Browsing Workshops 2020 by Issue Date

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    • 2026 - Geometric Structures in Group Theory (hybrid meeting) 

      [OWR-2020-16] Workshop Report 2020,16 (2020) - (21 Jun - 27 Jun 2020)
      The conference focused on the use of geometric methods to study infinite groups and the interplay of group theory with other areas. One of the central techniques in geometric group theory is to study infinite discrete ...

    • 2009b - Mini-Workshop: Superpotentials in Algebra and Geometry 

      [OWR-2020-10] Workshop Report 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 ...

    • 2011 - Mechanics of Materials: Towards Predictive Methods for Kinetics in Plasticity, Fracture, and Damage 

      [OWR-2020-13] Workshop Report 2020,13 (2020) - (08 Mar - 14 Mar 2020)
      The workshop dealt with current advances of computational methods, mathematics and continuum mechanics directed at thermodynamically consistent forms of constitutive equations for complex evolutionary phenomena in modern ...

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

      [OWR-2020-36] Workshop Report 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] Workshop Report 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 ...

    • 2034 - Komplexe Analysis - Algebraicity and Transcendence (hybrid meeting) 

      [OWR-2020-24] Workshop Report 2020,24 (2020) - (16 Aug - 22 Aug 2020)
      This is the report of the Oberwolfach workshop Komplexe Analysis 2020. It was mainly devoted to the transcendental methods of complex algebraic geometry and featured eighteen talks about recent important developments in ...

    • 2010 - Real Algebraic Geometry with a View Toward Hyperbolic Programming and Free Probability 

      [OWR-2020-12] Workshop Report 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 ...

    • 2033 - Cohomology of Finite Groups: Interactions and Applications (hybrid meeting) 

      [OWR-2020-23] Workshop Report 2020,23 (2020) - (09 Aug - 15 Aug 2020)
      The cohomology of finite groups is an important tool in many subjects including representation theory and algebraic topology. This meeting was the fifth in a series that has emphasized the interactions of group ...

    • 2027 - Non-Commutative Geometry and Cyclic Homology (hybrid meeting) 

      [OWR-2020-17] Workshop Report 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. ...

    • 2030 - Arithmetic Geometry (hybrid meeting) 

      [OWR-2020-20] Workshop Report 2020,20 (2020) - (19 Jul - 25 Jul 2020)
      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, and connects with representation theory, ...

    • 2005 - Statistics meets Machine Learning 

      [OWR-2020-4] Workshop Report 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 ...

    • 2051a - Mini-Workshop: Relativistic Fluids at the Intersection of Mathematics and Physics (online meeting) 

      [OWR-2020-42] Workshop Report 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, ...

    • 2050a - New Directions in Rough Path Theory (online meeting) 

      [OWR-2020-40] Workshop Report 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 ...

    • 2006a - Boundary Element Methods 

      [OWR-2020-5] Workshop Report 2020,5 (2020) - (02 Feb - 08 Feb 2020)
      The field of boundary element methods (BEM) relies on recasting boundary value problems for (mostly linear) partial differential equations as (usually singular) integral equations on boundaries of domains or interfaces. ...

    • 2004 - Representation Theory of Quivers and Finite Dimensional Algebras 

      [OWR-2020-3] Workshop Report 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 ...

    • 2036 - Automorphic Forms and Arithmetic (hybrid meeting) 

      [OWR-2020-26] Workshop Report 2020,26 (2020) - (30 Aug - 05 Sep 2020)
      The workshop was at the interface of automorphic forms and analytic number theory. The aim was to disseminate, discuss and develop important new methods and results in the analytic theory of automorphic forms, in particular ...

    • 2015 - Set Theory (online meeting) 

      [OWR-2020-14] Workshop Report 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 ...

    • 2029 - Algebraic Geometry: Moduli Spaces, Birational Geometry and Derived Aspects (hybrid meeting) 

      [OWR-2020-19] Workshop Report 2020,19 (2020) - (12 Jul - 18 Jul 2020)
      The talks at the workshop and the research done during the week focused on aspects of algebraic geometry in the broad sense. Special emphasis was put on hyperkähler manifolds and derived categories.

    • 2032 - Calculus of Variations (hybrid meeting) 

      [OWR-2020-22] Workshop Report 2020,22 (2020) - (02 Aug - 08 Aug 2020)
      Calculus of Variations touches several interrelated areas. In this workshop we covered several topics, such as minimal submanifolds, mean curvature and related flows, free boundary problems, variational models of ...

    • 2046 - Mathematical Logic: Proof Theory, Constructive Mathematics (hybrid meeting) 

      [OWR-2020-34] Workshop Report 2020,34 (2020) - (08 Nov - 14 Nov 2020)
      The Workshop "Mathematical Logic: Proof Theory, Constructive Mathematics" focused on proofs both as formal derivations in deductive systems as well as on the extraction of explicit computational content from given ...