Conference on Convex and Discrete Geometry

on the occasion of Peter M. Gruber's 75th birthday

July 4th-8th, 2016

FH 8 Nöbauer HS, Wiedner Hauptstraße 8-10, yellow section, 2nd floor, 2016

Program

Monday, July 4, 2016

08:30-09:30 Registration
09:30-09:40 Opening
09:40-10:30
 		 Rolf Schneider, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Recent Baire type results in convex geometry
10:35-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-11:50
 		 Martin Henk, Technische Universität Berlin
Subspace concentration of dual curvature measures
11:55-14:00 Lunch break
14:00-14:50
 		 Peter McMullen, University College London
Regular Compounds
15:00-15:20
 		 Maria A. Hernandez Cifre, University of Murcia
Bounding the integral of powered i-th mean curvatures
15:25-16:00 Coffee break
16:00-16:20
 		 Christian Buchta, Salzburg University
Generalized Euler-Schläfli-Poincaré formula, inclusion-exclusion principle, and random polytopes
16:30-16:50
 		 Elisabeth Werner, Case Western Reserve University
The Surface Area Deviation of the Euclidean Ball and a Polytope
17:00-17:20
 		 Florian Besau, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
The Floating Body in Real Space Forms
19:00 Reception with  Piano recital by Ingrid Carbone

Tuesday, July 5, 2016

09:00-09:50
 		 Peter Gritzmann, Technische Universität München
On grain indexing and reconstruction: Convexity and geometry of numbers in material sciences
10:00-10:20
 		 Stefano Campi, University of Siena
Reverse Loomis-Whitney-type inequalities
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-11:20
 		 Judit Abardia-Evéquoz, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
Characterization results for the difference body operator
11:30-11:50
 		 Ivan Netuka, Charles University Prague
The farthest point distance function: convexity, polynomials, potentials
11:55-14:00 Lunch break
14:00-14:50
 		 Chuanming Zong, Peking University
Packing and Covering by Regular Tetrahedra
15:00-15:20
 		 Susanna Dann, Vienna University of Technology
Bounding marginal densities via affine isoperimetry
15:25-16:00 Coffee break
16:00-16:20
 		 Liran Rotem, Tel Aviv University
Geometric Banach limits with an application to geometric means of convex bodies
16:30-16:50
 		 Dmitry Ryabogin, Kent State University
On bodies with congruent projections or sections

Wednesday, July 6, 2016

09:00-09:50
 		 Rajinder Hans-Gill, Panjab University
Some Covering Problems
10:00-10:20
 		 Achill Schürmann, Universität Rostock
Energy Minimization and Formal Duality of Periodic Point Sets
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-11:20
 		 Imre Bárány, Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics
Convex cones, integral zonotopes, and limit shapes
11:30-11:50
 		 Mohammad Ivaki, Technische Universität Wien
Some local uniqueness theorems

Thursday, July 7, 2016

09:00-09:50
 		 Károly Böröczky Jr., Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics
Valuations on lattice polytopes and relatives
10:00-10:20
 		 Shiri Artstein-Avidan, Tel Aviv University
Billiards in convex domains
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-11:20
 		 Luis Montejano, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Meissner Polyhedra
11:30-11:50
 		 Daniel Hug, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
On Kendall's problem in spherical space
11:55-14:00 Lunch break
14:00-14:50
 		 Paul Goodey, University of Oklahoma
Sums of sections, Fourier transforms and Crofton formulas
15:00-15:20
 		 Vlad Yaskin, University of Alberta
On the volume of sections of a convex body by cones
15:25-16:00 Coffee break
16:00-16:20
 		 Thomas Wannerer, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Minkowski valuations and generalized valuations
16:30-16:50
 		 Aljoša Volčič, University of Calabria
A three-dimensional convex tomography problem
19:00 Conference Dinner

Friday, July 8, 2016

09:00-09:50
 		 Matthias Reitzner, University of Osnabrück
Poisson Hyperplane Mosaics
10:00-10:20
 		 Jan Rataj, Charles University Prague
On a class of sets defined by means of DC functions
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-11:20
 		 Andrea Colesanti, University of Firenze
Infinitesimal forms of Brunn-Minkowski type inequalities
11:30-12:20
 		 Vitali Milman, Tel Aviv University
Different Facets of Polarity