Browsing Workshops 2008 by Title

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    • 0816 - Analysis of Boundary Element Methods 

      [OWR-2008-19] Workshop Report 2008,19 (2008) - (13 Apr - 19 Apr 2008)
      At this workshop challenging problems in boundary element research were addressed. Diverse topics from high frequency acoustics/electromagnetic scattering to time domain problems describing wave propagation were covered. ...

    • 0811 - Analytic Number Theory 

      [OWR-2008-14] Workshop Report 2008,14 (2008) - (09 Mar - 15 Mar 2008)
      The meeting on analytic number theory brings together leading experts from various active subbranches of the field, including L-functions, counting points on varieties by the circle method or geometric means, sieves, ...

    • 0830 - Applied Dynamics and Geometric Mechanics 

      [OWR-2008-33] Workshop Report 2008,33 (2008) - (20 Jul - 26 Jul 2008)
      The workshop was organized around core topics in applied dynamics and geometric mechanics. Each speaker and invitee presented a new mathematical or computational tool. They also showed how their tool or technique is useful ...

    • 0814 - Arbeitsgemeinschaft: Julia Sets of Positive Measure 

      [OWR-2008-17] Workshop Report 2008,17 (2008) - (30 Mar - 05 Apr 2008)
      In this Arbeitsgemeinschaft, we presented the proof that there exist quadratic polynomials having a non-linearizable fixed point and a Julia set of positive Lebesgue measure.

    • 0841 - Arbeitsgemeinschaft: Ricci Flow and the Poincare Conjecture 

      [OWR-2008-46] Workshop Report 2008,46 (2008) - (05 Oct - 11 Oct 2008)
      It was the aim of this workshop to introduce the participants to the basic concepts and techniques of Hamilton’s Ricciflow programme and cover the main ideas of the proof of the Poincar´e conjecture. This was accomplished ...

    • 0832 - Arithmetic Algebraic Geometry 

      [OWR-2008-35] Workshop Report 2008,35 (2008) - (03 Aug - 09 Aug 2008)
      Arithmetic geometry lies between number theory and algebraic geometry. It deals with schemes over the rings of integers of a numberfield or also over a p-adic completion. For them one investigates geometric properties, ...

    • 0818 - Atomistic Models of Materials: Mathematical Challenges 

      [OWR-2008-21] Workshop Report 2008,21 (2008) - (27 Apr - 03 May 2008)
      The contributions in this report, written by leading mathematicians and materials scientists, summarize recent progress and main mathematical challenges in the exciting and fast growing interdisciplinary field of atomistic ...

    • 0806 - Automorphic Forms, Geometry and Arithmetic 

      [OWR-2008-5] Workshop Report 2008,5 (2008) - (03 Feb - 09 Feb 2008)
      This meeting provided an overview of recent developments in the theory of automorphic forms and automorphic representations. In addition, new results in related areas including geometry, arithmetic geometry, moduli spaces, ...

    • 0804 - Buildings: Interactions with Algebra and Geometry 

      [OWR-2008-3] Workshop Report 2008,3 (2008) - (20 Jan - 26 Jan 2008)
      The focus of the conference was on buildings and their applications. Buildings are combinatorial structures (metric cell complexes) which may be viewed as simultaneous generalizations of trees and projective spaces. There ...

    • 0834 - C*-Algebras 

      [OWR-2008-37] Workshop Report 2008,37 (2008) - (17 Aug - 23 Aug 2008)
      The theory of C*-algebras plays a major role in many areas of modern mathematics, like Non-commutative Geometry, Dynamical Systems, Harmonic Analysis, and Topology, to name a few. The aim of the conference “C*-algebras” ...

    • 0828 - Calculus of Variations 

      [OWR-2008-31] Workshop Report 2008,31 (2008) - (06 Jul - 12 Jul 2008)
      The Calculus of Variations is at the same time a classical subject, with long-standing open questions which have generated exciting discoveries in recent decades, and a modern subject in which new types of questions arise, ...

    • 0824 - Classical Algebraic Geometry 

      [OWR-2008-26] Workshop Report 2008,26 (2008) - (08 Jun - 14 Jun 2008)
      Algebraic geometry studies properties of specific algebraic varieties, on the one hand, and moduli spaces of all varieties of fixed topological type on the other hand. Of special importance is the moduli space of curves, ...

    • 0846 - Combinatorial Optimization 

      [OWR-2008-51] Workshop Report 2008,51 (2008) - (09 Nov - 15 Nov 2008)
      The field of Combinatorial Optimization brings together techniques from a variety of mathematical disciplines to study optimization problems over discrete structures. The field is very active and continues to make strong ...

    • 0802 - Combinatorics 

      [OWR-2008-1] Workshop Report 2008,1 (2008) - (06 Jan - 12 Jan 2008)
      This is the report on the Oberwolfach workshop on Combinatorics, held 6–12 January 2008. Combinatorics is a branch of mathematics studying families of mainly, but not exclusively discrete (i.e. finite or countable) structures, ...

    • 0827a - Computational Algebraic Topology 

      [OWR-2008-29] Workshop Report 2008,29 (2008) - (29 Jun - 05 Jul 2008)
      Computational algebraic topology is a dynamic field of mathematics, which has close connections to the classical algebraic topology, combinatorial algebraic topology, theory of algorithms, as well as an abundance of ...

    • 0839 - Discrete Geometry 

      [OWR-2008-44] Workshop Report 2008,44 (2008) - (21 Sep - 27 Sep 2008)
      A number of remarkable recent developments in many branches of discrete geometry have been presented at the workshop, some of them demonstrating strong interactions with other fields of mathematics (such as harmonic analysis ...

    • 0813 - Disordered Systems: Random Schrödinger Operators and Random Matrices 

      [OWR-2008-16] Workshop Report 2008,16 (2008) - (23 Mar - 29 Mar 2008)
      The spectral analysis of random operators plays a central role for the understanding of quantum systems with disorder. Two distinct types of ensembles are of particular significance: Random Schrödinger operators and random ...

    • 0851 - Dynamics of Patterns 

      [OWR-2008-57] Workshop Report 2008,57 (2008) - (14 Dec - 20 Dec 2008)
      This workshop focused on the dynamics of nonlinear waves and spatio-temporal patterns, which arise in functional and partial differential equations. Among the outstanding problems in this area are the dynamical selection ...

    • 0837 - Geometric Group Theory, Hyperbolic Dynamics and Symplectic Geometry 

      [OWR-2008-42] Workshop Report 2008,42 (2008) - (07 Sep - 13 Sep 2008)
      The workshop ”Geometric Group Theory, Hyperbolic Dynamics and Symplectic Geometry” brought together experts in these different but close and interactive mathematical directions. The activities included talks by world renown ...

    • 0831 - Geometrie 

      [OWR-2008-34] Workshop Report 2008,34 (2008) - (27 Jul - 02 Aug 2008)
      The program of this meeting covered a wide range of of recent developments in geometry such as geometric flows, metric geometry, positively and negatively curved manifolds and dynamics of quasiconformal maps.