AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

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

2008 Fall Western Section Meeting
Vancouver, Canada, October 4-5, 2008 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1041

• 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)