Oberwolfach Reports: Recent submissions

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    • 1207 - Advanced Computational Engineering 

      [OWR-2012-9] Workshop Report 2012,9 (2012) - (12 Feb - 18 Feb 2012)
      The finite element method is the established simulation tool for the numerical solution of partial differential equations in many engineering problems with many mathematical developments such as mixed finite element methods ...

    • 1206 - Computability Theory 

      [OWR-2012-8] Workshop Report 2012,8 (2012) - (05 Feb - 11 Feb 2012)
      Computability is one of the fundamental notions of mathematics, trying to capture the effective content of mathematics. Starting from Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem, it has now blossomed into a rich area with strong ...

    • 1205 - The Mathematics and Statistics of Quantitative Risk Management 

      [OWR-2012-7] Workshop Report 2012,7 (2012) - (29 Jan - 04 Feb 2012)
      It was the aim of this workshop to gather a multidisciplinary and international group of scientists at the forefront of research in areas related to the mathematics and statistics of quantitative risk management. The main ...

    • 1204 - Interplay of Analysis and Probability in Physics 

      [OWR-2012-6] Workshop Report 2012,6 (2012) - (22 Jan - 28 Jan 2012)
      The main purpose of this workshop was to foster interaction between researchers in the fields of analysis and probability with the aim of joining forces to understand difficult problems from physics rigorously. 52 researchers ...

    • 1203 - Recent Developments in the Numerics of Nonlinear Hyperbolic Conservation Laws and their Use in Science and Engineering 

      [OWR-2012-5] Workshop Report 2012,5 (2012) - (15 Jan - 21 Jan 2012)
      Modern numerical methods for hyperbolic conservation laws rely on polynomials of high degree, mostly orthogonal polynomials, on triangular or quadrilateral meshes. Due to shocks stability is an issue and modern means of ...

    • 1202 - Explicit Versus Tacit Knowledge in Mathematics 

      [OWR-2012-4] Workshop Report 2012,4 (2012) - (08 Jan - 14 Jan 2012)
      This workshop aimed to bring together an international group of historians of mathematics to reflect upon the role played by tacit knowledge in doing mathematics at various times and places. The existence of tacit knowledge ...

    • 1201b - Mini-Workshop: Boundary Value Problems and Spectral Geometry 

      [OWR-2012-2] Workshop Report 2012,2 (2012) - (01 Jan - 07 Jan 2012)
      Boundary value problems and spectral geometry is an attractive and rapidly developing area in modern mathematical analysis. The interaction of PDE methods with concepts from operator theory and differential geometry is ...

    • 1201a - Mini-Workshop: Manifolds with Lower Curvature Bounds 

      [OWR-2012-1] Workshop Report 2012,1 (2012) - (01 Jan - 07 Jan 2012)
      The purpose of the meeting was to relate and study new developments in the geometry and topology of Riemannian manifolds with lower curvature bounds. Special emphasis was given to lower Ricci curvature bounds in the sense ...

    • 1201c - Mini-Workshop: Thermodynamic Formalism, Geometry and Stochastics 

      [OWR-2012-3] Workshop Report 2012,3 (2012) - (01 Jan - 07 Jan 2012)
      Thermodynamic formalism and all its branches and applications in conformal dynamics, probability theory, stochastics and fractal geometry represent highly important fields in modern Mathematics, which are currently very ...

    • 1150 - Stratified Spaces: Joining Analysis, Topology and Geometry 

      [OWR-2011-56] Workshop Report 2011,56 (2011) - (11 Dec - 17 Dec 2011)
      For manifolds, topological properties such as Poincaré duality and invariants such as the signature and characteristic classes, results and techniques from complex algebraic geometry such as the Hirzebruch-Riemann-Roch ...

    • 1149 - Variational Methods for Evolution 

      [OWR-2011-55] Workshop Report 2011,55 (2011) - (04 Dec - 10 Dec 2011)
      The meeting focused on the last advances in the applications of variational methods to evolution problems governed by partial differential equations. The talks covered a broad range of topics, including large deviation and ...

    • 1148 - Geometric Partial Differential Equations: Theory, Numerics and Applications 

      [OWR-2011-54] Workshop Report 2011,54 (2011) - (27 Nov - 03 Dec 2011)
      This workshop concentrated on partial differential equations involving stationary and evolving surfaces in which geometric quantities play a major role. Mutual interest in this emerging field stimulated the interaction ...

    • 1146 - Combinatorial Optimization 

      [OWR-2011-53] Workshop Report 2011,53 (2011) - (13 Nov - 19 Nov 2011)
      Combinatorial Optimization is a very active field that benefits from bringing together ideas from different areas, e.g., graph theory and combinatorics, matroids and submodularity, connectivity and network flows, approximation ...

    • 1145 - Mathematical Logic: Proof Theory, Constructive Mathematics 

      [OWR-2011-52] Workshop Report 2011,52 (2011) - (06 Nov - 12 Nov 2011)
      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.

    • 1144 - Emigration of Mathematicians and Transmission of Mathematics: Historical Lessons and Consequences of the Third Reich 

      [OWR-2011-51] Workshop Report 2011,51 (2011) - (30 Oct - 05 Nov 2011)
      This conference provided a focused venue to explore the intellectual migration of mathematicians and mathematics spurred by the Nazis and still influential today. The week of talks and discussions (both formal and informal) ...

    • 1143a - Correlations and Interactions for Random Quantum Systems 

      [OWR-2011-50] Workshop Report 2011,50 (2011) - (23 Oct - 29 Oct 2011)
      Random quantum systems cover a broad range of mathematical models from random Schrödinger operators to random matrices and quantum spin models with random parameters. Their understanding requires techniques which combine ...

    • 1141 - Arbeitsgemeinschaft: Quantum Ergodicity 

      [OWR-2011-49] Workshop Report 2011,49 (2011) - (09 Oct - 14 Oct 2011)
      Quantum Ergodicity aims at understanding the eigenstates of quantum mechanical systems admitting chaotic classical limiting dynamics. A paradigmatic system is the Laplace-Beltrami operator on a compact manifold of negative ...

    • 1140 - Very High Dimensional Semiparametric Models 

      [OWR-2011-48] Workshop Report 2011,48 (2011) - (02 Oct - 08 Oct 2011)
      Very high dimensional semiparametric models play a major role in many areas, in particular in signal detection problems when sparse signals or sparse events are hidden among high dimensional noise. Concrete examples are ...

    • 1139 - Complex Algebraic Geometry 

      [OWR-2011-47] Workshop Report 2011,47 (2011) - (25 Sep - 01 Oct 2011)
      The conference focused on several classical and modern topics in the realm of complex algebraic geometry, such as moduli spaces, birational geometry and the minimal model program, Mirror symmetry and Gromov–Witten invariants, ...

    • 1138 - Homotopy Theory 

      [OWR-2011-46] Workshop Report 2011,46 (2011) - (18 Sep - 24 Sep 2011)
      This workshop was a forum to present and discuss the latest result and ideas in homotopy theory and the connections to other branches of mathematics, such as algebraic geometry, representation theory and group theory.