Convex and Discrete Geometry Workshop --- Schedule

Monday, Sept. 4
Monday, Sept. 4
9:30-10:30
Elisabeth Werner: Elisabeth Werner (Case Western Reserve University)
Extremal affine surface areas [+]
Coffee break
11:00-12:00
James Davies: James Davies (Trinity Hall, Cambridge)
Chromatic number of spacetime [+]
Lunch break
14:00-15:00
Dmitrii Zakharov: Dmitrii Zakharov (MIT)
A new upper bound for the Heilbronn triangle problem [+]
Coffee break

Tuesday, Sept. 5
Tuesday, Sept. 5
9:30-10:30
Gil Kalai: Gil Kalai (Hebrew University, Jerusalem)
New types of order types [+]
Coffee break
11:00-12:00
Jacob Fox: Jacob Fox (Stanford University)
Posets and intersection patterns of convex sets [+]
Lunch break
14:00-15:00
Günter Rote: Günter Rote (FU Berlin)
Counting and enumerating pseudoline arrangements [+]
Coffee break
15:30-16:30
István Tomon: István Tomon (Umeå University)
Recent developments in geometric chi-boundedness [+]
16:30-17:30
Dömötör Pálvölgyi: Dömötör Pálvölgyi (Loránd Eötvös University, Budapest)
Order types meet Ramsey theory [+]

Wednesday, Sept. 6
Wednesday, Sept. 6
9:00-10:00
Micha Sharir: Micha Sharir (Tel Aviv University)
Vertical decomposition of substructures in three and four dimensions and its many applications [+]
Coffee break
10:30-11:30
Herbert Edelsbrunner: Herbert Edelsbrunner (IST Austria)
Measuring the mingling of colored points [+]
11:30-12:30
Alexander Litvak: Alexander Litvak (University of Alberta)
Singularity of random Bernoulli matrices [+]
Lunch break

Thursday, Sept. 7
Thursday, Sept. 7
9:30-10:30
Monika Ludwig: Monika Ludwig (Technische Universität Wien)
Fractional affine isoperimetric inequalities [+]
Coffee break
11:00-12:00
Benny Sudakov: Benny Sudakov (ETH, Zurich)
The Lovász theta function and MaxCut [+]
Lunch break
14:00-15:00
Alexandr Polyanskii: Alexandr Polyanskii (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)
Polynomial plank problems [+]
Coffee break
15:30-16:30
Károly Bezdek: Károly Bezdek (University of Calgary and University of Pannonia)
On optimal totally separable packings [+]
16:30-17:30
Zsolt Lángi: Zsolt Lángi (Budapest University of Technology and Economics)
Dowker-type theorems for disk-polygons in normed planes [+]

Friday, Sept. 8
Friday, Sept. 8
9:30-10:30
Francisco Santos Leal: Francisco Santos Leal (Universidad de Cantabria)
Multitriangulations and rigidity [+]
Coffee break
11:00-12:00
András Bezdek: András Bezdek (Auburn University)
Covering theorems vs. packing theorems in two and three-dimensional spaces [+]
Lunch break
14:00-15:00
Dmitry Ryabogin: Dmitry Ryabogin (Kent State University)
On bodies with symmetric sections, floating bodies and related problems [+]
Coffee break
15:30-16:30
Grigory Ivanov: Grigory Ivanov (IST Austria)
Coarse approximation in convex analysis [+]
16:30-17:30
Imre Bárány: Imre Bárány (Renyi Institute, Budapest)
Pairwise intersecting convex sets and cylinders in $\mathbb{R}^3$ [+]