Browsing Workshops 2019 by Title
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1929a - Mathematical Theory of Water Waves
[OWR-2019-32] (2019) - (14 Jul - 20 Jul 2019)Water waves, that is waves on the surface of a fluid (or the interface between different fluids) are omnipresent phenomena. However, as Feynman wrote in his lecture, water waves that are easily seen by everyone, and which ... -
1946a - Mini-Workshop: Algebraic Tools for Solving the Yang–Baxter Equation
[OWR-2019-51] (2019) - (10 Nov - 16 Nov 2019)The workshop was focused on three facets of the interplay between set-theoretic solutions to the Yang--Baxter equation and classical algebraic structures (groups, monoids, algebras, lattices, racks etc.): structures used ... -
1910c - Mini-Workshop: Cohomology of Hopf Algebras and Tensor Categories
[OWR-2019-11] (2019) - (03 Mar - 09 Mar 2019)The mini-workshop featured some open questions about the cohomology of Hopf algebras and tensor categories. Questions included whether the cohomology ring of a finite dimensional Hopf algebra or a finite tensor ... -
1941b - Mini-Workshop: Degeneration Techniques in Representation Theory
[OWR-2019-46] (2019) - (06 Oct - 12 Oct 2019)Modern Representation Theory has numerous applications in many mathematical areas such as algebraic geometry, combinatorics, convex geometry, mathematical physics, probability. Many of the object and problems of interest ... -
1910b - Mini-Workshop: Lorentz Gas Dynamics: particle systems and scaling limits
[OWR-2019-10] (2019) - (03 Mar - 09 Mar 2019)This workshop had the aim to bring together leading experts from different fields, i.e. interacting particle systems, dynamical systems and kinetic theory, to consider questions related to the dynamics of the Lorentz gas ... -
1910a - Mini-Workshop: Mathematical Aspects of Nonlinear Wave Propagation in Solid Mechanics
[OWR-2019-9] (2019) - (03 Mar - 09 Mar 2019)Nonlinear elastodynamics sets a plethora of challenging mathematical problems such as those concerning wave propagation in solids. Elastic vibrations and acoustic waves have been widely studied because of their ... -
1915c - Mini-Workshop: Mathematics of Crystallisation
[OWR-2019-18] (2019) - (07 Apr - 13 Apr 2019)Crystallisation, by which we mean the formation of solids precipitating from a solution, is the central theme of the present mini-workshop. Participants discussed different approaches towards a rigorous mathematical ... -
1941a - Mini-Workshop: Operator Algebraic Quantum Groups
[OWR-2019-45] (2019) - (06 Oct - 12 Oct 2019)This mini-workshop brought together a rich and varied cross-section of young and active researchers working on operator algebraic aspects of quantum group theory. The primary goals of this meeting were to highlight the ... -
1946b - Mini-Workshop: Rank One Groups and Exceptional Algebraic Groups
[OWR-2019-52] (2019) - (10 Nov - 16 Nov 2019)Rank one groups are a class of doubly transitive groups that are natural generalizations of the groups $ \operatorname{SL}_2(k) $. The most interesting examples arise from exceptional algebraic groups of relative rank ... -
1915a - Mini-Workshop: Recent Progress in Path Integration on Graphs and Manifolds
[OWR-2019-16] (2019) - (07 Apr - 13 Apr 2019)Ever since Richard Feynman's PhD thesis, path integrals have played a decisive role in mathematical physics. While it is well-known that such formulae can hold only formally, it was Mark Kac who realized that by replacing ... -
1915b - Mini-Workshop: Reflection Groups in Negative Curvature
[OWR-2019-17] (2019) - (07 Apr - 13 Apr 2019)Discrete groups generated by reflections constitute an important source of examples of lattices in simple Lie groups of real rank $1$ (whose associated symmetric spaces are negatively curved). Yet a classification for ... -
1941c - Mini-Workshop: Self-adjoint Extensions in New Settings
[OWR-2019-47] (2019) - (06 Oct - 12 Oct 2019)The main focus of the workshop is on the analysis of boundary value problems for differential and difference operators in some non-classical geometric settings, such as fractal graphs, sub-Riemannian manifolds or non-elliptic ... -
1946c - Mini-Workshop: Seshadri Constants
[OWR-2019-53] (2019) - (10 Nov - 16 Nov 2019)Seshadri constants were defined by Demailly around 30 years ago using the ampleness criterion of Seshadri. Demailly was interested in studying problems related to separation of jets of line bundles on projective varieties, ... -
1923 - Mixed-integer Nonlinear Optimization: a hatchery for modern mathematics
[OWR-2019-26] (2019) - (02 Jun - 08 Jun 2019)The second MFO Oberwolfach Workshop on Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Programming (MINLP) took place between 2nd and 8th June 2019. MINLP refers to one of the hardest Mathematical Programming (MP) problem classes, involving both ... -
1951 - Modular Forms
[OWR-2019-57] (2019) - (15 Dec - 21 Dec 2019)The theory of Modular Forms has been central in mathematics with a rich history and connections to many other areas of mathematics. The workshop explored recent developments and future directions with a ... -
1908 - Moist Processes in the Atmosphere
[OWR-2019-7] (2019) - (17 Feb - 23 Feb 2019)Processes related to water in the atmosphere lead to severe uncertainties in weather forecasting and climate research. Atmospheric water vapor and cloud water strongly influence the Earth's energy budget through, ... -
1940 - New Developments in Representation Theory of p-adic Groups
[OWR-2019-44] (2019)The representation theory of $p$-adic groups has played an important role in the Langlands program. It has seen significant progress in the past two decades, including various instances of the local Langlands correspondences, ... -
1909 - Non-Archimedean Geometry and Applications
[OWR-2019-8] (2019) - (24 Feb - 02 Mar 2019)The workshop focused on recent developments in non-Archimedean analytic geometry with various applications to other fields. The topics of the talks included applications to complex geometry, mirror symmetry, p-adic Hodge ... -
1906 - Nonlinear Evolution Equations: Analysis and Numerics
[OWR-2019-5] (2019) - (03 Feb - 09 Feb 2019)The qualitative theory of nonlinear evolution equations is an important tool for studying the dynamical behavior of systems in science and technology. A thorough understanding of the complex behavior of such systems ... -
1921 - Nonlinear Hyperbolic Problems: modeling, analysis, and numerics
[OWR-2019-24] (2019) - (19 May - 25 May 2019)The workshop gathered together leading international experts, as well as most promising young researchers, working on the modelling, the mathematical analysis, and the numerical methods for nonlinear hyperbolic ...