• 1240c - Mini-Workshop: Cohomology Rings and Fundamental Groups of Hyperplane Arrangements, Wonderful Compactifications, and Real Toric Varieties 

      [OWR-2012-49] Workshop Report 2012,49 (2012) - (01 Oct - 06 Oct 2012)
      The purpose of this workshop was to bring together researchers with a common interest in the objects mentioned in the title from, respectively, the points of view of toric and tropical geometry, arrangement theory, and ...
    • 1248a - Mini-Workshop: Efficient and Robust Approximation of the Helmholtz Equation 

      [OWR-2012-55] Workshop Report 2012,55 (2012) - (25 Nov - 01 Dec 2012)
      The accurate and efficient treatment of wave propogation phenomena is still a challenging problem. A prototypical equation is the Helmholtz equation at high wavenumbers. For this equation, Babuška & Sauter showed in 2000 ...
    • 1215c - Mini-Workshop: Endomorphisms, Semigroups and C*-Algebras of Rings 

      [OWR-2012-20] Workshop Report 2012,20 (2012) - (08 Apr - 14 Apr 2012)
      The main aim of the workshop was to explore recent progress in the study of endomorphisms of $C*$-algebras, semigroup crossed products, graph algebras, ring $C*$-algebras, purely infinite $C*$-algebras and related algebraic ...
    • 1248b - Mini-Workshop: Frontiers in Quantile Regression 

      [OWR-2012-56] Workshop Report 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 ...
    • 1215a - Mini-Workshop: Generalizations of Symmetric Spaces 

      [OWR-2012-18] Workshop Report 2012,18 (2012) - (08 Apr - 14 Apr 2012)
      This workshop brought together experts from the areas of algebraic Lie theory, invariant theory, Kac–Moody theory and the theories of Tits buildings and of symmetric spaces. The main focus was on topics related to symmetric ...
    • 1248c - Mini-Workshop: Geometries, Shapes and Topologies in PDE-based Applications 

      [OWR-2012-57] Workshop Report 2012,57 (2012) - (25 Nov - 01 Dec 2012)
      The aim of the workshop was to study geometrical objects and their sensitivities in applications based on partial differential equations or differential variational inequalities. Focus topics comprised analytical investigations, ...
    • 1215b - Mini-Workshop: Hypergraph Turan Problem 

      [OWR-2012-19] Workshop Report 2012,19 (2012) - (08 Apr - 14 Apr 2012)
      This mini-workshop focused on the hypergraph Turán problem. The interest in this difficult and old area was recently re-invigorated by many important developments such as the hypergraph regularity lemmas, flag algebras, ...
    • 1201a - Mini-Workshop: Manifolds with Lower Curvature Bounds 

      [OWR-2012-1] Workshop Report 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 ...
    • 1240a - Mini-Workshop: Nichols Algebras and Weyl Groupoids 

      [OWR-2012-47] Workshop Report 2012,47 (2012) - (30 Sep - 06 Oct 2012)
      Nichols algebras are graded braided Hopf algebras satisfying a universal property. Many structural results of a Nichols algebra can be obtained by studying itsWeyl groupoid and its homology. In the mini-workshop, introductions ...
    • 1201c - Mini-Workshop: Thermodynamic Formalism, Geometry and Stochastics 

      [OWR-2012-3] Workshop Report 2012,3 (2012) - (01 Jan - 07 Jan 2012)
      Thermodynamic formalism and all its branches and applications in conformal dynamics, probability theory, stochastics and fractal geometry represent highly important fields in modern Mathematics, which are currently very ...
    • 1240b - Mini-Workshop: Topology of Real Singularities and Motivic Aspects 

      [OWR-2012-48] Workshop Report 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 ...
    • 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 ...