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• #### 2047c - Mini-Workshop: Computational Optimization on Manifolds (online meeting) ﻿

[OWR-2020-36] (2020) - (15 Nov - 21 Nov 2020)
The goal of the mini-workshop was to study the geometry, algorithms and applications of unconstrained and constrained optimization problems posed on Riemannian manifolds. Focus topics included the geometry of particular ...
• #### 2047b - Mini-Workshop: Dimers, Ising and Spanning Trees beyond the Critical Isoradial Case (online meeting) ﻿

[OWR-2020-35] (2020) - (15 Nov - 21 Nov 2020)
The goal of this mini-workshop is to gather specialists of the dimer, Ising and spanning tree models around recent and ongoing progress in two directions. One is understanding the connection to the spectral curve of these ...
• #### 2009a - Mini-Workshop: Kronecker, Plethysm, and Sylow Branching Coefficients and their Applications to Complexity Theory ﻿

[OWR-2020-9] (2020) - (23 Feb - 29 Feb 2020)
The Kronecker, plethysm and Sylow branching coefficients describe the decomposition of representations of symmetric groups obtained by tensor products and induction. Understanding these decompositions has been hailed ...
• #### 2048c - Mini-Workshop: Nonlocal Analysis and the Geometry of Embeddings (hybrid meeting) ﻿

[OWR-2020-37] (2020) - (22 Nov - 28 Nov 2020)
Both self-avoidance and self-contact of geometric objects can be modeled using repulsive energies that separate isotopy classes. Giving rise to nonlocal operators, they are interesting objects in their own right. Moreover, ...
• #### 2009c - Mini-Workshop: One-sided and Two-sided Stochastic Descriptions ﻿

[OWR-2020-11] (2020) - (23 Feb - 29 Feb 2020)
We consider the set of discrete time stochastic processes which are dependent on their past, and the set of those that depend on both their past and their future. As long as we only allow dependence on a finite number of ...
• #### 2051a - Mini-Workshop: Relativistic Fluids at the Intersection of Mathematics and Physics (online meeting) ﻿

[OWR-2020-42] (2020) - (13 Dec - 19 Dec 2020)
Relativistic Hydrodynamics is the description of fluid motion in regimes where relativistic effects are important. This is the case for fluids moving at high velocities or interacting with very strong gravitational fields, ...
• #### 2009b - Mini-Workshop: Superpotentials in Algebra and Geometry ﻿

[OWR-2020-10] (2020) - (23 Feb - 29 Feb 2020)
Mirror symmetry has been at the epicenter of many mathematical discoveries in the past twenty years. It was discovered by physicists in the setting of super conformal field theories (SCFTs) associated to closed string ...
• #### 2003 - Model Theory: Groups, Geometries and Combinatorics ﻿

[OWR-2020-2] (2020) - (12 Jan - 18 Jan 2020)
The focus of the conference were recent interactions between model theory, group theory and combinatorics in finite geometries. In some cases, in particular in non-archimedean geometry or combinatorics in finite geometries, ...
• #### 2050a - New Directions in Rough Path Theory (online meeting) ﻿

[OWR-2020-40] (2020) - (06 Dec - 12 Dec 2020)
Rough path theory emerged as novel approach for dealing with interactions in complex random systems. It settled significant questions and provided an effective deterministic alternative to Itô calculus, itself a major ...
• #### 2006b - New Perspectives and Computational Challenges in High Dimensions ﻿

[OWR-2020-6] (2020) - (02 Feb - 08 Feb 2020)
High-dimensional systems are frequent in mathematics and applied sciences, and the understanding of high-dimensional phenomena has become increasingly important. The mathematical subdisciplines most strongly related to ...
• #### 2027 - Non-Commutative Geometry and Cyclic Homology (hybrid meeting) ﻿

[OWR-2020-17] (2020) - (28 Jun - 04 Jul 2020)
The workshop on "Non-Commutative Geometry and Cyclic Homology" was attended by 16 participants on site. 30 participants could not travel to Oberwolfach because of the pandemia and took advantage of the videoconference tool. ...
• #### 2010 - Real Algebraic Geometry with a View Toward Hyperbolic Programming and Free Probability ﻿

[OWR-2020-12] (2020) - (01 Mar - 07 Mar 2020)
Continuing the tradition initiated in the MFO workshops held in 2014 and 2017, this workshop was dedicated to the newest developments in real algebraic geometry and polynomial optimization, with a particular emphasis on ...
• #### 2028 - Real Analysis, Harmonic Analysis and Applications (hybrid meeting) ﻿

[OWR-2020-18] (2020) - (05 Jul - 11 Jul 2020)
The workshop hosted various research groups on topics in Real Analysis, Harmonic Analysis and Applications.
• #### 2004 - Representation Theory of Quivers and Finite Dimensional Algebras ﻿

[OWR-2020-3] (2020) - (19 Jan - 25 Jan 2020)
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 ...
• #### 2015 - Set Theory (online meeting) ﻿

[OWR-2020-14] (2020) - (05 Apr - 11 Apr 2020)
Set theory continues to experience dramatic progress, both in pure set theory, with its fundamental techniques of forcing, large cardinals, and inner model theory, and in applied set theory, with its deep connections to ...
• #### 2005 - Statistics meets Machine Learning ﻿

[OWR-2020-4] (2020) - (26 Jan - 01 Feb 2020)
Theory and application go hand in hand in most areas of statistics. In a world flooded with huge amounts of data waiting to be analyzed, classified and transformed into useful outputs, the designing of fast, robust and ...
• #### 2040b - Stochastic Processes under Constraints (hybrid meeting) ﻿

[OWR-2020-32] (2020) - (27 Sep - 03 Oct 2020)
The analysis of random processes under various constraints and conditions has been a central theme in the theory of stochastic processes, which links together several mathematical subdisciplines. The connection ...
• #### 2037b - Structure-Preserving Discretizations for Nonlinear Systems of ﻿

[OWR-2020-28] (2020) - (06 Sep - 12 Sep 2020)
Because of the pandemia, the workshop on Structure-Preserving Discretizations for Nonlinear Systems of Hyperbolic, Involution-Constrained Partial Differential Equations on Manifolds" could not be realized in the usual ...
• #### 2037a - Topological and Smooth Dynamics on Surfaces (individual research only) ﻿

[OWR-2020-27] (2020) - (06 Sep - 12 Sep 2020)
Because of the pandemia, the workshop on "Topological and Smooth Dynamics on Surfaces" could not be realized in the usual format or in the new hybrid format. Instead, a subgroup of 3 participants used the week mostly ...
• #### 2031 - Topologie (hybrid meeting) ﻿

[OWR-2020-21] (2020) - (26 Jul - 01 Aug 2020)
The Oberwolfach conference "Topologie" is one of only a few opportunities for researchers from many different areas in algebraic and geometric topology to meet and exchange ideas. On this occasion, because of the Corona ...