• 1105 - Trends in Mathematical Imaging and Surface Processing 

      [OWR-2011-7] Workshop Report 2011,7 (2011) - (30 Jan - 05 Feb 2011)
      Motivated both by industrial applications and the challenge of new problems, one observes an increasing interest in the field of image and surface processing over the last years. It has become clear that even though the ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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. ...
    • 1122 - Stochastic Analysis 

      [OWR-2011-29] Workshop Report 2011,29 (2011) - (29 May - 04 Jun 2011)
      The meeting took place on May 30-June 3, 2011, with over 55 people in attendance. Each day had 6 to 7 talks of varying length (some talks were 30 minutes long), except for Thursday: the traditional hike was moved to Thursday ...
    • 1111 - The Renormalization Group 

      [OWR-2011-15] Workshop Report 2011,15 (2011) - (13 Mar - 19 Mar 2011)
      Invented as a multiscale approach to the theory of critical phenomena, the renormalization group has become a powerful mathematical tool in the analysis of infinite-dimensional systems. Its applications range from classical ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • 1149 - Variational Methods for Evolution 

      [OWR-2011-55] Workshop Report 2011,55 (2011) - (04 Dec - 10 Dec 2011)
      The meeting focused on the last advances in the applications of variational methods to evolution problems governed by partial differential equations. The talks covered a broad range of topics, including large deviation and ...
    • 1116 - Real Enumerative Questions in Complex and Tropical Geometry 

      [OWR-2011-20] Workshop Report 2011,20 (2011) - (17 Apr - 23 Apr 2011)
      The workshop Real Enumerative Questions in Complex and Tropical Geometry was devoted to a wide discussion and exchange of ideas between the best experts representing various points of view on the subject. Enumeration 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) ...
    • 1104 - Stochastic Analysis in Finance and Insurance 

      [OWR-2011-6] Workshop Report 2011,6 (2011) - (23 Jan - 29 Jan 2011)
      This workshop brought together leading experts and a large number of younger researchers in stochastic analysis and mathematical finance from all over the world. During a highly intense week, participants exchanged during ...
    • 1132 - Partial Differential Equations 

      [OWR-2011-38] Workshop Report 2011,38 (2011) - (07 Aug - 13 Aug 2011)
      The workshop dealt with partial differential equations in geometry and technical applications. The main topics were the combination of nonlinear partial differential equations and geometric problems, regularity of free ...
    • 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 ...
    • 1108 - Representation Theory of Quivers and Finite Dimensional Algebras 

      [OWR-2011-10] Workshop Report 2011,10 (2011) - (20 Feb - 26 Feb 2011)
      Methods and results from the representation theory of quivers and finite dimensional algebras have led to many interactions with other areas of mathematics. Such areas include the theory of Lie algebras and quantum groups, ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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.
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...