Mathematical Research Institute of Oberwolfach
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Oberwolfach
Oberwolfach is a town in the district of Ortenau in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is the site of the Mathematical Research Institute of Oberwolfach, or Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach.- Geographical situation :...
, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
, was founded by mathematician Wilhelm Süss
Wilhelm Süss
Wilhelm Süss was a German mathematician.He was born in Frankfurt, Germany and died in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany.He was founder and first director of the Mathematical Research Institute of Oberwolfach.-External links:...
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
David Hilbert
David Hilbert was a German mathematician. He is recognized as one of the most influential and universal mathematicians of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Hilbert discovered and developed a broad range of fundamental ideas in many areas, including invariant theory and the axiomatization of...
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Directors
- 1944–1958, Wilhelm SüssWilhelm SüssWilhelm Süss was a German mathematician.He was born in Frankfurt, Germany and died in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany.He was founder and first director of the Mathematical Research Institute of Oberwolfach.-External links:...
- 1958–1959, Hellmuth KneserHellmuth KneserHellmuth Kneser was a German mathematician, who made notable contributions to group theory and topology. His most famous result may be his theorem on the existence of a prime decomposition for 3-manifolds...
- 1959–1963, Theodor SchneiderTheodor SchneiderTheodor Schneider was a German mathematician, best known for providing proof of what is now known as the Gelfond–Schneider theorem in 1935....
- 1963–1994, Martin Barner
- 1994–2002, Matthias KreckMatthias KreckMatthias Kreck is a German mathematician who works in the areas of Algebraic Topology and Differential topology...
- 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 FrankeJens FrankeJens Franke is a German mathematician. He holds a chair at the University of Bonn's Hausdorff Center for Mathematics since 1992. Franke's research has covered various problems of number theory, algebraic geometry and analysis on locally symmetric spaces.Franke attended the University of Jena,...
- 1996 Gero Friesecke and Stefan Sauter
- 1998 Alice Guionnet
- 2000 Luca TrevisanLuca TrevisanLuca Trevisan is a professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley. As of winter 2010, he is on leave and an acting professor of computer science at Stanford University....
- 2003 Paul BiranPaul BiranPaul Ian Biran is an Israeli mathematician. He holds a chair at the ETH Zurich. His research interests include symplectic geometry and algebraic geometry....
- 2007 Ngô Bao ChâuNgo Bao ChauNgô Bảo Châu is a Vietnamese and French mathematician at the University of Chicago, best known for proving the fundamental lemma for automorphic forms proposed by Robert Langlands and Diana Shelstad. He is the first Vietnamese to receive the Fields Medal.- Biography :Chau was born in 1972, the...