Oberwolfach Reports: Recent submissions

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    • 1622 - Nonlinear Evolution Problems 

      [OWR-2016-27] Workshop Report 2016,27 (2016) - (29 May - 04 Jun 2016)
      The main themes of this workshop were geometric evolution equations and dispersive equations, including nonlinear wave and Schrödinger equations. Altogether there were 21 talks, presented by leading specialists from all ...

    • 1621 - The Renormalization Group 

      [OWR-2016-26] Workshop Report 2016,26 (2016) - (22 May - 28 May 2016)
      The renormalization group was originally introduced as a multiscale approach to quantum field theory and the theory of critical phenomena, explaining in particular the universality observed e.g. in critical exponents. Since ...

    • 1619 - Factorization Algebras and Functorial Field Theories 

      [OWR-2016-25] Workshop Report 2016,25 (2016) - (08 May - 14 May 2016)
      Factorization algebras are a new mathematical approach to quantum field theory. They are related to functorial field theories, another approach to quantum field theory. Factorization algebras also figure in current research ...

    • 1618 - Rough Paths, Regularity Structures and Related Topics 

      [OWR-2016-24] Workshop Report 2016,24 (2016) - (01 May - 07 May 2016)
      The purpose of the Oberwolfach workshop “Rough Paths and Regularity Structures” was to bring together these researchers, both young and senior, with the aim to consolidate progress in rough path theory and stochastic partial ...

    • 1617 - Moduli spaces and Modular forms 

      [OWR-2016-23] Workshop Report 2016,23 (2016) - (24 Apr - 30 Apr 2016)
      The roots of both moduli spaces and modular forms go back to the theory of elliptic curves in the 19th century. Both topics have seen an enormous growth in the second half of the 20th century, but the interaction between ...

    • 1616 - Combinatorics and Probability 

      [OWR-2016-22] Workshop Report 2016,22 (2016) - (17 Apr - 23 Apr 2016)
      For the past few decades, Combinatorics and Probability Theory have had a fruitful symbiosis, each benefitting from and influencing developments in the other. Thus to prove the existence of designs, probabilistic methods ...

    • 1615 - Diophantische Approximationen 

      [OWR-2016-21] Workshop Report 2016,21 (2016) - (10 Apr - 16 Apr 2016)
      This number theoretic conference was focused on a broad variety of subjects in (or closely related to) Diophantine approximation, including the following: metric Diophantine approximation, Mahler’s method in transcendence, ...

    • 1614 - Arbeitsgemeinschaft: The Geometric Langlands Conjecture 

      [OWR-2016-20] Workshop Report 2016,20 (2016) - (03 Apr - 09 Apr 2016)
      The Langlands program is a vast, loosely connected, collection of theorems and conjectures. At quite different ends, there is the geometric Langlands program, which deals with perverse sheaves on the stack of G-bundles ...

    • 1613 - Toric Geometry 

      [OWR-2016-19] Workshop Report 2016,19 (2016) - (27 Mar - 02 Apr 2016)
      Toric geometry is a subfield of algebraic geometry with deep intersections with combinatorics. This workshop brought together researchers working in toric geometry, applying toric geometry elsewhere in algebraic geometry, ...

    • 1612 - Geometric Numerical Integration 

      [OWR-2016-18] Workshop Report 2016,18 (2016) - (20 Mar - 26 Mar 2016)
      The subject of this workshop was numerical methods that preserve geometric properties of the flow of an ordinary or partial differential equation. This was complemented by the question as to how structure preservation ...

    • 1611 - Mechanics of Materials: Mechanics of Interfaces and Evolving Microstructure 

      [OWR-2016-17] Workshop Report 2016,17 (2016) - (13 Mar - 19 Mar 2016)
      Emphasis in modern day efforts in mechanics of materials is increasingly directed towards integration with computational materials science, which itself rests on solid physical and mathematical foundations in thermodynamics ...

    • 1610 - Computationally and Statistically Efficient Inference for Complex Large-scale Data 

      [OWR-2016-16] Workshop Report 2016,16 (2016) - (06 Mar - 12 Mar 2016)
      The aim of the highly successful workshop Computationally and statistically efficient inference for large-scale and heterogeneous data was to foster dissemination and collaboration between researchers in the area of ...

    • 1609b - Mini-Workshop: Arrangements of Subvarieties, and their Applications in Algebraic Geometry 

      [OWR-2016-14] Workshop Report 2016,14 (2016) - (28 Feb - 05 Mar 2016)
      While arrangements of hyperplanes have been studied in algebra, combinatorics and geometry for a long time, recent discoveries suggest that they (and more generally arrangements of nonlinear subvarieties) play an even more ...

    • 1609c - Mini-Workshop: Topological Complexity and Related Topics 

      [OWR-2016-15] Workshop Report 2016,15 (2016) - (28 Feb - 05 Mar 2016)
      Topological complexity is a numerical homotopy invariant of topological spaces, of Lusternik-Schnirelmann type, introduced by Farber and motivated by the motion planning problem from topological robotics. This mini-workshop ...

    • 1609a - Mini-Workshop: PBW Structures in Representation Theory 

      [OWR-2016-13] Workshop Report 2016,13 (2016) - (28 Feb - 05 Mar 2016)
      The PBW structures play a very important role in the Lie theory and in the theory of algebraic groups. The importance is due to the huge number of possible applications. The main goal of the workshop was to bring together ...

    • 1608b - New Developments in Functional and Highly Multivariate Statistical Methodology 

      [OWR-2016-12] Workshop Report 2016,12 (2016) - (21 Feb - 27 Feb 2016)
      The central focus of the workshop was on recent developments in statistical techniques for highly multivariate data and functional data. The programme delivered talks on state-of-the-art research in the area, with a number ...

    • 1608a - Asymptotic Geometric Analysis 

      [OWR-2016-11] Workshop Report 2016,11 (2016) - (21 Feb - 27 Feb 2016)
      The workshop was dedicated to new developments in Asymptotic Geometric Analysis, the study of high-dimensional geometric objects by analytic and probabilistic means, and its interplay with other fields such as functional ...

    • 1607a - Topological Recursion and TQFTs 

      [OWR-2016-9] Workshop Report 2016,9 (2016) - (14 Feb - 20 Feb 2016)
      The topological recursion is an ubiquitous structure in enumerative geometry of surfaces and topological quantum field theories. Since its invention in the context of matrix models, it has been found or conjectured to ...

    • 1607b - Hochschild Cohomology in Algebra, Geometry, and Topology 

      [OWR-2016-10] Workshop Report 2016,10 (2016) - (14 Feb - 20 Feb 2016)
      In 1945 Gerhard Hochschild published "On the cohomology groups of an associative algebra" in the Annals of Mathematics and thereby created what is now called Hochschild theory. In 1963, Murray Gerstenhaber proved that the ...

    • 1606a - Mini-Workshop: Operator Spaces and Noncommutative Geometry in Interaction 

      [OWR-2016-6] Workshop Report 2016,6 (2016) - (07 Feb - 13 Feb 2016)
      In recent years, operator space theory has made remarkable appearances in noncommutative geometry, notably in the study of C∗-algebras of real reductive groups and the unbounded picture of Kasparov theory. In both these ...