AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, October 18, 2008 00:36:13

Program | Deadlines | Registration/Housing/Etc. | Inquiries: meet@ams.org

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

Saturday October 11, 2008, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Convex and Integral Geometry, I
Room 58, Exley Science Center
Organizers:
Monika Ludwig, Polytechnic University of New York mludwig@poly.edu
Daniel Klain, University of Massachusetts, Lowell daniel_klain@uml.edu
Franz Schuster, Vienna University of Technology schuster@dmg.tuwien.ac.at
- 8:30 a.m.
  Microlocal and special-geometry projection and section aspects of convex bodies.
  Eric L Grinberg*, University of New Hampshire
  (1042-52-224)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Convex bodies with prescribed cross-sections-up-to-homothety.
  David V Feldman*, University of New Hampshire
  Daniel Klain, University of Massachusetts at Lowell
  (1042-52-195)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Convex sets with homothetic planar sections through given points.
  Valeriu Soltan*, George Mason University
  (1042-52-82)
- 10:00 a.m.
  The complex Busemann-Petty problem for arbitrary measures.
  Marisa Zymonopoulou*, Case Western Reserve University
  (1042-52-190)
- 10:30 a.m.
  A Fourier transform approach to Christoffel's problem.
  Paul R Goodey*, University of Oklahoma
  Vlad Yaskin, University of Alberta
  Maryna Yaskina, University of Oklahoma
  (1042-52-106)

Saturday October 11, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Convex and Integral Geometry, II
Room 58, Exley Science Center
Organizers:
Monika Ludwig, Polytechnic University of New York mludwig@poly.edu
Daniel Klain, University of Massachusetts, Lowell daniel_klain@uml.edu
Franz Schuster, Vienna University of Technology schuster@dmg.tuwien.ac.at
- 3:00 p.m.
  An area preserving affine evolution.
  Alina Stancu*, Concordia University
  (1042-52-121)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Geometric interpretation of $L_p$ affine surface area.
  Deping Ye*, Case Western Reserve University
  (1042-52-166)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Affine integral geometry from a differentiable viewpoint.
  Erwin Lutwak, Polytechnic Institute of NYU
  Deane Yang*, Polytechnic Institute of NYU
  Gaoyong Zhang, Polytechnic Institute of NYU
  (1042-52-179)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Asymmetric $L_p$ projection bodies and affinely invariant Sobolev inequalities.
  Christoph Haberl*, Vienna University of Technology
  Franz Schuster, Vienna University of Technology
  (1042-52-96)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Towards the structure of the algebra of invariant valuations in complex space forms.
  Joseph H.G. Fu*, Department of Mathematics, University of Georgia
  (1042-52-129)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Regular polygonal complexes in space.
  Egon Schulte*, Northeastern University
  (1042-51-108)

Sunday October 12, 2008, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Convex and Integral Geometry, III
Room 58, Exley Science Center
Organizers:
Monika Ludwig, Polytechnic University of New York mludwig@poly.edu
Daniel Klain, University of Massachusetts, Lowell daniel_klain@uml.edu
Franz Schuster, Vienna University of Technology schuster@dmg.tuwien.ac.at
- 8:30 a.m.
  Zonoids, intrinsic volumes, and multivariate medians.
  Rick Vitale*, University of Connecticut
  (1042-52-85)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Small ball probability estimates for log-concave measures.
  Grigorios Paouris*, Texas A&M University
  (1042-52-191)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Is the ball the only body of revolution having the constant perimeter of all boundaries of central sections?
  Dmitry Ryabogin*, Kent State University
  (1042-52-207)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Determining centrally symmetric convex polyhedra by the perimeters of central sections.
  Ser-Wei Fu, University of South Carolina
  Ralph Howard*, University of South Carolina
  (1042-52-173)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Brunn-Minkowski type inequalities for Gaussian Measure.
  Richard J. Gardner, Western Washington University
  Artem Zvavitch*, Kent State University
  (1042-52-156)

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