Browsing Workshops 2018 by Title

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    • 1829 - Classical Algebraic Geometry 

      [OWR-2018-33] Workshop Report 2018,33 (2018) - (15 Jul - 21 Jul 2018)
      Progress in algebraic geometry often comes through the introduction of new tools and ideas to tackle the classical problems in the development of the field. Examples include new invariants that capture some aspect of ...

    • 1823b - Cohomological and Metric Properties of Groups of Homeomorphisms of R 

      [OWR-2018-26] Workshop Report 2018,26 (2018) - (03 Jun - 09 Jun 2018)
      In recent years, the family of groups sharing features or design principles with classical Thompson groups has grown considerably. The workshop highlights new developments in this field with special emphasis on algorithmic ...

    • 1845 - Combinatorial Optimization 

      [OWR-2018-50] Workshop Report 2018,50 (2018) - (04 Nov - 10 Nov 2018)
      Combinatorial Optimization is an active research area that developed from the rich interaction among many mathematical areas, including combinatorics, graph theory, geometry, optimization, probability, theoretical computer ...

    • 1846 - Complexity Theory 

      [OWR-2018-51] Workshop Report 2018,51 (2018) - (11 Nov - 17 Nov 2018)
      Computational Complexity Theory is the mathematical study of the intrinsic power and limitations of computational resources like time, space, or randomness. The current workshop focused on recent developments in various ...

    • 1802 - Computability Theory 

      [OWR-2018-1] Workshop Report 2018,1 (2018) - (07 Jan - 13 Jan 2018)
      Computability and computable enumerability are two of the fundamental notions of mathematics. Interest in effectiveness is already apparent in the famous Hilbert problems, in particular the second and tenth, and in early ...

    • 1843 - Computational Engineering 

      [OWR-2018-48] Workshop Report 2018,48 (2018) - (21 Oct - 27 Oct 2018)
      This Workshop treated a variety of finite element methods and applications in computational engineering and expanded their mathematical foundation in engineering analysis. Among the 53 participants were mathematicians and ...

    • 1850 - Convex Geometry and its Applications 

      [OWR-2018-54] Workshop Report 2018,54 (2018) - (09 Dec - 15 Dec 2018)
      The geometry of convex domains in Euclidean space plays a central role in several branches of mathematics: functional and harmonic analysis, the theory of PDE, linear programming and, increasingly, in the study of algorithms ...

    • 1808 - Design and Analysis of Infectious Disease Studies 

      [OWR-2018-7] Workshop Report 2018,7 (2018) - (18 Feb - 24 Feb 2018)
      This was the fifth workshop on mathematical and statistical methods on the transmission of infectious diseases. Building on epidemiologic models which were the subject of earlier workshops, this workshop concentrated on ...

    • 1839 - Differential Equations arising from Organising Principles in Biology 

      [OWR-2018-43] Workshop Report 2018,43 (2018) - (23 Sep - 29 Sep 2018)
      This workshop brought together experts in modeling and analysis of organising principles of multiscale biological systems such as cell assemblies, tissues and populations. We focused on questions arising in systems biology ...

    • 1844 - Emergence of Structures in Particle Systems: Mechanics, Analysis and Computation 

      [OWR-2018-49] Workshop Report 2018,49 (2018) - (28 Oct - 03 Nov 2018)
      The meeting focused on the last advances in particle systems. The talks covered a broad range of topics, ranging from questions in crystallization and atomistic systems to mesoscopic models of defects to machine learning ...

    • 1820 - Enumerative Combinatorics 

      [OWR-2018-23] Workshop Report 2018,23 (2018) - (13 May - 19 May 2018)
      Enumerative Combinatorics focusses on the exact and asymptotic counting of combinatorial objects. It is strongly connected to the probabilistic analysis of large combinatorial structures and has fruitful connections to ...

    • 1848 - Enveloping Algebras and Geometric Representation Theory 

      [OWR-2018-52] Workshop Report 2018,52 (2018) - (25 Nov - 01 Dec 2018)
      The workshop brought together experts investigating algebraic Lie theory from the geometric and categorical viewpoints.

    • 1830 - Explicit Methods in Number Theory 

      [OWR-2018-34] Workshop Report 2018,34 (2018) - (22 Jul - 28 Jul 2018)
      The aim of the series of Oberwolfach meetings on ‘Explicit methods in number theory’ is to bring together people attacking key problems in number theory via techniques involving concrete or computable descriptions. Here, ...

    • 1823a - Field Arithmetic 

      [OWR-2018-25] Workshop Report 2018,25 (2018) - (03 Jun - 09 Jun 2018)
      Field Arithmetic studies the interrelation between arithmetic properties of fields and their absolute Galois groups. It is an interdisciplinary area that uses methods of algebraic number theory, commutative algebra, algebraic ...

    • 1838 - Flat Surfaces and Algebraic Curves 

      [OWR-2018-42] Workshop Report 2018,42 (2018) - (16 Sep - 22 Sep 2018)
      This workshop brought together two distinct communities: “flat” geometers, studying the moduli of flat surfaces, and Teichmüller dynamics, and algebraic geometers studying the moduli space of curves. While both communities ...

    • 1849 - Free Probability Theory 

      [OWR-2018-53] Workshop Report 2018,53 (2018) - (02 Dec - 08 Dec 2018)
      The workhop brought together leading experts, as well as promising young researchers, in areas related to recent developments in free probability theory. Some particular emphasis was on the relation of free probability ...

    • 1833 - Geometric Methods of Complex Analysis 

      [OWR-2018-37] Workshop Report 2018,37 (2018) - (12 Aug - 18 Aug 2018)
      The purpose of this workshop was to discuss recent results in Several Complex Variables, Complex Geometry and Complex Dynamical Systems with a special focus on the exchange of ideas and methods among these areas. The main ...

    • 1824 - Geometrie 

      [OWR-2018-27] Workshop Report 2018,27 (2018) - (10 Jun - 16 Jun 2018)
      The workshop Geometrie, 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 ...

    • 1822 - Interactions between Algebraic Geometry and Noncommutative Algebra 

      [OWR-2018-24] Workshop Report 2018,24 (2018) - (27 May - 02 Jun 2018)
      The workshop presented current developments exploring the boundaries and intersections between the fields of noncommutative algebra and representation theory on the one hand, and algebraic geometry on the other hand, with ...

    • 1819 - Interactions between Operator Space Theory and Quantum Probability with Applications to Quantum Information 

      [OWR-2018-22] Workshop Report 2018,22 (2018) - (06 May - 12 May 2018)
      Operator space theory was the joining element of our workshop. This theory is a quantisation of the theory of Banach spaces. The talks at our meeting investigated the interactions of operator space theory with operator ...