Oberwolfach Reports: Recent submissions

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    • 1137 - Noncommutative Geometry 

      [OWR-2011-45] Workshop Report 2011,45 (2011) - (11 Sep - 17 Sep 2011)
      Noncommutative Geometry applies ideas from geometry to mathematical structures determined by noncommuting variables. This meeting concentrated primarily on those aspects of Noncommutative Geometry that are related to index ...

    • 1136 - Discrete Geometry 

      [OWR-2011-44] Workshop Report 2011,44 (2011) - (04 Sep - 10 Sep 2011)
      A number of remarkable recent developments in many branches of discrete geometry have been presented at the workshop, some of them demonstrating strong interactions with other fields of mathematics (such as algebraic ...

    • 1135 - The Analytic Theory of Automorphic Forms 

      [OWR-2011-43] Workshop Report 2011,43 (2011) - (28 Aug - 03 Sep 2011)
      The workshop brought together leading experts in the theory of automorphic forms. Recently developed analytic, geometric and ergodic methods have enabled several important results in the theory for $GL(2)$, and also made ...

    • 1134c - Mini-Workshop: Mathematics of Machine Learning 

      [OWR-2011-42] Workshop Report 2011,42 (2011) - (21 Aug - 27 Aug 2011)
      This is a report for a mini-workshop on the mathematical theory of learning. The purpose of the workshop was to bring together internationally recognized experts and young researchers to discuss new approaches, trends, and ...

    • 1134a - Mini-Workshop: Dynamics of Stochastic Systems and their Approximation 

      [OWR-2011-40] Workshop Report 2011,40 (2011) - (21 Aug - 27 Aug 2011)
      The aim of this workshop was to bring together specialists in the area of stochastic dynamical systems and stochastic numerical analysis to exchange their ideas about the state of the art of approximations of stochastic ...

    • 1134b - Mini-Workshop: New Developments in Newton-Okounov Bodies 

      [OWR-2011-41] Workshop Report 2011,41 (2011) - (21 Aug - 27 Aug 2011)
      The theory of Newton-Okounkov bodies, also called Okounkov bodies, is a new connection between algebraic geometry and convex geometry. It generalizes the well-known and extremely rich correspondence between geometry of ...

    • 1133 - Applied Dynamics and Geometric Mechanics 

      [OWR-2011-39] Workshop Report 2011,39 (2011) - (14 Aug - 20 Aug 2011)
      This one week workshop was organized around several central subjects in applied dynamics and geometric mechanics. The specific organization with afternoons free for discussion led to intense exchanges of ideas. Bridges ...

    • 1132 - Partial Differential Equations 

      [OWR-2011-38] Workshop Report 2011,38 (2011) - (07 Aug - 13 Aug 2011)
      The workshop dealt with partial differential equations in geometry and technical applications. The main topics were the combination of nonlinear partial differential equations and geometric problems, regularity of free ...

    • 1131 - Computational Group Theory 

      [OWR-2011-37] Workshop Report 2011,37 (2011) - (31 Jul - 06 Aug 2011)
      This sixth workshop on Computational Group Theory proved that its main themes “finitely presented groups”, “$p$-groups”, “matrix groups” and “representations of groups” are lively and active fields of research. The talks ...

    • 1130 - Real Analysis, Harmonic Analysis and Applications 

      [OWR-2011-36] Workshop Report 2011,36 (2011) - (24 Jul - 30 Jul 2011)
      The workshop has focused on important developments within the last few years in the point of view and methods of real and harmonic Analysis as well as significant concurrent progress in the application of these to various ...

    • 1129 - Explicit Methods in Number Theory 

      [OWR-2011-35] Workshop Report 2011,35 (2011) - (17 Jul - 23 Jul 2011)
      These notes contain extended abstracts on the topic of explicit methods in number theory. The range of topics includes the Sato-Tate conjecure, Langlands programme, function fields, L-functions and many other topics.

    • 1128 - Dynamische Systeme 

      [OWR-2011-34] Workshop Report 2011,34 (2011) - (10 Jul - 16 Jul 2011)
      This workshop continued the biannual series at Oberwolfach on Dynamical Systems that started as the ”Moser-Zehnder meeting” in 1981. The main themes of the workshop are the new results and developments in the area of ...

    • 1127 - Differentialgeometrie im Großen 

      [OWR-2011-33] Workshop Report 2011,33 (2011) - (03 Jul - 09 Jul 2011)
      The meeting continued the biannual conference series Differentialgeometrie im Großen at the MFO which was established in the 60’s by Klingenberg and Chern. Global Riemannian geometry with its connections to topology, ...

    • 1126 - Mathematical Methods in Quantum Chemistry 

      [OWR-2011-32] Workshop Report 2011,32 (2011) - (26 Jun - 02 Jul 2011)
      The field of quantum chemistry is concerned with the analysis and simulation of chemical phenomena on the basis of the fundamental equations of quantum mechanics. Since the ‘exact’ electronic Schrödinger equation for a ...

    • 1125 - Algebraische Zahlentheorie 

      [OWR-2011-31] Workshop Report 2011,31 (2011) - (19 Jun - 25 Jun 2011)
      The workshop brought together researchers from Europe, Japan and the US, who reported on various recent developments in algebraic number theory and related fields. Dominant topics were Shimura varieties, automorphic forms ...

    • 1123 - Arithmetic Groups vs. Mapping Class Groups: Similarities, Analogies and Differences 

      [OWR-2011-30] Workshop Report 2011,30 (2011) - (05 Jun - 11 Jun 2011)
      Arithmetic groups arise naturally in many fields such as number theory, algebraic geometry, and analysis. Mapping class groups arise in both low dimensional topology and geometric group theory. They have been studied ...

    • 1122 - Stochastic Analysis 

      [OWR-2011-29] Workshop Report 2011,29 (2011) - (29 May - 04 Jun 2011)
      The meeting took place on May 30-June 3, 2011, with over 55 people in attendance. Each day had 6 to 7 talks of varying length (some talks were 30 minutes long), except for Thursday: the traditional hike was moved to Thursday ...

    • 1121 - Schnelle Löser für Partielle Differentialgleichungen 

      [OWR-2011-28] Workshop Report 2011,28 (2011) - (22 May - 28 May 2011)
      The workshop Schnelle Löser für partielle Differentialgleichungen, organised by Randolph E. Bank (La Jolla), Wolfgang Hackbusch (Leipzig), and Gabriel Wittum (Frankfurt am Main), was held May 22nd–May 28th, 2011. This ...

    • 1120b - New Directions in Algebraic K-Theory 

      [OWR-2011-27] Workshop Report 2011,27 (2011) - (15 May - 21 May 2011)
      This meeting brought together algebraic geometers, algebraic topologists and geometric topologists, all of whom use algebraic K-theory. The talks and discussions involved all the participants.

    • 1120a - Finite-dimensional Approximations of Discrete Groups 

      [OWR-2011-26] Workshop Report 2011,26 (2011) - (15 May - 21 May 2011)
      The main objective of this workshop was to bring together experts from various fields, which are all interested in finite and finite-dimensional approximations of infinite algebraic and analytic objects, such as groups, ...