Browsing Workshops 2006 by Issue Date

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    • 0617 - Topological and Geometric Methods in Group Theory 

      [OWR-2006-19] Workshop Report 2006,19 (2006) - (23 Apr - 29 Apr 2006)
      The focus of this meeting was the use of topological and geometric methods to study infinite discrete groups. These methods are increasingly being supplemented by powerful new techniques from analysis. Key topics included ...

    • 0633a - Mini-Workshop: The Hauptvermutung for High-Dimensional Manifolds 

      [OWR-2006-36] Workshop Report 2006,36 (2006) - (13 Aug - 19 Aug 2006)
      The meeting was devoted to the Kirby-Siebenmann structure theory for high-dimensional topological manifolds and the related disproof of the Hauptvermutung. We found nothing fundamentally wrong with the original work of ...

    • 0608a - Mini-Workshop: Thick Subcategories - Classifications and Applications 

      [OWR-2006-8] Workshop Report 2006,8 (2006) - (19 Feb - 25 Feb 2006)
      Thick subcategories of triangulated categories arise in various mathematical areas, for instance in algebraic geometry, in representation theory of groups and algebras, or in stable homotopy theory. The aim of this workshop ...

    • 0629 - Algebraic K-Theory 

      [OWR-2006-32] Workshop Report 2006,32 (2006) - (16 Jul - 22 Jul 2006)
      This is the report on the Oberwolfach workshop Algebraic KTheory, held in July 2006. The talks covered mainly topics from Algebraic Geometry and Number Theory in connection with K-Theory. Special emphasis was placed on ...

    • 0639 - PDE and Materials 

      [OWR-2006-44] Workshop Report 2006,44 (2006) - (24 Sep - 30 Sep 2006)
      This meeting brought together a carefully selected group of mathematicians, physicists, material scientists and engineers to discuss and review the impact of modern mathematical methods on the understanding of material ...

    • 0611 - Analysis and Topology in Interaction 

      [OWR-2006-13] Workshop Report 2006,13 (2006) - (12 Mar - 18 Mar 2006)
      This workshop brought together, on the one side, mathematicians working in areas of global analysis and index theory, which are related with problems in algebraic topology, and on the other side, specialists in fields like ...

    • 0607 - Algorithmic Graph Theory 

      [OWR-2006-7] Workshop Report 2006,7 (2006) - (12 Feb - 18 Feb 2006)
      The main focus of this workshop was on mathematical techniques needed for the development of efficient solutions and algorithms for computationally difficult graph problems. The techniques studied at the workshhop included: ...

    • 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. ...

    • 0618b - Mini-Workshop: Zeta Functions, Index and Twisted K-Theory; Interactions with Physics 

      [OWR-2006-21] Workshop Report 2006,21 (2006) - (30 Apr - 06 May 2006)
      The meeting provided an opportunity for number theorists, physicists, topologists and analysts to discuss recent developments and interactions in the area of multiple zeta functions, twisted K-theory, Hopf algebras, and ...

    • 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, ...

    • 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, ...

    • 0615 - The Rigorous Renormalization Group 

      [OWR-2006-17] Workshop Report 2006,17 (2006) - (09 Apr - 15 Apr 2006)
      The renormalization group is a mathematical tool used in the analysis of systems with infinitely many degrees of freedom associated with length scales. The workshop presents recent work in this domain concerning probability ...

    • 0648b - Mini-Workshop: Logic, Combinatorics and Independence Results 

      [OWR-2006-52] Workshop Report 2006,52 (2006) - (26 Nov - 02 Dec 2006)
      This is a collection of extended abstracts of a mini-workshop “Logic, Combinatorics and Independence results” that took place on November 25 – December 2, 2006 in Oberwolfach. The mini-workshop was attended by 16 researchers ...

    • 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 ...

    • 0606 - The Arithmetic of Fields 

      [OWR-2006-6] Workshop Report 2006,6 (2006) - (05 Feb - 11 Feb 2006)
      This is the report on the Oberwolfach workshop The Arithmetic of Fields, held in February 2006. Field Arithmetic (MSC 12E30) is a branch of mathematics concerned with studying the inner structure (orderings, valuations, ...

    • 0613 - Representations of Finite Groups 

      [OWR-2006-15] Workshop Report 2006,15 (2006) - (26 Mar - 01 Apr 2006)
      The workshop ”Representations of finite groups” was organized by A. Kleshchev (Eugene), M. Linckelmann (Aberdeen), G. Malle (Kaiserslautern) and J. Rickard (Bristol). It covered a wide variety of aspects of the representation ...