Browsing Workshops 2020 by Issue Date

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    • 2041c - Mini-Workshop: Almost Complex Geometry (online meeting) 

      [OWR-2020-33] Workshop Report 2020,33 (2020) - (04 Oct - 10 Oct 2020)
      The mini-workshop focused on very recent developments of analytic and algebraic techniques for studying almost complex structures which are not necessarily integrable. It provided a forum to discuss and compare techniques ...

    • 2051 - History of Mathematics: A Global Cultural Approach (online meeting) 

      [OWR-2020-41] Workshop Report 2020,41 (2020) - (13 Dec - 19 Dec 2020)
      The primary purpose of this workshop was to take account of progress on an ongoing six-volume cultural history of mathematics from antiquity to the present. This project is led by nine editors working with a large team of ...

    • 2002 - Combinatorics 

      [OWR-2020-1] Workshop Report 2020,1 (2020) - (05 Jan - 11 Jan 2020)
      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 ...

    • 2049 - Classical and Quantum Mechanical Models of Many-Particle Systems (online meeting) 

      [OWR-2020-38] Workshop Report 2020,38 (2020) - (29 Nov - 05 Dec 2020)
      The collective behaviour of many-particle systems is a common denominator in the challenges of a highly diverse range of applications: from classical problems in Physics (gas dynamics e.g. Boltzmann's equation, plas\-ma ...

    • 2008 - Low-dimensional Topology 

      [OWR-2020-8] Workshop Report 2020,8 (2020) - (16 Feb - 22 Feb 2020)
      The workshop brought together experts from across all areas of low-dimensional topology, including knot theory, mapping class groups, three-manifolds and four-manifolds. In addition to the standard research talks we had ...

    • 2039 - Discrete Geometry (hybrid meeting) 

      [OWR-2020-30] Workshop Report 2020,30 (2020) - (20 Sep - 26 Sep 2020)
      A number of important recent developments in various branches of discrete geometry were presented at the workshop, which took place in hybrid format due to a pandemic situation. The presentations illustrated both the ...

    • 2006b - New Perspectives and Computational Challenges in High Dimensions 

      [OWR-2020-6] Workshop Report 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 ...

    • 2038 - Variational Methods for Evolution (hybrid meeting) 

      [OWR-2020-29] Workshop Report 2020,29 (2020) - (13 Sep - 19 Sep 2020)
      Variational principles for evolutionary systems take advantage of the rich toolbox provided by the theory of the calculus of variations. Such principles are available for Hamiltonian systems in classical mechanics, gradient ...

    • 2040a - Lefschetz Properties in Algebra, Geometry and Combinatorics (hybrid meeting) 

      [OWR-2020-31] Workshop Report 2020,31 (2020) - (27 Sep - 03 Oct 2020)
      The themes of the workshop are the Weak Lefschetz Property - WLP - and the Strong Lefschetz Property - SLP. The name of these properties, referring to Artinian algebras, is motivated by the Lefschetz theory for projective ...

    • 2035 - Low-Dimensional Topology and Number Theory (individual research only) 

      [OWR-2020-25] Workshop Report 2020,25 (2020) - (23 Aug - 29 Aug 2020)
      Because of the pandemia, the workshop on "Low-Dimensional Topology and Number Theory" could not be realized in the usual format or in the new hybrid format. Instead, a subgroup consisting of 6 participants used the week ...

    • 2028 - Real Analysis, Harmonic Analysis and Applications (hybrid meeting) 

      [OWR-2020-18] Workshop Report 2020,18 (2020) - (05 Jul - 11 Jul 2020)
      The workshop hosted various research groups on topics in Real Analysis, Harmonic Analysis and Applications.

    • 2050 - Computational Inverse Problems for Partial Differential Equations (hybrid meeting) 

      [OWR-2020-39] Workshop Report 2020,39 (2020) - (06 Dec - 12 Dec 2020)
      Inverse problems in partial differential equations (PDEs) consist in reconstructing some part of a PDE such as a coefficient, a boundary condition, an initial condition, the shape of a domain, or a singularity from ...

    • 2048c - Mini-Workshop: Nonlocal Analysis and the Geometry of Embeddings (hybrid meeting) 

      [OWR-2020-37] Workshop Report 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, ...

    • 2021 - Mathematical Advances in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics (online meeting) 

      [OWR-2020-15] Workshop Report 2020,15 (2020) - (17 May - 23 May 2020)
      This workshop on "Mathematical Advances in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics" was organized as an online seminar and addressed recent advances in analytical, modeling and computational studies of geophysical fluid models. Of ...

    • 2040b - Stochastic Processes under Constraints (hybrid meeting) 

      [OWR-2020-32] Workshop Report 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 ...

    • 2003 - Model Theory: Groups, Geometries and Combinatorics 

      [OWR-2020-2] Workshop Report 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, ...

    • 2009a - Mini-Workshop: Kronecker, Plethysm, and Sylow Branching Coefficients and their Applications to Complexity Theory 

      [OWR-2020-9] Workshop Report 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 ...

    • 2009c - Mini-Workshop: One-sided and Two-sided Stochastic Descriptions 

      [OWR-2020-11] Workshop Report 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 ...

    • 2031 - Topologie (hybrid meeting) 

      [OWR-2020-21] Workshop Report 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 ...

    • 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 ...