Browsing Workshops 2013 by Issue Date

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    • 1308 - Geophysical Fluid Dynamics 

      [OWR-2013-10] Workshop Report 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] Workshop Report 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] Workshop Report 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] Workshop Report 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] Workshop Report 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] Workshop Report 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] Workshop Report 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] Workshop Report 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] Workshop Report 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] Workshop Report 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] Workshop Report 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 ...

    • 1324 - Hyperbolic Techniques for Phase Dynamics 

      [OWR-2013-29] Workshop Report 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] Workshop Report 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 ...

    • 1330c - Mini-Workshop: New Crossroads between Mathematics and Field Theory 

      [OWR-2013-38] Workshop Report 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] Workshop Report 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] Workshop Report 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 ...

    • 1318a - Progress in Surface Theory 

      [OWR-2013-21] Workshop Report 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 ...

    • 1327 - Differentialgeometrie im Großen 

      [OWR-2013-33] Workshop Report 2013,33 (2013) - (30 Jun - 06 Jul 2013)
      The meeting continued the biannual conference series Differentialgeometrie im Großen at the MFO which was established in the 60’s by Klingenberg and Chern. Global Riemannian geometry with its connections to topology, ...

    • 1338a - Lattice Differential Equations 

      [OWR-2013-46] Workshop Report 2013,46 (2013) - (15 Sep - 21 Sep 2013)
      The workshop focused on recent advances in the analysis of lattice differential equations such as discrete Klein-Gordon and nonlinear Schrödinger equations as well as the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam lattice. Lattice differential ...

    • 1315 - Algebraic Groups 

      [OWR-2013-17] Workshop Report 2013,17 (2013) - (07 Apr - 13 Apr 2013)
      Linear algebraic groups is an active research area in contemporary mathematics. It has rich connections to algebraic geometry, representation theory, algebraic combinatorics, number theory, algebraic topology, and differential ...