• 1544a - History of Mathematics: Models and Visualization in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences 

      [OWR-2015-47] Workshop Report 2015,47 (2015) - (25 Oct - 31 Oct 2015)
      This workshop brought together historians of mathematics and science as well as mathematicians to explore important historical developments connected with models and visual elements in the mathematical and physical sciences. ...
    • 1511 - Homotopy Theory 

      [OWR-2015-14] Workshop Report 2015,14 (2015) - (08 Mar - 14 Mar 2015)
      This workshop was a forum to present and discuss the latest results and ideas in algebraic topology and homotopy theory, with a special emphasis on connections to other branches of mathematics, such as algebraic geometry, ...
    • 1531 - Interplay of Analysis and Probability in Applied Mathematics 

      [OWR-2015-35] Workshop Report 2015,35 (2015) - (26 Jul - 01 Aug 2015)
      This workshop brought together analysts and probabilists working on problems at some of the many interfaces of these two fields. Most of the problems discussed during the meeting have their origin in physics or chemistry. ...
    • 1529 - Mathematical Aspects of General Relativity 

      [OWR-2015-33] Workshop Report 2015,33 (2015) - (12 Jul - 18 Jul 2015)
      The general theory of relativity is a remarkably accurate theory of gravitation, describing phenomena from the level of isolated bodies to the universe as a whole. The mathematical study of this theory leads to fascinating ...
    • 1533 - Mathematical Aspects of Hydrodynamics 

      [OWR-2015-37] Workshop Report 2015,37 (2015) - (09 Aug - 15 Aug 2015)
      The workshop dealt with the partial differential equations that describe fluid motion, namely the Euler equations and the Navier-Stokes equations. This included topics in both inviscid and viscous fluids in two and three ...
    • 1523 - Mathematical Methods in Quantum Molecular Dynamics 

      [OWR-2015-27] Workshop Report 2015,27 (2015) - (31 May - 06 Jun 2015)
      This report summarizes the 2015 Oberwolfach meeting on mathematical methods in quantum molecular dynamics. Over decades this field has hosted considerable research activity from different disciplines, such as mathematics, ...
    • 1516a - Mathematical Theory of Water Waves 

      [OWR-2015-19] Workshop Report 2015,19 (2015) - (12 Apr - 18 Apr 2015)
      The water-wave problem is the study of the two- and three-dimensional flow of a perfect fluid bounded above by a free surface subject to the forces of gravity and surface tension. From a mathematical viewpoint, the water-wave ...
    • 1508b - Mini-Workshop: Coideal Subalgebras of Quantum Groups 

      [OWR-2015-10] Workshop Report 2015,10 (2015) - (15 Feb - 21 Feb 2015)
      Coideal subalgebras of quantized enveloping algebras appear naturally if one considers quantum group analogs of Lie subalgebras. Examples appear in the theory of quantum integrable systems with boundary and in harmonic ...
    • 1508c - Mini-Workshop: Deformation Quantization: between formal to strict 

      [OWR-2015-11] Workshop Report 2015,11 (2015) - (15 Feb - 21 Feb 2015)
      The philosophy of deformation was proposed by Bayen, Flato, Fronsdal, Lichnerowicz, and Sternheimer in the seventies and since then, many developments occurred. Deformation quantization is based on such a philosophy in ...
    • 1507b - Mini-Workshop: Discrete p-Laplacians: Spectral Theory and Variational Methods in Mathematics and Computer Science 

      [OWR-2015-7] Workshop Report 2015,7 (2015) - (08 Feb - 14 Feb 2015)
      The p-Laplacian operators have a rich analytical theory and in the last few years they have also offered efficient tools to tackle several tasks in machine learning. During the workshop mathematicians and theoretical ...
    • 1545a - Mini-Workshop: Friezes 

      [OWR-2015-48] Workshop Report 2015,48 (2015) - (01 Nov - 07 Nov 2015)
      Frieze patterns were introduced in the early 1970s by Coxeter. They are infinite arrays of numbers in which every four neighbouring entries always satisfy the same arithmetic relation. Amazingly, friezes appear in many ...
    • 1508a - Mini-Workshop: Ideals of Linear Subspaces, Their Symbolic Powers and Waring Problems 

      [OWR-2015-9] Workshop Report 2015,9 (2015) - (15 Feb - 21 Feb 2015)
      It is a fundamental challenge for many problems of significant current interest in algebraic geometry and commutative algebra to understand symbolic powers $I^{(m)}$ of homogeneous ideals $I$ in polynomial rings, particularly ...
    • 1545b - Mini-Workshop: Mathematics of Differential Growth, Morphogenesis, and Pattern Selection 

      [OWR-2015-49] Workshop Report 2015,49 (2015) - (01 Nov - 07 Nov 2015)
      Living structures are highly heterogeneous systems that consist of distinct regions made up of characteristic cell types with a specific structural organization. During evolution, development, disease, or environmental ...
    • 1507a - Mini-Workshop: Modern Applications of s-numbers and Operator Ideals 

      [OWR-2015-6] Workshop Report 2015,6 (2015) - (08 Feb - 14 Feb 2015)
      The main aim of this mini-workshop was to present and discuss some modern applications of the functional-analytic concepts of $s$-numbers and operator ideals in areas like Numerical Analysis, Theory of Function Spaces, ...
    • 1546b - Mini-Workshop: Recent Developments in Statistical Methods with Applications to Genetics and Genomics 

      [OWR-2015-52] Workshop Report 2015,52 (2015) - (08 Nov - 14 Nov 2015)
      Recent progress in high-throughput genomic technologies has revolutionized the field of human genetics and promises to lead to important scientific advances. With new improvements in massively parallel biotechnologies, it ...
    • 1545c - Mini-Workshop: Recent Developments on Approximation Methods for Controlled Evolution Equations 

      [OWR-2015-50] Workshop Report 2015,50 (2015) - (01 Nov - 07 Nov 2015)
      This mini-workshop brought together mathematicians engaged in partial differential equations, functional analysis, numerical analysis and systems theory in order to address a number of current problems in the approximation ...
    • 1546c - Mini-Workshop: Scales in Plasticity 

      [OWR-2015-53] Workshop Report 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] Workshop Report 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] Workshop Report 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] Workshop Report 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 ...