• 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • 0631 - Mathematical Methods in Tomography 

      [OWR-2006-34] Workshop Report 2006,34 (2006) - (30 Jul - 05 Aug 2006)
      This is the seventh Oberwolfach conference on the mathematics of tomography, the first one taking place in 1980. Tomography is the most popular of a series of medical and scientific imaging techniques that have been developed ...
    • 0634 - Mathematical Theory and Modelling in Atmosphere-Ocean Science 

      [OWR-2006-39] Workshop Report 2006,39 (2006) - (20 Aug - 26 Aug 2006)
      Mathematical theory and modelling in atmosphere-ocean science combines a broad range of advanced mathematical and numerical techniques and research directions. This includes the asymptotic analysis of multiscale systems, ...
    • 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 ...
    • 0604 - Mechanics of Materials 

      [OWR-2006-4] Workshop Report 2006,4 (2006) - (22 Jan - 28 Jan 2006)
      All up-to-date engineering applications of advanced multi-phase materials necessitate a concurrent design of materials (including composition, processing routes, microstructures and properties) with structural components. ...
    • 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 ...
    • 0648c - Mini-Workshop: Dirac Operators in Differential and Noncommutative Geometry 

      [OWR-2006-53] Workshop Report 2006,53 (2006) - (26 Nov - 02 Dec 2006)
      Abstract. This mini-workshop brought together mathematicians and physicists working either on classical or on noncommutative differential geometry. Our aim was to show current interests, methods and results within each ...
    • 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, ...
    • 0633b - Mini-Workshop: Hypercyclicity and Linear Chaos 

      [OWR-2006-37] Workshop Report 2006,37 (2006) - (13 Aug - 19 Aug 2006)
      The mini-workshop was devoted to the study of hypercyclic and chaotic operators within the wider framework of linear dynamical systems. Topics discussed included common hypercyclic vectors; hypercyclic and supercyclic ...
    • 0608b - Mini-Workshop: L2-Spectral Invariants and the Integrated Density of States 

      [OWR-2006-9] Workshop Report 2006,9 (2006) - (19 Feb - 25 Feb 2006)
      L2 -spectral invariants play an increasingly important role in the analysis of infinite geometric objects allowing for the action of a group. Typical such objects are covering spaces like Riemannian manifolds and graphs. ...