Browsing Workshops 2015 by Title
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1546c - Mini-Workshop: Scales in Plasticity
[OWR-2015-53] (2015) - (08 Nov - 14 Nov 2015)This mini-workshop was devoted to the current state of our understanding of dislocations (essentially slips of lines of atoms in a crystalline solid) and of their impact on the macroscopic behavior of those solids. -
1546a - Mini-Workshop: Singular Curves on K3 Surfaces and Hyperkähler Manifolds
[OWR-2015-51] (2015) - (08 Nov - 14 Nov 2015)The workshop focused on Severi varieties on $K3$ surfaces, hyperkähler manifolds and their automorphisms. The main aim was to bring researchers in deformation theory of curves and singularities together with researchers ... -
1507c - Mini-Workshop: Singularities in G2-geometry
[OWR-2015-8] (2015) - (08 Feb - 14 Feb 2015)All currently known construction methods of smooth compact $\mathrm G_2$-manifolds have been tied to certain singular $\mathrm G_2$-spaces, which in Joyce’s original construction are $\mathrm G_2$-orbifolds and in Kovalev’s ... -
1517b - Mirror Symmetry, Hodge Theory and Differential Equations
[OWR-2015-22] (2015) - (19 Apr - 25 Apr 2015)The following is the report on the Oberwolfach workshop Mirror Symmetry, Hodge Theory and Differential Equations (April 2015), which brought together researchers from various areas such as quantum cohomology, complex ... -
1543 - Mixed-integer Nonlinear Optimization: A Hatchery for Modern Mathematics
[OWR-2015-46] (2015) - (18 Oct - 24 Oct 2015)The aim of this workshop was fostering the growth of new mathematical ideas arising from mixed-integer nonlinear optimization. In this regard, the workshop has been a resounding success. It has covered a very diverse ... -
1517a - Multivariate Splines and Algebraic Geometry
[OWR-2015-21] (2015) - (19 Apr - 25 Apr 2015)Multivariate splines are effective tools in numerical analysis and approximation theory. Despite an extensive literature on the subject, there remain open questions in finding their dimension, constructing local bases, and ... -
1503 - New Discretization Methods for the Numerical Approximation of PDEs
[OWR-2015-2] (2015) - (11 Jan - 17 Jan 2015)The construction and mathematical analysis of numerical methods for PDEs is a fundamental area of modern applied mathematics. Among the various techniques that have been proposed in the past, some – in particular, finite ... -
1526 - New Perspectives on the Interplay between Discrete Groups in Low-Dimensional Topology and Arithmetic Lattices
[OWR-2015-30] (2015) - (21 Jun - 27 Jun 2015)This workshop brought together specialists in areas ranging from arithmetic groups to topological quantum field theory, with common interest in arithmetic aspects of discrete groups arising from topology. The meeting showed ... -
1551 - Non-Archimedean Geometry and Applications
[OWR-2015-57] (2015) - (13 Dec - 19 Dec 2015)The workshop focused on recent developments in non-Archimedean analytic geometry with various applications to other fields, in particular to number theory and algebraic geometry. These applications included Mirror Symmetry, ... -
1525 - Noncommutative Geometry
[OWR-2015-29] (2015) - (14 Jun - 20 Jun 2015)These reports contain an account of 2015’s meeting on noncommutative geometry. Noncommutative geometry has developed itself over the years to a completely new branch of mathematics shedding light on many other areas as ... -
1532 - Partial Differential Equations
[OWR-2015-36] (2015) - (02 Aug - 08 Aug 2015)The workshop dealt with nonlinear partial differential equations and some applications in geometry, touching several different topics such as minimal surfaces and harmonic maps, equations in conformal geometry, geometric ... -
1521 - Probabilistic Techniques in Modern Statistics
[OWR-2015-26] (2015) - (17 May - 23 May 2015)The aim of the workshop was to bring together researchers in modern probability theory and statistics to discuss recent advances and challenging open problems at the intersection of both fields. It focussed on the most ... -
1538 - Recent Developments in the Numerics of Nonlinear Hyperbolic Conservation Laws
[OWR-2015-41] (2015) - (13 Sep - 19 Sep 2015)The development of reliable numerical methods for the simulation of real life problems requires both a fundamental knowledge in the field of numerical analysis and a proper experience in practical applications as well as ... -
1535 - Reductions of Shimura Varieties
[OWR-2015-39] (2015) - (23 Aug - 29 Aug 2015)The aim of this workshop was to discuss recent developments in the theory of reductions of Shimura varieties and related topics. The talks presented new methods and results that intertwine a multitude of topics such as ... -
1515 - Representations of Finite Groups
[OWR-2015-18] (2015) - (05 Apr - 11 Apr 2015)The workshop Representations of Finite Groups was organised by Joseph Chuang (London), Meinolf Geck (Stuttgart), Markus Linckelmann (London), and Gabriel Navarro (Valencia). It covered a wide variety of aspects of the ... -
1536 - Scaling Limits in Models of Statistical Mechanics
[OWR-2015-40] (2015) - (30 Aug - 05 Sep 2015)The emphasis of the workshop was on the deep relations between, on the one hand, recent advances in probabilistic investigation of statistical mechanical models and spatial stochastic processes and, on the other hand, ... -
1502 - Spectral Theory and Weyl Functions
[OWR-2015-1] (2015) - (04 Jan - 10 Jan 2015)The focus of the workshop was on the interplay between spectral theory of differential operators, system theory, inverse problems and properties of associated classes of analytic functions, among them the classical ... -
1513 - Subfactors and Conformal Field Theory
[OWR-2015-16] (2015) - (22 Mar - 28 Mar 2015)Connections between subfactor theory and conformal field theory have been expected since the early days of the former in 1980’s, and recently we see more and more evidence for deeper relations. It was our aim to attract ... -
1539 - The Mathematics and Statistics of Quantitative Risk Management
[OWR-2015-42] (2015) - (20 Sep - 26 Sep 2015)It was the aim of this workshop to gather a multidisclipinary and international group of scientists at the forefront of research in econometrics, financial time series analysis, extreme value theory, financial mathematics, ... -
1518 - Tropical Aspects in Geometry, Topology and Physics
[OWR-2015-23] (2015) - (26 Apr - 02 May 2015)The workshop Tropical Aspects in Geometry, Topology and Physics was devoted to a wide discussion and exchange of ideas between the leading experts representing various points of view on the subject. The development of ...