AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, October 11, 2008 00:27:40

Program | Deadlines | Registration/Housing/Etc. | Special Event or Lecture | Inquiries: meet@ams.org

Associate secretaries:
Michel L Lapidus, AMS lapidus@math.ucr.edu, lapidus@mathserv.ucr.edu

Saturday October 4, 2008, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Convex and Discrete Geometry and Asymptotic Analysis, I
Room 5, Woodward Building (Instructional Resources Center/IRC)
Organizers:
Karoly Bezdek, University of Calgary bezdek@math.ucalgary.ca
A. E. Litvak, University of Alberta alexandr@math.ualberta.ca
- 8:30 a.m.
  A characteristic intersection property of generalized simplices.
  Valeriu Soltan*, George Mason University
  (1041-52-20)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Spherical two-distance sets.
  Oleg R. Musin*, University of Texas at Brownsville, 80 Fort Brown, Brownsville, TX, 78520
  (1041-52-100)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Transversals of Families of Translates of a Convex Body.
  Marton Naszodi*, University of Alberta
  (1041-52-267)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Colourful Simplicial Depth.
  Tamon Stephen*, Simon Fraser University
  (1041-52-161)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Light Steiner networks for a point set.
  Csaba D. Toth*, University of Calgary
  (1041-52-271)

Saturday October 4, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Convex and Discrete Geometry and Asymptotic Analysis, II
Room 5, Woodward Building (Instructional Resources Center/IRC)
Organizers:
Karoly Bezdek, University of Calgary bezdek@math.ucalgary.ca
A. E. Litvak, University of Alberta alexandr@math.ualberta.ca
- 3:00 p.m.
  Geometry of sets of quantum maps.
  Elisabeth M Werner*, Case Western Reserve University
  Stanislaw Szarek, Case Western Reserve University
  Karol Zyczkowsk, Jagiellonian University, Krakow
  (1041-52-122)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Uniform estimates for order statistics and Orlicz funvtions.
  Carsten H Schuett*, Christian-Albrechts University
  Yehoram Gordon, Technion Haifa
  Alexander Litvak, University of Alberta
  Elisabeth M Werner, Case Western Reserve University
  (1041-46-245)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Random $\varepsilon$ nets and embeddings in $\ell^N_\infty$.
  Yehoram Gordon, Technion,
  Alexander Litvak, University of Alberta
  Alain Pajor, Universite paris Est
  Nicole Tomczak-Jaegermann*, University of Alberta
  (1041-46-233)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Small ball probability estimates for log-concave measures.
  Grigorios Paouris*, A&M University
  (1041-52-232)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Covering convex bodies by cylinders.
  K. Bezdek, University of Calgary
  A. E. Litvak*, University of Alberta
  (1041-52-173)

Sunday October 5, 2008, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Convex and Discrete Geometry and Asymptotic Analysis, III
Room 5, Woodward Building (Instructional Resources Center/IRC)
Organizers:
Karoly Bezdek, University of Calgary bezdek@math.ucalgary.ca
A. E. Litvak, University of Alberta alexandr@math.ualberta.ca
- 8:00 a.m.
  Triangulations in high dimensions and the sum-product problem.
  Jozsef Solymosi*, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
  (1041-05-299)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Simultaneous partitions by convex pieces.
  Imre Barany*, Renyi Institute, Budapest and UCL, London
  (1041-52-163)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Global Rigidity.
  Robert Connelly*, Cornell University, Depatment of Math., Malott Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853
  (1041-51-294)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Spherical Reuleaux Polytopes.
  Karoly Bezdek*, Professor, Canada Research Chair, University of Calgary
  (1041-52-151)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Combinatorial structure of Schulte's chiral polyhedra.
  Daniel Pellicer, York University
  Asia Ivić Weiss*, York University
  (1041-51-130)
- 10:30 a.m.
  The contractibility of the space of noncompact convex hypersurfaces.
  Mohammad Ghomi*, Georgia Institute of Technology
  (1041-53-234)

Sunday October 5, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Convex and Discrete Geometry and Asymptotic Analysis, IV
Room 5, Woodward Building (Instructional Resources Center/IRC)
Organizers:
Karoly Bezdek, University of Calgary bezdek@math.ucalgary.ca
A. E. Litvak, University of Alberta alexandr@math.ualberta.ca
- 3:00 p.m.
  Maximizing the volume of spherically convex bodies of given inradius.
  Károly Bezdek, University of Calgary, Canada
  Balázs Csikós*, Eötvös University, Hungary
  Rolf Schneider, Universität Freiburg, Germany
  (1041-52-281)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Zigzag vectors in linear subspaces of $\mathbb R^n$.
  Vladimir G Troitsky*, University of Alberta
  (1041-46-118)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Shadow boundaries and the Fourier transform.
  Paul Goodey, University of Oklahoma
  Vladyslav Yaskin, University of Alberta
  Maryna Yaskina*, University of Alberta
  (1041-52-66)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Christoffel's problem and the Fourier transform.
  Paul Goodey, University of Oklahoma
  Vladyslav Yaskin*, University of Alberta
  Maryna Yaskina, University of Alberta
  (1041-52-65)
- 5:00 p.m.
  "Gaussian measure of sections of dilates and shifts of convex bodies".
  Artem Zvavitch*, Kent State University
  (1041-52-266)
- 5:30 p.m.
  On a question of A. Koldobsky.
  Alexey Goncharov, South Federal State University, Russia
  Dmitry Ryabogin*, Kent State University
  (1041-52-300)

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