• 2509a - Data Assimilation: From Mathematical and Statistical Foundations to Applications 

      [OWR-2025-10] Workshop Report 2025,10 (2025) - (23 Feb - 28 Feb 2025)
      Data assimilation, where predictions from a dynamical system are updated sequentially based on new and incomplete observations, is increasingly finding applications in many areas of science and technology. This workshop ...
    • 2527 - Differentialgeometrie im Großen 

      [OWR-2025-30] Workshop Report 2025,30 (2025) - (29 Jun - 04 Jul 2025)
      This workshop brought together researchers working in various areas of differential geometry, with an emphasis on problems that connect local geometric analysis with global structure and topology. Talks covered a broad ...
    • 2528 - Dynamische Systeme 

      [OWR-2025-31] Workshop Report 2025,31 (2025) - (06 Jul - 11 Jul 2025)
      This workshop was part of the long-standing biannual series on Dynamical Systems at Oberwolfach, which began in 1981 with a meeting organized by Moser and Zehnder. It focused on recent advances and developments in dynamical ...
    • 2521 - Enveloping Algebras and Geometric Representation Theory 

      [OWR-2025-25] Workshop Report 2025,25 (2025) - (18 May - 23 May 2025)
      The workshop brought together experts investigating algebraic Lie theory from the categorical, combinatorial, geometric and noncommutative viewpoints. In general, the talks during the workshop focused on structural results ...
    • 2512 - Finite Groups, Fusion Systems and Applications 

      [OWR-2025-16] Workshop Report 2025,16 (2025) - (16 Mar - 21 Mar 2025)
      The Classification of Finite Simple Groups (CFSG) is considered to be one of the most important results of modern mathematics, and has led to many applications both inside and outside group theory. The theory of fusion ...
    • 2513 - Frontiers of Statistics and Machine Learning 

      [OWR-2025-17] Workshop Report 2025,17 (2025) - (23 Mar - 28 Mar 2025)
      AI is currently the central theme in science. Whereas the underlying algorithms rely on rather simple mathematical operations such as matrix-vector multiplications and applying non-linearities componentwise, deriving a ...
    • 2549 - Functional Inequalities: Geometric Calculus meets Stochastic Analysis 

      [OWR-2025-54] Workshop Report 2025,54 (2025) - (30 Nov - 05 Dec 2025)
      Functional inequalities form a unifying theme across a wide spectrum of modern analysis, geometry, and probability. They encode deep geometric and analytic information - for instance through Poincaré, log-Sobolev, ...
    • 2507 - Geometric Structures in Group Theory 

      [OWR-2025-6] Workshop Report 2025,6 (2025) - (09 Feb - 14 Feb 2025)
      The general subject of the conference was geometric group theory, that is the study of groups via suitable actions on spaces endowed with additional structures, for instance a distance, a measure (class), or both of them ...
    • 2502 - Graph Theory 

      [OWR-2025-1] Workshop Report 2025,1 (2025) - (05 Jan - 10 Jan 2025)
      The workshop provided a venue for discussing several recent major developments in graph theory, with a primary focus on results concerning the notion of twin-width and hereditary properties of graphs. Both areas have seen ...
    • 2551 - Homogeneous Structures: Model Theory meets Universal Algebra 

      [OWR-2025-58] Workshop Report 2025,58 (2025) - (14 Dec - 19 Dec 2025)
      Many fundamental mathematical structures, such as the rationals or the random graph, are homogeneous, meaning that local isomorphisms extend to global automorphisms. Such structures arise as limits of classes of finite ...
    • 2536 - Large Scale Stochastic Dynamics 

      [OWR-2025-40] Workshop Report 2025,40 (2025) - (31 Aug - 05 Sep 2025)
      The goal of this workshop was to explore the recent advances in the mathematical understanding of the macroscopic properties which emerge on large space-time scales from interacting microscopic particle systems. The ...
    • 2520 - Mathematical Advances in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics 

      [OWR-2025-24] Workshop Report 2025,24 (2025) - (11 May - 16 May 2025)
      The workshop "Mathematical Advances in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics" addressed recent advances in modeling, analytical, computational and stochastical studies of geophysical models. In particular addressed are atmosphere-, ...
    • 2506 - Mathematical Imaging and Surface Processing 

      [OWR-2025-5] Workshop Report 2025,5 (2025) - (02 Feb - 07 Feb 2025)
      The workshop "Mathematical Imaging and Surface Processing" is designed to foster exchange and collaboration between applied mathematicians and applied computer scientists on problems arising in computer graphics, geometry ...
    • 2511 - Mathematical Methods in Quantum Chemistry 

      [OWR-2025-15] Workshop Report 2025,15 (2025) - (09 Mar - 14 Mar 2025)
      Quantum chemistry focuses on modelling and simulating the behaviour of molecular systems using the fundamental principles of quantum mechanics. However, the underlying equations, such as the Schrödinger equation for computing ...
    • 2539a - MATRIX-MFO Tandem Workshop: Machine Learning and AI for Mathematics 

      [OWR-2025-43] Workshop Report 2025,43 (2025) - (21 Sep - 26 Sep 2025)
      This workshop explored how modern machine learning can both accelerate mathematical discovery and preserve rigorous standards. It focused on three angles: using AI techniques to help mathematicians make advances on challenging ...
    • 2509b - MATRIX-MFO Tandem Workshop: Nonlinear Geometric Diffusion Equations 

      [OWR-2025-11] Workshop Report 2025,11 (2025) - (23 Feb - 28 Feb 2025)
      This tandem workshop with MATRIX in Creswick, Australia, brought together leading experts from the fields of geometric partial differential equations and geometric analysis in general. The focus of the workshop ...
    • 2508c - MFO-RIMS Tandem Workshop: Optimization, Theoretical Computer Science and Algebraic Geometry: Convexity and Beyond 

      [OWR-2025-9] Workshop Report 2025,9 (2025) - (16 Feb - 21 Feb 2025)
      The joint workshop brought together leading experts from real algebraic geometry, computational algebra, polynomial optimization, and theoretical computer science. The event fostered vibrant interdisciplinary exchange, ...
    • 2510a - Mini-Workshop: Alcoved Polytopes in Physics and Optimization 

      [OWR-2025-12] Workshop Report 2025,12 (2025) - (02 Mar - 07 Mar 2025)
      An alcoved polytope is a polytope whose facet normal are all in direction of type $A$ roots. This fundamental class of polytopes has ample applications in for instance tropical geometry, statistics and algebra. ...
    • 2550a - Mini-Workshop: Algebraic Foliations: Analytic and Birational Viewpoint 

      [OWR-2025-55] Workshop Report 2025,55 (2025) - (07 Dec - 12 Dec 2025)
      The main goal of the mini-workshop was starting strong collaborations between outstanding women in geometry with a broad spectrum of expertise. The focus was on the interplay of three topics in Geometry: analytic methods ...
    • 2550b - Mini-Workshop: Approximation of Manifold-Valued Functions 

      [OWR-2025-56] Workshop Report 2025,56 (2025) - (07 Dec - 12 Dec 2025)
      The approximation of unknown functions from scattered, possibly high-dimensional data is central to many scientific applications. Advances in data acquisition have driven the need for flexible nonlinear models, including ...