• 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, ...
    • 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 ...
    • 0922 - Manifold Perspectives 

      [OWR-2009-27] Workshop Report 2009,27 (2009) - (24 May - 30 May 2009)
      The study of the global properties of manifolds and their symmetries has had a great impact on both geometric and algebraic topology, and also on other branches of mathematics, such as algebra, differential geometry and ...
    • 0910c - Mini-Workshop: Non-Negativity is a Quantum Phenomenon 

      [OWR-2009-14] Workshop Report 2009,14 (2009) - (01 Mar - 07 Mar 2009)
      In recent publications, the same combinatorial description has arisen for three separate objects of interest: non-negative cells in the real grassmannian (Postnikov, Williams); torus orbits of symplectic leaves in the ...
    • 0908c - Mini-Workshop: Support Varieties 

      [OWR-2009-10] Workshop Report 2009,10 (2009) - (15 Feb - 21 Feb 2009)
      The notion of support is a fundamental concept which provides a geometric approach for studying various algebraic structures. The prototype for this has been Quillen’s description of the algebraic variety corresponding to ...
    • 0920 - Quadratic Forms and Linear Algebraic Groups 

      [OWR-2009-25] Workshop Report 2009,25 (2009) - (10 May - 16 May 2009)
      Topics discussed at the workshop Quadratic forms and linear algebraic groups included besides the algebraic theory of quadratic and Hermitian forms and their Witt groups several aspects of the theory of linear algebraic ...
    • 0913 - Representations of Finite Groups 

      [OWR-2009-17] Workshop Report 2009,17 (2009) - (22 Mar - 28 Mar 2009)
      The workshop Representations of Finite Groups was organised by Joseph Chuang (London), Markus Linckelmann (Aberdeen), Gunter Malle (Kaiserslautern) and Jeremy Rickard (Bristol). It covered a wide variety of aspects of the ...