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in order to further the German war effort, which at that time was clearly failing. The location was selected to be remote as not to be a target for Allied bombing. Originally it was housed in a building called the Lorenzenhof, a large Black Forest hunting lodge. After the war,
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Post-doctoral program "Oberwolfach Leibniz Fellows" was established in 2007. On 5 May that year an extension to the library was inaugurated, the extension was a gift from the Klaus Tschira Stiftung and the Volkswagen Foundation.
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is awarded approximately every three years for excellent achievements in changing fields of mathematics to young mathematicians not older than 35 years. It is financed by the
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permanently took over in the role in 1959. In that year, he and others formed the mathematical society Gesellschaft für Mathematische Forschung e.
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On 10 October 1967 the guest house of the Oberwolfach Research Institute for Mathematics was inaugurated, which was a gift from the
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was able to keep it going with other grants, and contributed to rebuilding mathematics in Germany following the fall of the
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It organizes weekly workshops on diverse topics where mathematicians and scientists from all over the world come to do
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efforts, but thereafter remained head of the institute. Though the institute lost its government funding,
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On 1 January 2005 Oberwolfach Research Institute for Mathematics became a member of the
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by hosting international mathematical conferences. Some of these were organised by
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Leibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics Education at the University of Kiel
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who constructed the surface in his 1901 thesis, written under the direction of
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On 26 May 1989 an extension to the guest building at the MFO was inaugurated.
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The Oberwolfach Research Institute for Mathematics (MFO) was founded as the
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Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Central and Eastern Europe
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In 1995, the MFO established the research program "Research in Pairs".
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Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematical Physics
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Main building of the institute with restaurant and guest rooms
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European Society for Mathematical and Theoretical Biology
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was installed in front of the Institute, as a gift from
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Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Barcelona
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