Browsing Workshops 2006 by Issue Date

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    • 0602 - Mathematical Aspects of General Relativity 

      [OWR-2006-2] Workshop Report 2006,2 (2006) - (08 Jan - 14 Jan 2006)
      The conference covered mathematical general relativity. The Einstein equations, the key to the subject, can be split into constraints and evolution equations. Many of the talks at the conference concerned the constraints ...

    • 0651 - Konvexgeometrie 

      [OWR-2006-56] Workshop Report 2006,56 (2006) - (17 Dec - 23 Dec 2006)
      The geometry of convex domains in Euclidean space plays a central role in several branches of mathematics: functional and harmonic analysis, the theory of PDE, linear programming and, increasingly, in the study of other ...

    • 0618a - Mini-Workshop: Feinstrukturtheorie und Innere Modelle 

      [OWR-2006-20] Workshop Report 2006,20 (2006) - (30 Apr - 06 May 2006)
      The main aim of fine structure theory and inner model theory can be summarized as the construction of models which have a canonical inner structure (a fine structure), making it possible to analyze them in great detail, ...

    • 0620 - Mathematical Biology 

      [OWR-2006-24] Workshop Report 2006,24 (2006) - (14 May - 20 May 2006)
      This years meeting on Mathematical Biology focussed on the mathematical modeling and analysis of some specific bio-medical questions, where quite detailed experimental findings are available. A main aim for this decision ...

    • 0624 - Classical Algebraic Geometry 

      [OWR-2006-27] Workshop Report 2006,27 (2006) - (11 Jun - 17 Jun 2006)

    • 0638 - Topologie 

      [OWR-2006-43] Workshop Report 2006,43 (2006) - (17 Sep - 23 Sep 2006)
      The participants in this conference covered all areas of algebraic and geometric topology. The talks covered a wide range of recent developments, such as the Farrell-Jones conjecture, knot theory, geometric group theory, ...

    • 0636 - Spatial Random Processes and Statistical Mechanics 

      [OWR-2006-41] Workshop Report 2006,41 (2006) - (03 Sep - 09 Sep 2006)
      The workshop focused on the broad area of spatial random processes and their connection to statistical mechanics. The subjects of interest included random walk in random environment, interacting random walks, polymer models, ...

    • 0643 - Mathematical and Numerical Aspects of Quantum Chemistry Problems 

      [OWR-2006-47] Workshop Report 2006,47 (2006) - (22 Oct - 28 Oct 2006)
      This workshop was aimed at strengthtening the interactions between well established experts in quantum chemistry, mathematical analysis, numerical analysis and computational metodology. Most of the mathematicians present ...

    • 0648a - Mini-Workshop: Statistical Methods for Inverse Problems 

      [OWR-2006-51] Workshop Report 2006,51 (2006) - (26 Nov - 02 Dec 2006)
      Inverse problems appear naturally in a broad range of applications. Numerical analysis and statistics have – often independently – developed methods for regularisation and inversion. The aim of this mini-workshop is to ...

    • 0612 - Geometric Numerical Integration 

      [OWR-2006-14] Workshop Report 2006,14 (2006) - (19 Mar - 25 Mar 2006)
      The subject of this workshop was numerical methods that preserve geometric properties of the flow of an ordinary or partial differential equation. This was complemented by the question as to how preserving the geometry ...

    • 0644 - Combinatorics, Probability and Computing 

      [OWR-2006-48] Workshop Report 2006,48 (2006) - (29 Oct - 04 Nov 2006)
      One of the exciting phenomena in mathematics in recent years has been the widespread and surprisingly effective use of probabilistic methods in diverse areas. The probabilistic point of view has turned out to be

    • 0640 - Geometrie 

      [OWR-2006-45] Workshop Report 2006,45 (2006) - (01 Oct - 07 Oct 2006)
      The program covered a wide range of new developments in geometry. To name some of them, we mention the topics “Metric space geometry in the style of Alexandrov/Gromov”, “Polyhedra with prescribed metric”, “Willmore surfaces”, ...

    • 0614 - Arbeitsgemeinschaft mit aktuellem Thema: Higher Torsion Invariants in Differential Topology and Algebraic K-Theory 

      [OWR-2006-16] Workshop Report 2006,16 (2006) - (02 Apr - 08 Apr 2006)
      The purpose of this Arbeitsgemeinschaft was to study and—as far as possible—compare three generalisations of the classical Franz-Reidemeister torsion to families E → B of manifolds. Dwyer, Weiss and Williams construct ...

    • 0621 - Pro-p Extensions of Global Fields and pro-p Groups 

      [OWR-2006-25] Workshop Report 2006,25 (2006) - (21 May - 27 May 2006)

    • 0646a - Mathematical Theory of Water Waves 

      [OWR-2006-50] Workshop Report 2006,50 (2006) - (12 Nov - 18 Nov 2006)
      The water-wave problem is the study of the two- and threedimensional irrotational flow of a perfect fluid bounded above by a free surface subject to the forces of gravity and surface tension. It is a paradigm for most ...

    • 0608c - Mini-Workshop: On the Reception of Isaac Newton in Europe 

      [OWR-2006-10] Workshop Report 2006,10 (2006) - (19 Feb - 25 Feb 2006)
      A three-volume book on all aspects of the European reception of Isaac Newton’s work is in preparation, for publication in 2008 by Continuum Press (London). This workshop involved the important subset of contributors working ...

    • 0609 - Numerical Techniques for Optimization Problems with PDE Constraints 

      [OWR-2006-11] Workshop Report 2006,11 (2006) - (26 Feb - 04 Mar 2006)
      Optimization problems with partial differential equation (PDE) constraints arise in many science and engineering applications. Their robust and efficient solution present many mathematical challenges and requires a tight ...

    • 0645 - Qualitative Assumptions and Regularization in High-Dimensional Statistics 

      [OWR-2006-49] Workshop Report 2006,49 (2006) - (05 Nov - 11 Nov 2006)
      Important and exciting developments are currently underway in nonparametric statistics involving inter-play between qualitative constraints, penalization, and regularization methods. Some of these developments are taking ...

    • 0633c - Mini-Workshop: Anisotropic Motion Laws 

      [OWR-2006-38] Workshop Report 2006,38 (2006) - (13 Aug - 19 Aug 2006)
      Anisotropic motion laws play a key role in many applications ranging from materials science, biophysics to image processing. All these highly diversified disciplines have made it necessary to develop common mathematical ...

    • 0601 - Combinatorics 

      [OWR-2006-1] Workshop Report 2006,1 (2006) - (01 Jan - 07 Jan 2006)
      This is the report on the Oberwolfach workshop on Combinatorics, held 1–7 January 2006. Combinatorics is a branch of mathematics studying families of mainly, but not exclusively, finite or countable structures – discrete ...