Browsing Workshops 2011 by Title

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    • 1125 - Algebraische Zahlentheorie 

      [OWR-2011-31] Workshop Report 2011,31 (2011) - (19 Jun - 25 Jun 2011)
      The workshop brought together researchers from Europe, Japan and the US, who reported on various recent developments in algebraic number theory and related fields. Dominant topics were Shimura varieties, automorphic forms ...

    • 1133 - Applied Dynamics and Geometric Mechanics 

      [OWR-2011-39] Workshop Report 2011,39 (2011) - (14 Aug - 20 Aug 2011)
      This one week workshop was organized around several central subjects in applied dynamics and geometric mechanics. The specific organization with afternoons free for discussion led to intense exchanges of ideas. Bridges ...

    • 1141 - Arbeitsgemeinschaft: Quantum Ergodicity 

      [OWR-2011-49] Workshop Report 2011,49 (2011) - (09 Oct - 14 Oct 2011)
      Quantum Ergodicity aims at understanding the eigenstates of quantum mechanical systems admitting chaotic classical limiting dynamics. A paradigmatic system is the Laplace-Beltrami operator on a compact manifold of negative ...

    • 1114 - Arbeitsgemeinschaft: Rational Homotopy Theory in Mathematics and Physics 

      [OWR-2011-18] Workshop Report 2011,18 (2011) - (03 Apr - 08 Apr 2011)
      This Arbeitsgemeinschaft focused on the interplay among rational homotopy theory, differential geometry and the physics of string topology. The talks centered on one hand on how geometry and string topology make use of ...

    • 1123 - Arithmetic Groups vs. Mapping Class Groups: Similarities, Analogies and Differences 

      [OWR-2011-30] Workshop Report 2011,30 (2011) - (05 Jun - 11 Jun 2011)
      Arithmetic groups arise naturally in many fields such as number theory, algebraic geometry, and analysis. Mapping class groups arise in both low dimensional topology and geometric group theory. They have been studied ...

    • 1110 - Automorphic Forms: New Directions 

      [OWR-2011-14] Workshop Report 2011,14 (2011) - (06 Mar - 12 Mar 2011)
      The workshop on Automorphic Forms: New Directions provided a nice glimpse of the many streams of current research activity in this very active area. Topics included the relative trace formula and periods of automorphic ...

    • 1119 - Billiards, Flat Surfaces, and Dynamics on Moduli Spaces 

      [OWR-2011-25] Workshop Report 2011,25 (2011) - (08 May - 14 May 2011)
      This workshop brought together people working on the dynamics of various flows on moduli spaces, in particular the action of SL$_2(\mathbb R)$ on flat surfaces. The new results presented covered properties of interval ...

    • 1146 - Combinatorial Optimization 

      [OWR-2011-53] Workshop Report 2011,53 (2011) - (13 Nov - 19 Nov 2011)
      Combinatorial Optimization is a very active field that benefits from bringing together ideas from different areas, e.g., graph theory and combinatorics, matroids and submodularity, connectivity and network flows, approximation ...

    • 1101 - Combinatorics 

      [OWR-2011-1] Workshop Report 2011,1 (2011) - (02 Jan - 08 Jan 2011)
      Combinatorics is a fundamental mathematical discipline which focuses on the study of discrete objects and their properties. The current workshop brought together researchers from diverse fields such as Extremal and ...

    • 1139 - Complex Algebraic Geometry 

      [OWR-2011-47] Workshop Report 2011,47 (2011) - (25 Sep - 01 Oct 2011)
      The conference focused on several classical and modern topics in the realm of complex algebraic geometry, such as moduli spaces, birational geometry and the minimal model program, Mirror symmetry and Gromov–Witten invariants, ...

    • 1131 - Computational Group Theory 

      [OWR-2011-37] Workshop Report 2011,37 (2011) - (31 Jul - 06 Aug 2011)
      This sixth workshop on Computational Group Theory proved that its main themes “finitely presented groups”, “$p$-groups”, “matrix groups” and “representations of groups” are lively and active fields of research. The talks ...

    • 1143a - Correlations and Interactions for Random Quantum Systems 

      [OWR-2011-50] Workshop Report 2011,50 (2011) - (23 Oct - 29 Oct 2011)
      Random quantum systems cover a broad range of mathematical models from random Schrödinger operators to random matrices and quantum spin models with random parameters. Their understanding requires techniques which combine ...

    • 1127 - Differentialgeometrie im Großen 

      [OWR-2011-33] Workshop Report 2011,33 (2011) - (03 Jul - 09 Jul 2011)
      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 topology, ...

    • 1136 - Discrete Geometry 

      [OWR-2011-44] Workshop Report 2011,44 (2011) - (04 Sep - 10 Sep 2011)
      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 algebraic ...

    • 1128 - Dynamische Systeme 

      [OWR-2011-34] Workshop Report 2011,34 (2011) - (10 Jul - 16 Jul 2011)
      This workshop continued the biannual series at Oberwolfach on Dynamical Systems that started as the ”Moser-Zehnder meeting” in 1981. The main themes of the workshop are the new results and developments in the area of ...

    • 1144 - Emigration of Mathematicians and Transmission of Mathematics: Historical Lessons and Consequences of the Third Reich 

      [OWR-2011-51] Workshop Report 2011,51 (2011) - (30 Oct - 05 Nov 2011)
      This conference provided a focused venue to explore the intellectual migration of mathematicians and mathematics spurred by the Nazis and still influential today. The week of talks and discussions (both formal and informal) ...

    • 1129 - Explicit Methods in Number Theory 

      [OWR-2011-35] Workshop Report 2011,35 (2011) - (17 Jul - 23 Jul 2011)
      These notes contain extended abstracts on the topic of explicit methods in number theory. The range of topics includes the Sato-Tate conjecure, Langlands programme, function fields, L-functions and many other topics.

    • 1120a - Finite-dimensional Approximations of Discrete Groups 

      [OWR-2011-26] Workshop Report 2011,26 (2011) - (15 May - 21 May 2011)
      The main objective of this workshop was to bring together experts from various fields, which are all interested in finite and finite-dimensional approximations of infinite algebraic and analytic objects, such as groups, ...

    • 1115 - Geometric Methods of Complex Analysis 

      [OWR-2011-19] Workshop Report 2011,19 (2011) - (10 Apr - 16 Apr 2011)
      The purpose of this workshop was to discuss recent results in Several Complex Variables, Complex Geometry and Symplectic/Contact Geometry with a special focus on the interplay and exchange of ideas among these areas, which ...

    • 1112 - Geometric Numerical Integration 

      [OWR-2011-16] Workshop Report 2011,16 (2011) - (20 Mar - 26 Mar 2011)
      The subject of this workshop was numerical methods that preserve geometric properties of the flow of an ordinary or partial differential equation. This was complemented by the question as to how structure preservation ...