Browsing Workshops 2016 by Title

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    • 1644a - Mini-Workshop: Fast Solvers for Highly Oscillatory Problems 

      [OWR-2016-50] Workshop Report 2016,50 (2016) - (30 Oct - 05 Nov 2016)
      The efficient numerical solution of highly oscillatory problems is one of the grand challenges of Applied Mathematics with diverse applications across the natural sciences and engineering. This workshop brings together ...

    • 1606c - Mini-Workshop: Mathematical Foundations of Isogeometric Analysis 

      [OWR-2016-8] Workshop Report 2016,8 (2016) - (07 Feb - 13 Feb 2016)
      Isogeometric Analysis (IgA) is a new paradigm which is designed to merge two so far disjoint disciplines, namely, numerical simulations for partial differential equations (PDEs) and applied geometry. Initiated by the ...

    • 1644b - Mini-Workshop: Mathematics of Magnetoelastic Materials 

      [OWR-2016-51] Workshop Report 2016,51 (2016) - (30 Oct - 05 Nov 2016)
      The unifying theme of the workshop was the mathematical modeling, analysis, and numerical simulation of materials which involve magnetic and elastic interactions. During the workshop we identified several open problems ...

    • 1651b - Mini-Workshop: Max Dehn: his Life, Work, and Influence 

      [OWR-2016-59] Workshop Report 2016,59 (2016) - (18 Dec - 23 Dec 2016)
      This mini-workshop is part of a long-term project that aims to produce a book documenting Max Dehn’s singular life and career. The meeting brought together scholars with various kinds of expertise, several of whom gave ...

    • 1651a - Mini-Workshop: New Interactions between Homotopical Algebra and Quantum Field Theory 

      [OWR-2016-58] Workshop Report 2016,58 (2016) - (18 Dec - 23 Dec 2016)
      Recent developments in quantum field theory strongly call for techniques from homotopical algebra to develop the mathematical foundations of quantum gauge theories. This mini-workshop brought together experts working at ...

    • 1606a - Mini-Workshop: Operator Spaces and Noncommutative Geometry in Interaction 

      [OWR-2016-6] Workshop Report 2016,6 (2016) - (07 Feb - 13 Feb 2016)
      In recent years, operator space theory has made remarkable appearances in noncommutative geometry, notably in the study of $C^*$-algebras of real reductive groups and the unbounded picture of Kasparov theory. In both these ...

    • 1609a - Mini-Workshop: PBW Structures in Representation Theory 

      [OWR-2016-13] Workshop Report 2016,13 (2016) - (28 Feb - 05 Mar 2016)
      The PBW structures play a very important role in the Lie theory and in the theory of algebraic groups. The importance is due to the huge number of possible applications. The main goal of the workshop was to bring together ...

    • 1651c - Mini-Workshop: Surreal Numbers, Surreal Analysis, Hahn Fields and Derivations 

      [OWR-2016-60] Workshop Report 2016,60 (2016) - (18 Dec - 23 Dec 2016)
      New striking analogies between H. Hahn’s fields of generalised series with real coefficients, G. H. Hardy’s field of germs of real valued functions, and J. H. Conway’s field No of surreal numbers, have been lately discovered ...

    • 1609c - Mini-Workshop: Topological Complexity and Related Topics 

      [OWR-2016-15] Workshop Report 2016,15 (2016) - (28 Feb - 05 Mar 2016)
      Topological complexity is a numerical homotopy invariant of topological spaces, of Lusternik-Schnirelmann type, introduced by Farber and motivated by the motion planning problem from topological robotics. This mini-workshop ...

    • 1601 - Model Theory: groups, geometry, and combinatorics 

      [OWR-2016-1] Workshop Report 2016,1 (2016) - (03 Jan - 09 Jan 2016)
      This conference was about recent interactions of model theory with combinatorics, geometric group theory and the theory of valued fields, and the underlying pure model-theoretic developments. Its aim was to report on recent ...

    • 1617 - Moduli spaces and Modular forms 

      [OWR-2016-23] Workshop Report 2016,23 (2016) - (24 Apr - 30 Apr 2016)
      The roots of both moduli spaces and modular forms go back to the theory of elliptic curves in the 19th century. Both topics have seen an enormous growth in the second half of the 20th century, but the interaction between ...

    • 1633 - Multiscale Interactions in Geophysical Fluids 

      [OWR-2016-39] Workshop Report 2016,39 (2016) - (14 Aug - 20 Aug 2016)
      The dynamics of the atmosphere and ocean involves a broad range of spatial and temporal scales, many of which emerge through complex nonlinear mechanisms from forcings at very different scales. This poses major challenges ...

    • 1608b - New Developments in Functional and Highly Multivariate Statistical Methodology 

      [OWR-2016-12] Workshop Report 2016,12 (2016) - (21 Feb - 27 Feb 2016)
      The central focus of the workshop was on recent developments in statistical techniques for highly multivariate data and functional data. The programme delivered talks on state-of-the-art research in the area, with a number ...

    • 1622 - Nonlinear Evolution Problems 

      [OWR-2016-27] Workshop Report 2016,27 (2016) - (29 May - 04 Jun 2016)
      The main themes of this workshop were geometric evolution equations and dispersive equations, including nonlinear wave and Schrödinger equations. Altogether there were 21 talks, presented by leading specialists from all ...

    • 1630 - Recent Mathematical Developments in Quantum Field Theory 

      [OWR-2016-36] Workshop Report 2016,36 (2016) - (24 Jul - 30 Jul 2016)
      This workshop has focused on three areas in mathematical quantum field theory and their interrelations: 1) conformal field theory, 2) constructions of interacting models of quantum field theory by various methods, and 3) ...

    • 1618 - Rough Paths, Regularity Structures and Related Topics 

      [OWR-2016-24] Workshop Report 2016,24 (2016) - (01 May - 07 May 2016)
      The purpose of the Oberwolfach workshop “Rough Paths and Regularity Structures” was to bring together these researchers, both young and senior, with the aim to consolidate progress in rough path theory and stochastic partial ...

    • 1636 - Self-Adaptive Numerical Methods for Computationally Challenging Problems 

      [OWR-2016-42] Workshop Report 2016,42 (2016) - (04 Sep - 10 Sep 2016)
      Self-adaptive numerical methods provide a powerful and automatic approach in scientific computing. In particular, Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR) algorithms have been widely used in computational science and engineering and ...

    • 1639 - Singularities 

      [OWR-2016-46] Workshop Report 2016,46 (2016) - (25 Sep - 01 Oct 2016)
      Singularity theory is a central part of contemporary mathematics. It is concerned with the local and global structure of maps and spaces that occur in algebraic, analytic or differential geometric context. For its study ...

    • 1627a - Statistics for Shape and Geometric Features 

      [OWR-2016-32] Workshop Report 2016,32 (2016) - (03 Jul - 09 Jul 2016)
      The constant emergence of novel technologies result in novel data generating devices and mechanisms that lead to a prevalence of highly complex data. To analyze such data, novel statistical methodologies need to be developed. ...

    • 1649 - Surface Bundles 

      [OWR-2016-56] Workshop Report 2016,56 (2016) - (04 Dec - 10 Dec 2016)
      This workshop brought together specialists in algebraic topology, low dimensional topology, geometric group theory, algebraic geometry and neighboring fields. It provided a good overview of the current developments, and ...