• 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 ...
    • 1148 - Geometric Partial Differential Equations: Theory, Numerics and Applications 

      [OWR-2011-54] Workshop Report 2011,54 (2011) - (27 Nov - 03 Dec 2011)
      This workshop concentrated on partial differential equations involving stationary and evolving surfaces in which geometric quantities play a major role. Mutual interest in this emerging field stimulated the interaction ...
    • 1107 - Geometric Quantization in the Non-compact Setting 

      [OWR-2011-9] Workshop Report 2011,9 (2011) - (13 Feb - 19 Feb 2011)
      The purpose of the workshop was to bring together mathematicians interested in ”quantization of manifolds” in a broad sense: given classical data, such as a Lie group G acting on a symplectic manifold M, construct a quantum ...
    • 1138 - Homotopy Theory 

      [OWR-2011-46] Workshop Report 2011,46 (2011) - (18 Sep - 24 Sep 2011)
      This workshop was a forum to present and discuss the latest result and ideas in homotopy theory and the connections to other branches of mathematics, such as algebraic geometry, representation theory and group theory.
    • 1145 - Mathematical Logic: Proof Theory, Constructive Mathematics 

      [OWR-2011-52] Workshop Report 2011,52 (2011) - (06 Nov - 12 Nov 2011)
      The workshop “Mathematical Logic: Proof Theory, Constructive Mathematics” was centered around proof-theoretic aspects of current mathematics, constructive mathematics and logical aspects of computational complexity.
    • 1126 - Mathematical Methods in Quantum Chemistry 

      [OWR-2011-32] Workshop Report 2011,32 (2011) - (26 Jun - 02 Jul 2011)
      The field of quantum chemistry is concerned with the analysis and simulation of chemical phenomena on the basis of the fundamental equations of quantum mechanics. Since the ‘exact’ electronic Schrödinger equation for a ...
    • 1134a - Mini-Workshop: Dynamics of Stochastic Systems and their Approximation 

      [OWR-2011-40] Workshop Report 2011,40 (2011) - (21 Aug - 27 Aug 2011)
      The aim of this workshop was to bring together specialists in the area of stochastic dynamical systems and stochastic numerical analysis to exchange their ideas about the state of the art of approximations of stochastic ...
    • 1103a - Mini-Workshop: Dynamics of Trace Maps and Applications to Spectral Theory 

      [OWR-2011-3] Workshop Report 2011,3 (2011) - (16 Jan - 22 Jan 2011)
      Recently some exciting results for the spectrum of Schrödinger operators with self-similar potentials and the dynamics of the associated Schrödinger equation have been established using input from complex and smooth dynamics. ...