AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, April 21, 2007 00:32:16

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

Saturday April 14, 2007, 9:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Affine Invariants, Randomness, and Approximation in Convex Geometry, I
Room 230, Edwin A. Stevens Building
Organizers:
Elisabeth Werner, Case Western Reserve University elisabeth.werner@case.edu
Artem Zvavitch, Kent State University zvavitch@math.kent.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Optimal Sobolev Norms and the Minkowski Problem.
  Erwin Lutwak, Polytechnic University
  Deane Yang*, Polytechnic University
  Gaoyong Zhang, Polytechnic University
  (1026-52-147)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Delauney graphs with respect to rectangles.
  Janos Pach*, City College, CUNY, New York and Renyi Institute, Budapest
  Xiaomin Chen, Google
  Mario Szegedy, Rutgers University
  Gabor Tardos, Simon Fraser University
  (1026-05-92)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Random convex chains.
  Imre B\'ar\'any*, R\'enyi Institute (Hungary) and University College (London)
  (1026-52-50)
- 10:30 a.m.
  A sharp Rogers-Shephard type inequality for the $p$-difference body of a planar convex body.
  Andrea Colesanti*, 'U. Dini', Universita' degli Studi di Firenze
  Chiara Bianchini, 'U. Dini', Universita' degli Studi di Firenze
  (1026-52-110)

Saturday April 14, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Affine Invariants, Randomness, and Approximation in Convex Geometry, II
Room 230, Edwin A. Stevens Building
Organizers:
Elisabeth Werner, Case Western Reserve University elisabeth.werner@case.edu
Artem Zvavitch, Kent State University zvavitch@math.kent.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  On the measure-theoretic Dvoretzky's theorem.
  Mark W Meckes*, Cornell University
  (1026-52-29)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Sharp spectral gap in the Kac model for three dimensional momentum conserving collisions.
  Eric A Carlen*, School of Mathematics, Georgia Tech
  Jeff Geronimo, School of Math, Georgia Tech
  Michael Loss, School of Math, Georgia Tech
  (1026-60-167)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Edge-antipodal polytopes.
  Ted Bisztriczky*, Department of Mathematics and Statistics,University of Calgary
  (1026-52-127)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Discussion.

Sunday April 15, 2007, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Affine Invariants, Randomness, and Approximation in Convex Geometry, III
Room 230, Edwin A. Stevens Building
Organizers:
Elisabeth Werner, Case Western Reserve University elisabeth.werner@case.edu
Artem Zvavitch, Kent State University zvavitch@math.kent.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Poisson-Voronoi approximation.
  Matthias Reitzner*, Univ. Techn. Vienna
  Matthias Heveling, Univ. Karlsruhe
  (1026-52-119)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Representing Gaussian Measure.
  Rick Vitale*, Department of Statistics, University of Connecticut
  (1026-60-156)
- 10:00 a.m.
  A subgaussian embedding theorem.
  Shahar Mendelson, ANU, Canberra, Australia and Technion, Haifa, Israel
  Nicole Tomczak-Jaegermann*, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
  (1026-46-150)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Volume thresholds for Gaussian and spherical random polytopes.
  Peter Pivovarov*, University of Alberta
  (1026-52-41)

Sunday April 15, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
Special Session on Affine Invariants, Randomness, and Approximation in Convex Geometry, IV
Room 230, Edwin A. Stevens Building
Organizers:
Elisabeth Werner, Case Western Reserve University elisabeth.werner@case.edu
Artem Zvavitch, Kent State University zvavitch@math.kent.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Closed convex hypersurfaces in Euclidean space with prescribed integral Gauss curvature and optimal transport on a sphere.
  Vladimir Oliker*, Emory University
  (1026-52-35)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Asymmetry of convex polytopes and vertex index of symmetric convex bodies.
  A. E. Litvak*, University of Alberta
  E. D. Gluskin, Tel Aviv University
  (1026-52-78)
- 3:30 p.m.
  A central limit theorem for convex sets.
  Bo'az B Klartag*, Princeton University
  (1026-52-30)

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