Browsing Workshops 2016 by Title

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    • 1638a - Adaptive Algorithms 

      [OWR-2016-44] Workshop Report 2016,44 (2016) - (18 Sep - 24 Sep 2016)
      Overwhelming empirical evidence in computational science and engineering proved that self-adaptive mesh-generation is a must-do in real-life problem computational partial differential equations. The mathematical understanding ...

    • 1605 - Algebraic Cobordism and Projective Homogeneous Varieties 

      [OWR-2016-5] Workshop Report 2016,5 (2016) - (31 Jan - 06 Feb 2016)
      The aim of this workshop was to bring together researchers in the theory of projective homogeneous varieties with researchers working on cohomology theories of algebraic varieties, so that the latter can learn about the ...

    • 1626 - Algebraic K-theory and Motivic Cohomology 

      [OWR-2016-31] Workshop Report 2016,31 (2016) - (26 Jun - 02 Jul 2016)
      Algebraic $K$-theory and motivic cohomology have developed together over the last thirty years. Both of these theories rely on a mix of algebraic geometry and homotopy theory for their construction and development, and ...

    • 1645 - Analytic Number Theory 

      [OWR-2016-53] Workshop Report 2016,53 (2016) - (06 Nov - 12 Nov 2016)
      Analytic number theory has flourished over the past few years, and this workshop brought together world leaders and young talent to discuss developments in various branches of the subject

    • 1641 - Arbeitsgemeinschaft: Diophantine Approximation, Fractal Geometry and Dynamics 

      [OWR-2016-48] Workshop Report 2016,48 (2016) - (09 Oct - 14 Oct 2016)
      Recently conjectures by Schmidt and by Davenport were solved in papers by Dzmitry Badziahin, Andrew Pollington and Sanju Velani, and by Victor Beresnevich. The methods which they used are the source for a growing number ...

    • 1614 - Arbeitsgemeinschaft: The Geometric Langlands Conjecture 

      [OWR-2016-20] Workshop Report 2016,20 (2016) - (03 Apr - 09 Apr 2016)
      The Langlands program is a vast, loosely connected, collection of theorems and conjectures. At quite different ends, there is the geometric Langlands program, which deals with perverse sheaves on the stack of $G$-bundles ...

    • 1632 - Arithmetic Geometry 

      [OWR-2016-38] Workshop Report 2016,38 (2016) - (07 Aug - 13 Aug 2016)
      Arithmetic geometry is at the interface between algebraic geometry and number theory, and studies schemes over the ring of integers of number fields, or their $p$-adic completions. An emphasis of the workshop was on p-adic ...

    • 1608a - Asymptotic Geometric Analysis 

      [OWR-2016-11] Workshop Report 2016,11 (2016) - (21 Feb - 27 Feb 2016)
      The workshop was dedicated to new developments in Asymptotic Geometric Analysis, the study of high-dimensional geometric objects by analytic and probabilistic means, and its interplay with other fields such as functional ...

    • 1650 - Asymptotic Phenomena in Local Algebra and Singularity Theory 

      [OWR-2016-57] Workshop Report 2016,57 (2016) - (11 Dec - 17 Dec 2016)
      The goal of this workshop was to highlight, and further, the interactions between local algebra and singularity theory. The timing was serendipitous for both subjects have witnessed tremendous progress recently, much of ...

    • 1634 - C*-Algebras 

      [OWR-2016-40] Workshop Report 2016,40 (2016) - (21 Aug - 27 Aug 2016)
      The field of operator algebras is a flourishing area of mathematics with strong ties to many other areas including functional/harmonic analysis, topology, (non-commutative) geometry, group theory and dynamical systems. The ...

    • 1628 - Calculus of Variations 

      [OWR-2016-34] Workshop Report 2016,34 (2016) - (10 Jul - 16 Jul 2016)
      The Calculus of Variations is subject with a long and distinguished history, a great deal of diverse current activity, and close connections to other fields such as geometry and mathematical physics. The July 2016 workshop ...

    • 1624 - Classical Algebraic Geometry 

      [OWR-2016-29] Workshop Report 2016,29 (2016) - (12 Jun - 18 Jun 2016)
      Progress in algebraic geometry often comes through the introduction of new tools and ideas to tackle the classical problems the development of the field. Examples include new invariants that capture some aspect of geometry ...

    • 1616 - Combinatorics and Probability 

      [OWR-2016-22] Workshop Report 2016,22 (2016) - (17 Apr - 23 Apr 2016)
      For the past few decades, Combinatorics and Probability Theory have had a fruitful symbiosis, each benefitting from and influencing developments in the other. Thus to prove the existence of designs, probabilistic methods ...

    • 1631 - Computational Group Theory 

      [OWR-2016-37] Workshop Report 2016,37 (2016) - (31 Jul - 06 Aug 2016)
      This was the seventh workshop on Computational Group Theory. It showed that Computational Group Theory has significantly expanded its range of activities. For example, symbolic computations with groups and their representations ...

    • 1610 - Computationally and Statistically Efficient Inference for Complex Large-scale Data 

      [OWR-2016-16] Workshop Report 2016,16 (2016) - (06 Mar - 12 Mar 2016)
      The aim of the highly successful workshop Computationally and statistically efficient inference for large-scale and heterogeneous data was to foster dissemination and collaboration between researchers in the area of ...

    • 1643 - Definability and Decidability Problems in Number Theory 

      [OWR-2016-49] Workshop Report 2016,49 (2016) - (23 Oct - 29 Oct 2016)
      This workshop brought together experts working on variations of Hilbert’s Tenth Problem and more general decidability issues for structures other than the ring of integers arising naturally in number theory and algebraic geometry.

    • 1615 - Diophantische Approximationen 

      [OWR-2016-21] Workshop Report 2016,21 (2016) - (10 Apr - 16 Apr 2016)
      This number theoretic conference was focused on a broad variety of subjects in (or closely related to) Diophantine approximation, including the following: metric Diophantine approximation, Mahler’s method in transcendence, ...

    • 1619 - Factorization Algebras and Functorial Field Theories 

      [OWR-2016-25] Workshop Report 2016,25 (2016) - (08 May - 14 May 2016)
      Factorization algebras are a new mathematical approach to quantum field theory. They are related to functorial field theories, another approach to quantum field theory. Factorization algebras also figure in current research ...

    • 1612 - Geometric Numerical Integration 

      [OWR-2016-18] Workshop Report 2016,18 (2016) - (20 Mar - 26 Mar 2016)
      The subject of this workshop was numerical methods that preserve geometric properties of the flow of an ordinary or partial differential equation. This was complemented by the question as to how structure preservation ...

    • 1623 - Geometrie 

      [OWR-2016-28] Workshop Report 2016,28 (2016) - (05 Jun - 11 Jun 2016)
      The workshop Geometry, organized by John Lott (Berkeley), André Neves (London), Iskander Taimanov (Novosibirsk) and Burkhard Wilking (Münster) was well attended with over 53 participants with broad geographic representation ...