Conference on Convex and Discrete Geometry
on the occasion of the retirement of Peter M. Gruber
July 13-17, 2009
Program
Monday, July 13, 2009
| 08:30–09:30 | Registration |
| 09:30–10:00 | Opening |
| 10:00–10:50 |
Rolf Schneider, Freiburg The many appearances of zonoids |
| Coffee break | |
| 11:20–12:10 |
Günter M. Ziegler, Berlin Some centrally-symmetric polytopes |
| Lunch break | |
| 14:00–14:50 |
Paul Goodey, Norman Some stereological results for non-symmetric convex bodies |
| 15:00–15:25 |
Konrad Swanepoel, Chemnitz Maximal pairwise touching families of translates of a convex body |
| 15:35–16:00 |
Karoly Böröczky, Budapest A characterization of balls |
| Coffee break | |
| 16:30–16:55 |
Ivan Netuka, Prague Jensen measures and harmonic measures |
| 17:05–17:30 |
Rajinder Hans-Gill, Chandigarh On conjectures of Minkowski & Woods |
| 17:40–18:05 |
Nikolai Dolbilin, Moscow TBA |
| 19:00 | Welcome Reception |
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
| 09:00–09:50 |
Keith Ball, London Superexpanders and Markov cotype in the work of Mendel and Naor |
| 10:00–10:25 |
Apostolos Giannopoulos, Athens Asymptotic shape of a random polytope in a convex body |
| Coffee break | |
| 11:00–11:50 |
Stefano Campi, Siena Estimating intrinsic volumes of a convex body from finitely many tomographic data |
| Lunch break | |
| 14:00–14:50 |
Richard Gardner, Bellingham Capacities, Surface Area, and Radial Sums |
| 15:00–15:25 |
Carla Peri, Milan On some new results in discrete tomography |
| 15:35–16:00 |
Aljoša Volčič, Cosenza Random symmetrizations of measurable sets |
| Poster Session, Coffee break | |
| 16:45–17:10 |
Luis Montejano, Mexico City Topology and Transversal |
| 17:20–17:45 |
Margarita Spirova, Chemnitz Bodies of constant width in Minkowski geometry and related coverings problems |
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
| 09:00–09:50 |
Peter McMullen, London Translation tilings by polytopes |
| 10:00–10:25 |
Semyon Alesker, Tel Aviv Product on valuations |
| Coffee break | |
| 11:00–11:25 |
Andreas Bernig, Fribourg Integral geometry of transitive group actions |
| 11:35–12:00 |
Bo'az Klartag, Tel Aviv On nearly radial marginals of high-dimensional probability measures |
Thursday, July 16, 2009
| 09:00–09:50 |
Imre Barany, Budapest Simultaneous partitions by k-fans |
| 10:00–10:25 |
Iskander Aliev, Cardiff On Feasibility of Integer Knapsacks |
| Coffee break | |
| 11:00–11:50 |
Martin Henk, Magdeburg Successive minima type inequalities |
| Lunch break | |
| 14:00–14:40 |
Chuanming Zong, Beijing Geometry of Numbers in Vienna |
| 14:50–15:15 |
Nikolai Dolbilin & Arkadii Maltsev, Moscow Sergey Ryshkov |
| 15:25–15:50 |
Gabor Fejes Tóth, Budapest László Fejes Tóth |
| Coffee break | |
| 16:20–17:00 |
David Larman, London Victor Klee and Ambrose Rogers |
| 17:10–17:35 |
Jörg Wills, Siegen Edmund Hlawka |
| 19:00 | Conference Dinner |
Friday, July 17, 2009
| 09:00–09:50 |
Vitali Milman, Tel Aviv Duality and rigidity for families of convex functions |
| 10:00–10:25 |
Wolfgang Weil, Karlsruhe Integral geometry of translation invariant functionals |
| 10:35–11:00 |
Daniel Hug, Karlsruhe Typical cells and faces in Poisson hyperplane mosaics |
| Coffee break | |
| 11:30–11:55 |
Idzhad Kh. Sabitov, Moscow On the notion of combinatorial p-parametricity of polyhedra |
| 12:05–12:55 |
Serguei Novikov, Moscow New Discretization of Complex Analysis (DCA) |