- Mathematical Research Institute of Oberwolfach
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The Mathematical Research Institute of Oberwolfach (German: Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach) in Oberwolfach, Germany, was founded by mathematician Wilhelm Süss in 1944. It organizes weekly workshops on diverse topics where mathematicians and scientists from all over the world come to do collaborative research.
The iconic model of the Boy surface was installed in front of the Institute as a gift from Mercedes-Benz on January 28, 1991. The Boy surface is named after Werner Boy who constructed the surface in his 1901 thesis written under the direction of David Hilbert.
Directors
- 1944–1958, Wilhelm Süss
- 1958–1959, Hellmuth Kneser
- 1959–1963, Theodor Schneider
- 1963–1994, Martin Barner
- 1994–2002, Matthias Kreck
- 2002– Gert-Martin Greuel
Oberwolfach Prize
The Oberwolfach Prize is awarded approximately every three years for excellent achievements in changing fields of mathematics to young European mathematicians not older than 35 years. It is financed by the Oberwolfach Foundation and awarded in cooperation with the institute.
Prize winners
- 1991 Peter Kronheimer
- 1993 Jörg Brüdern and Jens Franke
- 1996 Gero Friesecke and Stefan Sauter
- 1998 Alice Guionnet
- 2000 Luca Trevisan
- 2003 Paul Biran
- 2007 Ngô Bao Châu
External links
- Home page of the institute
- Article about the institute by Allyn Jackson in the American Mathematical Society magazine
- Web page about the Oberwolfach Prize
International member societies European Consortium for Mathematics in Industry • European Society for Mathematical and Theoretical Biology • International Association of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics
National member societies Austria • Belarus • Belgium (Belgian Mathematical Society · Belgian Statistical Society) • Bosnia and Herzegovina • Bulgaria • Croatia • Cyprus • Czech Republic • Denmark • Estonia • Finland • France (Mathematical Society of France · Society of Applied & Industrial Mathematics · Société Francaise de Statistique) • Georgia • Germany • Greece • Hungary • Iceland • Ireland • Israel • Italy (Italian Mathematical Union · Società Italiana di Matematica Applicata e Industriale · The Italian Association of Mathematics applied to Economic and Social Sciences) • Latvia • Lithuania • Luxembourg • Macedonia • Malta • Montenegro • Netherlands • Norway (Norwegian Mathematical Society · Norwegian Statistical Association) • Poland • Portugal • Romania (Romanian Mathematical Society · Romanian Society of Mathematicians) • Russia (Moscow Mathematical Society · St. Petersburg Mathematical Society · Ural Mathematical Society) • Slovakia (Slovak Mathematical Society · Union of Slovak Mathematicians and Physicists) • Slovenia • Spain (Catalan Society of Mathematics · Royal Spanish Mathematical Society · Spanish Society of Statistics and Operations Research · The Spanish Society of Applied Mathathematics) • Sweden (Swedish Mathematical Society · Swedish Society of Statisticians) • Switzerland • Turkey • Ukraine • United Kingdom (Edinburgh Mathematical Society · Institute of Mathematics and its Applications · London Mathematical Society)
Academic Institutional Members Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics • Academy of Sciences of Moldova • Centre de Recerca Matemàtica • Centre International de Rencontres Mathématiques • Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica • Emmy Noether Research Institute for Mathematics • Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematical Physics • European Institute for Statistics, Probability and Operations Research • Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques • Institut Henri Poincaré • Institut Mittag-Leffler • International Centre for Mathematical Sciences • Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences • Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach • Mathematical Research Institute • Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences • Research Institute of Mathematics of the Voronezh State University • Serbian Academy of Science and Arts • Mathematical Society of Serbia • Stefan Banach International Mathematical Center • Thomas Stieltjes Institute for Mathematics
Institutional Members Central European University • Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Barcelona • Cellule MathDoc
Coordinates: 48°20′44″N 8°14′07″E / 48.34556°N 8.23528°E
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- Mathematical institutes
- International research institutes
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