CONFERENCE ON CONVEX, DISCRETE AND INTEGRAL GEOMETRY

SEPTEMBER 16–20, 2019, JENA, GERMANY

PROGRAM

BOOKLET OF ABSTRACTS

SLIDES

Monday 16

08:30–09:20Registration
09:20–09:30Opening
09:30–10:20Shiri Artstein-Avidan - Polarity and some of its relatives
10:30–11:00Coffee Break
11:00–11:25Piotr Nayar - Optimal comparison of weak and strong moments of random vectors with applications
to concentration of log-concave measures and the theory of p-summing operators
11:30–11:55Hermann König - On the maximal perimeter of sections of the cube
12:00–14:00Lunch Break
14:00–14:50Grigoris Paouris - Almost Euclidean sections of convex bodies
15:00–15:25Oscar Ortega Moreno - An optimal plank theorem
15:30–16:00Coffee Break
16:00–16:25Marta Strzelecka - Bounds for expectations of k-maxima of log-concave vectors
16:30–16:55Thomas Hack - Randomized Urysohn-type inequalities
17:00–17:25Jesús Yepes Nicolás - On discrete Borell-Brascamp-Lieb type inequalities

Tuesday 17

09:00–09:50Semyon Alesker - Intrinsic volumes on manifolds
10:00–10:25Irmina Herburt - Intrinsic metric in spaces of compact subsets with the Hausdorff metric
10:30–11:00Coffee Break
11:00–11:25Daniel Galicer - Bounds for the volume ratio of convex bodies
11:30–11:55Antonio Lerario - Probabilistic enumerative geometry
12:00–14:00Lunch Break
14:00–14:50Károly Böröczky - Brunn-Minkowski type inequalities and conjectures
15:00–15:25Vladimir Matveev - Binet-Legendre construction
15:30–16:00Coffee Break
16:00–16:25Fabian Mussnig - SL(n) invariant valuations on convex functions
16:30–16:55Ben Li - The existence of the extremals for polar Santaló inequalities
17:00–17:25Susanna Dann - On the simplex mean width conjecture

Wednesday 18

09:00–09:50Raman Sanyal - Anti-blocking, unconditional and beyond
10:00–10:25Dmitry Faifman - The Weyl principle in Finsler geometry
10:30–11:00Coffee Break
11:00–11:25Masataka Shibata - Minimal volume product of convex bodies with various symmetries
11:30–11:55Martin Lotz - Phase transisition phenomena in integral geometry
14:06– Excursion to Weimar

Thursday 19

09:00–09:50Franck Barthe - Spectral gap for some simple convex bodies
10:00–10:25Michał Strzelecki - Refined concentration of measure
derived from convex infimum convolution inequalities
10:30–11:00Coffee Break
11:00–11:25Florian Besau - Polytopal approximation in the dual Brunn-Minkowski theory
11:30–11:55Gergely Ambrus - Longest k-monotone chains
12:00–14:00Lunch Break
14:00–14:50Andreas Bernig - The Weyl principle in pseudo-riemannian geometry
15:00–15:25Grigory Ivanov - Approximate Carathéodory's theorem in the PSD cone
15:30–16:00Coffee Break
16:00–16:25Joseph Hoisington - The total curvature and Betti numbers of complex projective manifolds
16:30–16:55Bernardo González Merino - Zhang's inequality for log-concave functions
17:00–17:25Daniel Hug - A reverse Minkowski-type inequality
19:00–Conference Dinner at Landgrafen Restaurant

Friday 20

09:00–09:50Monika Ludwig - Valuations on convex functions
10:00–10:25Jan Rataj - On critical values of the distance from a subset in the plane
10:30–11:00Coffee Break