Oberwolfach Reports: Recent submissions

Now showing items 781-800 of 1107

    • 0941 - Arbeitsgemeinschaft: Minimal Surfaces 

      [OWR-2009-45] Workshop Report 2009,45 (2009) - (04 Oct - 09 Oct 2009)
      The theory of Minimal Surfaces has developed rapidly in the past 10 years. There are many factors that have contributed to this development: Sophisticated construction methods [14,29,31] have been developed and have ...

    • 0940 - Complex Algebraic Geometry 

      [OWR-2009-44] Workshop Report 2009,44 (2009) - (27 Sep - 03 Oct 2009)
      The Conference focused on several classical and novel theories in the realm of complex algebraic geometry, such as Algebraic surfaces, Moduli theory, Minimal Model Program, Abelian Varieties, Holomorphic Symplectic Varieties, ...

    • 0939 - Singularities 

      [OWR-2009-43] Workshop Report 2009,43 (2009) - (20 Sep - 26 Sep 2009)
      Local/global Singularity Theory is concerned with the local/global structure of maps and spaces that occur in differential topology or theory of algebraic or analytic varieties. It uses methods from algebra, topology, ...

    • 0938 - PDE and Materials 

      [OWR-2009-42] Workshop Report 2009,42 (2009) - (13 Sep - 19 Sep 2009)
      This workshop brought together mathematicians, physicists and material to discuss emerging applications of mathematics in materials science.

    • 0937 - Noncommutative Geometry 

      [OWR-2009-41] Workshop Report 2009,41 (2009) - (06 Sep - 12 Sep 2009)
      Many of the different aspects of Noncommutative Geometry were represented in the talks. The list of topics that were covered includes in particular new insight into the geometry of a noncommutative torus, local index formulae ...

    • 0936 - Mathematics of Complex Quantum Systems 

      [OWR-2009-40] Workshop Report 2009,40 (2009) - (30 Aug - 05 Sep 2009)
      A mathematical physics workshop focusing on the mathematics of complex quantum systems was held at MFO in September 2009. The physcs topics covered included quantum chemistry, nonrelativistic QED, statistical mechanics, ...

    • 0935 - Challenges in Statistical Theory: Complex Data Structures and Algorithmic Optimization 

      [OWR-2009-39] Workshop Report 2009,39 (2009) - (23 Aug - 29 Aug 2009)
      Technological developments have created a constant incoming stream of complex new data structures that need analysis. Modern statistics therefore means mathematically sophisticated new statistical theory that generates or ...

    • 0934 - Scaling Limits in Models of Statistical Mechanics 

      [OWR-2009-38] Workshop Report 2009,38 (2009) - (16 Aug - 22 Aug 2009)
      The workshop brought together researchers interested in spatial random processes and their connection to statistical mechanics. The principal subjects of interest were scaling limits and, in general, limit laws for various ...

    • 0933 - Linear and Nonlinear Eigenproblems for PDEs 

      [OWR-2009-37] Workshop Report 2009,37 (2009) - (09 Aug - 15 Aug 2009)
      The workshop discussed the numerical solution of linear and nonlinear eigenvalue problems for partial differential equations. It included the theoretical analysis the development of new (adaptive) methods, the iterative ...

    • 0932 - Partielle Differentialgleichungen 

      [OWR-2009-36] Workshop Report 2009,36 (2009) - (02 Aug - 08 Aug 2009)
      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 ...

    • 0931 - Differentialgeometrie im Großen 

      [OWR-2009-35] Workshop Report 2009,35 (2009) - (26 Jul - 01 Aug 2009)
      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 geometric analysis, ...

    • 0930 - Mathematical Aspects of Hydrodynamics 

      [OWR-2009-34] Workshop Report 2009,34 (2009) - (19 Jul - 25 Jul 2009)
      The workshop was devoted to discussions of recent developments and possible future directions of research in the field of mathematical hydrodynamics. Many of the leading experts in the theory of PDE’s arising in fluid dynamics ...

    • 0929 - Explicit Methods in Number Theory 

      [OWR-2009-33] Workshop Report 2009,33 (2009) - (12 Jul - 18 Jul 2009)
      These notes contain extended abstracts on the topic of explicit methods in number theory. The range of topics includes asymptotics for field extensions and class numbers, random matrices and L-functions, rational points on ...

    • 0928 - Dynamische Systeme 

      [OWR-2009-32] Workshop Report 2009,32 (2009) - (05 Jul - 11 Jul 2009)
      This workshop, organized by Hakan Eliasson (Paris), Helmut Hofer (Princeton) and Jean-Christophe Yoccoz (Paris), continued the biannual series at Oberwolfach on Dynamical Systems that started as the “Moser– Zehnder meeting” ...

    • 0927 - Algebraic K-Theory and Motivic Cohomology 

      [OWR-2009-31] Workshop Report 2009,31 (2009) - (28 Jun - 04 Jul 2009)
      Algebraic K-theory and the related motivic cohomology are a systematic way of producing invariants for algebraic or geometric structures. Its definition and methods are taken from algebraic topology, but it has also proved ...

    • 0926 - Algebraische Zahlentheorie 

      [OWR-2009-30] Workshop Report 2009,30 (2009) - (21 Jun - 27 Jun 2009)
      The workshop brought together researchers from Europe, the US and Japan, who reported on various recent developments in algebraic number theory and related fields. Dominant themes were p-adic methods, L-functions and ...

    • 0925 - Computational Multiscale Methods 

      [OWR-2009-29] Workshop Report 2009,29 (2009) - (14 Jun - 20 Jun 2009)
      Computational Multiscale Methods play an important role in many modern computer simulations in material sciences with different time scales and different scales in space. Besides various computational challenges, the meeting ...

    • 0924 - Strings, Fields and Topology 

      [OWR-2009-28] Workshop Report 2009,28 (2009) - (07 Jun - 13 Jun 2009)
      In recent years, the interplay between traditional geometric topology and theoretical physics, in particular quantum ?eld theory, has played a signi?cant role in the work of many researchers. The idea of this workshop was ...

    • 0922 - Manifold Perspectives 

      [OWR-2009-27] Workshop Report 2009,27 (2009) - (24 May - 30 May 2009)
      The study of the global properties of manifolds and their symmetries has had a great impact on both geometric and algebraic topology, and also on other branches of mathematics, such as algebra, differential geometry and ...

    • 0921 - Topological and Variational Methods for Partial Differential Equations 

      [OWR-2009-26] Workshop Report 2009,26 (2009) - (17 May - 23 May 2009)
      In recent years, there has been a major impact of topological and variational methods on the study of nonlinear elliptic and parabolic partial differential equations. In particular, surprising results for classical open ...