THEMATIC PROGRAMS

Thematic Program on Asymptotic Geometric Analysis
July - December 2010

September 8-10, 2010
Concentration period on Convexity

September 13-17, 2010
Workshop on Asymptotic Geometric Analysis and Convexity

September 20-22, 2010
Concentration period on Asymptotic Geometric Analysis

Organizers: Monika Ludwig, Vitali Milman and Nicole Tomczak-Jaegermann

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OVERVIEW

The September 13-17 Workshop is devoted to recent developments in Asymptotic Geometry Analysis and Convexity. Topics to be addressed are concentrated around Convex Geometry, Asymptotic Theory of normed spaces and convex bodies, and related fields which include probabilistic problems of Asymptotic Combinatorics and Complexity Theory, the Concentration Phenomenon, and more. Special emphasis will be put on recent studies -- of geometric-probabilistic flavor -- of volume distribution in convex bodies and more general log-concave distributions, on quantitative results on random matrices, and others.

The workshop will be preceded by a concentration period to Convexity (Sept 8-10), focused especially on Convex Geometry and its relation to Asymptotic Geometric Analysis. The conference will be followed by several days devoted to Asymptotic Geometric Analysis (Sept 20-22).

RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS AND ABSTRACTS

If you are willing to give a talk during the conference or its adjacent concentration periods "Convexity" (Sept 8-10) and "Asymptoptic Geometric Analysis" (Sept 20-22), please suggest a title and abstract. Note that although not all participants will be able to speak, all submitted abstracts will be compiled and distributed, to facilitate the exchange of ideas. Time will also be allocated to short communications and to poster presentations.
Submission link is now closed.

Convexity Concentration Period, Workshop, and Asymptotic Geometric Analysis Concentration Period Schedule
(talk titles and abstracts)

Thursday September 9
9:30 - 10:15	Dan Klain (University of Massachusetts Lowell) If you can hide behind it, can you hide inside it?
10:15 - 10:45	Coffee Break
10:45 - 11:05	C Hugo Jimenez (University of Seville) On the extremal distance between two convex bodies
11:15 - 11:45	Maria A. Hernandez Cifre (Universidad de Murcia) On the location of roots of Steiner polynomials
11:45 - 2:30	Lunch Break
2:30 - 3:00	Vitali Milman (Tel Aviv University) Convexity in windows
3:00 - 3:30	Coffee Break
3:30 - 4:00	Wolfgang Weil (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) Valuations and local functionals
Friday September 10
9:30 - 10:15	Alina Stancu (Concordia University, Montreal) Affine Differential Invariants for Convex Bodies
10:15 - 10:45	Coffee Break
10:45 - 11:05	Deping Ye (The Fields Institute) On the homothety conjecture
11:15 - 11:45	Mathieu Meyer (Universiti de Paris Est Marne-la-Vallie) Functional inequalities related to Mahler's conjecture
Monday September 13
9:20 - 9:30	Welcome and Introduction Workshop Organizers and Fields Director Ed Bierstone
9:30 - 10:15	Hermann Koenig (University of Kiel, Germany) The chain rule as a functional equation
10:15 - 10:45	Coffee Break
10:45 - 11:05	Maryna Yaskina (University of Alberta) Shadow boundaries and the Fourier transform
11:15 - 11:35	Peter Pivovarov (Fields Institute) On the volume of random convex sets
11:45 - 12:30	Deane Yang (Polytechnic Institute of NYU) Towards an Orlicz Brunn-Minkowski theory
12:30 - 2:15	Lunch Break
2:15 - 3:00	A. Litvak (University of Alberta) On the Euclidean metric entropy
3:00 - 3:30	Coffee Break
3:30 - 4:15	Emanuel Milman (University of Toronto) Properties of isoperimetric, spectral-gap and log-Sobolev inequalities via concentration
4:30 - 4:50	Elizabeth Meckes (Case Western Reserve University) Another observation about operator compressions
5:00 - 5:20	Gautier Berck Invariant distributions in integral geometry
Tuesday September 14
9:30 - 10:15	Radoslaw Adamczak (University of Warsaw / Fields Institute) Random matrices with independent log-concave rows
10:15 - 10:45	Coffee Break
10:45 - 11:05	Kei Funano (Kumamoto University) Concentration of measure phenomenon and eigenvalues of Laplacian
11:15 - 11:35	Andrea Colesanti (Universita' di Firenze) Integral functionals verifying a Brunn-Minkowski type inequality
11:45 - 12:30	Franz Schuster (Vienna University of Technology) Translation Invariant Valuations
12:30 - 2:15	Lunch Break
2:15 - 3:00	Artem Zvavitch (Kent State University) Some geometric properties of Intersection Body Operator
3:00 - 3:30	Coffee Break
3:30 - 4:30	Distinguished Lecture Series Avi Wigderson (Institute for Advanced Study) Randomness, Pseudorandomness and Derandomization
4:30 - 5:30	Reception Fields Atrium
Wednesday September 15
9:30 - 10:15	Daniel Hug (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) Volume and mixed volume inequalities in stochastic geometry
10:15 - 10:45	Coffee Break
10:45 - 11:05	Christoph Haberl (Vienna University of Technology) Minkowski valuations intertwining the special linear group
11:15 - 11:35	Matthias Reitzner (Univ. Osnabrueck) Poisson-Voronoi approximation
11:45 - 12:30	Olivier Guedon (Université Paris-Est Marne-La-Vallée) Embedding from lpn into lrN for 0 < r < p < 2
12:30 - 2:15	Lunch Break
2:15 - 3:00	Roman Vershynin (University of Michigan) Estimation of covariance matrices
3:00 - 3:30	Coffee Break
3:30 - 4:30	Distinguished Lecture Series Avi Wigderson (Institute for Advanced Study) Randomness, Pseudorandomness and Derandomization
4:30 - 4:50	Jie Xiao (Memorial University) Volume Integral Means of Holomorphic Mappings
5:00 - 5:20	Martin Henk (University of Magdeburg) The average Frobenius number
Thursday September 16
9:30 - 10:15	Krzysztof Oleszkiewicz (Institute of Mathematics: University of Warsaw & Polish Academy of Sciences) Feige's inequality
10:15 - 10:45	Coffee Break
10:45 - 11:05	David Alonso (Universidad de Zaragoza, Fields Institute) Volume of Lp-zonotopes and best best constants in Brascamp-Lieb inequalities
11:15 - 11:35	Dmitry Faifman (Tel-Aviv University) The Poisson summation formula uniquely characterizes the Fourier Transform
11:45 - 12:30	Grigoris Paouris (Texas A&M University) On the existence of subgaussian directions for log-concave measures
12:30 - 2:15	Lunch Break
2:15 - 3:00	Alexander Barvinok (University of Michigan) Gaussian and almost Gaussian formulas for volumes and the number of integer points in polytopes
3:00 - 3:30	Coffee Break
3:30 - 4:30	Distinguished Lecture Series Avi Wigderson (Institute for Advanced Study) Randomness, Pseudorandomness and Derandomization
4:30 - 4:50	Carla Peri (Università Cattolica - Piacenza) On the reconstruction of inscribable sets in discrete tomography
5:00 - 5:20	Mikhail Ostrovskii (St. Johns University, Queens, NY) Properties of metric spaces which are not coarsely embeddable into a Hilbert space
Friday September 17
9:30 - 10:15	Rafal Latala (University of Warsaw) Moments of unconditional logarithmically concave vectors
10:15 - 10:45	Coffee Break
10:45 - 11:05	Vladyslav Yaskin (University of Alberta) The geometry of p-convex intersection bodies
11:15 - 11:35	Nikolaos Dafnis (University of Athens) Small ball probability estimates, ?_2-behavior and the hyperplane conjecture
11:45 - 12:30	Fedor Nazarov (University of Wisconsin at Madison) Hormander's proof of the Bourgain-Milman theorem
12:30 - 2:15	Lunch Break
2:15 - 3:00	Mark Rudelson (University of Missouri) Spectral properties of random conjunction matrices
3:00 - 3:30	Coffee Break
3:30 - 4:30	Coxeter Lecture Series Shiri Artstein-Avidan (Tel-Aviv University) Abstract duality, the Legendre transform and a new duality transform
4:30 - 5:30	Reception Fields Atrium
Monday September 20
9:30 - 10:15	Gideon Schechtman (Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot) Tight embedding of subspaces of L_p in l_p^n for even p
10:15 - 10:45	Coffee Break
10:45 - 11:15	Julio Bernues (University of Zaragoza) Factoring Sobolev inequalities through classes of functions
11:25 - 11:55	Stanislaw J. Szarek (Universite Paris 6 and Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland) Peculiarities of Dvoretzky's Theorem for Schatten classes
11:55 - 2:15	Lunch Break
2:15 - 3:00	Yehoram Gordon (Technion, Haifa) Large distortion dimension reduction using random variables

Confirmed Participants

Full Name	University/Affiliation
Adamczak, Rados?aw	University of Warsaw
Alfonseca-Cubero, Maria	North Dakota State University
Alonso-Gutiérrez, David	University of Zaragoza
Andrews, Rob	(no affiliation)
Artstein-Avidan, Shiri	Tel Aviv University
Baddour, Ralph	University of Toronto
Bartosova, Dana	University of Toronto
Barvinok, Alexander	University of Michigan
Bastero, Jesus	Universidad de Zaragoza
Bednorz, Witold	University of Warsaw
Berck, Gautier	Polytechnic Institute of NYU
Bernues, Julio	University of Zaragoza
Bianchi, Gabriele	Università di Firenze
Chen, Shibing	University of Toronto
Colesanti, Andrea	Università degli Studi di Firenze
Cordero-Erausquin, Dario	Université Pierre et Marie Curie
Dafnis, Nikolaos	University of Athens
Dallaporta, Sandrine	Université Paul Sabatier
Dann, Susanna	Louisiana State University
Dotterrer, Dominic	University of Toronto
Faifman, Dmitry	Tel Aviv University
Fernández-Unzueta, Maite	CIMAT
Fradelizi, Matthieu	Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée
Friedland, Omer	Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu
Funano, Kei	Kumamoto University
Ghasemloo, Kaveh	University of Toronto
Glasner, Eli	Tel Aviv University
Gomis, Tony	NBI-France
Goodey, Paul	University of Oklahoma
Gordon, Yehoram	Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Guédon, Olivier	Université Paris-Est Marne La Vallée
Haberl, Christoph	TU Wien
Henk, Martin	Universität Magdeburg
Hernández Cifre, Maria	Universidad de Murcia
Hug, Daniel	Universität Karlsruhe (TH)
Jenkinson, Justin	Case Western Reserve University
Jiménez, Carlos Hugo	University of Seville
Johnson, William	Texas A&M University
Kim, Hyojin
Klain, Daniel	University of Massachusetts Lowell
Koldobsky, Alexander	University of Missouri
König, Hermann	University of Kiel
Kwiatkowska, Aleksandra	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Labibi, Batool	University of Toronto
Latala, Rafal	University of Warsaw
Leung, Debbie	University of Waterloo
Linke, Eva	Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg
Litvak, Alexander	University of Alberta
Ludwig, Monika	Polytechnic Institute of NYU
Meckes, Elizabeth	Case Western Reserve University
Meckes, Mark	Case Western Reserve University
Mérigot, Quentin	The Fields Institute
Meyer, Mathieu	Universite Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallee
Milman, Emanuel	University of Toronto
Milman, Vitali	Tel Aviv University
Morgan, Frank	Williams College
Najafi Ivaki, Mohammad	Concordia University
Nazarov, Fedor	University of Wisconsin, Madison
Oleszkiewicz, Krzysztof	Warsaw University
Osadolor, Anthony	Technical University, Hamburg
Ostrovskii, Mikhail	St. John’s University
Pachl, Jan	Fields Institute
Pajor, Alain	Université de Paris Est Marne-la-Vallée
Paouris, Grigoris	Texas A&M University
Peri, Carla	Universita' Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Pestov, Vladimir	University of Ottawa
Pivovarov, Peter	University of Alberta
Prochno, Joscha	University of Kiel
Reitzner, Matthias	University of Osnabrueck
Riemer, Stiene	University of Kiel
Rotem, Liran	Tel Aviv University
Rudelson, Mark	University of Missouri
Ryabogin, Dmitry	Kansas State University
Sauer, Norbert	University of Calgary
Schechtman, Gideon	Weizmann Institute of Science
Schuster, Franz	Vienna University of Technology
Schütt, Carsten	Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel
Segal, Alexander	Tel Aviv University
Slomka, Boaz	Tel Aviv University
Slutsky, Konstantin	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Solecki, Slawomir	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Spektor, Susanna	University of Alberta
Stancu, Alina	Concordia University
Suárez, Jesús	University of Extremadura
Szarek, Stanislaw	Case Western Reserve University
Tanaka, Mamoru	Tohoku University
Taschuk, Steven	University of Alberta
Tiglay, Feride	The Fields Institute
Tomczak-Jaegermann, Nicole	University of Alberta
Tsolomitis, Antonis	University of the Aegean
Valettas, Peter	University of Athens
Vershynin, Roman	University of Michigan
Wang, Tuo	Polytechnic Institute of NYU
Wannerer, Thomas	TU Wien
Weil, Wolfgang	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Werner, Elisabeth	Case Western Reserve University
Wigderson, Avi	Institute for Advanced Study
Wojtaszczyk, Jakub	University of Warsaw
Xiao, Jie	Memorial University of Newfoundland
Yang, Deane	Polytechnic Institute of NYU
Yaskin, Vladyslav	University of Alberta
Yaskina, Maryna	University of Alberta
Ye, Deping	Fields Institute
Youssef, Pierre	Université Paris Est Marne La Vallée
Zouzias, Anastasios	University of Toronto
Zvavitch, Artem	Kent State University

 

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