Conference on Convex and Discrete Geometry
on the occasion of Peter M. Gruber's 75th birthday
July 4th-8th, 2016
FH 8 Nöbauer HS, Wiedner Hauptstraße 8-10, yellow section, 2nd floor, 2016
Program
Monday, July 4, 2016
08:30-09:30 | Registration |
09:30-09:40 | Opening |
09:40-10:30   |
Rolf Schneider, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg Recent Baire type results in convex geometry |
10:35-11:00 | Coffee break |
11:00-11:50   |
Martin Henk, Technische Universität Berlin Subspace concentration of dual curvature measures |
11:55-14:00 | Lunch break |
14:00-14:50   |
Peter McMullen, University College London Regular Compounds |
15:00-15:20   |
Maria A. Hernandez Cifre, University of Murcia Bounding the integral of powered i-th mean curvatures |
15:25-16:00 | Coffee break | 16:00-16:20   |
Christian Buchta, Salzburg University Generalized Euler-Schläfli-Poincaré formula, inclusion-exclusion principle, and random polytopes |
16:30-16:50   |
Elisabeth Werner, Case Western Reserve University The Surface Area Deviation of the Euclidean Ball and a Polytope |
17:00-17:20   |
Florian Besau, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt The Floating Body in Real Space Forms |
19:00 | Reception with Piano recital by Ingrid Carbone |
Tuesday, July 5, 2016
09:00-09:50   |
Peter Gritzmann, Technische Universität München On grain indexing and reconstruction: Convexity and geometry of numbers in material sciences |
10:00-10:20   |
Stefano Campi, University of Siena Reverse Loomis-Whitney-type inequalities |
10:30-11:00 | Coffee break |
11:00-11:20   |
Judit Abardia-Evéquoz, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt Characterization results for the difference body operator |
11:30-11:50   |
Ivan Netuka, Charles University Prague The farthest point distance function: convexity, polynomials, potentials |
11:55-14:00 | Lunch break |
14:00-14:50   |
Chuanming Zong, Peking University Packing and Covering by Regular Tetrahedra |
15:00-15:20   |
Susanna Dann, Vienna University of Technology Bounding marginal densities via affine isoperimetry |
15:25-16:00 | Coffee break |
16:00-16:20   |
Liran Rotem, Tel Aviv University Geometric Banach limits with an application to geometric means of convex bodies |
16:30-16:50   |
Dmitry Ryabogin, Kent State University On bodies with congruent projections or sections |
Wednesday, July 6, 2016
09:00-09:50   |
Rajinder Hans-Gill, Panjab University Some Covering Problems |
10:00-10:20   |
Achill Schürmann, Universität Rostock Energy Minimization and Formal Duality of Periodic Point Sets |
10:30-11:00 | Coffee break |
11:00-11:20   |
Imre Bárány, Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics Convex cones, integral zonotopes, and limit shapes |
11:30-11:50   |
Mohammad Ivaki, Technische Universität Wien Some local uniqueness theorems |
Thursday, July 7, 2016
09:00-09:50   |
Károly Böröczky Jr., Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics Valuations on lattice polytopes and relatives |
10:00-10:20   |
Shiri Artstein-Avidan, Tel Aviv University Billiards in convex domains |
10:30-11:00 | Coffee break |
11:00-11:20   |
Luis Montejano, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Meissner Polyhedra |
11:30-11:50   |
Daniel Hug, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology On Kendall's problem in spherical space |
11:55-14:00 | Lunch break |
14:00-14:50   |
Paul Goodey, University of Oklahoma Sums of sections, Fourier transforms and Crofton formulas |
15:00-15:20   |
Vlad Yaskin, University of Alberta On the volume of sections of a convex body by cones |
15:25-16:00 | Coffee break |
16:00-16:20   |
Thomas Wannerer, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena Minkowski valuations and generalized valuations |
16:30-16:50   |
Aljoša Volčič, University of Calabria A three-dimensional convex tomography problem |
19:00 | Conference Dinner |
Friday, July 8, 2016
09:00-09:50   |
Matthias Reitzner, University of Osnabrück Poisson Hyperplane Mosaics |
10:00-10:20   |
Jan Rataj, Charles University Prague On a class of sets defined by means of DC functions |
10:30-11:00 | Coffee break |
11:00-11:20   |
Andrea Colesanti, University of Firenze Infinitesimal forms of Brunn-Minkowski type inequalities |
11:30-12:20   |
Vitali Milman, Tel Aviv University Different Facets of Polarity |