Browsing Workshops 2016 by Issue Date

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    • 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 ...

    • 1638b - Theory and Numerics of Inverse Scattering Problems 

      [OWR-2016-45] Workshop Report 2016,45 (2016) - (18 Sep - 24 Sep 2016)
      This workshop addressed specific inverse problems for the time-harmonic Maxwell’s equations, resp. special cases of these, such as the Helmholtz equation or quasistatic approximations like in impedance tomography. The ...

    • 1635 - Measured Group Theory 

      [OWR-2016-41] Workshop Report 2016,41 (2016) - (28 Aug - 03 Sep 2016)
      The workshop aimed to study discrete and Lie groups and their actions using measure theoretic methods and their asymptotic invariants, such as $\ell^2$-invariants, the rank gradient, cost, torsion growth, entropy-type ...

    • 1621 - The Renormalization Group 

      [OWR-2016-26] Workshop Report 2016,26 (2016) - (22 May - 28 May 2016)
      The renormalization group was originally introduced as a multiscale approach to quantum field theory and the theory of critical phenomena, explaining in particular the universality observed e.g. in critical exponents. Since ...

    • 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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • 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

    • 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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • 1604 - Mathematical Imaging and Surface Processing 

      [OWR-2016-4] Workshop Report 2016,4 (2016) - (24 Jan - 30 Jan 2016)
      Within the last decade image and geometry processing have become increasingly rigorous with solid foundations in mathematics. Both areas are research fields at the intersection of different mathematical disciplines, ranging ...

    • 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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • 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 ...