• 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 ...
    • 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, ...
    • 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 ...
    • 1319 - Heat Kernels, Stochastic Processes and Functional Inequalities 

      [OWR-2013-23] Workshop Report 2013,23 (2013) - (05 May - 11 May 2013)
      The general topic of the 2013 workshop Heat kernels, stochastic processes and functional inequalities was the study of linear and non-linear diffusions in geometric environments: finite and infinite-dimensional manifolds, ...
    • 1306a - Integral Geometry and its Applications 

      [OWR-2013-5] Workshop Report 2013,5 (2013) - (03 Feb - 09 Feb 2013)
      In recent years there has been a series of striking developments in modern integral geometry which has, in particular, lead to the discovery of new relations to several branches of pure and applied mathematics. A number ...
    • 1345a - Mini-Workshop: Quaternion Kähler Structures in Riemannian and Algebraic Geometry 

      [OWR-2013-53] Workshop Report 2013,53 (2013) - (03 Nov - 09 Nov 2013)
      Metrics of special holonomy are of central interest in both Riemannian and complex algebraic geometry. We focus on an important classification problem of a particular type of special holonomy manifolds, namely compact ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • 1311 - Representations of Lie Groups and Supergroups 

      [OWR-2013-13] Workshop Report 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 ...