Oberwolfach Reports: Recent submissions

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    • 1705 - Applications of Optimal Transportation in the Natural Sciences 

      [OWR-2017-7] Workshop Report 2017,7 (2017) - (29 Jan - 04 Feb 2017)
      The aim of this workshop was to gather a mixed group of experts and young researchers from different areas of applied mathematics in which optimal transport plays a central role. Applications in one of the classical areas ...

    • 1704 - Emerging Developments in Interfaces and Free Boundaries 

      [OWR-2017-6] Workshop Report 2017,6 (2017) - (22 Jan - 28 Jan 2017)
      The field of the mathematical and numerical analysis of systems of nonlinear partial differential equations involving interfaces and free boundaries is a well established and flourishing area of research. This workshop ...

    • 1703 - Cryptography 

      [OWR-2017-5] Workshop Report 2017,5 (2017) - (15 Jan - 21 Jan 2017)
      The Oberwolfach workshop Cryptography brought together scientists from cryptography with mathematicians specializing in the algorithmic problems underlying cryptographic security. The goal of the workshop was to stimulate ...

    • 1702c - Mini-Workshop: Adaptive Methods for Control Problems Constrained by Time-Dependent PDEs 

      [OWR-2017-4] Workshop Report 2017,4 (2017) - (08 Jan - 14 Jan 2017)
      Optimization problems constrained by time-dependent PDEs (Partial Differential Equations) are challenging from a computational point of view: even in the simplest case, one needs to solve a system of PDEs coupled globally ...

    • 1702a - Mini-Workshop: Women in Mathematics: Historical and Modern Perspectives 

      [OWR-2017-2] Workshop Report 2017,2 (2017) - (08 Jan - 14 Jan 2017)
      The aim of the workshop is to build a bridge between research on the situation of women in mathematics at the beginning of coeducative studies and the current circumstances in academia. The issue of women in mathematics ...

    • 1702b - Mini-Workshop: Spaces and Moduli Spaces of Riemannian Metrics 

      [OWR-2017-3] Workshop Report 2017,3 (2017) - (08 Jan - 14 Jan 2017)
      The mini-workshop focused on central questions and new results concerning spaces and moduli spaces of Riemannian metrics with lower or upper curvature bounds on open and closed manifolds and, moreover, related themes from ...

    • 1701 - Combinatorics 

      [OWR-2017-1] Workshop Report 2017,1 (2017) - (01 Jan - 07 Jan 2017)
      Combinatorics is a fundamental mathematical discipline that focuses on the study of discrete objects and their properties. The present workshop featured research in such diverse areas as Extremal, Probabilistic and Algebraic ...

    • 1651a - Mini-Workshop: New Interactions between Homotopical Algebra and Quantum Field Theory 

      [OWR-2016-58] Workshop Report 2016,58 (2016) - (18 Dec - 23 Dec 2016)
      Recent developments in quantum field theory strongly call for techniques from homotopical algebra to develop the mathematical foundations of quantum gauge theories. This mini-workshop brought together experts working at ...

    • 1651c - Mini-Workshop: Surreal Numbers, Surreal Analysis, Hahn Fields and Derivations 

      [OWR-2016-60] Workshop Report 2016,60 (2016) - (18 Dec - 23 Dec 2016)
      New striking analogies between H. Hahn’s fields of generalised series with real coefficients, G. H. Hardy’s field of germs of real valued functions, and J. H. Conway’s field No of surreal numbers, have been lately discovered ...

    • 1651b - Mini-Workshop: Max Dehn: his Life, Work, and Influence 

      [OWR-2016-59] Workshop Report 2016,59 (2016) - (18 Dec - 23 Dec 2016)
      This mini-workshop is part of a long-term project that aims to produce a book documenting Max Dehn’s singular life and career. The meeting brought together scholars with various kinds of expertise, several of whom gave ...

    • 1650 - Asymptotic Phenomena in Local Algebra and Singularity Theory 

      [OWR-2016-57] Workshop Report 2016,57 (2016) - (11 Dec - 17 Dec 2016)
      The goal of this workshop was to highlight, and further, the interactions between local algebra and singularity theory. The timing was serendipitous for both subjects have witnessed tremendous progress recently, much of ...

    • 1649 - Surface Bundles 

      [OWR-2016-56] Workshop Report 2016,56 (2016) - (04 Dec - 10 Dec 2016)
      This workshop brought together specialists in algebraic topology, low dimensional topology, geometric group theory, algebraic geometry and neighboring fields. It provided a good overview of the current developments, and ...

    • 1648 - Heat Kernels, Stochastic Processes and Functional Inequalities 

      [OWR-2016-55] Workshop Report 2016,55 (2016) - (27 Nov - 03 Dec 2016)
      The general topic of the 2016 workshop Heat kernels, stochastic processes and functional inequalities was the study of linear and non-linear diffusions in geometric environments including smooth manifolds, fractals and ...

    • 1646 - Large Scale Stochastic Dynamics 

      [OWR-2016-54] Workshop Report 2016,54 (2016) - (13 Nov - 19 Nov 2016)
      The goal of this workshop was to explore the recent advances in the mathematical understanding of the macroscopic properties which emerge on large space-time scales from interacting microscopic particle systems. There were ...

    • 1645 - Analytic Number Theory 

      [OWR-2016-53] Workshop Report 2016,53 (2016) - (06 Nov - 12 Nov 2016)
      Analytic number theory has flourished over the past few years, and this workshop brought together world leaders and young talent to discuss developments in various branches of the subject

    • 1644b - Mini-Workshop: Mathematics of Magnetoelastic Materials 

      [OWR-2016-51] Workshop Report 2016,51 (2016) - (30 Oct - 05 Nov 2016)
      The unifying theme of the workshop was the mathematical modeling, analysis, and numerical simulation of materials which involve magnetic and elastic interactions. During the workshop we identified several open problems ...

    • 1644a - Mini-Workshop: Fast Solvers for Highly Oscillatory Problems 

      [OWR-2016-50] Workshop Report 2016,50 (2016) - (30 Oct - 05 Nov 2016)
      The efficient numerical solution of highly oscillatory problems is one of the grand challenges of Applied Mathematics with diverse applications across the natural sciences and engineering. This workshop brings together ...

    • 1644c - Mini-Workshop: Computations in the Cohomology of Arithmetic Groups 

      [OWR-2016-52] Workshop Report 2016,52 (2016) - (30 Oct - 05 Nov 2016)
      Explicit calculations play an important role in the theoretical development of the cohomology of groups and its applications. It is becoming more common for such calculations to be derived with the aid of a computer. This ...

    • 1643 - Definability and Decidability Problems in Number Theory 

      [OWR-2016-49] Workshop Report 2016,49 (2016) - (23 Oct - 29 Oct 2016)
      This workshop brought together experts working on variations of Hilbert’s Tenth Problem and more general decidability issues for structures other than the ring of integers arising naturally in number theory and algebraic geometry.

    • 1641 - Arbeitsgemeinschaft: Diophantine Approximation, Fractal Geometry and Dynamics 

      [OWR-2016-48] Workshop Report 2016,48 (2016) - (09 Oct - 14 Oct 2016)
      Recently conjectures by Schmidt and by Davenport were solved in papers by Dzmitry Badziahin, Andrew Pollington and Sanju Velani, and by Victor Beresnevich. The methods which they used are the source for a growing number ...