Oberwolfach Reports: Recent submissions

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    • 1922 - Foundations and New Horizons for Causal Inference 

      [OWR-2019-25] Workshop Report 2019,25 (2019) - (26 May - 01 Jun 2019)
      While causal inference is established in some disciplines such as econometrics and biostatistics, it is only starting to emerge as a valuable tool in areas such as machine learning and artificial intelligence. The ...

    • 1921 - Nonlinear Hyperbolic Problems: modeling, analysis, and numerics 

      [OWR-2019-24] Workshop Report 2019,24 (2019) - (19 May - 25 May 2019)
      The workshop gathered together leading international experts, as well as most promising young researchers, working on the modelling, the mathematical analysis, and the numerical methods for nonlinear hyperbolic ...

    • 1920 - Geometry and Physics of Higgs Bundles 

      [OWR-2019-23] Workshop Report 2019,23 (2019) - (12 May - 18 May 2019)
      This workshop focused on interactions between the various perspectives on the moduli space of Higgs bundles over a Riemann surface. This subject draws on algebraic geometry, geometric topology, geometric analysis and ...

    • 1919 - Statistical and Computational Aspects of Learning with Complex Structure 

      [OWR-2019-22] Workshop Report 2019,22 (2019) - (05 May - 11 May 2019)
      The recent explosion of data that is routinely collected has led scientists to contemplate more and more sophisticated structural assumptions. Understanding how to harness and exploit such structure is key to improving the ...

    • 1918 - Tropical Geometry: new directions 

      [OWR-2019-21] Workshop Report 2019,21 (2019) - (28 Apr - 04 May 2019)
      The workshop "Tropical Geometry: New Directions" was devoted to a wide discussion and exchange of ideas between the leading experts representing various points of view on the subject, notably, to new phenomena that have ...

    • 1917 - Mathematical Methods in Quantum Molecular Dynamics 

      [OWR-2019-20] Workshop Report 2019,20 (2019) - (21 Apr - 27 Apr 2019)
      The workshop on "Mathematical Methods in Quantum Molecular Dynamics" has brought together chemists, mathematicians, and physicists developing new mathematical methods for studying the motion of atoms in molecules and in ...

    • 1916 - Combinatorics, Probability and Computing 

      [OWR-2019-19] Workshop Report 2019,19 (2019) - (14 Apr - 20 Apr 2019)
      The main theme of this workshop was the use of probabilistic methods in combinatorics and theoretical computer science. Although these methods have been around for decades, they are being refined all the time: they are ...

    • 1915c - Mini-Workshop: Mathematics of Crystallisation 

      [OWR-2019-18] Workshop Report 2019,18 (2019) - (07 Apr - 13 Apr 2019)
      Crystallisation, by which we mean the formation of solids precipitating from a solution, is the central theme of the present mini-workshop. Participants discussed different approaches towards a rigorous mathematical ...

    • 1915b - Mini-Workshop: Reflection Groups in Negative Curvature 

      [OWR-2019-17] Workshop Report 2019,17 (2019) - (07 Apr - 13 Apr 2019)
      Discrete groups generated by reflections constitute an important source of examples of lattices in simple Lie groups of real rank $1$ (whose associated symmetric spaces are negatively curved). Yet a classification for ...

    • 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 ...