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- ItemActions and Invariants of Residually Finite Groups: Asymptotic Methods(Zürich : EMS Publ. House, 2010) Gaboriau, Damien; Grunewald, FritzThe workshop brought together experts in finite group theory, L2-cohomology, measured group theory, the theory of lattices in Lie groups, probability and topology. The common object of interest was residually finite groups, that each field investigates from a different angle.
- ItemMini-Workshop: Shearlets(Zürich : EMS Publ. House, 2010) Labate, DemetrioOver the last 20 years, multiscale methods and wavelets have revolutionized the field of applied mathematics by providing an efficient means for encoding isotropic phenomena. Directional multiscale systems, particularly shearlets, are now having the same dramatic impact on the encoding of multivariate signals. Since its introduction about five years ago, the theory of shearlets has rapidly developed and gained wide recognition as the superior way of achieving a truly unified treatment in both the continuum and digital setting. By now, shearlet analysis has reached maturity as a research field, with deep mathematical results, efficient numerical methods, and a variety of high-impact applications. The main goal of the Mini-Workshop Shearlets was to gather the world’s experts in this field in order to foster closer interaction, attack challenging open problems, and identify future research directions.
- ItemStatistical Issues in Prediction: what can be learned for individualized predictive medicine?(Zürich : EMS Publ. House, 2010) Henderson, Robin; Mansmann, UlrichError is unavoidable in prediction. And it is quite common, often sizable, and usually consequential. In a clinical context, especially when dealing with a terminal illness, error in prediction of residual life means that patients and families are misinformed about their illness, that they may take foolish actions as a result, and that they may be given inappropriate or needlesly painful treatments or denied appropriate ones. In meteorology, error in prediction of storm paths or extreme events can have devastating consequences. In finance and economics, major policy decisions are taken on the basis of predictions and forecasts. Rational approaches to reduce and assess error in prediction are presented. Ideas are introduced how to relate these statistical strategies with clinical and medical concepts in particular and how to integrate ideas from apparently different areas.
- ItemComplex Algebraic Geometry(Zürich : EMS Publ. House, 2011) Kawamata, Yujiro; Siebert, Bernd; Tian, GangThe conference focused on several classical and modern topics in the realm of complex algebraic geometry, such as moduli spaces, birational geometry and the minimal model program, Mirror symmetry and Gromov–Witten invariants, Hodge theory, curvature flows, algebraic surfaces and curves.
- ItemReal Analysis, Harmonic Analysis and Applications(Zürich : EMS Publ. House, 2011) Thiele, ChristophThe workshop has focused on important developments within the last few years in the point of view and methods of real and harmonic Analysis as well as significant concurrent progress in the application of these to various other fields.
- ItemMini-Workshop: Dynamics of Stochastic Systems and their Approximation(Zürich : EMS Publ. House, 2011) Gentz, Barbara; Hausenblas, ErikaThe aim of this workshop was to bring together specialists in the area of stochastic dynamical systems and stochastic numerical analysis to exchange their ideas about the state of the art of approximations of stochastic dynamics. Here approximations are considered in the analytical sense in terms of deriving reduced dynamical systems, which are less complex, as well as in the numerical sense via appropriate simulation methods. The main theme is concerned with the efficient treatment of stochastic dynamical systems via both approaches assuming that ideas and methods from one ansatz may prove beneficial for the other. A particular goal was to systematically identify open problems and challenges in this area.
- ItemReal Enumerative Questions in Complex and Tropical Geometry(Zürich : EMS Publ. House, 2011) Shustin, Eugenii; Walcher, Johannes; Welschinger, Jean-YvesThe workshop Real Enumerative Questions in Complex and Tropical Geometry was devoted to a wide discussion and exchange of ideas between the best experts representing various points of view on the subject. Enumeration of real curves largely motivated the development of the tropical geometry and led to the discovery of new interesting geometric phenomena and deep links between this problematic and algebraic geometry, symplectic geometry, topology, and mathematical physics.
- ItemGeometrie(Zürich : EMS Publ. House, 2010) Taimanov, Iskander; Wilking, BurkhardThe program of this meeting covered a wide range of recent developements in geometry such as geometric flows and connections to transport problems, metric and Alexandrov geometry, positively curved manifolds and the positive energy theorem.
- ItemMini-Workshop: Exploiting Symmetry in Optimization(Zürich : EMS Publ. House, 2010) Liberti, Leo; Schürmann, Achill; Sotirov, RenataThe feasible regions of mathematical optimization models quite often exhibit a high degree of symmetry. In recent years, several groups of researchers have independently worked on algorithmic approaches to exploit such symmetries in a variety of contexts. Many of the techniques that have been developed are related or rely on similar computational tools. The workshop brought together researchers working on symmetry aspects in different areas of optimization. The exchange of state-of-the-art knowledge between these areas lead to identification of important directions for future research activities.
- ItemMotives and Homotopy Theory of Schemes(Zürich : EMS Publ. House, 2010) Levine, Marc; Spiess, MichaelThe 2010 program on Motives and Homotopy Theory of Schemes consisted of a lively and varied series of 19 one-hour lectures on the latest developments in the field, presenting a wide range of aspects of this multifaceted subject. Besides the lectures, we were happy to welcome a wide range of nationalities and age groups to the conference.