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Spring Southeastern Sectional Meeting
University of Georgia, Athens, GA
March 5-6, 2016 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1117
Associate secretaries:
Brian D. Boe, AMS brian@math.uga.edu
Special Session on Probabilistic and Analytic Tools in Convexity
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Saturday March 5, 2016, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Probabilistic and Analytic Tools in Convexity, I
Room 153, Miller Learning Center
Organizers:
Joseph Fu, University of Georgia
Galyna Livshyts, Georgia Institute of Technology glivshyt@kent.edu
Elisabeth Werner, Case Western Reserve University
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8:00 a.m.
The centroid body: algorithms and statistical estimation for heavy-tailed distributions.
Joseph Anderson, The Ohio State University
Navin Goyal, Microsoft Research Bangalore
Anupama Nandi, The Ohio State University
Luis Rademacher*, The Ohio State University
(1117-52-421) -
8:30 a.m.
Randomized isoperimetric inequalities.
Peter Pivovarov*, University of Missouri
G. Paouris, Texas A&M University
(1117-52-360) -
9:00 a.m.
Remarks on the dependence on $\varepsilon$ in Dvoretzky's theorem.
Petros Valettas*, University of Missouri, Mathematics Department, Columbia, MO 65211
Grigoris Pouris, Texas A&M University, Department of Mathematics, College Station, TX, 77843
Joel Zinn, Texas A&M University, Department of Mathematics, College Station, TX, 77843
(1117-52-338) -
9:30 a.m.
On the thin-shell conjecture for the Schatten classes.
Beatrice-Helen Vritsiou*, University of Michigan
Jordan Radke, Princeton University
(1117-46-269) -
10:00 a.m.
On the monotonicity of Minkowski sums towards convexity.
Arnaud Marsiglietti*, IMA, University of Minnesota
(1117-52-32) -
10:30 a.m.
Deterministic couplings of Brownian motions on the boundary of convex sets.
Ionel Popescu*, Geogia Institute of Technoligy
Mihai Pascu, Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania
(1117-60-348)
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8:00 a.m.
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Saturday March 5, 2016, 2:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Probabilistic and Analytic Tools in Convexity, II
Room 153, Miller Learning Center
Organizers:
Joseph Fu, University of Georgia
Galyna Livshyts, Georgia Institute of Technology glivshyt@kent.edu
Elisabeth Werner, Case Western Reserve University
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2:00 p.m.
Characterization of a class of weak transport-entropy inequalities on the line.
Prasad Tetali*, Professor, School of Mathematics, Georgia Tech
(1117-60-208) -
2:30 p.m.
Optimal concentration of information for convex measures.
Mokshay Madiman*, University of Delaware
(1117-52-66) -
3:00 p.m.
The magnitude of a compact set in Euclidean space.
Mark W Meckes*, Case Western Reserve University
(1117-28-196) -
3:30 p.m.
The Bishop-Phelps-Bollobás Property for Operators.
Olena Kozhushkina*, Lafayette College
(1117-47-375) -
4:00 p.m.
On symmetries of projections and sections of convex bodies.
Dmitry Ryabogin*, Kent State University
(1117-52-337) -
4:30 p.m.
On the equation related to projections of convex bodies.
Sergii Myroshnychenko*, Kent State University
(1117-52-167)
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2:00 p.m.
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Sunday March 6, 2016, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Probabilistic and Analytic Tools in Convexity, III
Room 153, Miller Learning Center
Organizers:
Joseph Fu, University of Georgia
Galyna Livshyts, Georgia Institute of Technology glivshyt@kent.edu
Elisabeth Werner, Case Western Reserve University
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8:00 a.m.
A discrete version of centro-affine curvature.
Alina Stancu*, Concordia University
(1117-52-179) -
8:30 a.m.
Anisotropic Sobolev Capacity with Fractional Order.
Jie Xiao, Memorial University of Newfoundland
Deping Ye*, Memorial University of Newfoundland
(1117-52-322) -
9:00 a.m.
The Floating Body in Real Space Forms.
Florian Besau*, Department of Mathematics, Case Western Reserve University
Elisabeth M. Werner, Department of Mathematics, Case Western Reserve University
(1117-52-224) -
9:30 a.m.
Mixed $f$-divergence and inequalities for log concave functions.
Umut Caglar*, Florida International University
Elisabeth M. Werner, Case Western Reserve University
(1117-46-272) -
10:00 a.m.
Affine invariant points for functions.
Ben Li*, Case Western Reserve University
Elisabeth M Werner, Case Western Reserve University
(1117-46-165) -
10:30 a.m.
The Surface Area Deviation of the Euclidean Ball and a Polytope.
Steven D. Hoehner, Case Western Reserve University
Carsten H. Schuett*, Christian-Albrechts-University
Elisabeth M. Werner, Case Western Reserve University
(1117-52-115)
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8:00 a.m.
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Sunday March 6, 2016, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Probabilistic and Analytic Tools in Convexity, IV
Room 153, Miller Learning Center
Organizers:
Joseph Fu, University of Georgia
Galyna Livshyts, Georgia Institute of Technology glivshyt@kent.edu
Elisabeth Werner, Case Western Reserve University
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3:00 p.m.
Random Points on a Halfsphere.
Matthias Reitzner*, Univ. Osnabrueck, Institute for Mathematics
(1117-52-171) -
3:30 p.m.
On invertibility of adjacency matrices of random $d$-regular directed graphs.
Alexander E. Litvak, University of Alberta, Canada
Anna Lytova*, University of Alberta, Canada
Konstantin Tikhomirov, University of Alberta, Canada
Nicole Tomczak-Jaegermann, University of Alberta, Canada
Pierre Youssef, Paris Diderot University - Paris 7, France
(1117-60-189) -
4:00 p.m.
Coverings of random ellipsoids, and invertibility of matrices with i.i.d. heavy-tailed entries.
Elizaveta Rebrova*, University of Michigan
Konstantin Tikhomirov, University of Alberta
(1117-52-231) -
4:30 p.m.
Concentration bounds for sample covariance operators.
Vladimir Koltchinskii*, School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology
(1117-60-385) -
5:00 p.m.
Concentration bounds and asymptotic distribution for the empirical spectral projectors of sample covariance operators.
Karim Lounici*, Georgia Inst. of Technology
(1117-62-282)
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3:00 p.m.
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