The Arbeitsgemeinschaft is open to everybody, participation is by application to the organizers via ag@mfo.de. See our webpage on the Arbeitsgemeinschaft for details how to apply.

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Oberwolfach Seminars in 2025

Ph.D. students and postdocs are invited to apply for the Oberwolfach Seminars in 2025. The seminars are organized by leading experts in the field, and address to promising early career researchers from all over the world. The aim is to introduce the participants to a particular interesting development. The Institute covers board and lodging. By the support of the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation, travel expenses can be reimbursed up to 150 EUR in average per person (against copies of travel receipts). The number of participants is restricted to 24.

There will be 6 seminars in 2025. Descriptions and programs of each seminar can be found on the respective subpages.

Stochastic Partial Differential Equations in Critical Spaces
Organizers: Antonio Agresti, Delft
Mark Veraar, Delft
Date (ID): 8 Jun – 13 Jun 2025 (2524a)
Deadline: 1 March 2025

Modern Developments in Matroid Theory
Organizers: Graham Denham, London ON
Jacob Matherne, Raleigh
Gerhard Röhrle, Bochum
Uli Walther, West Lafayette
Date (ID): 8 Jun – 13 Jun 2025 (2524b)
Deadline: 1 March 2025

Tensor Triangular Geometry and Interactions
Organizers: Natàlia Castellana, Bellaterra
Henning Krause, Bielefeld
Greg Stevenson, Aarhus
Date (ID): 19 – 24 October 2025 (2543a)
Deadline: 15 July 2025

Phase Transitions and Turbulence including Fluids
Organizers: Mi-Ho Giga, Tokyo
Yoshikazu Giga, Tokyo
Chun Liu, Chicago
Anja Schlömerkemper, Würzburg
Tsuyoshi Yoneda, Tokyo
Date (ID): 19 – 24 October 2025 (2543b)
Deadline: 15 July 2025

Moduli Spaces of Canonical Metrics: Metric Riemannian Geometry and Topology
Organizers: Fei Han, Singapore
Qiongling Li, Nankai
Wilderich Tuschmann, Karlsruhe
Ruobing Zhang, Madison/Princeton
Date (ID): 23 – 28 November 2025 (2548a)
Deadline: 15 September 2025

Time Parallel Time Integration
Organizers: Stephanie Friedhoff, Wuppertal
Martin J. Gander, Genève
Laurence Halpern, Paris
Julien Salomon, Paris
Shu-Lin Wu, Changchun
Date (ID): 23 – 28 November 2025 (2548b)
Deadline: 15 September 2025

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Banach Center - Oberwolfach Graduate Seminar 2025

There will be a Banach Center - Oberwolfach Graduate Seminar addressing to Ph.D. students and postdocs in fall 2025 on commutative algebra and algebraic combinatorics, organized by Joachim Jelisiejew and Mateusz Michałek.

The seminar will probably take place in the week 2-7 November 2025. The final date and title as well as more information on the venue (Bedlewo), program and application will soon be available at https://www.mfo.de/www/schedule/2025/training. Please watch out on our website for the call for applications.

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Oberwolfach Research Fellows

Small groups of researchers who want to come for a more extended period to Oberwolfach to carry out joint research in the stimulating atmosphere of the MFO can apply as Oberwolfach Research Fellow (OWRF). For fresh post-docs, it is additionally possible to apply for a Leibniz Fellowship in order to become an Oberwolfach Leibniz Fellow (OWLF). Within OWLF applications as a single researcher are also possible. Projects from all areas of mathematics can be supported by these programs, in particular, interdisciplinary research and cooperation is encouraged.

In view of the good audio-video facilities at the MFO, there is an option to apply for an OWRF research stay which includes a hybrid cooperation with a parallel research group at another place in the world. This can be a university or another research institute with a substantial distance to the MFO, usually outside Europe. It is up to the applicants to arrange such a cooperation with the other university or institute and to submit an additional application there if necessary.

All information about the programs and the different options can be viewed on our webpage on longer-term research stays.

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Call for Proposals

Oberwolfach Workshops 2027

The deadline for proposals of Oberwolfach Workshops in 2027 is 31 July 2025. The decision on the proposals by the Oberwolfach Scientific Committee is scheduled to the end of October 2025. Please carefully check the description of the program and our guidelines for proposals of an Oberwolfach Workshop, in particular the new policy concerning the continuous renewal of teams of organizers.

Applications should be sent as pdf-files to the Director Prof. Dr. Gerhard Huisken, via proposals@mfo.de.

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Oberwolfach Mini-Workshops 2025-2026

The fixed weeks and deadlines to apply for an Oberwolfach Mini-Workshop in 2025-2026 are

* This week is reserved for Tandem-Workshops (deadline Sep 2025). If no Tandem-Workshop is approved the week can be used for Mini-Workshops (deadline Jan 2026).

For each of these weeks the decision about the Mini-Workshops takes place about 3 weeks after the corresponding deadline for application, which is about half a year before the week of the Mini-Workshop.

Applications should be sent as pdf-files to the Director Prof. Gerhard Huisken, via proposals@mfo.de. See also our guidelines for proposals.

Tandem Option

As an option, in special cases a proposal for a Mini-Workshop can be in hybrid format, containing an additional component of online participants (not more than the number of on-site participants). This option is meant in particular for cases where high travel costs would otherwise prohibit a group of scientists from a country with weaker research infrastructure from participating in a Mini-Workshop. In this case the proposal should also contain a concept and schedule of the activities planned to be jointly with the group of online participants, taking into account any differences in time-zones. Arrangements for hosting such a non-Oberwolfach tandem component at another institute should be mentioned in the proposal, but are up to the organizers of the Mini-Workshop and have to be independent of MFO.

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Networking Activities

MFO calls for proposals for Workshops with a distinguished networking character. This is a new category of Workshops within the MFO program whose aim is to enhance gender and diversity, and to strengthen the impact of minorities in mathematics.

Invited are proposals for such activities in the MFO Workshop program (which also includes half workshops) and in the Mini-Workshop program.

The proposals for such networking Workshops or networking Mini-Workshops should describe a specific research subject as usual - see our proposal guidelines for more details on this aspect - while also providing a detailed concept for the proposed networking and possible mentoring activities. In particular, please specify in which way you would like to give preference to the selection of speakers and/or participants in terms of gender and diversity and indicate a preliminary list of proposed participants.

The deadlines and submitting procedures are the same as for the traditional Workshops and Mini-Workshops (see proposal guidelines). The Scientific Committee will discuss and decide on this new category of networking activities based on scientific quality and the networking concept at the same time but separately from the traditional formats.

Further measures to promote equality and diversity at the Institute can be found in our EDI policy.

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Oberwolfach Seminars 2026

The seminars address to excellent and promising graduate students and post docs. The aim is to introduce the participants to a particular hot development. There will be capacity for 6 seminars in 2026, the free slots are as follows:

2618      26 Apr - 1 May 2026
2643      18 Oct - 23 Oct 2026
2648      22 Nov - 27 Nov 2026

The deadline for proposals of Oberwolfach Seminars in 2026 is 31 July 2025. The decision on the proposals by the Oberwolfach Scientific Committee is scheduled to the end of October 2025. See also our description of the seminar program.

Applications should be sent as pdf-files to the Vice Director Prof. Dr. Matthias Hieber, via proposals@mfo.de.

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MATRIX-MFO Tandem Workshop in September 2026

The MFO and the Australian Mathematical Research Institute MATRIX invite proposals for a Tandem Workshop taking place simultaneously in a hybrid format at MATRIX and MFO in the week of 6-11 September 2026. At both locations, around 20 participants (up to 24 at the MFO) can interact on site and in addition share a certain number of joint lectures/discussions with the tandem group abroad via zoom. Please note the details in the open call and submit proposals before 1 September 2025.