Oberwolfach Reports: Recent submissions

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    • 1510 - Discrete Differential Geometry 

      [OWR-2015-13] Workshop Report 2015,13 (2015) - (01 Mar - 07 Mar 2015)
      This is the collection of extended abstracts for the 26 lectures and the open problem session at the fourth Oberwolfach workshop on Discrete Differential Geometry.

    • 1509 - Control Theory: A Mathematical Perspective on Cyber-Physical Systems 

      [OWR-2015-12] Workshop Report 2015,12 (2015) - (22 Feb - 28 Feb 2015)
      Control theory is an interdisciplinary field that is located at the crossroads of pure and applied mathematics with systems engineering and the sciences. Recently the control field is facing new challenges motivated by ...

    • 1508c - Mini-Workshop: Deformation Quantization: between formal to strict 

      [OWR-2015-11] Workshop Report 2015,11 (2015) - (15 Feb - 21 Feb 2015)
      The philosophy of deformation was proposed by Bayen, Flato, Fronsdal, Lichnerowicz, and Sternheimer in the seventies and since then, many developments occurred. Deformation quantization is based on such a philosophy in ...

    • 1508a - Mini-Workshop: Ideals of Linear Subspaces, Their Symbolic Powers and Waring Problems 

      [OWR-2015-9] Workshop Report 2015,9 (2015) - (15 Feb - 21 Feb 2015)
      It is a fundamental challenge for many problems of significant current interest in algebraic geometry and commutative algebra to understand symbolic powers $I^{(m)}$ of homogeneous ideals $I$ in polynomial rings, particularly ...

    • 1508b - Mini-Workshop: Coideal Subalgebras of Quantum Groups 

      [OWR-2015-10] Workshop Report 2015,10 (2015) - (15 Feb - 21 Feb 2015)
      Coideal subalgebras of quantized enveloping algebras appear naturally if one considers quantum group analogs of Lie subalgebras. Examples appear in the theory of quantum integrable systems with boundary and in harmonic ...

    • 1507b - Mini-Workshop: Discrete p-Laplacians: Spectral Theory and Variational Methods in Mathematics and Computer Science 

      [OWR-2015-7] Workshop Report 2015,7 (2015) - (08 Feb - 14 Feb 2015)
      The p-Laplacian operators have a rich analytical theory and in the last few years they have also offered efficient tools to tackle several tasks in machine learning. During the workshop mathematicians and theoretical ...

    • 1507a - Mini-Workshop: Modern Applications of s-numbers and Operator Ideals 

      [OWR-2015-6] Workshop Report 2015,6 (2015) - (08 Feb - 14 Feb 2015)
      The main aim of this mini-workshop was to present and discuss some modern applications of the functional-analytic concepts of $s$-numbers and operator ideals in areas like Numerical Analysis, Theory of Function Spaces, ...

    • 1507c - Mini-Workshop: Singularities in G2-geometry 

      [OWR-2015-8] Workshop Report 2015,8 (2015) - (08 Feb - 14 Feb 2015)
      All currently known construction methods of smooth compact $\mathrm G_2$-manifolds have been tied to certain singular $\mathrm G_2$-spaces, which in Joyce’s original construction are $\mathrm G_2$-orbifolds and in Kovalev’s ...

    • 1506 - Geometric and Algebraic Combinatorics 

      [OWR-2015-5] Workshop Report 2015,5 (2015) - (01 Feb - 07 Feb 2015)
      The 2015 Oberwolfach meeting “Geometric and Algebraic Combinatorics” was organized by Gil Kalai (Jerusalem), Isabella Novik (Seattle), Francisco Santos (Santander), and Volkmar Welker (Marburg). It covered a wide variety ...

    • 1505 - Geometric Methods of Complex Analysis 

      [OWR-2015-4] Workshop Report 2015,4 (2015) - (25 Jan - 31 Jan 2015)
      The purpose of this workshop was to discuss recent results in Several Complex Variables, Complex Geometry and Complex Dynamical Systems with a special focus on the exchange of ideas and methods among these areas. The main ...

    • 1504 - Geometric Topology 

      [OWR-2015-3] Workshop Report 2015,3 (2015) - (18 Jan - 24 Jan 2015)
      Geometric topology has seen significant advances in the understanding and application of infinite symmetries and of the principles behind them. On the one hand, for advances in (geometric) group theory, tools from algebraic ...

    • 1503 - New Discretization Methods for the Numerical Approximation of PDEs 

      [OWR-2015-2] Workshop Report 2015,2 (2015) - (11 Jan - 17 Jan 2015)
      The construction and mathematical analysis of numerical methods for PDEs is a fundamental area of modern applied mathematics. Among the various techniques that have been proposed in the past, some – in particular, finite ...

    • 1502 - Spectral Theory and Weyl Functions 

      [OWR-2015-1] Workshop Report 2015,1 (2015) - (04 Jan - 10 Jan 2015)
      The focus of the workshop was on the interplay between spectral theory of differential operators, system theory, inverse problems and properties of associated classes of analytic functions, among them the classical ...

    • 1451 - Variational Methods for Evolution 

      [OWR-2014-57] Workshop Report 2014,57 (2014) - (14 Dec - 20 Dec 2014)
      The workshop brought together researchers from geometry, nonlinear functional analysis, calculus of variations, partial differential equations, and stochastics around a common topic: systems whose evolution is driven by ...

    • 1450 - Mathematics in Undergraduate Study Programs: Challenges for Research and for the Dialogue between Mathematics and Didactics of Mathematics 

      [OWR-2014-56] Workshop Report 2014,56 (2014) - (07 Dec - 13 Dec 2014)
      The topic of undergraduate mathematics is of considerable concern for mathematicians in universities, but also for those teaching mathematics as part of undergraduate studies other than mathematics, for employers seeking ...

    • 1449a - Mini-Workshop: Dynamical versus Diffraction Spectra in the Theory of Quasicrystals 

      [OWR-2014-53] Workshop Report 2014,53 (2014) - (30 Nov - 06 Dec 2014)
      The dynamical (or von Neumann) spectrum of a dynamical system and the diffraction spectrum of the corresponding measure dynamical system are intimately related. While their equivalence in the case of pure point spectra is ...

    • 1449b - Mini-Workshop: Eigenvalue Problems in Surface Superconductivity 

      [OWR-2014-54] Workshop Report 2014,54 (2014) - (30 Nov - 06 Dec 2014)
      The aim of the meeting is to discuss several classes of Schrödinger equations appearing within the Ginzburg-Landau theory of superconductivity. The related problems are discussed from several perspectives including ...

    • 1449c - Mini-Workshop: Reflection Positivity in Representation Theory, Stochastics and Physics 

      [OWR-2014-55] Workshop Report 2014,55 (2014) - (30 Nov - 06 Dec 2014)
      The central focus of the workshop was reflection positivity, its occurrence in physics, representation theory, abstract harmonic analysis, and stochastic analysis. The program was intrinsically interdisciplinary and included ...

    • 1447 - Mathematical Logic: Proof theory, Constructive Mathematics 

      [OWR-2014-52] Workshop Report 2014,52 (2014) - (16 Nov - 22 Nov 2014)
      The workshop “Mathematical Logic: Proof Theory, Constructive Mathematics” was centered around proof-theoretic aspects of current mathematics, constructive mathematics and logical aspects of computational complexity

    • 1446 - Combinatorial Optimization 

      [OWR-2014-51] Workshop Report 2014,51 (2014) - (09 Nov - 15 Nov 2014)
      Combinatorial Optimization is an area of mathematics that thrives from a continual influx of new questions and problems from practice. Attacking these problems has required the development and combination of ideas and ...