Browsing Workshops 2021 by Title
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2104 - Logarithmic Vector Fields and Freeness of Divisors and Arrangements: New perspectives and applications (online meeting)
[OWR-2021-5] (2021) - (24 Jan - 30 Jan 2021)The central topic of the workshop was the notion of logarithmic vector fields along a divisor in a smooth complex analytic or algebraic variety, i.e., the vector fields on the ambient variety tangent to the divisor. ... -
2135 - Mathematical Aspects of General Relativity (hybrid meeting)
[OWR-2021-40] (2021) - (29 Aug - 04 Sep 2021)General relativity is an area that naturally combines differential geometry, partial differential equations, global analysis and dynamical systems with astrophysics, cosmology, high energy physics, and numerical analysis. ... -
2112 - Mathematical Foundations of Machine Learning (hybrid meeting)
[OWR-2021-15] (2021) - (21 Mar - 27 Mar 2021)Machine learning has achieved remarkable successes in various applications, but there is wide agreement that a mathematical theory for deep learning is missing. Recently, some first mathematical results have been derived ... -
2122 - Mathematics and its Ancient Classics Worldwide: Translations, Appropriations, Reconstructions, Roles (hybrid meeting)
[OWR-2021-26] (2021) - (30 May - 05 Jun 2021)The workshop analyzes the constitution, recovery, and role of the classical texts in mathematical practice throughout history. It aims at problematizing the notion of "classic", to make it a historical category and to study ... -
2136a - MATRIX-MFO Tandem Workshop: Invariants and Structures in Low-Dimensional Topology (hybrid meeting)
[OWR-2021-42] (2021) - (05 Sep - 11 Sep 2021)The first ever MATRIX-MFO tandem workshop addressed several research questions in low-dimensional topology and related areas. -
2136b - MFO-RIMS Tandem Workshop: Symmetries on Polynomial Ideals and Varieties (hybrid meeting)
[OWR-2021-43] (2021) - (05 Sep - 11 Sep 2021)The study of symmetry as a structural property of algebraic objects is one of the fundamental pillows of the developments of modern mathematics, most prominently beginning with the work of Abel and Galois. The focus of ... -
2149a - Mini-Workshop: (Anosov)$^3$ (hybrid meeting)
[OWR-2021-56] (2021) - (05 Dec - 11 Dec 2021)Three different active fields are subsumed under the keyword Anosov theory: Spectral theory of Anosov flows, dynamical rigidity of Anosov actions, and Anosov representations. In all three fields there have been dynamic ... -
2119a - Mini-Workshop: Analysis of Data-driven Optimal Control (hybrid meeting)
[OWR-2021-23] (2021) - (09 May - 15 May 2021)This hybrid mini-workshop discussed recent mathematical methods for analyzing the opportunities and limitations of data-driven and machine-learning approaches to optimal feedback control. The analysis concerned all aspects ... -
2119b - Mini-Workshop: Mathematics of Dissipation – Dynamics, Data and Control (hybrid meeting)
[OWR-2021-24] (2021) - (09 May - 15 May 2021)Dissipation of energy --- as well as its sibling the increase of entropy --- are fundamental facts inherent to any physical system. The concept of dissipativity has been extended to a more general system theoretic setting ... -
2106a - Mini-Workshop: Non-semisimple Tensor Categories and Their Semisimplification (online meeting)
[OWR-2021-7] (2021) - (07 Feb - 13 Feb 2021)Finite tensor categories are, despite their many applications and great interest, notoriously hard to classify. Among them, the semisimple ones (called fusion categories) have been intensively studied. Those with ... -
2106c - Mini-Workshop: Nonpositively Curved Complexes (online meeting)
[OWR-2021-8] (2021) - (07 Feb - 13 Feb 2021)The leading theme of the meeting was to understand nonpositively curved complexes and groups acting on them. Motivations, questions, results, and techniques being presented and discussed come from various areas of ... -
2149b - Mini-Workshop: Scattering Amplitudes, Cluster Algebras, and Positive Geometries (hybrid meeting)
[OWR-2021-57] (2021) - (05 Dec - 11 Dec 2021)Cluster algebras were developed by Fomin and Zelevinsky about twenty years ago. While the initial motivation came from within algebra (total positivity, canonical bases), it quickly became clear that cluster algebras ... -
2142a - Mini-Workshop: Three Facets of R-Matrices (hybrid meeting)
[OWR-2021-51] (2021) - (17 Oct - 23 Oct 2021)By definition, an $R$-matrix with spectral parameter is a solution to the Yang-Baxter equation, introduced in the 1970's by C.N. Yang and R.J. Baxter. Such a matrix encodes the Boltzmann weights of a lattice model of ... -
2149c - Mini-Workshop: Variable Curvature Bounds, Analysis and Topology on Dirichlet Spaces (hybrid meeting)
[OWR-2021-58] (2021) - (05 Dec - 11 Dec 2021)A Dirichlet form $\mathcal{E}$ is a densely defined bilinear form on a Hilbert space of the form $L^2(X,\mu)$, subject to some additional properties, which make sure that $\mathcal{E}$ can be considered as a natural ... -
2105 - Moduli spaces and Modular forms (hybrid meeting)
[OWR-2021-6] (2021) - (31 Jan - 06 Feb 2021)The relation between moduli spaces and modular forms goes back to the theory of elliptic curves. On the one hand both topics experience their own growth and development, but from time to time new unexpected links show ... -
2102 - Nonstandard Finite Element Methods (hybrid meeting)
[OWR-2021-3] (2021) - (10 Jan - 16 Jan 2021)Finite element methodologies dominate the computational approaches for the solution to partial differential equations and nonstandard finite element schemes most urgently require mathematical insight in their design. The ... -
2126b - Numerical Methods for Fully Nonlinear and Related PDEs (hybrid meeting)
[OWR-2021-31] (2021) - (27 Jun - 03 Jul 2021)The aim of this workshop was to discuss the challenges, latest trends and advancements on numerical methods for fully nonlinear PDEs. The construction of numerical schemes and their convergence analysis is still an emerging ... -
2139 - Singularities (hybrid meeting)
[OWR-2021-47] (2021) - (26 Sep - 02 Oct 2021)Singularity theory concerns local and global structure of singularities of (algebraic) varieties and maps. As such, it combines tools from algebraic geometry, complex analysis, topology, algebra and combinatorics. -
2115a - Small Collaboration: Modeling Phenomena from Nature by Hyperbolic Partial Differential Equations (hybrid meeting)
[OWR-2021-19] (2021) - (11 Apr - 17 Apr 2021)Nonlinear hyperbolic partial differential equations constitute a plethora of models from physics, biology, engineering, etc. In this workshop we cover the range from modeling, mathematical questions of well-posedness, ... -
2112a - Small Collaboration: Numerical Analysis of Electromagnetic Problems (hybrid meeting)
[OWR-2021-16] (2021) - (21 Mar - 27 Mar 2021)The classical theory of electromagnetism describes the interaction of electrically charged particles through electromagnetic forces, which are carried by the electric and magnetic fields. The propagation of the electromagnetic ...