current research in the representation theory and harmonic analysis of reductive Lie groups and its relation to algebraic number theory. Some particular topics covered in the 17 talks related ...