• 1207 - Advanced Computational Engineering 

      [OWR-2012-9] Workshop Report 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 ...
    • 1219 - Analysis and Geometric Singularities 

      [OWR-2012-25] Workshop Report 2012,25 (2012) - (06 May - 12 May 2012)
      This is a report on the Oberwolfach conference “Analysis and Geometric Singularities”, May 6-12, 2012. The main themes discussed in the meeting include the interplay between the analytic, geometric and topological study ...
    • 1224 - Applied Harmonic Analysis and Sparse Approximation 

      [OWR-2012-29] Workshop Report 2012,29 (2012) - (10 Jun - 16 Jun 2012)
      Applied harmonic analysis and sparse approximation are highly active research areas with a lot of recent exciting developments. Their methods have become crucial for a wide range of applications in technology and science, ...
    • 1241 - Arbeitsgemeinschaft: Ergodic Theory and Combinatorial Number Theory 

      [OWR-2012-50] Workshop Report 2012,50 (2012) - (07 Oct - 13 Oct 2012)
      The aim of this Arbeitsgemeinschaft was to introduce young researchers with various backgrounds to the multifaceted and mutually perpetuating connections between ergodic theory, topological dynamics, combinatorics, and ...
    • 1214 - Arbeitsgemeinschaft: Quasiperiodic Schrödinger Operators 

      [OWR-2012-17] Workshop Report 2012,17 (2012) - (01 Apr - 07 Apr 2012)
      This Arbeitsgemeinschaft discussed the spectral properties of quasi-periodic Schrödinger operators in one space dimension. After presenting background material on Schrödinger operators with dynamically defined potentials ...
    • 1232 - Arithmetic Geometry 

      [OWR-2012-38] Workshop Report 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 ...
    • 1244 - C*-Algebras, Dynamics, and Classification 

      [OWR-2012-52] Workshop Report 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 ...
    • 1230 - Calculus of Variations 

      [OWR-2012-36] Workshop Report 2012,36 (2012) - (22 Jul - 28 Jul 2012)
      Since its invention, the calculus of variations has been a central field of mathematics and physics, providing tools and techniques to study problems in geometry, physics and partial differential equations. On the one hand, ...
    • 1225 - Classical Algebraic Geometry 

      [OWR-2012-30] Workshop Report 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 ...
    • 1246 - Complexity Theory 

      [OWR-2012-54] Workshop Report 2012,54 (2012) - (11 Nov - 17 Nov 2012)
      Computational Complexity Theory is the mathematical study of the intrinsic power and limitations of computational resources like time, space, or randomness. The current workshop focused on recent developments in various ...
    • 1206 - Computability Theory 

      [OWR-2012-8] Workshop Report 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 ...
    • 1243 - Computational Inverse Problems 

      [OWR-2012-51] Workshop Report 2012,51 (2012) - (21 Oct - 27 Oct 2012)
      Inverse problem typically deal with the identification of unknown quantities from indirect measurements and appear in many areas in technology, medicine, biology, finance, and econometrics. The computational solution of ...
    • 1209 - Control Theory: Mathematical Perspectives on Complex Networked Systems 

      [OWR-2012-12] Workshop Report 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 ...
    • 1250 - Convex Geometry and its Applications 

      [OWR-2012-59] Workshop Report 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 ...
    • 1217a - Diophantische Approximationen 

      [OWR-2012-22] Workshop Report 2012,22 (2012) - (22 Apr - 28 Apr 2012)
      This Number Theoretic conference was focused on the following subjects: the Littlewood conjecture, simultaneous homogeneous and inhomogeneous Diophantine approximation, geometry of numbers, irrationality, Diophantine ...
    • 1228 - Discrete Differential Geometry 

      [OWR-2012-34] Workshop Report 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.
    • 1251 - Dynamics of Patterns 

      [OWR-2012-60] Workshop Report 2012,60 (2012) - (16 Dec - 22 Dec 2012)
      Patterns and nonlinear waves arise in many applications. Mathematical descriptions and analyses draw from a variety of fields such as partial differential equations of various types, differential and difference equations ...
    • 1210 - Enveloping Algebras and Geometric Representation Theory 

      [OWR-2012-13] Workshop Report 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.
    • 1202 - Explicit Versus Tacit Knowledge in Mathematics 

      [OWR-2012-4] Workshop Report 2012,4 (2012) - (08 Jan - 14 Jan 2012)
      This workshop aimed to bring together an international group of historians of mathematics to reflect upon the role played by tacit knowledge in doing mathematics at various times and places. The existence of tacit knowledge ...
    • 1211 - Frontiers in Nonparametric Statistics 

      [OWR-2012-14] Workshop Report 2012,14 (2012) - (11 Mar - 17 Mar 2012)
      The goal of this workshop was to discuss recent developments of nonparametric statistical inference. A particular focus was on high dimensional statistics, semiparametrics, adaptation, nonparametric bayesian statistics, ...