Oberwolfach Reports: Recent submissions

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    • 1915a - Mini-Workshop: Recent Progress in Path Integration on Graphs and Manifolds 

      [OWR-2019-16] Workshop Report 2019,16 (2019) - (07 Apr - 13 Apr 2019)
      Ever since Richard Feynman's PhD thesis, path integrals have played a decisive role in mathematical physics. While it is well-known that such formulae can hold only formally, it was Mark Kac who realized that by replacing ...

    • 1914 - Arbeitsgemeinschaft: Elliptic Cohomology according to Lurie 

      [OWR-2019-15] Workshop Report 2019,15 (2019)
      In this collection we give an overview of Jacob Lurie's construction of elliptic cohomology and Lubin Tate theory. As opposed to the original construction by Goerss-Hopkins-Miller, which uses heavy obstruction theory, ...

    • 2004 - Representation Theory of Quivers and Finite Dimensional Algebras 

      [OWR-2020-3] Workshop Report 2020,3 (2020) - (19 Jan - 25 Jan 2020)
      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 ...

    • 2009b - Mini-Workshop: Superpotentials in Algebra and Geometry 

      [OWR-2020-10] Workshop Report 2020,10 (2020) - (23 Feb - 29 Feb 2020)
      Mirror symmetry has been at the epicenter of many mathematical discoveries in the past twenty years. It was discovered by physicists in the setting of super conformal field theories (SCFTs) associated to closed string ...

    • 2008 - Low-dimensional Topology 

      [OWR-2020-8] Workshop Report 2020,8 (2020) - (16 Feb - 22 Feb 2020)
      The workshop brought together experts from across all areas of low-dimensional topology, including knot theory, mapping class groups, three-manifolds and four-manifolds. In addition to the standard research talks we had ...

    • 2003 - Model Theory: Groups, Geometries and Combinatorics 

      [OWR-2020-2] Workshop Report 2020,2 (2020) - (12 Jan - 18 Jan 2020)
      The focus of the conference were recent interactions between model theory, group theory and combinatorics in finite geometries. In some cases, in particular in non-archimedean geometry or combinatorics in finite geometries, ...

    • 2011 - Mechanics of Materials: Towards Predictive Methods for Kinetics in Plasticity, Fracture, and Damage 

      [OWR-2020-13] Workshop Report 2020,13 (2020) - (08 Mar - 14 Mar 2020)
      The workshop dealt with current advances of computational methods, mathematics and continuum mechanics directed at thermodynamically consistent forms of constitutive equations for complex evolutionary phenomena in modern ...

    • 2010 - Real Algebraic Geometry with a View Toward Hyperbolic Programming and Free Probability 

      [OWR-2020-12] Workshop Report 2020,12 (2020) - (01 Mar - 07 Mar 2020)
      Continuing the tradition initiated in the MFO workshops held in 2014 and 2017, this workshop was dedicated to the newest developments in real algebraic geometry and polynomial optimization, with a particular emphasis on ...

    • 2009a - Mini-Workshop: Kronecker, Plethysm, and Sylow Branching Coefficients and their Applications to Complexity Theory 

      [OWR-2020-9] Workshop Report 2020,9 (2020) - (23 Feb - 29 Feb 2020)
      The Kronecker, plethysm and Sylow branching coefficients describe the decomposition of representations of symmetric groups obtained by tensor products and induction. Understanding these decompositions has been hailed ...

    • 2009c - Mini-Workshop: One-sided and Two-sided Stochastic Descriptions 

      [OWR-2020-11] Workshop Report 2020,11 (2020) - (23 Feb - 29 Feb 2020)
      We consider the set of discrete time stochastic processes which are dependent on their past, and the set of those that depend on both their past and their future. As long as we only allow dependence on a finite number of ...

    • 1913 - Representations of Finite Groups 

      [OWR-2019-14] Workshop Report 2019,14 (2019) - (24 Mar - 30 Mar 2019)
      The workshop Representations of Finite Groups was organised by Joseph Chuang (London), Meinolf Geck (Stuttgart), Radha Kessar (London) and Gabriel Navarro (Valencia). It covered a wide variety of aspects of representation ...

    • 1912 - Contemporary Coding Theory 

      [OWR-2019-13] Workshop Report 2019,13 (2019) - (17 Mar - 23 Mar 2019)
      Coding Theory naturally lies at the intersection of a large number of disciplines in pure and applied mathematics. A multitude of methods and means has been designed to construct, analyze, and decode the resulting ...

    • 1911 - Uncertainty Quantification 

      [OWR-2019-12] Workshop Report 2019,12 (2019) - (10 Mar - 16 Mar 2019)
      Uncertainty quantification (UQ) is concerned with including and characterising uncertainties in mathematical models. Major steps comprise proper description of system uncertainties, analysis and efficient quantification ...

    • 1910c - Mini-Workshop: Cohomology of Hopf Algebras and Tensor Categories 

      [OWR-2019-11] Workshop Report 2019,11 (2019) - (03 Mar - 09 Mar 2019)
      The mini-workshop featured some open questions about the cohomology of Hopf algebras and tensor categories. Questions included whether the cohomology ring of a finite dimensional Hopf algebra or a finite tensor ...

    • 1910b - Mini-Workshop: Lorentz Gas Dynamics: particle systems and scaling limits 

      [OWR-2019-10] Workshop Report 2019,10 (2019) - (03 Mar - 09 Mar 2019)
      This workshop had the aim to bring together leading experts from different fields, i.e. interacting particle systems, dynamical systems and kinetic theory, to consider questions related to the dynamics of the Lorentz gas ...

    • 1910a - Mini-Workshop: Mathematical Aspects of Nonlinear Wave Propagation in Solid Mechanics 

      [OWR-2019-9] Workshop Report 2019,9 (2019) - (03 Mar - 09 Mar 2019)
      Nonlinear elastodynamics sets a plethora of challenging mathematical problems such as those concerning wave propagation in solids. Elastic vibrations and acoustic waves have been widely studied because of their ...

    • 1909 - Non-Archimedean Geometry and Applications 

      [OWR-2019-8] Workshop Report 2019,8 (2019) - (24 Feb - 02 Mar 2019)
      The workshop focused on recent developments in non-Archimedean analytic geometry with various applications to other fields. The topics of the talks included applications to complex geometry, mirror symmetry, p-adic Hodge ...

    • 1908 - Moist Processes in the Atmosphere 

      [OWR-2019-7] Workshop Report 2019,7 (2019) - (17 Feb - 23 Feb 2019)
      Processes related to water in the atmosphere lead to severe uncertainties in weather forecasting and climate research. Atmospheric water vapor and cloud water strongly influence the Earth's energy budget through, ...

    • 1907 - Singularities and Homological Aspects of Commutative Algebra 

      [OWR-2019-6] Workshop Report 2019,6 (2019) - (10 Feb - 16 Feb 2019)
      Commutative algebra has recently witnessed a number of spectacular developments, resulting in the resolution of long-standing problems. The new techniques and perspectives, such as methods from the theory of perfectoid ...

    • 1906 - Nonlinear Evolution Equations: Analysis and Numerics 

      [OWR-2019-5] Workshop Report 2019,5 (2019) - (03 Feb - 09 Feb 2019)
      The qualitative theory of nonlinear evolution equations is an important tool for studying the dynamical behavior of systems in science and technology. A thorough understanding of the complex behavior of such systems ...