Browsing Workshops 2013 by Issue Date
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1308 - Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
[OWR-2013-10] (2013) - (17 Feb - 23 Feb 2013)The workshop “Geophysical Fluid Dynamics” addressed recent advances in analytical, stochastic, modeling and computational studies of geophysical rotating fluids models. Of particular interest on the analytical and stochastic ... -
1341 - Arbeitsgemeinschaft: Sofic Entropy
[OWR-2013-50] (2013) - (06 Oct - 11 Oct 2013)The notion of soficity for a group is a weak type of finite approximation property that simultaneously generalizes both amenability and residual finiteness. In 2008 L. Bowen discovered how it can be used to significantly ... -
1345b - Mini-Workshop: Inelastic and Non-equilibrium Material Behavior: from Atomistic Structure to Macroscopic Constitutive Relations
[OWR-2013-54] (2013) - (03 Nov - 09 Nov 2013)The workshop brought together 15 scientists, which included leaders in the fields of mathematics (partial differential equations, statistical mechanics and calculus of variations) and mechanics (continuum mechanics, ... -
1339 - Statistical Inference for Complex Time Series Data
[OWR-2013-48] (2013) - (22 Sep - 28 Sep 2013)During recent years the focus of scientific interest has turned from low dimensional stationary time series to nonstationary time series and high dimensional time series. In addition new methodological challenges are coming ... -
1331 - Multiscale and High-Dimensional Problems
[OWR-2013-39] (2013) - (28 Jul - 03 Aug 2013)High-dimensional problems appear naturally in various scientific areas, such as PDEs describing complex processes in computational chemistry and physics, or stochastic or parameter-dependent PDEs leading to deterministic ... -
1328 - Dynamische Systeme
[OWR-2013-34] (2013) - (07 Jul - 13 Jul 2013)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 ... -
1318b - Geometric Knot Theory
[OWR-2013-22] (2013) - (28 Apr - 04 May 2013)Geometric knot theory studies relations between geometric properties of a space curve and the knot type it represents. As examples, knotted curves have quadrisecant lines, and have more distortion and more total curvature ... -
1307a - Mini-Workshop: Numerical Upscaling for Media with Deterministic and Stochastic Heterogeneity
[OWR-2013-7] (2013) - (10 Feb - 16 Feb 2013)This minisymposium was third in series of similar events, after two very successful meetings in 2005 and 2009. The aim was to provide a forum for an extensive discussion on the theoretical aspects and on the areas of ... -
1332 - Partial Differential Equations
[OWR-2013-40] (2013) - (04 Aug - 10 Aug 2013)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, and fourth order ... -
1329 - Explicit Methods in Number Theory
[OWR-2013-35] (2013) - (14 Jul - 20 Jul 2013)These notes contain extended abstracts on the topic of explicit methods in number theory. The range of topics includes effectiveness in rational points on curves and especially on modular curves, modularity, L-functions, ... -
1322 - Complex Algebraic Geometry
[OWR-2013-27] (2013) - (26 May - 01 Jun 2013)The conference focused on several topics, classical and modern, in the classification theory of compact algebraic and Kähler varieties, and on several methods, from singularity theory, topology, homological algebra, Geometric ... -
1307b - Mini-Workshop: The p-Laplacian Operator and Applications
[OWR-2013-8] (2013) - (10 Feb - 16 Feb 2013)There has been a surge of interest in the $p$-Laplacian in many different contexts from game theory to mechanics and image processing. The workshop brought together experts from many different schools of thinking to exchange ... -
1324 - Hyperbolic Techniques for Phase Dynamics
[OWR-2013-29] (2013) - (09 Jun - 15 Jun 2013)The progress in the theory of hyperbolic conservation laws has always been and still is driven strongly by new fields of applications. The workshop addressed aspects of modelling, analysis and numerics for fundamental ... -
1330b - Mini-Workshop: The Willmore Functional and the Willmore Conjecture
[OWR-2013-37] (2013) - (21 Jul - 27 Jul 2013)The Willmore functional evaluated on a surface immersed into Euclidean space is given by the $L^2$-norm of its mean curvature. The interest for studying this functional comes from various directions. First, it arises in ... -
1311 - Representations of Lie Groups and Supergroups
[OWR-2013-13] (2013) - (10 Mar - 16 Mar 2013)The workshop focussed on recent developments in the representation theory of group objects in several categories, mostly finite and infinite dimensional smooth manifolds and supermanifolds. The talks covered a broad range ... -
1330c - Mini-Workshop: New Crossroads between Mathematics and Field Theory
[OWR-2013-38] (2013) - (21 Jul - 27 Jul 2013)In the last few years, it has been strongly emphasized the need to use new mathematical tools and structures which are not part of the traditional pool of expertise of the community working on the analysis of the mathematical ... -
1333 - Nonlinear Waves and Dispersive Equations
[OWR-2013-41] (2013) - (11 Aug - 17 Aug 2013)Nonlinear dispersive equations are models for nonlinear waves in a wide range of physical contexts. Mathematically they display an interplay between linear dispersion and nonlinear interactions, which can result in a wide ... -
1312 - Interplay of Theory and Numerics for Deterministic and Stochastic Homogenization
[OWR-2013-14] (2013) - (17 Mar - 23 Mar 2013)The workshop has brought together experts in the broad field of partial differential equations with highly heterogeneous coefficients. Analysts and computational and applied mathematicians have shared results and ideas on ... -
1320c - Mini-Workshop: Localising and Tilting in Abelian and Triangulated Categories
[OWR-2013-26] (2013) - (12 May - 18 May 2013)The workshop brought together experts on localisation theory and tilting theory from different parts of mathematics with the aim of fully exploiting the power of some recent developments in so far rather independent contexts. ... -
1318a - Progress in Surface Theory
[OWR-2013-21] (2013) - (28 Apr - 04 May 2013)Over the last 30 years global surface theory has become pivotal in the understanding of low dimensional global phenomena. At the same time surface geometry became a platform on which seemingly different areas of mathematics ...