Browsing Workshops 2014 by Title
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1432 - Analysis, Geometry and Topology of Positive Scalar Curvature Metrics
[OWR-2014-36] (2014) - (03 Aug - 09 Aug 2014)One of the fundamental problems in Riemannian geometry is to understand the relation of locally defined curvature invariants and global properties of smooth manifolds. This workshop was centered around the investigation ... -
1414 - Arbeitsgemeinschaft: Superrigidity
[OWR-2014-16] (2014) - (30 Mar - 05 Apr 2014)The purpose of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft was to review old and new phenomenas of rigidity in mathematics. The broad spectrum of such results was covered, such as Margulis-Zimmer superrigidity, cocyle and character rigidity. -
1441 - Arbeitsgemeinschaft: Totally Disconnected Groups
[OWR-2014-47] (2014) - (05 Oct - 10 Oct 2014)Locally compact groups are ubiquitous in the study of many continuous or discrete structures across geometry, analysis and algebra. Every locally compact group is an extension of a connected group by a totally disconnected ... -
1429 - Calculus of Variations
[OWR-2014-33] (2014) - (13 Jul - 19 Jul 2014)The Calculus of Variations is at the same time a classical subject, with long-standing open questions which have generated deep discoveries in recent decades, and a modern subject in which new types of questions arise, ... -
1427 - Classical Algebraic Geometry
[OWR-2014-31] (2014) - (29 Jun - 05 Jul 2014)Progress in algebraic geometry usually comes through the introduction of new tools and ideas to tackle the classical problems of the field. Examples include new invariants that capture some aspect of geometry in a novel ... -
1446 - Combinatorial Optimization
[OWR-2014-51] (2014) - (09 Nov - 15 Nov 2014)Combinatorial Optimization is an area of mathematics that thrives from a continual influx of new questions and problems from practice. Attacking these problems has required the development and combination of ideas and ... -
1402 - Combinatorics
[OWR-2014-1] (2014) - (05 Jan - 11 Jan 2014)Combinatorics is a fundamental mathematical discipline which focuses on the study of discrete objects and their properties. The current workshop brought together researchers from diverse fields such as Extremal and ... -
1426 - Computational Multiscale Methods
[OWR-2014-30] (2014) - (22 Jun - 28 Jun 2014)Almost all processes in engineering and the sciences are characterised by the complicated relation of features on a large range of nonseparable spatial and time scales. The workshop concerned the computer-aided simulation ... -
1431 - Cryptography
[OWR-2014-35] (2014) - (27 Jul - 02 Aug 2014)The Oberwolfach workshop Cryptography brought together scientists from cryptography with mathematicians specializing in the algorithmic problems underlying cryptographic security. The goal of the workshop was to stimulate ... -
1443 - Dirichlet Form Theory and its Applications
[OWR-2014-48] (2014) - (19 Oct - 25 Oct 2014)Theory of Dirichlet forms is one of the main achievements in modern probability theory. It provides a powerful connection between probabilistic and analytic potential theory. It is also an effective machinery for studying ... -
1406b - Dirichlet Series and Function Theory in Polydiscs
[OWR-2014-6] (2014) - (02 Feb - 08 Feb 2014)The interaction between Dirichlet series and function theory in polydiscs dates back to a fundamental insight of Harald Bohr and the subsequent groundbreaking work on multilinear forms and polarization by Bohnenblust and ... -
1436 - Discrete Geometry
[OWR-2014-40] (2014) - (31 Aug - 06 Sep 2014)Several significant new developments have been reported in many branches of discrete geometry at the workshop. The area has strong connections to other fields of mathematics for instance topology, algebraic geometry, ... -
1410 - Enumerative Combinatorics
[OWR-2014-12] (2014) - (02 Mar - 08 Mar 2014)Enumerative Combinatorics focusses on the exact and asymptotic counting of combinatorial objects. It is strongly connected to the probabilistic analysis of large combinatorial structures and has fruitful connections to ... -
1413 - Flat Surfaces and Dynamics on Moduli Space
[OWR-2014-15] (2014) - (23 Mar - 29 Mar 2014)Dynamics of the Teichmüller geodesic flow on the moduli space of curves and asymptotic monodromy of the Hodge bundle along this flow have numerous applications to dynamics and geometry of measured foliations, to billiards ... -
1425 - Geometrie
[OWR-2014-29] (2014) - (15 Jun - 21 Jun 2014)The topics discussed at the meeting ranged from geometric evolution equations to minimal surfaces, Riemannian foliations and hyperbolic geometry. Because of a flexible schedule, the 53 participants had ample time for discussion. -
1417 - Hilbert Modules and Complex Geometry
[OWR-2014-21] (2014) - (20 Apr - 26 Apr 2014)The major topics discussed in the workshop were Hilbert modules of analytic functions on domains in Cn, Toeplitz and Hankel operators, reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces and multiplier algebras, the interplay of complex ... -
1421 - Interactions between Algebraic Geometry and Noncommutative Algebra
[OWR-2014-25] (2014) - (18 May - 24 May 2014)The workshop presented the current developments in the field of noncommutative algebra geometry and its interactions with algebraic geometry and representation theory. -
1435 - Komplexe Analysis
[OWR-2014-39] (2014) - (24 Aug - 30 Aug 2014)Complex Analysis is a very active branch of mathematics with applications in many other fields. The central aim of our workshop was to present recent results in several complex variables and complex geometry, and to survey ... -
1406a - Langlands Correspondence and Constructive Galois Theory
[OWR-2014-5] (2014) - (02 Feb - 08 Feb 2014)Recent progress in the Langlands programm provides a significant step towards the understanding of the arithmetic of global fields. The geometric Langlands program provides a systematic way to construct l-adic sheaves ... -
1434 - Low-dimensional Topology and Number Theory
[OWR-2014-38] (2014) - (17 Aug - 23 Aug 2014)The workshop brought together topologists and number theorists with the intent of exploring the many tantalizing connections between these areas.