Newsletter 2010-II

Contents

1. Oberwolfach Arbeitsgemeinschaft in October 2010
2. Oberwolfach Prize: Call for Application
3. John Todd Award: Call for Application
4. Oberwolfach Vice Director: Call for Application
5. Oberwolfach Lecture by Prof. Rupert Klein
6. Oberwolfach Seminars for graduate students 2010
7. Oberwolfach Leibniz Fellows
8. Oberwolfach Workshops 2012: deadline for proposals etc.
9. MiMa: New museum of minerals and mathematics in Oberwolfach

Dear researchers and friends of Oberwolfach,

Please find below the regular biannual newsletter of the Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach (MFO).

The newsletter will inform you on the latest news and activities of the MFO.

We hope you will find this service useful.

Yours faithfully,
Stephan Klaus
(Assistant to the Director)

PS: We are sending the newsletter to all visitors of the MFO in the past 5 years. If you do not wish to receive this newsletter furthermore, please inform us accordingly to .

Every year in spring and in autumn, there is a week-long Arbeitsgemeinschaft (study group) in Oberwolfach with about 45 participants. The idea of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft is to learn by giving one of the lectures on the topic under study. The Arbeitsgemeinschaft is open to everybody, participation is by application to the organisers.

Title of the next Arbeitsgemeinschaft:	Topological Robotics
Organisers:	Michael Farber, Durham Jesus Gonzalez, Mexico Dirk Schuetz, Durham
Date:	October 10 - October 16, 2010
Deadline for application:	August 20, 2010
Application to:

The programme and the poster are available at
http://www.mfo.de/programme/schedule/2010/41/programme1041.pdf
http://www.mfo.de/programme/schedule/2010/41/poster1041.pdf

Oberwolfach Prize 2010 for Junior European Mathematicians
http://www.mfo.de/programme/prize/Call_Oberwolfach_Prize_2010.pdf

The Oberwolfach Foundation awards in cooperation with the MFO a prize for excellent achievements in:

Analysis and Applied Mathematics

The prize amounts to Euro 10.000. Candidates should be mathematicians from Europe, with Ph.D./Dr. degree received not more than 10 years ago, and must be nominated. Proposals should contain a description of the scientific achievements, curriculum vitae and publication list of the candidate. We request all European senior scientists in analysis and applied mathematics to make proposals before September 1^st, 2010, to:

Gert-Martin Greuel

Director MFO

John Todd Award 2010 for Junior Mathematicians
http://www.mfo.de/programme/todd/Call_Todd_Award.pdf

The Oberwolfach Foundation awards in cooperation with the MFO a prize for excellent achievements in:

Numerical Analysis

The prize amounts to Euro 1.000. Candidates should have Ph.D./Dr. degree received not more than 10 years ago, and must be nominated. Proposals should contain a short description of the scientific achievements, curriculum vitae and publication list of the candidate. We request all senior scientists in numerical analysis to make proposals before September 1^st, 2010, to:

Gert-Martin Greuel

Director MFO

There is a call for application (in German, only) for the position of the Vice Director. The deadline is July 31, 2010, and the term will start in February 2012.

Call for application (in German):
http://www.mfo.de/news/vice_director/MFO_Ausschreibung_stellvDirektor_2010.pdf

The annual Oberwolfach Vorlesung is a public lecture of about one hour taking place at the MFO after the general meeting of the Gesellschaft fuer mathematische Forschung e.V. (The GMF is the running society of the MFO; please note that its general meeting is NOT public.)

We are pleased to announce the next Oberwolfach Vorlesung:

Prof. Rupert Klein (Berlin)
"Mathematical Challenges from Climate Research"
Saturday, October 2^nd, 2010
at 5:30 pm in the institute's large lecture hall

For organisational and capacity reasons, we kindly ask you to register by letter or email to . Please note that we cannot offer board and lodging for this event at the MFO. Instead, we recommend the nearby hotels to the interested participants.

Oberwolfach Seminars are not regular workshops, but - like summer schools - address to graduate students and post docs. In October - November 2010, 4 Oberwolfach Seminars are taking place at the MFO:

Further information is available on our homepage at http://www.mfo.de/cgi-bin/path?programme/seminars

If you know a graduate student or post doc who might be interested, please be so kind and draw her/his attention to this Oberwolfach Seminar. Participation in these seminars is by application. As usual, the institute offers board and lodging free of charge. By the support of the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation, travel expenses can be reimbursed up to 200 EUR in average per person. Participants can ask for travel support during their stay in Oberwolfach at the guest office against copy of travel receipts. Additionally, participation of young Japanese mathematicians can be sponsored by the grant "Heizaemon Honda Scholars". For more information on grants, please see our homepage http://www.mfo.de/cgi-bin/path?news

Applications including full name, postal address, e-mail address, present position, university, name of supervisor of Ph.D. thesis, a short summary of previous work and interest should be sent preferably by e-mail (.ps or .pdf file) to

We are pleased to inform you that the postdoctoral programme "Oberwolfach Leibniz Fellows" has been prolongated and is now included in the regular scientific programme at Oberwolfach.

The focus of this programme is to support outstanding young mathematical researchers in the realization of a proposed research project. The MFO provides full financing, including board and lodging, and the possibility to invite co-workers for a shorter period.

The institute offers an excellent infrastructure embedded in an international atmosphere which is ideal for concentrated work during the stay at Oberwolfach. An application as an Oberwolfach Leibniz Fellow can be submitted at any time.

Applications can also be arranged through an application within the European Post-Doctoral Institute EPDI.

More information can be found at http://www.mfo.de/cgi-bin/path?programme/fellows

The deadline for proposals of Oberwolfach Workshops in 2012 is end of July 2010. The decision on the proposals by the Oberwolfach Scientific Committee is scheduled to the end of October 2010.

The fixed weeks and deadlines to apply for an Oberwolfach Mini-Workshop in 2011 are

Applications for a "Research in Pairs" stay at Oberwolfach can be made any time, preferably around six months before the planned stay.

More information can be found on our homepage, in particular http://www.mfo.de/programme/ProposalGuide2008.pdf

We are pleased to inform you that a new museum of minerals and mathematics (MiMa) has opened in Oberwolfach in January 2010:

http://mima.museum/museum.php?lang=en

We like to invite all guest researchers at the MFO to visit this new museum MiMa which is a cooperation with the municipality of Oberwolfach and with the "Verein der Freunde von Mineralien und Bergbau Oberwolfach e.V." ("friends of minerals association").

In particluar, the maths section of MiMa hosts interactive exhibits of the award-winning exhibition IMAGINARY, developed for the German Year of Mathematics 2008 and new exhibits by the MFO. A focus is put on symmetry and cristallography.