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2002 Fall Eastern Section Meeting
Boston, MA, October 5-6, 2002
Meeting #979

Associate secretaries:
Lesley M Sibner, AMS lsibner@duke.poly.edu

Special Session on Convex Geometry

  • Saturday October 5, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
    Special Session on Convex Geometry, I
    Room 50, Dodge Hall
    Organizers:
    Daniel A. Klain, University of Massachusetts, Lowell Daniel_Klain@uml.edu
    Elisabeth Werner, Case Western Reserve University emw2@po.cwru.edu

    • 8:30 a.m.
      Extremal slabs in the cube and the Laplace transform.
      Franck Barthe, University of Marne-la-Vallee
      Alexander Koldobsky*, University of Missouri-Columbia
      (979-52-30)
    • 9:00 a.m.
      Volume of Projections of Convex Bodies via Fourier Transform.
      Alexander Koldobsky, University of Missouri-Columbia
      Dmitry Ryabogin, University of Missouri-Columbia
      Artem Zvavitch*, University of MIssouri-Columbia
      (979-52-100)
    • 9:30 a.m.
      Euclidean sections of direct sums of normed spaces.
      A. E. Litvak*, University of Alberta
      V. D. Milman, Tel Aviv University
      (979-46-130)
    • 10:00 a.m.
      Coordinate projections of convex bodies.
      Mark Rudelson*, University of Missouri
      Roman Vershynin, University of Alberta
      (979-52-193)
    • 10:30 a.m.
      Inequalities related to convex bodies and applications.
      Yehoram Gordon*, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
      (979-52-225)

  • Saturday October 5, 2002, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
    Special Session on Convex Geometry, II
    Room 50, Dodge Hall
    Organizers:
    Daniel A. Klain, University of Massachusetts, Lowell Daniel_Klain@uml.edu
    Elisabeth Werner, Case Western Reserve University emw2@po.cwru.edu

    • 2:30 p.m.
      Problems in Convex Geometry Related to Microlocal Analysis.
      Eric L. Grinberg*, Temple University
      Eric Todd Quinto, Tufts University
      (979-52-152)
    • 3:00 p.m.
      Pure and Applied aspects of Limited Data Tomography.
      Eric Todd Quinto*, Tufts University
      (979-92-52)
    • 3:30 p.m.
      An iterative algorithm for finding $x\in C\subseteq R^N$ with $Ax\in Q\subseteq R^M$, where $C$ and $Q$ are closed, convex and $A$ is linear.
      Charles L Byrne*, University of Massachsuetts Lowell
      (979-52-93)
    • 4:00 p.m.
      Point $X$-rays of convex bodies in non-Euclidean spaces.
      Paolo Dulio, Politecnico di Milano
      Carla Peri*, Università Cattolica
      (979-52-140)
    • 4:30 p.m.
      Two problems on affine diameters of convex bodies.
      Valeriu Soltan*, George Mason University
      (979-52-44)
    • 5:00 p.m.
      Unitarily invariant valuations and complex integral geometry.
      Semyon Alesker*, Tel Aviv University & University of Chicago
      (979-52-88)

  • Sunday October 6, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
    Special Session on Convex Geometry, III
    Room 50, Dodge Hall
    Organizers:
    Daniel A. Klain, University of Massachusetts, Lowell Daniel_Klain@uml.edu
    Elisabeth Werner, Case Western Reserve University emw2@po.cwru.edu

    • 8:30 a.m.
      Directed Projection Functions.
      Paul Goodey*, University of Oklahoma
      Wolfgang Weil, Universit\"at Karlsruhe
      (979-52-198)
    • 9:00 a.m.
      A regularity theorem for support functions of convex bodies.
      Ralph Howard*, University of South Carolina
      (979-52-116)
    • 9:30 a.m.
      Smoothing Convex Polytopes.
      Mohammad Ghomi*, University of South Carolina
      (979-53-157)
    • 10:00 a.m.
      Convex bodies: metrics and dimension.
      R A Vitale*, University of Connecticut
      (979-52-70)
    • 10:30 a.m.
      On directly additive selectors for convex and star bodies.
      Maria Moszy\'nska*, Warsaw University
      (979-52-36)

  • Sunday October 6, 2002, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
    Special Session on Convex Geometry, IV
    Room 50, Dodge Hall
    Organizers:
    Daniel A. Klain, University of Massachusetts, Lowell Daniel_Klain@uml.edu
    Elisabeth Werner, Case Western Reserve University emw2@po.cwru.edu

    • 2:00 p.m.
      A local Steiner-type formula for closed sets and applications.
      Daniel Josef Hug*, Universität Freiburg
      Günter Last, Universität Karlsruhe
      Wolfgang Weil, Universität Karlsruhe
      (979-52-159)
    • 2:30 p.m.
      On the uniqueness of solutions to the discrete ${\hbox{L}}_0$-Minkowski problem in the plane.
      Alina Stancu*, Polytechnic University of New York
      (979-52-110)
    • 3:00 p.m.
      On the State of Voronoi's Conjecture on Parallelohedra.
      Konstantin Rybnikov*, UMASS Lowell
      (979-52-142)
    • 3:30 p.m.
      Volumes of symmetric random polytopes.
      Mark W Meckes*, Case Western Reserve University
      (979-52-94)
    • 4:00 p.m.
      Inequalities for mixed volumes and the Minkowski problem for polytopes.
      Daniel A. Klain*, University of Massachusetts Lowell
      (979-52-227)
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