• 1245a - Non-Archimedean Analytic Geometry 

      [OWR-2012-53] Workshop Report 2012,53 (2012) - (04 Nov - 10 Nov 2012)
      The workshop focused on recent developments in non-Archimedean analytic geometry with various applications to arithmetic and algebraic geometry. These applications include questions in Arakelov theory, p-adic differential ...
    • 1220 - Nonlinear Evolution Problems 

      [OWR-2012-26] Workshop Report 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.
    • 1234a - Optimal and Near Optimal Configurations on Lattices and Manifolds 

      [OWR-2012-40] Workshop Report 2012,40 (2012) - (19 Aug - 25 Aug 2012)
      Optimal configurations of points arise in many contexts, for example classical ground states for interacting particle systems, Euclidean packings of convex bodies, as well as minimal discrete and continuous energy problems ...
    • 1203 - Recent Developments in the Numerics of Nonlinear Hyperbolic Conservation Laws and their Use in Science and Engineering 

      [OWR-2012-5] Workshop Report 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 ...
    • 1227a - Reductions of Shimura Varieties 

      [OWR-2012-32] Workshop Report 2012,32 (2012) - (01 Jul - 07 Jul 2012)
      The workshop brought together leading experts in the theory of reductions of Shimura varieties. The talks presented new methods and results that intertwine a multitude of topics such as geometry and cohomology of moduli ...
    • 1213 - Representations of Finite Groups 

      [OWR-2012-16] Workshop Report 2012,16 (2012) - (25 Mar - 31 Mar 2012)
      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 ...
    • 1234b - Rough Paths and PDEs 

      [OWR-2012-41] Workshop Report 2012,41 (2012) - (19 Aug - 25 Aug 2012)
      The purpose of the Oberwolfach workshop ”Rough Paths and PDEs” was to bring together these researchers, both young and senior, with the aim to promote progress in rough path theory, the connections with partial differential ...
    • 1237 - Scaling Limits in Models of Statistical Mechanics 

      [OWR-2012-44] Workshop Report 2012,44 (2012) - (09 Sep - 15 Sep 2012)
      This has been the third workshop around Statistical Mechanics organized in the last 6 years. The main topic consisted of spatial random processes and their connections to statistical mechanics. The common underlying theme ...
    • 1239 - Singularities 

      [OWR-2012-46] Workshop Report 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 ...
    • 1217b - Singularity Theory and Integrable Systems 

      [OWR-2012-23] Workshop Report 2012,23 (2012) - (22 Apr - 28 Apr 2012)
      The workshop brought together three very different areas of mathematics, namely singularity theory, integrable systems and quantum cohomology. They are linked by their applications in topological quantum field theory and ...
    • 1205 - The Mathematics and Statistics of Quantitative Risk Management 

      [OWR-2012-7] Workshop Report 2012,7 (2012) - (29 Jan - 04 Feb 2012)
      It was the aim of this workshop to gather a multidisciplinary and international group of scientists at the forefront of research in areas related to the mathematics and statistics of quantitative risk management. The main ...
    • 1208a - Theory and Applications of Discontinuous Galerkin Methods 

      [OWR-2012-10] Workshop Report 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 ...
    • 1238 - Topologie 

      [OWR-2012-45] Workshop Report 2012,45 (2012) - (16 Sep - 22 Sep 2012)
      The Oberwolfach conference “Topologie” is one of the few occasions where researchers from many different areas in algebraic and geometric topology are able to meet and exchange ideas. Accordingly, the program covered a ...
    • 1216 - Toric Geometry 

      [OWR-2012-21] Workshop Report 2012,21 (2012) - (15 Apr - 21 Apr 2012)
      Toric Geometry plays a major role where a wide variety of mathematical fields intersect, such as algebraic and symplectic geometry, algebraic groups, and combinatorics. The main feature of this workshop was to bring people ...
    • 1218 - Triangulations 

      [OWR-2012-24] Workshop Report 2012,24 (2012) - (29 Apr - 05 May 2012)
      The earliest work in topology was often based on explicit combinatorial models – usually triangulations – for the spaces being studied. Although algebraic methods in topology gradually replaced combinatorial ones in the ...