• 1738c - Mini-Workshop: Lattice Polytopes: Methods, Advances, Applications 

      [OWR-2017-44] Workshop Report 2017,44 (2017) - (17 Sep - 23 Sep 2017)
      Lattice polytopes arise naturally in many different branches of pure and applied mathematics such as number theory, commutative algebra, combinatorics, toric geometry, optimization, and mirror symmetry. The miniworkshop ...
    • 1706c - Mini-Workshop: Perspectives in High-dimensional Probability and Convexity 

      [OWR-2017-10] Workshop Report 2017,10 (2017) - (05 Feb - 11 Feb 2017)
      Understanding the geometric structure of systems involving a huge amount of parameters is a central problem in mathematics and applied sciences today. Here, geometric and analytical ideas meet in a non-trivial way and ...
    • 1721 - Harmonic Analysis and the Trace Formula 

      [OWR-2017-25] Workshop Report 2017,25 (2017) - (21 May - 27 May 2017)
      The purpose of this workshop was to discuss recent results in harmonic analysis that arise in the study of the trace formula. This theme is common to different directions of research on automorphic forms such as representation ...
    • 1743b - Mini-Workshop: Reflectionless Operators: The Deift and Simon Conjectures 

      [OWR-2017-49] Workshop Report 2017,49 (2017) - (22 Oct - 28 Oct 2017)
      Reflectionless operators in one dimension are particularly amenable to inverse scattering and are intimately related to integrable systems like KdV and Toda. Recent work has indicated a strong (but not equivalent) relationship ...
    • 1702a - Mini-Workshop: Women in Mathematics: Historical and Modern Perspectives 

      [OWR-2017-2] Workshop Report 2017,2 (2017) - (08 Jan - 14 Jan 2017)
      The aim of the workshop is to build a bridge between research on the situation of women in mathematics at the beginning of coeducative studies and the current circumstances in academia. The issue of women in mathematics ...
    • 1714 - Arbeitsgemeinschaft: Higher Gross Zagier Formulas 

      [OWR-2017-18] Workshop Report 2017,18 (2017) - (02 Apr - 08 Apr 2017)
      The aim of this Arbeitsgemeinschaft is to go over the proof of the higher Gross–Zagier formula established in the paper [YZ15]. The formula relates arbitrary order central derivative of the base change $L$-function of an ...
    • 1738a - Mini-Workshop: MASAs and Automorphisms of C*-Algebras 

      [OWR-2017-42] Workshop Report 2017,42 (2017) - (17 Sep - 23 Sep 2017)
      The main aim of this workshop was to study maximal abelian *-subalgebras of C*-algebras from various points of view. A chief motivation is the UCT problem, which asks whether all separable nuclear C*-algebras satisfy the ...
    • 1728 - Dynamische Systeme 

      [OWR-2017-32] Workshop Report 2017,32 (2017) - (09 Jul - 15 Jul 2017)
      This workshop continued the biannual series at Oberwolfach on Dynamical Systems that started as the “Moser–Zehnder meeting” in 1981. The main themes of the workshop are the new results and developments in the area of ...
    • 1704 - Emerging Developments in Interfaces and Free Boundaries 

      [OWR-2017-6] Workshop Report 2017,6 (2017) - (22 Jan - 28 Jan 2017)
      The field of the mathematical and numerical analysis of systems of nonlinear partial differential equations involving interfaces and free boundaries is a well established and flourishing area of research. This workshop ...
    • 1708 - Representation Theory of Quivers and Finite Dimensional Algebras 

      [OWR-2017-12] Workshop Report 2017,12 (2017) - (19 Feb - 25 Feb 2017)
      Methods and results from the representation theory of quivers and finite dimensional algebras have led to many interactions with other areas of mathematics. Such areas include the theory of Lie algebras and quantum groups, ...
    • 1730 - Real Analysis, Harmonic Analysis, and Applications 

      [OWR-2017-34] Workshop Report 2017,34 (2017) - (23 Jul - 29 Jul 2017)
      The workshop focused on important developments within the last few years in real and harmonic analysis, including polynomial partitioning and decoupling as well as significant concurrent progress in the application of these ...
    • 1711 - Space-time Methods for Time-dependent Partial Differential Equations 

      [OWR-2017-15] Workshop Report 2017,15 (2017) - (12 Mar - 18 Mar 2017)
      Modern discretizations of time-dependent PDEs consider the full problem in the space-time cylinder and aim to overcome limitations of classical approaches such as the method of lines (first discretize in space and then ...
    • 1703 - Cryptography 

      [OWR-2017-5] Workshop Report 2017,5 (2017) - (15 Jan - 21 Jan 2017)
      The Oberwolfach workshop Cryptography brought together scientists from cryptography with mathematicians specializing in the algorithmic problems underlying cryptographic security. The goal of the workshop was to stimulate ...
    • 1701 - Combinatorics 

      [OWR-2017-1] Workshop Report 2017,1 (2017) - (01 Jan - 07 Jan 2017)
      Combinatorics is a fundamental mathematical discipline that focuses on the study of discrete objects and their properties. The present workshop featured research in such diverse areas as Extremal, Probabilistic and Algebraic ...
    • 1734 - Low-dimensional Topology and Number Theory 

      [OWR-2017-38] Workshop Report 2017,38 (2017) - (20 Aug - 26 Aug 2017)
      The workshop brought together topologists and number theorists with the intent of exploring the many tantalizing connections between these areas.
    • 1744a - Interplay between Number Theory and Analysis for Dirichlet Series 

      [OWR-2017-51] Workshop Report 2017,51 (2017) - (29 Oct - 04 Nov 2017)
      In recent years a number of challenging research problems have crystallized in the analytic theory of Dirichlet series and its interaction with function theory in polydiscs. Their solutions appear to require unconventional ...
    • 1715 - Discrete Geometry 

      [OWR-2017-19] Workshop Report 2017,19 (2017) - (09 Apr - 15 Apr 2017)
      A number of important recent developments in various branches of discrete geometry were presented at the workshop. The presentations illustrated both the diversity of the area and its strong connections to other fields of ...
    • 1744b - Copositivity and Complete Positivity 

      [OWR-2017-52] Workshop Report 2017,52 (2017) - (29 Oct - 04 Nov 2017)
      A real matrix $A$ is called copositive if $x^TAx \ge 0$ holds for all $x \in \mathbb R^n_+$. A matrix $A$ is called completely positive if it can be factorized as $A = BB^T$ , where $B$ is an entrywise nonnegative matrix. ...
    • 1745 - Mathematical Logic: Proof Theory, Constructive Mathematics 

      [OWR-2017-53] Workshop Report 2017,53 (2017) - (05 Nov - 11 Nov 2017)
      The workshop “Mathematical Logic: Proof Theory, Constructive Mathematics” was centered around proof-theoretic aspects of core mathematics and theoretical computer science as well as homotopy type theory and logical aspects ...
    • 1736 - Automorphic Forms and Arithmetic 

      [OWR-2017-40] Workshop Report 2017,40 (2017) - (03 Sep - 09 Sep 2017)
      The workshop brought together leading experts and young researchers at the interface of automorphic forms and analytic number theory to disseminate, discuss and develop important recent methods and results. A particular ...