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Fall Central Sectional Meeting
Washington University, St. Louis, MO
October 18-20, 2013 (Friday - Sunday)
Meeting #1094

Associate secretaries:

Georgia M. Benkart, AMS benkart@math.wisc.edu

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Special Session on Convex Geometry and its Applications

• Friday October 18, 2013, 4:45 p.m.-6:35 p.m.
  Special Session on Convex Geometry and its Applications, I
  Room 203, Eads Hall
  Organizers:
  Susanna Dann, University of Missouri
  Alexander Koldobsky, University of Missouri
  Peter Pivovarov, University of Missouri pivovarovp@missouri.edu
  

  • 4:45 p.m.
    $L_p$ affine surface areas for log concave functions.
    Elisabeth M Werner*, Case Western Reserve University
    Umut Caglar, Case Western Reserve University
    Matthieu Fradelizi, University Paris Est
    Olivier Guedon, University Paris Est
    Joseph Lehec, University Paris Dauphine
    Carsten Schuett, University of Kiel
    (1094-52-49)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    Divergence for s-concave and log concave functions.
    Umut Caglar*, Case Western Reserve University
    Elisabeth Werner, Case Western Reserve University
    (1094-52-102)
  • 5:45 p.m.
    p-harmonic capacity problem in planar convex ring.
    J. Xiao*, Memorial University, Canada
    (1094-53-92)
  • 6:15 p.m.
    On convexity and regularity of intersection bodies.
    M. A. Alfonseca*, North Dakota State University
    J. Kim, University of Alberta
    (1094-52-268)
• Saturday October 19, 2013, 8:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Convex Geometry and its Applications, II
  Room 203, Eads Hall
  Organizers:
  Susanna Dann, University of Missouri
  Alexander Koldobsky, University of Missouri
  Peter Pivovarov, University of Missouri pivovarovp@missouri.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    On spindle starshaped sets.
    Karoly Bezdek*, University of Calgary, Canada
    (1094-52-252)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Convex bodies: metrics and intrinsic volumes.
    Rick Vitale*, Department of Statistics, University of Connecticut
    (1094-52-117)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The simplex is the only simplicial maximizer of the isotropic constant.
    Luis Rademacher*, Ohio State University
    (1094-52-380)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Maximal surface area of a convex set in $\mathbb R^n$ with respect to log concave rotation invariant measures.
    Galyna V Livshyts*, Kent State University
    (1094-52-151)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Projection bodies of convex bodies.
    Christos Saroglou*, Texas A&M University
    (1094-52-116)
• Saturday October 19, 2013, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Convex Geometry and its Applications, III
  Room 203, Eads Hall
  Organizers:
  Susanna Dann, University of Missouri
  Alexander Koldobsky, University of Missouri
  Peter Pivovarov, University of Missouri pivovarovp@missouri.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Moment estimates for convex measures.
    Radoslaw Adamczak, Warsaw University, Warsaw, Poland
    Olivier Guedon, Universite Paris-Est, Marne-la-Valee, 77 454 France
    Rafal Latala, Warsaw University, Warsaw, Poland
    Alexander E. Litvak, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2G1
    Krzysztof Oleszkiewicz, Warsaw University, Warsaw, Poland
    Alain Pajor, Universite Paris-Est, Marne-la-Valee, 77 454 France
    Nicole Tomczak-Jaegermann*, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2G1
    (1094-46-138)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Numerical range of random matrices.
    Benoit Collins, University of Ottawa
    Alexander E. Litvak*, University of Alberta
    Piotr Gawron, Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics, Polish Academy of Sciences
    Karol Zyczkowski, Institute of Physics, Jagiellonian University
    (1094-60-303)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Thick sections of convex bodies.
    V. Yaskin*, University of Alberta
    M. Yaskina, University of Alberta and Grant MacEwan University
    (1094-52-325)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Stability of the reverse Blaschke-Santalo inequality for unconditional convex bodies.
    Jaegil Kim, University of Alberta
    Artem Zvavitch*, Kent State University
    (1094-52-349)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    On a continuous Rubik's cube.
    Dmitry Ryabogin*, Kent State University
    (1094-52-262)
• Sunday October 20, 2013, 8:30 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Convex Geometry and its Applications, IV
  Room 203, Eads Hall
  Organizers:
  Susanna Dann, University of Missouri
  Alexander Koldobsky, University of Missouri
  Peter Pivovarov, University of Missouri pivovarovp@missouri.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Perimeter under multiple Steiner symmetrizations.
    Almut Burchard*, University of Toronto
    (1094-28-70)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A class of geometric inequalities for convex bodies.
    Alina Stancu*, Concordia University
    (1094-52-99)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Euclidean grid structures in Banach spaces.
    Daniel John Fresen*, Yale University
    (1094-46-326)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    An Asymptotically Sharpform of Ball's Integral Inequality.
    Susanna Spektor*, University of Alberta
    (1094-33-111)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A note on intersection bodies and Lorentz balls in dimensions greater than 4.
    Patrick Kipley Spencer*, University of Missouri
    (1094-52-123)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    The $\chi$-distribution and the randomized Dvoretzky's theorem in $l_\infty^n$.
    Konstantin E. Tikhomirov*, University of Alberta
    (1094-52-132)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    A short proof for an upper bound of the Banach-Mazur distance to the cube.
    Pierre Youssef*, University of Alberta
    (1094-52-69)

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