Oberwolfach Reports: Recent submissions

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    • 1229 - Geometric Group Theory, Hyperbolic Dynamics and Symplectic Geometry 

      [OWR-2012-35] Workshop Report 2012,35 (2012) - (15 Jul - 21 Jul 2012)
      The workshop brought together experts in the young and rapidly developing mathematical fields of Geometric group theory, hyperbolic dynamics and symplectic geometry. The activities included talks on recent achievements and ...

    • 1228 - Discrete Differential Geometry 

      [OWR-2012-34] Workshop Report 2012,34 (2012) - (08 Jul - 14 Jul 2012)
      This is the collection of extended abstracts for the 24 lectures and the open problems session at the third Oberwolfach workshop on Discrete Differential Geometry.

    • 1227a - Reductions of Shimura Varieties 

      [OWR-2012-32] Workshop Report 2012,32 (2012) - (01 Jul - 07 Jul 2012)
      The workshop brought together leading experts in the theory of reductions of Shimura varieties. The talks presented new methods and results that intertwine a multitude of topics such as geometry and cohomology of moduli ...

    • 1227b - Geometric Aspects of Spectral Theory 

      [OWR-2012-33] Workshop Report 2012,33 (2012) - (01 Jul - 07 Jul 2012)
      The workshop “Geometric Aspects of Spectral Theory” brought together leading researchers working in various areas of this vast field of mathematics. The meeting featured presentations on some of the most fascinating recent ...

    • 1226 - Learning Theory and Approximation 

      [OWR-2012-31] Workshop Report 2012,31 (2012) - (24 Jun - 30 Jun 2012)
      Learning theory studies data structures from samples and aims at understanding unknown function relations behind them. This leads to interesting theoretical problems which can be often attacked with methods from Approximation ...

    • 1225 - Classical Algebraic Geometry 

      [OWR-2012-30] Workshop Report 2012,30 (2012) - (17 Jun - 23 Jun 2012)
      Progress in algebraic geometry often comes through the introduction of new tools and ideas to tackle the classical problems the development of the field. Examples include new invariants that capture some aspect of geometry ...

    • 1224 - Applied Harmonic Analysis and Sparse Approximation 

      [OWR-2012-29] Workshop Report 2012,29 (2012) - (10 Jun - 16 Jun 2012)
      Applied harmonic analysis and sparse approximation are highly active research areas with a lot of recent exciting developments. Their methods have become crucial for a wide range of applications in technology and science, ...

    • 1223 - Invariants in Low-Dimensional Topology and Knot Theory 

      [OWR-2012-28] Workshop Report 2012,28 (2012) - (03 Jun - 09 Jun 2012)
      This meeting concentrated on topological invariants in low dimensional topology and knot theory. We include both three and four dimensional manifolds in our phrase “low dimensional topology”. The intent of the conference ...

    • 1221 - Geometrie 

      [OWR-2012-27] Workshop Report 2012,27 (2012) - (20 May - 26 May 2012)
      During the meeting a wide range of topics in geometry was discussed. There were 18 one hour talks and four half an hour talks which took place after dinner.

    • 1220 - Nonlinear Evolution Problems 

      [OWR-2012-26] Workshop Report 2012,26 (2012) - (13 May - 19 May 2012)
      In this workshop geometric evolution equations of parabolic type, nonlinear hyperbolic equations, and dispersive equations and their interrelations were the subject of 21 talks and several shorter special presentations.

    • 1219 - Analysis and Geometric Singularities 

      [OWR-2012-25] Workshop Report 2012,25 (2012) - (06 May - 12 May 2012)
      This is a report on the Oberwolfach conference “Analysis and Geometric Singularities”, May 6-12, 2012. The main themes discussed in the meeting include the interplay between the analytic, geometric and topological study ...

    • 1218 - Triangulations 

      [OWR-2012-24] Workshop Report 2012,24 (2012) - (29 Apr - 05 May 2012)
      The earliest work in topology was often based on explicit combinatorial models – usually triangulations – for the spaces being studied. Although algebraic methods in topology gradually replaced combinatorial ones in the ...

    • 1217b - Singularity Theory and Integrable Systems 

      [OWR-2012-23] Workshop Report 2012,23 (2012) - (22 Apr - 28 Apr 2012)
      The workshop brought together three very different areas of mathematics, namely singularity theory, integrable systems and quantum cohomology. They are linked by their applications in topological quantum field theory and ...

    • 1217a - Diophantische Approximationen 

      [OWR-2012-22] Workshop Report 2012,22 (2012) - (22 Apr - 28 Apr 2012)
      This Number Theoretic conference was focused on the following subjects: the Littlewood conjecture, simultaneous homogeneous and inhomogeneous Diophantine approximation, geometry of numbers, irrationality, Diophantine ...

    • 1216 - Toric Geometry 

      [OWR-2012-21] Workshop Report 2012,21 (2012) - (15 Apr - 21 Apr 2012)
      Toric Geometry plays a major role where a wide variety of mathematical fields intersect, such as algebraic and symplectic geometry, algebraic groups, and combinatorics. The main feature of this workshop was to bring people ...

    • 1215b - Mini-Workshop: Hypergraph Turan Problem 

      [OWR-2012-19] Workshop Report 2012,19 (2012) - (08 Apr - 14 Apr 2012)
      This mini-workshop focused on the hypergraph Turán problem. The interest in this difficult and old area was recently re-invigorated by many important developments such as the hypergraph regularity lemmas, flag algebras, ...

    • 1215a - Mini-Workshop: Generalizations of Symmetric Spaces 

      [OWR-2012-18] Workshop Report 2012,18 (2012) - (08 Apr - 14 Apr 2012)
      This workshop brought together experts from the areas of algebraic Lie theory, invariant theory, Kac–Moody theory and the theories of Tits buildings and of symmetric spaces. The main focus was on topics related to symmetric ...

    • 1215c - Mini-Workshop: Endomorphisms, Semigroups and C*-Algebras of Rings 

      [OWR-2012-20] Workshop Report 2012,20 (2012) - (08 Apr - 14 Apr 2012)
      The main aim of the workshop was to explore recent progress in the study of endomorphisms of $C*$-algebras, semigroup crossed products, graph algebras, ring $C*$-algebras, purely infinite $C*$-algebras and related algebraic ...

    • 1214 - Arbeitsgemeinschaft: Quasiperiodic Schrödinger Operators 

      [OWR-2012-17] Workshop Report 2012,17 (2012) - (01 Apr - 07 Apr 2012)
      This Arbeitsgemeinschaft discussed the spectral properties of quasi-periodic Schrödinger operators in one space dimension. After presenting background material on Schrödinger operators with dynamically defined potentials ...

    • 1213 - Representations of Finite Groups 

      [OWR-2012-16] Workshop Report 2012,16 (2012) - (25 Mar - 31 Mar 2012)
      The workshop "Representations of Finite Groups" was organised by Joseph Chuang (London), Markus Linckelmann (Aberdeen), Gunter Malle (Kaiserslautern) and Jeremy Rickard (Bristol). It covered a wide variety of aspects of ...