Browsing Workshops 2013 by Title

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    • 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 ...

    • 1326 - Algebraic K-theory and Motivic Cohomology 

      [OWR-2013-32] Workshop Report 2013,32 (2013) - (23 Jun - 29 Jun 2013)
      Algebraic K-theory and motivic cohomology are strongly related tools providing a systematic way of producing invariants for algebraic or geometric structures. The definition and methods are taken from algebraic topology, ...

    • 1343 - Analytic Number Theory 

      [OWR-2013-51] Workshop Report 2013,51 (2013) - (20 Oct - 26 Oct 2013)
      Analytic number theory has florished over the past few years, and this workshop brought together world leaders and young talent to discuss developments in various branches of the subject.

    • 1314 - Arbeitsgemeinschaft: Limits of Structures 

      [OWR-2013-16] Workshop Report 2013,16 (2013) - (31 Mar - 05 Apr 2013)
      The goal of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft is to review current progress in the study of very large structures. The main emphasis is on the analytic approach that considers large structures as approximations of infinite analytic ...

    • 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 ...

    • 1335 - C*-Algebren 

      [OWR-2013-43] Workshop Report 2013,43 (2013) - (25 Aug - 31 Aug 2013)
      C*-algebras play an important role in many modern areas of mathematics, like Noncommutative Geometry and Topology, Dynamical Systems, Harmonic Analysis and others. The conference “C*-algebras” brings together leading experts ...

    • 1349 - Classical and Quantum Mechanical Models of Many-Particle Systems 

      [OWR-2013-57] Workshop Report 2013,57 (2013) - (01 Dec - 07 Dec 2013)
      This meeting was focused on recent results on the mathematical analysis of many-particle systems, both classical and quantum-mechanical in scaling regimes such that the methods of kinetic theory can be expected to apply. ...

    • 1350 - Cluster Algebras and Related Topics 

      [OWR-2013-58] Workshop Report 2013,58 (2013) - (08 Dec - 14 Dec 2013)
      Cluster algebras are a class of commutative algebras intoduced by Fomin and Zelevinsky in 2000. Their original purpose was to obtain a combinatorial approach to Lusztig’s dual canonical bases of quantum groups and to total ...

    • 1316 - Combinatorics and Probability 

      [OWR-2013-18] Workshop Report 2013,18 (2013) - (14 Apr - 20 Apr 2013)
      The main theme of this workshop was the use of probabilistic methods in combinatorics and theoretical computer science. Although these methods have been around for decades, they are being refined all the time: they are ...

    • 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 ...

    • 1304 - Computational Electromagnetism and Acoustics 

      [OWR-2013-3] Workshop Report 2013,3 (2013) - (20 Jan - 26 Jan 2013)
      Computational electromagnetics and acoustics revolve around a few key challenges, among which are the non-local nature of the underlying phenomena and resonance effects. The bulk of the contributions to the workshop addressed ...

    • 1346 - Design and Analysis of Infectious Disease Studies 

      [OWR-2013-55] Workshop Report 2013,55 (2013) - (10 Nov - 16 Nov 2013)
      The fourth workshop on this theme is devoted to the statistical problems of planning and analyzing studies in infectious disease epidemiology.

    • 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 ...

    • 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, ...

    • 1317b - Extremes in Branching Random Walk and Branching Brownian Motion 

      [OWR-2013-20] Workshop Report 2013,20 (2013) - (21 Apr - 27 Apr 2013)
      Branching random walk (BRW) and branching Brownian motion (BBM) are mathematical models for population growth and spatial displacement. When resources are plentiful, population sizes grow exponentially in time. In such a ...

    • 1310 - From "Mixed" to "Applied" Mathematics: Tracing an important dimension of mathematics and its history 

      [OWR-2013-12] Workshop Report 2013,12 (2013) - (03 Mar - 09 Mar 2013)
      The workshop investigated historical variations of the ways in which historically boundaries were drawn between ‘pure’ mathematics on the one hand and ‘mixed’ or ‘applied’ mathematics on the other from about 1500 until ...

    • 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 ...

    • 1323 - Geometric Structures in Group Theory 

      [OWR-2013-28] Workshop Report 2013,28 (2013) - (02 Jun - 08 Jun 2013)
      The overall theme of the conference was geometric group theory, interpreted quite broadly. In general, geometric group theory seeks to understand algebraic properties of groups by studying their actions on spaces with ...

    • 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 ...