Browsing Workshops 2008 by Issue Date
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0822 - History of Mathematics of the Early 20th Century: The Role of Transition
[OWR-2008-24] (2008) - (25 May - 31 May 2008)This conference provided a focused venue to investigate the history of mathematics during a particularly active time in the discipline, that is, roughly between the turn of the 20th century and 1950. Using the lens of ... -
0816 - Analysis of Boundary Element Methods
[OWR-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. ... -
0839 - Discrete Geometry
[OWR-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 ... -
0818 - Atomistic Models of Materials: Mathematical Challenges
[OWR-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 ... -
0830 - Applied Dynamics and Geometric Mechanics
[OWR-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 ... -
0829 - Real Analysis, Harmonic Analysis and Applications
[OWR-2008-32] (2008) - (13 Jul - 19 Jul 2008)In the last few years there have been important developments in the point of view and methods of harmonic analysis, and at the same time significant concurrent progress in the application of these to various other fields. ... -
0802 - Combinatorics
[OWR-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, ... -
0810 - Optimal Control of Coupled Systems of PDE
[OWR-2008-13] (2008) - (02 Mar - 08 Mar 2008)Current research in the control of PDEs is focused on highly nonlinear coupled systems of partial differential equations that arise from diverse applications in engineering and science. Dealing with associated control ... -
0849 - Interplay of Analysis and Probability in Physics
[OWR-2008-55] (2008) - (30 Nov - 06 Dec 2008)It is widely recognised that stochastic effects need to be included in the modelling of many physical systems, while reciprocally the sciences provide a challenging potential area of application of stochastic processes. ... -
0819 - Invariants in Low-Dimensional Topology
[OWR-2008-22] (2008) - (04 May - 10 May 2008)The complex set of topics in that workshop originates from the classical algebraic low–dimensional topology and the influx of new invariants that began with the Jones polynomial in the 1980’s, that continued with the recent ... -
0846 - Combinatorial Optimization
[OWR-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 ... -
0850 - Hyperbolic Conservation Laws
[OWR-2008-56] (2008) - (07 Dec - 13 Dec 2008)The subject of this workshop concerned the analysis and numerical investigation of hyperbolic systems. In particular the interactions between theoretical and numerical contributions were in the focus of this meeting. Many ... -
0845a - Infinite Dimensional Random Dynamical Systems and Their Applications
[OWR-2008-50] (2008) - (02 Nov - 08 Nov 2008)The theory of infinite dimensional random dynamical systems shares many of the concepts and results for finite dimensional random dynamical systems, but with considerably more technical complications. Many examples are ... -
0844 - Von Neumann Algebras and Ergodic Theory of Group Actions
[OWR-2008-49] (2008) - (26 Oct - 01 Nov 2008)The theory of von Neumann algebras has seen some dramatic advances in the last few years. Von Neumann algebras are objects which can capture and analyze symmetries of mathematical or physical situations whenever these ... -
0847b - Mini-Workshop: Symmetric Varieties and Involutions of Algebraic Groups
[OWR-2008-53] (2008) - (16 Nov - 22 Nov 2008)This conference brought together experts from the areas of algebraic groups, Kac–Moody groups, Tits buildings, and symmetric varieties. The main theme presented and discussed during the workshop was the geometry of involutions ... -
0847a - Mini-Workshop: Numerics for Kinetic Equations
[OWR-2008-52] (2008) - (16 Nov - 22 Nov 2008)Kinetic equations are crucial to an adequate description of many processes of scientific and industrial importance. In recent years there have been intensified research activities in the field of numerical algorithms for ... -
0847c - Mini-Workshop: Group Actions on Curves: Reduction and Lifting
[OWR-2008-54] (2008) - (16 Nov - 22 Nov 2008)Group actions on algebraic curves over local, global and finite fields play an important role in modern algebraic and arithmetic geometry. From the arithmetic perspective, the most difficult and interesting case occurs ...