Browsing Workshops 2008 by Issue Date

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    • 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 ...

    • 0823 - Stochastic Analysis 

      [OWR-2008-25] Workshop Report 2008,25 (2008) - (01 Jun - 07 Jun 2008)
      The talks reviewed several directions in which progress in the general field of stochastic analysis occurred. Several themes were covered in depth: Among these themes a prominent role was played by the SLE (Schramm-Loewner ...

    • 0825 - Nonlinear Evolution Equations 

      [OWR-2008-27] Workshop Report 2008,27 (2008) - (15 Jun - 21 Jun 2008)
      In this workshop three types of nonlinear evolution problems - geometric evolution equations (essentially all of parabolic type), nonlinear hyperbolic equations and dispersive equations - were the subject of 21 talks.

    • 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 ...

    • 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, ...

    • 0826 - Profinite and Asymptotic Group Theory 

      [OWR-2008-28] Workshop Report 2008,28 (2008) - (22 Jun - 28 Jun 2008)
      This meeting was focused on asymptotic aspects of group theory. The resulting problems lead, in particular, to the study of infinite groups, with an emphasis on the asymptotic behaviour of their finite quotients. Properties ...

    • 0827b - Learning Theory and Approximation 

      [OWR-2008-30] Workshop Report 2008,30 (2008) - (29 Jun - 05 Jul 2008)
      Mathematical analysis of learning algorithms consists of bias measured by various kinds of approximation errors and variance investigated by probability and statistical analysis. This workshop has dealt with new developments ...

    • 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 ...

    • 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, ...

    • 0815 - Mathematical Logic: Proof Theory, Constructive Mathematics 

      [OWR-2008-18] Workshop Report 2008,18 (2008) - (06 Apr - 12 Apr 2008)
      The workshop “Mathematical Logic: Proof Theory, Constructive Mathematics” brought together a carefully selected group of mathematicians, computer scientists and logicians in other fields to discus the impact of proof-theoretic ...

    • 0809b - Mini-Workshop: Hyperbolic Aspects of Phase Transition Dynamics 

      [OWR-2008-11] Workshop Report 2008,11 (2008) - (24 Feb - 01 Mar 2008)
      The subject of this mini-workshop concerned the analysis and numerical investigations of mathematical models for phase transitions. In particular recent results about the dynamics of liquid-vapor flows and the relevance ...

    • 0807a - Mini-Workshop: Complex Approximation and Universality 

      [OWR-2008-6] Workshop Report 2008,6 (2008) - (10 Feb - 16 Feb 2008)
      The mini-workshop was devoted to the study of universality in connection with approximation theory in complex analysis and related notions within the framework of Banach spaces and various function spaces. Topics discussed ...

    • 0817 - Groups and Geometries 

      [OWR-2008-20] Workshop Report 2008,20 (2008) - (20 Apr - 26 Apr 2008)
      This was one of series of Oberwolfach workshops on Groups and Geometries which has taken place every 3 years for some time. There were three main inter-related themes: buildings and their relationship with algebraic groups; ...

    • 0809a - Mini-Workshop: The Mathematics of Electro-Active Smart Materials 

      [OWR-2008-10] Workshop Report 2008,10 (2008) - (24 Feb - 01 Mar 2008)
      Science and technology have produced amazing developments in the design of electronics and machinery using smart materials. Some everyday items are already incorporating smart materials as electro-rheological and ...

    • 0803 - Set Theory 

      [OWR-2008-2] Workshop Report 2008,2 (2008) - (13 Jan - 19 Jan 2008)
      This lively workshop presented some of the most exciting recent developments in set theory, including major new results about ordered sets, Banach spaces, determinacy, Ramsey theory, pcf theory, inner models, forcing, ...

    • 0807c - Mini-Workshop: Attraction to Solitary Waves and Related Aspects of Physics 

      [OWR-2008-8] Workshop Report 2008,8 (2008) - (10 Feb - 16 Feb 2008)
      The aim of the miniworkshop is the discussion of the solitary wave asymptotics for nonlinear Hamiltonian partial differential equations and relation to mathematical problems of Quantum Physics. While the existence and ...

    • 0812 - The Mathematics and Statistics of Quantitative Risk Management 

      [OWR-2008-15] Workshop Report 2008,15 (2008) - (16 Mar - 22 Mar 2008)
      Over the last 20 years risk management has become one of the more challenging tasks in the financial and insurance industries. With the current uncertainty in the financial institutions and markets, risk management is a ...

    • 0809c - Mini-Workshop: Time Series with Sudden Structural Changes 

      [OWR-2008-12] Workshop Report 2008,12 (2008) - (24 Feb - 01 Mar 2008)
      The workshop was concerned with models and tools for nonstationary time series, in particular for those which are piecewise stationary, but where the stochastic structure of the data generating process sometimes changes ...

    • 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.

    • 0807b - Mini-Workshop: Mathematics of Solvency 

      [OWR-2008-7] Workshop Report 2008,7 (2008) - (10 Feb - 16 Feb 2008)
      The discussion on solvency regulation for financial institutions, in particular the demand for appropriate risk measures, led to an axiomatic approach (coherent risk measures, Artzner et a. (2004)) which is now generally ...