• 0628 - Calculus of Variations 

      [OWR-2006-31] Workshop Report 2006,31 (2006) - (09 Jul - 15 Jul 2006)
      Research in the Calculus of Variations has always been motivated by questions generated within the field itself as well as by problems arising
    • 0624 - Classical Algebraic Geometry 

      [OWR-2006-27] Workshop Report 2006,27 (2006) - (11 Jun - 17 Jun 2006)
    • 0649 - Classical and Quantum Mechanical Models of Many-Particle Systems 

      [OWR-2006-54] Workshop Report 2006,54 (2006) - (03 Dec - 09 Dec 2006)
      The topic of this meeting were non-linear partial differential and integro-differential equations (in particular kinetic equations and their macroscopic/fluid-dynamical limits) modeling the dynamics of many-particle systems ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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
    • 0627 - Computational Group Theory 

      [OWR-2006-30] Workshop Report 2006,30 (2006) - (02 Jul - 08 Jul 2006)
      This workshop on Computational Group Theory revealed the close connections between its main themes “finitely presented groups”, “permutation groups”, “matrix groups” and “representations of groups”. The meeting also presented ...
    • 0605 - Convex and Algebraic Geometry 

      [OWR-2006-5] Workshop Report 2006,5 (2006) - (29 Jan - 04 Feb 2006)
      The subjects of convex and algebraic geometry meet primarily in the theory of toric varieties. Toric geometry is the part of algebraic geometry where all maps are given by monomials in suitable coordinates, and all equations ...
    • 0603 - Deformations and Contractions in Mathematics and Physics 

      [OWR-2006-3] Workshop Report 2006,3 (2006) - (15 Jan - 21 Jan 2006)
      Deformations of mathematical structures are not only important in most parts of mathematics but also to a large extend in physics. Contractions are in some respect dual to deformations. The workshop brought together world ...
    • 0616 - Differential-Algebraic Equations 

      [OWR-2006-18] Workshop Report 2006,18 (2006) - (16 Apr - 22 Apr 2006)
      Differential-Algebraic Equations (DAE) are today an independent field of research, which is gaining in importance and becoming of increasing interest for applications and mathematics itself. This workshop has drawn the ...
    • 0610 - Discrete Differential Geometry 

      [OWR-2006-12] Workshop Report 2006,12 (2006) - (05 Mar - 11 Mar 2006)
      Discrete Differential Geometry is a broad new area where differential geometry (studying smooth curves, surfaces and other manifolds) interacts with discrete geometry (studying polyhedral manifolds), using tools and ideas ...
    • 0632 - Four-dimensional Manifolds 

      [OWR-2006-35] Workshop Report 2006,35 (2006) - (06 Aug - 12 Aug 2006)
      This workshop has provided a broad panorama of recent developments in the study of topological, smooth, and symplectic 4-manifolds. Related invariants of knots and 3-manifolds were also discussed.
    • 0630 - Geometric Group Theory, Hyperbolic Dynamics and Symplectic Geometry 

      [OWR-2006-33] Workshop Report 2006,33 (2006) - (23 Jul - 29 Jul 2006)
      Geometric Group theory, Hyperbolic Dynamics and Symplectic Geometry are young and rapidly developing fields of mathematics. The scientific goal of the workshop was twofold: first, to present some recent breakthroughs, and, ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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”, ...
    • 0650 - Infinite Dimensional Lie Theory 

      [OWR-2006-55] Workshop Report 2006,55 (2006) - (10 Dec - 16 Dec 2006)
      The workshop focussed on recent developments in infinite-dimensional Lie theory. The talks covered a broad range of topics, such as structure and classification theory of infinite-dimensional Lie algebras, geometry of ...
    • 0619 - Interactions between Algebraic Geometry and Noncommutative Algebra 

      [OWR-2006-23] Workshop Report 2006,23 (2006) - (07 May - 13 May 2006)
      The workshop discussed the interactions between algebraic geometry and various areas of noncommutative algbebra including finite dimensional algebras, representation theory of algebras and noncommutative algebraic geometry. ...
    • 0635 - Komplexe Analysis 

      [OWR-2006-40] Workshop Report 2006,40 (2006) - (27 Aug - 02 Sep 2006)
      The main aim of this workshop was to discuss recent developments in several complex variables and complex geometry. The topics included: classification of higher dimensional varieties, mirror symmetry, hyperbolicity, Kähler ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...