AMS Sectional Meeting Program by AMS Special Session

Current as of Sunday, November 8, 2009 00:36:25

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

Associate secretaries:
Matthew Miller, AMS miller@math.sc.edu

Friday October 30, 2009, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Concentration, Functional Inequalities, and Isoperimetry, I
Room 102, General Classroom North
Organizers:
Mario Milman, Florida Atlantic University extrapol@bellsouth.net
Christian Houdre, Georgia Institute of Technology
Emanuel Milman, Institute for Advanced Study
- 2:30 p.m.
  Sobolev embedding on Lie groups.
  William Beckner*, University of Texas, Austin
  (1053-35-283)
- 3:35 p.m.
  Density formula and concentration inequalities with Malliavin calculus.
  Ivan Nourdin*, University of Paris VI
  (1053-60-284)
- 4:10 p.m.
  Inversion positivity and the sharp Hardy-Littlewood-Sobolev inequality.
  Elliott H. Lieb*, Princeton University
  (1053-42-286)

Saturday October 31, 2009, 8:25 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Concentration, Functional Inequalities, and Isoperimetry, II
Room 101, General Classroom North
Organizers:
Mario Milman, Florida Atlantic University extrapol@bellsouth.net
Christian Houdre, Georgia Institute of Technology
Emanuel Milman, Institute for Advanced Study
- 8:25 a.m.
  Stability of the rearrangement inequality for the Coulomb energy.
  Almut Burchard*, University of Toronto
  (1053-26-288)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Log-Sobolev inequalities and semi-classical limit of $P(\phi)_2$-Hamiltonians.
  Shigeki Aida*, Osaka University
  (1053-35-289)
- 10:10 a.m.
  Some isoperimetric inequalities in high dimension.
  Franck Barthe*, University of Toulouse
  (1053-60-290)

Saturday October 31, 2009, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Concentration, Functional Inequalities, and Isoperimetry, III
Room 101, General Classroom North
Organizers:
Mario Milman, Florida Atlantic University extrapol@bellsouth.net
Christian Houdre, Georgia Institute of Technology
Emanuel Milman, Institute for Advanced Study
- 2:30 p.m.
  From concentration to isoperimetry: semigroup proofs.
  Michel Ledoux*, University of Toulouse
  (1053-60-292)
- 3:35 p.m.
  A new proof for the double bubble in 3-space.
  Gary Lawlor*, Brigham Young University
  (1053-49-293)
- 4:10 p.m.
  Manifolds with Density and Isoperimetric Problems.
  Frank Morgan*, Williams College
  (1053-53-294)

Sunday November 1, 2009, 8:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Special Session on Concentration, Functional Inequalities, and Isoperimetry, IV
Room 101, General Classroom North
Organizers:
Mario Milman, Florida Atlantic University extrapol@bellsouth.net
Christian Houdre, Georgia Institute of Technology
Emanuel Milman, Institute for Advanced Study
- 8:30 a.m.
  Contributed Session: Short talks by students.
- 9:30 a.m.
  Small ball probability estimates, $PSI_2$-behavior and the hyperplane conjecture.
  Grigoris Paouris*, Texas A&M University
  (1053-52-295)
- 10:25 a.m.
  Quantitative isoperimetric inequalities and stability of crystals.
  Alessio Figalli*, University of Texas at Austin
  (1053-35-297)
- 11:20 a.m.
  Riesz meets Sobolev.
  Thierry Coulhon*, Cergy-Pontoise University
  (1053-58-298)

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