Browsing Workshops 2009 by Title

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    • 0927 - Algebraic K-Theory and Motivic Cohomology 

      [OWR-2009-31] Workshop Report 2009,31 (2009) - (28 Jun - 04 Jul 2009)
      Algebraic K-theory and the related motivic cohomology are a systematic way of producing invariants for algebraic or geometric structures. Its definition and methods are taken from algebraic topology, but it has also proved ...

    • 0926 - Algebraische Zahlentheorie 

      [OWR-2009-30] Workshop Report 2009,30 (2009) - (21 Jun - 27 Jun 2009)
      The workshop brought together researchers from Europe, the US and Japan, who reported on various recent developments in algebraic number theory and related fields. Dominant themes were p-adic methods, L-functions and ...

    • 0941 - Arbeitsgemeinschaft: Minimal Surfaces 

      [OWR-2009-45] Workshop Report 2009,45 (2009) - (04 Oct - 09 Oct 2009)
      The theory of Minimal Surfaces has developed rapidly in the past 10 years. There are many factors that have contributed to this development: Sophisticated construction methods [14,29,31] have been developed and have ...

    • 0914 - Arbeitsgemeinschaft: Optimal Transport and Geometry 

      [OWR-2009-18] Workshop Report 2009,18 (2009) - (29 Mar - 04 Apr 2009)
      This Arbeitsgemeinschaft was devoted to recent developments in optimal transport with emphasis on links and applications to geometry. The topics reached from the origin of optimal transport as a variational problem, where ...

    • 0935 - Challenges in Statistical Theory: Complex Data Structures and Algorithmic Optimization 

      [OWR-2009-39] Workshop Report 2009,39 (2009) - (23 Aug - 29 Aug 2009)
      Technological developments have created a constant incoming stream of complex new data structures that need analysis. Modern statistics therefore means mathematically sophisticated new statistical theory that generates or ...

    • 0918 - Combinatorics and Probability 

      [OWR-2009-23] Workshop Report 2009,23 (2009) - (26 Apr - 02 May 2009)
      The effective application of probabilistic reasoning in the study of problems in diverse areas is one of the most exciting recent developments in Mathematics. Probabilistic methods turned out to be very powerful in Discrete ...

    • 0940 - Complex Algebraic Geometry 

      [OWR-2009-44] Workshop Report 2009,44 (2009) - (27 Sep - 03 Oct 2009)
      The Conference focused on several classical and novel theories in the realm of complex algebraic geometry, such as Algebraic surfaces, Moduli theory, Minimal Model Program, Abelian Varieties, Holomorphic Symplectic Varieties, ...

    • 0947 - Complexity Theory 

      [OWR-2009-52] Workshop Report 2009,52 (2009) - (15 Nov - 21 Nov 2009)
      Computational Complexity Theory is the mathematical study of the intrinsic power and limitations of computational resources like time, space, or randomness. The current workshop focused on recent developments in various ...

    • 0925 - Computational Multiscale Methods 

      [OWR-2009-29] Workshop Report 2009,29 (2009) - (14 Jun - 20 Jun 2009)
      Computational Multiscale Methods play an important role in many modern computer simulations in material sciences with different time scales and different scales in space. Besides various computational challenges, the meeting ...

    • 0909 - Control Theory: On the Way to New Application Fields 

      [OWR-2009-11] Workshop Report 2009,11 (2009) - (22 Feb - 28 Feb 2009)
      Control theory is an interdisciplinary field that is located at the crossroads of pure and applied mathematics with systems engineering and the sciences. Recently, deep interactions are emerging with new application areas, ...

    • 0949 - Convex Geometry and its Applications 

      [OWR-2009-53] Workshop Report 2009,53 (2009) - (29 Nov - 05 Dec 2009)
      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 ...

    • 0945 - Design and Analysis of Infectious Disease Studies 

      [OWR-2009-48] Workshop Report 2009,48 (2009) - (01 Nov - 07 Nov 2009)
      This workshop gathered 45 participants from 16 countries and had a correspondingly multifaceted program covering various infectious diseases, public health applications, and methodological innovations. The discussions and ...

    • 0931 - Differentialgeometrie im Großen 

      [OWR-2009-35] Workshop Report 2009,35 (2009) - (26 Jul - 01 Aug 2009)
      The meeting continued the biannual conference series Differentialgeometrie im Großen at the MFO which was established in the 60’s by Klingenberg and Chern. Global Riemannian geometry with its connections to geometric analysis, ...

    • 0903 - Discrete Differential Geometry 

      [OWR-2009-2] Workshop Report 2009,2 (2009) - (11 Jan - 17 Jan 2009)
      This is the collection of extended abstracts for the 26 lectures and the open problems session at the second Oberwolfach workshop on Discrete Differential Geometry.

    • 0928 - Dynamische Systeme 

      [OWR-2009-32] Workshop Report 2009,32 (2009) - (05 Jul - 11 Jul 2009)
      This workshop, organized by Hakan Eliasson (Paris), Helmut Hofer (Princeton) and Jean-Christophe Yoccoz (Paris), continued the biannual series at Oberwolfach on Dynamical Systems that started as the “Moser– Zehnder meeting” ...

    • 0911 - Enveloping Algebras and Geometric Representation Theory 

      [OWR-2009-15] Workshop Report 2009,15 (2009) - (08 Mar - 14 Mar 2009)
      The meeting brought together experts investigating Lie theory from the geometric, algebraic and combinatorial points of view to discuss recent progress and bring forward the research in this area by fostering scientific ...

    • 0929 - Explicit Methods in Number Theory 

      [OWR-2009-33] Workshop Report 2009,33 (2009) - (12 Jul - 18 Jul 2009)
      These notes contain extended abstracts on the topic of explicit methods in number theory. The range of topics includes asymptotics for field extensions and class numbers, random matrices and L-functions, rational points on ...

    • 0915b - Hilbert Modules and Complex Geometry 

      [OWR-2009-20] Workshop Report 2009,20 (2009) - (05 Apr - 11 Apr 2009)
      The major topics discussed in this workshop were Hilbert modules of analytic functions on domains in ℂn, Toeplitz and Hankel operators, the interplay of commutative algebra, complex analytic geometry and multivariable ...

    • 0944a - History and Philosophy of Mathematical Notations and Symbolism 

      [OWR-2009-47] Workshop Report 2009,47 (2009) - (25 Oct - 31 Oct 2009)
      The conference aimed to discuss the nature of mathematical language with the focus set on the history of mathematical symbolism and symbolisation in a wide sense. Its contents were arranged along three main topics—symbolization ...

    • 0915a - Homotopy Theory of Function Spaces and Related Topics 

      [OWR-2009-19] Workshop Report 2009,19 (2009) - (05 Apr - 11 Apr 2009)
      This workshop brought together researchers studying a variety of problems related to the homotopy theory of function spaces. Topics covered included: evaluation maps and Gottlieb groups, the classification of gauge groups ...