Browsing Workshops 2012 by Issue Date
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1235 - Low-Dimensional Topology and Number Theory
[OWR-2012-42] (2012) - (26 Aug - 01 Sep 2012)The workshop brought together topologists and number theorists with the intent of exploring the many tantalizing connections between these areas. -
1226 - Learning Theory and Approximation
[OWR-2012-31] (2012) - (24 Jun - 30 Jun 2012)Learning theory studies data structures from samples and aims at understanding unknown function relations behind them. This leads to interesting theoretical problems which can be often attacked with methods from Approximation ... -
1228 - Discrete Differential Geometry
[OWR-2012-34] (2012) - (08 Jul - 14 Jul 2012)This is the collection of extended abstracts for the 24 lectures and the open problems session at the third Oberwolfach workshop on Discrete Differential Geometry. -
1250 - Convex Geometry and its Applications
[OWR-2012-59] (2012) - (09 Dec - 15 Dec 2012)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 ... -
1203 - Recent Developments in the Numerics of Nonlinear Hyperbolic Conservation Laws and their Use in Science and Engineering
[OWR-2012-5] (2012) - (15 Jan - 21 Jan 2012)Modern numerical methods for hyperbolic conservation laws rely on polynomials of high degree, mostly orthogonal polynomials, on triangular or quadrilateral meshes. Due to shocks stability is an issue and modern means of ... -
1201a - Mini-Workshop: Manifolds with Lower Curvature Bounds
[OWR-2012-1] (2012) - (01 Jan - 07 Jan 2012)The purpose of the meeting was to relate and study new developments in the geometry and topology of Riemannian manifolds with lower curvature bounds. Special emphasis was given to lower Ricci curvature bounds in the sense ... -
1244 - C*-Algebras, Dynamics, and Classification
[OWR-2012-52] (2012) - (28 Oct - 03 Nov 2012)Classification is a central theme in mathematics, and a particularly rich one in the theory of operator algebras. Indeed, one of the first major results in the theory is Murray and von Neumann’s type classification of ... -
1212 - Mechanics of Materials
[OWR-2012-15] (2012) - (18 Mar - 24 Mar 2012)The rapid advances of modern fabrications technologies require a thorough understanding of physical and mechanical properties of materials as influenced by their atomic composition, processing history and structure at the ... -
1204 - Interplay of Analysis and Probability in Physics
[OWR-2012-6] (2012) - (22 Jan - 28 Jan 2012)The main purpose of this workshop was to foster interaction between researchers in the fields of analysis and probability with the aim of joining forces to understand difficult problems from physics rigorously. 52 researchers ... -
1210 - Enveloping Algebras and Geometric Representation Theory
[OWR-2012-13] (2012) - (04 Mar - 10 Mar 2012)The workshop brought together experts investigating algebraic Lie theory from the geometric and combinatorial points of view. -
1225 - Classical Algebraic Geometry
[OWR-2012-30] (2012) - (17 Jun - 23 Jun 2012)Progress in algebraic geometry often comes through the introduction of new tools and ideas to tackle the classical problems the development of the field. Examples include new invariants that capture some aspect of geometry ... -
1206 - Computability Theory
[OWR-2012-8] (2012) - (05 Feb - 11 Feb 2012)Computability is one of the fundamental notions of mathematics, trying to capture the effective content of mathematics. Starting from Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem, it has now blossomed into a rich area with strong ... -
1207 - Advanced Computational Engineering
[OWR-2012-9] (2012) - (12 Feb - 18 Feb 2012)The finite element method is the established simulation tool for the numerical solution of partial differential equations in many engineering problems with many mathematical developments such as mixed finite element methods ... -
1232 - Arithmetic Geometry
[OWR-2012-38] (2012) - (05 Aug - 11 Aug 2012)The focus of the workshop was the connection between algebraic geometry and arithmetic. Most lectures were on p-adic topics, underlining the importance of Fontaine’s theory in the field, namely it gives a relation between ... -
1220 - Nonlinear Evolution Problems
[OWR-2012-26] (2012) - (13 May - 19 May 2012)In this workshop geometric evolution equations of parabolic type, nonlinear hyperbolic equations, and dispersive equations and their interrelations were the subject of 21 talks and several shorter special presentations. -
1239 - Singularities
[OWR-2012-46] (2012) - (23 Sep - 29 Sep 2012)Singularity theory is concerned with the local and global structure of maps and spaces that occur in algebraic, analytic or differential geometric context. It uses methods from algebra, topology, algebraic geometry and ... -
1248b - Mini-Workshop: Frontiers in Quantile Regression
[OWR-2012-56] (2012) - (25 Nov - 01 Dec 2012)Quantiles play an essential role in modern statistics, as emphasized by the fundamental work of Parzen (1978) and Tukey (1977). Quantile regression was introduced by Koenker and Bassett (1978) as a complement to least ... -
1208a - Theory and Applications of Discontinuous Galerkin Methods
[OWR-2012-10] (2012) - (19 Feb - 25 Feb 2012)The workshop was organized by Susanne C. Brenner (Louisiana State University), Ronald Hoppe (University of Houston, Augsburg University) and Béatrice Rivière (Rice University). There were twenty-one lectures. The meeting ... -
1240b - Mini-Workshop: Topology of Real Singularities and Motivic Aspects
[OWR-2012-48] (2012) - (01 Oct - 06 Oct 2012)This workgroup focusses on some recent issues in real singularities, concerning the topology of the Milnor fibre of a singular map and several motivic aspects of singularities of sets definable in some structures over the ... -
1209 - Control Theory: Mathematical Perspectives on Complex Networked Systems
[OWR-2012-12] (2012) - (26 Feb - 03 Mar 2012)Control theory is an interdisciplinary field that is located at the crossroads of pure and applied mathematics with systems engineering and the sciences. Its range of applicability and its techniques evolve rapidly with ...