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Unsolved problem in graph theory
More unsolved problems in mathematics In mathematics, the Oberwolfach problem is an open problem that may be formulated either as a problem of scheduling
Oberwolfach_problem
The Lovász conjecture on Hamiltonian paths in symmetric graphs The Oberwolfach problem on which 2-regular graphs have the property that a complete graph
List of unsolved problems in mathematics
List_of_unsolved_problems_in_mathematics
Combinatorics problem proposed by Thomas Penyngton Kirkman
also generalizes Kirkman's schoolgirl problem. Kirkman's problem is the special case of the Oberwolfach problem in which the 2-regular graph consists
Kirkman's_schoolgirl_problem
Decomposition of a graph into hamiltonion cycles
Hamiltonian decomposition. This result, which is a special case of the Oberwolfach problem of decomposing complete graphs into isomorphic 2-factors, was attributed
Hamiltonian_decomposition
Assignment problem in combinatorial mathematics
problem, showing that the number of different matchings is 1, 2, 5, 20, 87, 616, 4843, 44128, 444621, ... (sequence A002484 in the OEIS). Oberwolfach
Ménage_problem
Non-eliminating tournament format, without playing every competitor
Laura (2020). "A Greedy Algorithm for the Social Golfer and the Oberwolfach Problem". arXiv:2007.10704 [cs.DM]. NASPA Director Manual (PDF). Dallas,
Swiss-system_tournament
Geometry problem on grid points
(1989). "No-three-in-line for seventeen and nineteen". Proceedings of the Oberwolfach Meeting "Kombinatorik" (1986). Discrete Mathematics. 73 (1–2): 89–90
No-three-in-line_problem
Solved conjecture in graph theory
conjecture was also proven by Bryant, Horsley, and Pettersson. The Oberwolfach problem on decompositions of complete graphs into copies of a given 2-regular
Alspach's_conjecture
Partition of a graph into spanning subgraphs
include disjoint unions of odd cycles, or of copies of K2k+1. The Oberwolfach problem concerns the existence of 2-factorizations of complete graphs into
Graph_factorization
Fifteen problems in mathematical physic
Simon, Barry (1984). "Fifteen problems in mathematical physics". Perspectives in Mathematics: Anniversary of Oberwolfach 1984 (PDF). Birkhäuser. pp. 423–454
Simon_problems
1990 book by Gerhard Ringel and Nora Hartsfield
problems such as the Oberwolfach problem on covering complete graphs by cycles, the characterization of magic graphs, and Ringel's Earth–Moon problem
Pearls_in_Graph_Theory
number of transversals of a Latin square is also an open problem. H. J. Ryser conjectured (Oberwolfach, 1967) that every Latin square of odd order has one
Problems_in_Latin_squares
value 1. Oberwolfach problem, a different mathematical problem involving the arrangement of diners at tables Problème des ménages, a similar problem involving
Rencontres_numbers
Method of determining a location
(ed.), From China to Paris, Proceedings of a conference held July, 1997, Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, Germany. ISBN 3-515-08223-9.
Triangulation
submanifolds, Tagungsbericht (1969), Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach S.-S. Chern, Differential geometry, its past and its future, Actes du
Spherical_Bernstein's_problem
Unsolved problem in topology
Conjecture 1993 Oberwolfach Conference Proceedings, Volume 1 Novikov Conjecture 1993 Oberwolfach Conference Proceedings, Volume 2 2004 Oberwolfach Seminar notes
Novikov_conjecture
German mathematician (1910–1990)
Lothar Collatz (German), Numerical treatment of eigenvalue problems, vol. 5, Oberwolfach, 1990 (Birkhäuser, Basel, 1991), viii–ix. I Althoefer, Lothar
Lothar_Collatz
Ukrainian mathematician (born 1984)
sphere-packing problem in dimension 8. Her dimension 8 solution quickly led to collaboration with others, and a solution in dimension 24. Previously, the problem had
Maryna_Viazovska
Pseudolines arranged largely to study arrangements of lines
(eds.), On Heuristic Methods for Finding Realizations of Surfaces, Oberwolfach Seminars, vol. 38, Basel, Switzerland: Birkhäuser Verlag, pp. 255–260
Arrangement_of_pseudolines
Shape that blocks all lines of sight
Losonczi, Laszlo; Walter, Wolfgang (eds.), General inequalities, 7 (Oberwolfach, 1995), International Series of Numerical Mathematics, vol. 123, Basel:
Opaque_set
Type theory in logic and mathematics
Interpretation of Constructive Type Theory" (PDF). Oberwolfach Reports. 8. Mathematical Research Institute of Oberwolfach: 609–638. doi:10.4171/OWR/2011/11. Retrieved
Homotopy_type_theory
Retrieved 2023-06-08. "John Todd Award". MFO. Retrieved 2025-12-16. "Oberwolfach Prize". MFO. Retrieved 2023-06-08. "LMS-NZMS Forder and Aitken Lectureships
List_of_mathematics_awards
Algorithmic process of solving equations
Bledsoe, Michael M. Richter (ed.). Proc. Theorem Proving Workshop Oberwolfach. Oberwolfach Workshop Report. Vol. 1976/3. M. Venturini-Zilli (Oct 1975). "Complexity
Unification (computer science)
Unification_(computer_science)
German mathematician (1911–1988)
also served as the director of the Mathematical Research Institute of Oberwolfach from 1959 to 1963. His doctoral students include H. P. Schlickewei. Einführung
Theodor_Schneider
Mathematical conjecture
Ghosh, A.; Yager, R.I. (eds.). Analytic number theory and Diophantine problems. Progress in Mathematics. Vol. 70. Birkhäuser Boston. pp. 183–203. doi:10
Montgomery's pair correlation conjecture
Montgomery's_pair_correlation_conjecture
American mathematician (1934–2025)
Differentiable Manifolds", Proc. 1962 Aarhus Conference, published in Proc. 1993 Oberwolfach Novikov Conjecture Conference proceedings, London Mathematical Society
William Browder (mathematician)
William_Browder_(mathematician)
German-American mathematician
"Editorial Board | Annals of Mathematics". Retrieved March 25, 2024. Helmut Hofer at the Mathematics Genealogy Project Oberwolfach photos of Helmut Hofer
Helmut_Hofer
Brazilian mathematician (born 1979)
Martini Problem" (PDF) (in Portuguese). Avila, Artur; Jitomirskaya, Svetlana (2005). "Solving the Ten Martini Problem". The Ten Martini Problem. Lecture
Artur_Avila
Hypothetical topological feature of spacetime
– Zeit – Materie and a General Introduction to His Scientific Work. Oberwolfach Seminars. Vol. 30. Springer. p. 199. ISBN 978-3-7643-6476-2. "Hermann
Wormhole
Concept in algebraic geometry
"Seventeen obstacles for resolution of singularities", Singularities (Oberwolfach, 1996), Progr. Math., vol. 162, Basel, Boston, Berlin: Birkhäuser, pp
Resolution_of_singularities
Theoretical computer scientist
on improving the approximation ratio for graph separators and related problems from O ( log n ) {\displaystyle O(\log n)} to O ( log n ) {\displaystyle
Sanjeev Arora (computer scientist)
Sanjeev_Arora_(computer_scientist)
Distance function defined between probability distributions
with help from optimal transport". Snapshots of Modern Mathematics from Oberwolfach. doi:10.14760/SNAP-2022-004-EN. Oizumi, Masafumi; Albantakis, Larissa;
Wasserstein_metric
French mathematician
Mathematical Physics 2015 Peccot Lectures at the Collège de France 2013 Oberwolfach Prize 2012 Rollo Davidson Prize (with Vincent Beffara [de; fr]) 2012
Hugo_Duminil-Copin
American mathematician
Michael A. "Mike" Hill at Oberwolfach in 2014 Alma mater Massachusetts Institute of Technology Known for Kervaire invariant problem Awards Veblen Prize (2022)
Mike_Hill_(mathematician)
German mathematician
Wilhelm Süss in the founding of the Mathematical Research Institute of Oberwolfach and served as the director of the institute from 1958 to 1959. He was
Hellmuth_Kneser
German mathematician (born 1964)
Hans Triebel in 1986. He was awarded the EMS Prize in 1992, and the Oberwolfach Prize in 1993. In recent years, Franke worked on an implementation of
Jens_Franke
Vietnamese math professor (born 1972)
Gérard Laumon's proof of the Fundamental Lemma for unitary groups. The Oberwolfach Prize 2007 is awarded to Ngo Bao Chau (Laudatio by Prof. Rapoport)
Ngô_Bảo_Châu
Method of data interpolation and smoothing
pp 85–100, In: Constructive Theory of Functions of Several Variables, Oberwolfach 1976, W. Schempp and K. Zeller, eds., Lecture Notes in Math., Vol. 571
Thin_plate_spline
Russian mathematician (born 1936)
Burago's page at Steklov Mathematical Institute Yuri Burago at the Mathematics Genealogy Project Yuri Dmitrievich Burago in the Oberwolfach Photo Collection
Yuri_Burago
Swiss mathematician and theoretical physicist
Jürg Fröhlich Fröhlich at Oberwolfach, 2005 Born Jürg Martin Fröhlich (1946-07-04) 4 July 1946 (age 79) Schaffhausen, Switzerland Alma mater ETH Zurich
Jürg_Fröhlich
Dutch statistician
Mathematical Research Institute of Oberwolfach. Retrieved 3 June 2019. "Sara van de Geer: member of the Oberwolfach Scientific Committee". math.ethz.ch
Sara_van_de_Geer
French mathematician
(1982). "Existence and non-existence results for semilinear elliptic problems in unbounded domains". Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Section
María_J._Esteban
British mathematician (1927–2016)
Retired Faculty Archived 2 April 2012 at the Wayback Machine, University of East Anglia School of Mathematics, accessed 2011-10-09. Photo from Oberwolfach
Geoffrey_Colin_Shephard
Canadian mathematician
of Cambridge. Sahasrabudhe's work covers many topics such as Littlewood problems on polynomials, probability and geometry of polynomials, arithmetic Ramsey
Julian_Sahasrabudhe
233–234. Matthias Kreck, and Wolfgang Lück, The Novikov conjecture. Geometry and algebra. Oberwolfach Seminars, 33. Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel, 2005.
Borel_conjecture
German mathematician (1930–2011)
Monthly. 110 (2): 167–171. doi:10.2307/3647794. JSTOR 3647794. Hans Grauert at the Mathematics Genealogy Project photo of Hans Grauert at Oberwolfach v t e
Hans_Grauert
German mathematician
asymptotic distribution of Galois groups of number fields, and with the inverse problem of Galois theory. In 1993 he began a collaboration with Michel Broué and
Gunter_Malle
British mathematical physicist
development techniques, renormalization group methods on problems of static mechanics, and probabilistic problems. In 1985 he and Thomas C. Spencer introduced "lace
David_Brydges
Ugandan Social Media influencer / blogger born 1995 in mbarara town
Differentialgeometrie im Großen, volume 4 (1971), Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, pp. 43–60 S.S. Chern, M. do Carmo and S. Kobayashi, Minimal submanifolds
Chern's conjecture for hypersurfaces in spheres
Chern's_conjecture_for_hypersurfaces_in_spheres
Soviet and Russian mathematician
Wadim Zudilin. Nesterenko, Y. (1996). "Modular Functions and Transcendence Problems". Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences, Série I. 322 (10): 909–914
Yuri Nesterenko (mathematician)
Yuri_Nesterenko_(mathematician)
Mathematics for a general audience
und Kunst [de], Freiberg MiMa Mineralien- und Mathematikmuseum [de], Oberwolfach In Italy: The Garden of Archimedes Kissane, Barry (2009). Popular Mathematics
Popular_mathematics
Romanian-American mathematician (1935–2025)
mathematicians who were very active in this area. One of the two problems that she raised at the Oberwolfach meeting on "Measure Theory" in 1981, was the question
Alexandra_Bellow
Chinese mathematician (born 1958)
by Tian in 1990, claiming a complete resolution of the Kähler-Einstein problem in that context.[T90b] The main technique was to study the possible geometric
Tian_Gang
French mathematician (born 1958)
Saloff-Coste works in the areas of analysis and probability theory, including problems involving geometry and partial differential equations. In particular, he
Laurent_Saloff-Coste
Belgian-American mathematician
the semidefinite programming approximation algorithm for the maximum cut problem. In 2012 Goemans was awarded the Farkas Prize. In 2022 he received the
Michel_Goemans
German mathematician (1882–1935)
Collections Photographs of Noether — Oberwolfach Photo Collection of the Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach Photographs of Noether's colleagues
Emmy_Noether
American mathematician (born 1934)
Hanspeter Kraft & Reinhold Remmert: Duration and change : fifty years at Oberwolfach. Berlin; New York: Springer-Verlag. 1994. Biography portal Mathematics
Michael_Artin
Models of computation
Hilbert's Tenth Problem, Mazur's Conjecture and Divisibility Sequences (PDF). MFO Report. Vol. 3. Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach. p. 2. Nayebi
Hypercomputation
French mathematician (born 1959)
Benoit Perthame Perthame at Oberwolfach, 2006 Born (1959-06-23) 23 June 1959 (age 67) Alma mater Paris Dauphine University Scientific career Fields Mathematics
Benoit_Perthame
Swiss mathematician and theoretical computer scientist
theory at the 2005, 2008 and 2011 workshops and in the 2009 and 2012 Oberwolfach workshops. He was elected a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
Peter_Bürgisser
American mathematician (1941–2025)
Infinite dimensional Kähler Manifolds, Birkhäuser 2001 (DMV Seminar Oberwolfach 1995) as editor with Fabrizio Catanese, Hélène Esnault, Klaus Hulek,
Alan_Huckleberry
American mathematician and philosopher (1937–2023)
category of categories and was influenced by Pierre Gabriel's seminars at Oberwolfach on Grothendieck's foundations of algebraic geometry. He then taught at
William_Lawvere
Method of smoothing using a spline function
pp 85–100, In: Constructive Theory of Functions of Several Variables, Oberwolfach 1976, W. Schempp and K. Zeller, eds., Lecture Notes in Math., Vol. 571
Smoothing_spline
German computer science research center
Merzig-Wadern, Saarland. Following the model of the mathematical center at Oberwolfach, the center is installed in a very remote and relaxed location in the
Dagstuhl
Indian-American computer scientist (born 1966)
Efficient Checking of Polynomials and Proofs and the Hardness of Approximation Problems. He was a research staff member at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
Madhu_Sudan
Study of systems of inequalitites
Mikhalkin, Grigory; Shustin, Eugenii (2007). Tropical algebraic geometry. Oberwolfach Seminars. Vol. 35. Basel: Birkhäuser. pp. 34–35. ISBN 978-3-7643-8309-1
Real_algebraic_geometry
Research institute in Alberta, Canada
for the mathematical sciences in North America, a counterpart to the Oberwolfach Research Institute for Mathematics in Europe. The research station, commonly
Banff International Research Station
Banff_International_Research_Station
Russian-American mathematician
MAA distinguished teaching award, University of Washington Department of Mathematics Home page Julia Pevtsova at the Oberwolfach Photo Collection v t e
Julia_Pevtsova
Swiss mathematical physicist (born 1944)
mathematical photo collection of the Mathematical Research Institute of Oberwolfach, retrieved 2011-04-30. Jean-Pierre Eckmann at the Mathematics Genealogy
Jean-Pierre_Eckmann
Problem of the derivative of the mean value integral
"Differentiation of measures on Hilbert spaces". Measure theory, Oberwolfach 1981 (Oberwolfach, 1981). Lecture Notes in Mathematics. Vol. 945. Berlin: Springer
Differentiation_of_integrals
Armenian mathematician (born 1941)
Geometric Statistics, Stereology” (Proceedings of the Conference held at Oberwolfach, 1983). Teubner - Texte zur Mathematik, Band 65, Leipzig 1983 “Stochastic
Rouben_V._Ambartzumian
American mathematician
along with Nets Katz, found a solution to the Erdős distinct distances problem. His interests include the Kakeya conjecture and the systolic inequality
Larry_Guth
Spanish mathematician
He solved the problem of A. G. Vitushkin about the semi-additivity of analytic capacity. This enabled him to solve an even older problem of Paul Painlevé
Xavier_Tolsa
Type of set in mathematics
Turetsky, "K-Triviality, Oberwolfach Randomness, and Differentiability", Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, Oberwolfach Preprints (OWP), ISSN 1864-7596
K-trivial_set
American mathematician
Kinderlehrer, David (1978). "Variational inequalities and free boundary problems". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 84: 7–26. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1978-14397-3
David_Kinderlehrer
German mathematician
Schoen), a fundamental problem in global differential geometry. In 2012, he proved the Hsiang–Lawson's conjecture, a longstanding problem in minimal surface
Simon_Brendle
American mathematician
Orders and their applications: Proceedings of a conference held in Oberwolfach, West Germany, June 3-9, 1984, Lecture Notes in Mathematics, Springer-Verlag
Irving_Reiner
Austrian mathematician
Differentialgleichungen (A contribution to the numerical treatment of boundary value problems of ordinary differential equations). He taught in Innsbruck and from 1973
Gerhard_Wanner
German mathematician
Natterer, Frank; Oberwolfach, Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut (1991). Mathematical Methods in Tomography. Proceedings Conference, Oberwolfach, 1990 by Alfred
Frank_Natterer
Hungarian mathematician
University, where he applied his statistical skills to various wartime problems. There was a difficulty: the work was secret and Wald was officially an
Abraham_Wald
Mathematical society
Statistics and Learning Memoirs of the European Mathematical Society Oberwolfach Reports Portugaliae Mathematica Publications of the Research Institute
European_Mathematical_Society
Mikhalkin, Grigory; Shustin, Eugenii (2007). Tropical algebraic geometry. Oberwolfach Seminars. Vol. 35. Basel: Birkhäuser. pp. 34–35. ISBN 978-3-7643-8309-1
Ragsdale_conjecture
German mathematician
discrete geometry using analytic methods particularly for his solution of old problems of Perles and Shephard (going back to Legendre and Steinitz) on projectively
Karim_Adiprasito
Malaysian mathematician (born 1972)
Singapore in 2010. With his collaborators, Gan has resolved several basic problems in the theory of theta correspondence (or Howe correspondence), such as
Gan_Wee_Teck
German mathematician (1885–1955)
– Zeit – Materie and a General Introduction to his Scientific Work (Oberwolfach Seminars) (ISBN 3-7643-6476-9) Springer-Verlag New York, New York, N
Hermann_Weyl
Abstraction of graph shortest cycles
of matroids", Mathematical programming at Oberwolfach (Proc. Conf., Math. Forschungsinstitut, Oberwolfach, 1979), Mathematical Programming Studies, vol
Matroid_girth
Steinach 7833 Hornberg, Gutach (Schwarzwaldbahn) 7834 Wolfach, Hausach, Oberwolfach, Schiltach 7835 Zell am Harmersbach, Biberach (Baden) 7836 Schiltach
List of dialling codes in Germany
List_of_dialling_codes_in_Germany
German mathematician and historian of mathematics
values of L-functions, Academic Press, Boston 1988, ISBN 0-12-581120-9 (Oberwolfach-Tagung; Perspectives in Mathematics 4); 2014 reprint as editor, with
Norbert_Schappacher
American mathematical physicist
Yngvason, Jakob. The mathematics of the Bose gas and its condensation. Oberwolfach Seminars, 34. Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel, 2005. viii+203 pp. ISBN 978-3-7643-7336-8;
Elliott_H._Lieb
German applied mathematician and theoretical computer scientist
algorithms for combinatorial optimization problems including the travelling salesperson problem and the Steiner tree problem. She is an associate professor at
Vera_Traub
Commutative group (mathematics)
Proceedings of the Third Conference Held on Abelian Group Theory at Oberwolfach, August 11-17, 1985 (New York: Gordon & Breach, 1987), pp. 259–274. Lal
Abelian_group
Non-convex polyhedron with no triangulation
P.; Sullivan, J. M.; et al. (eds.), Discrete Differential Geometry, Oberwolfach Seminars, vol. 38, Springer-Verlag, pp. 191–213, arXiv:math/0412093,
Schönhardt_polyhedron
Austrian mathematician
Hamiltonian Systems: A Review". Analysis, Modeling and Simulation of Multiscale Problems. pp. 553–576. doi:10.1007/3-540-35657-6_20. ISBN 978-3-540-35656-1. Lubich
Christian_Lubich
Soviet and American mathematician and computer scientist
König, H.; Korte, B.; Ritter, K. (eds.). Mathematical Programming at Oberwolfach. Mathematical Programming Studies. Vol. 14. pp. 61–68. doi:10.1007/BFb0120921
Leonid_Khachiyan
Mathematics institute
the overall theme of the program. The programs culminate with a 1-week Oberwolfach-like workshop at the UCLA conference center at Lake Arrowhead, California
Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics
Institute_for_Pure_and_Applied_Mathematics
British-Lebanese mathematician (1929–2019)
Isadore Singer, retrieved 14 August 2008 Photos of Michael Francis Atiyah, Oberwolfach photo collection, retrieved 14 August 2008 Wade, Mike (21 April 2009)
Michael_Atiyah
Swiss mathematician (1940–2024)
Traueranzeigen von Eduard Zehnder-Reitinger (in German) Traueranzeige, Tages-Anzeiger, 27. November 2024, S. 25. Oberwolfach photos of Eduard Zehnder CV
Eduard_Zehnder
American mathematician (born 1947)
provided an ingredient for the effective solution of Gauss's class number problem for imaginary quadratic fields. Specifically, he proved an effective lower
Dorian_M._Goldfeld
German mathematician (1940–2021)
Representations and Applications: Proceedings of a Conference Held at Oberwolfach, Germany, June 22-28, 1980. Springer. ISBN 978-3-540-10880-1. book table
Klaus_Wilhelm_Roggenkamp
German mathematician
and Differential topology. From 1994 to 2002 he was director of the Oberwolfach Research Institute for Mathematics and from October 2006 to September
Matthias_Kreck
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v. t.
To have just and adequate ideas of; to apprehended the meaning or intention of; to have knowledge of; to comprehend; to know; as, to understand a problem in Euclid; to understand a proposition or a declaration; the court understands the advocate or his argument; to understand the sacred oracles; to understand a nod or a wink.
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An instrument of the ancients for finding two mean proportionals between two given lines, required in solving the problem of the duplication of the cube.
n.
One who proposes problems.
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v. t.
To explain; to resolve; to unfold; to clear up (what is obscure or difficult to be understood); to work out to a result or conclusion; as, to solve a doubt; to solve difficulties; to solve a problem.
n.
The act of solving, or the state of being solved; the disentanglement of any intricate problem or difficult question; explanation; clearing up; -- used especially in mathematics, either of the process of solving an equation or problem, or the result of the process.
n.
To begin to deal with; as, to tackle the problem.
v. i.
To work, as at a puzzle; as, to puzzle over a problem.
a.
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n.
A problem of more than usual difficulty added to another on an examination paper.
v. t.
To propose problems.
n.
To cause to stick; to bring to a stand; to pose; to puzzle; as, to stick one with a hard problem.
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A certain function relating to a system of forces and their points of application, -- first used by Clausius in the investigation of problems in molecular physics.
a.
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Susceptible of being solved; as, a soluble algebraic problem; susceptible of being disentangled, unraveled, or explained; as, the mystery is perhaps soluble.