Workshop on Convexity and Asymptotic Geometric Analysis

April 16-20, 2012

Program
 

Monday, April 16, 2012
09:00 - 09:30
Registration (Room 5345) and Coffee & Croissants (Room 6245)


Meeting room(s) : 6214

09:30 - 10:20
Elisabeth Werner
(Case Western Reserve University)
Entropies for convex bodies
Abstract
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
11:00 - 11:20
Carsten Schütt
(Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel)
On the expectation of the norm of random matrices with non-identically distributed entries
Abstract
11:30 - 11:50
David Alonso-Gutiérrez
(University of Alberta)
Projections of convex bodies verifying a reverse petty projection inequality
Abstract
12:00 - 14:00
Lunch break
14:00 - 14:20
Andrea Colesanti
(Università degli Studi di Firenze)
What is the perimeter of a log-concave function?
Abstract
14:30 - 14:50
Eugenia Saorín-Gomez
(Universität Magdeburg)
Bonnesen-style inradius inequalities
Abstract
15:00 - 15:20
Maria Hernandez-Cifre
(Universidad de Murcia)
On successive radii of convex bodies
Abstract
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
16:00 - 16:50
Dmitry Ryabogin
(Kent State University)
On non-uniqueness of convex bodies with prescribed volumes of sections and projections
Abstract

17:00
Reception
Room(s) 6245

 

Tuesday, April 17, 2012
09:00 - 09:30
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245


Meeting room(s) : 6214

09:30 - 10:20
Grigoris Paouris
(Texas A&M University)
The isotropic position and the reverse Santaló inequality
Abstract
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
11:00 - 11:20
Artem Zvavitch
(Kent State University)
An application of shadow system to Mahler's conjecture
Abstract
11:30 - 11:50
Deping Ye
(Memorial University of Newfoundland)
The absolute positive partial transpose property for random Induced states
Abstract
12:00 - 14:00
Lunch break
14:00 - 14:20
Liran Rotem
(Tel Aviv University)
Characterization of self-polar convex functions
Abstract
14:30 - 14:50
Alexander Segal
(Tel Aviv University)
Shadow projections of log-concave functions and duality relation
Abstract
15:00 - 15:20
Mohammad Najafi Ivaki
(Concordia University)
On the $L_{-2}$ Minkowski problem
Abstract
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
16:00 - 16:50
Dan Klain
(University of Massachusetts Lowell)
Volume bounds for shadow covering
Abstract

 

Wednesday, April 18, 2012
09:00 - 09:30
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245


Meeting room(s) : 6214

09:30 - 10:20
Semyon Alesker
(Tel Aviv University)
On the extension of valuations by continuity from polytopes to convex compact sets
Abstract
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
11:00 - 11:20
Dmitry Faifman
(Tel Aviv University)
Dual grassmannians have equal girth
Abstract
11:30 - 11:50
Joseph Fu
(University of Georgia)
Second derivatives a.e. for non-convex functions
Abstract

 

Thursday, April 19, 2012
09:00 - 09:30
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245


Meeting room(s) : 6214

09:30 - 10:20
Andreas Bernig
(Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)
Algebraic integral geometry
Abstract
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
11:00 - 11:20
Judit Abardia
(Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)
Difference bodies in a complex vector sSpace
Abstract
11:30 - 11:50
Thomas Wannerer
(ETH Zürich)
Hermitian area measures
Abstract
12:00 - 14:00
Lunch break
14:00 - 14:20
Peter Pivovarov
(Texas A&M University)
Small-ball probabilities for the volume of random convex sets
Abstract
14:30 - 14:50
Matthias Schulte
(Case Western Reserve University)
Proximity of Poisson $k$-flats
Abstract
15:00 - 15:20
Jie Xiao
(Memorial University)
A Yau problem for variational capacity
Abstract

15:30 - 16:00
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245

Session - Colloque CRM-ISM Colloquium
Meeting room(s) : 6214

16:00 - 17:00
Vitali Milman
(University of Tel Aviv)
The reasons behind some classical constructions in analysis
Abstract

17:00
Reception
Room(s) 6245

 

Friday, April 20, 2012
09:00 - 09:30
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245


Meeting room(s) : 6214

09:30 - 10:20
Alexander Koldobsky
(University of Missouri)
Stability in volume comparison problems
Abstract
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
11:00 - 11:20
Vlad Yaskin
(University of Alberta)
Detecting symmetry in star bodies
Abstract
11:30 - 12:20
Alexander Litvak
(University of Alberta)
Norms of sub-matrices of a random matrix and applications
Abstract

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