Joint Mathematics Meetings Program by Special Session

Current as of Thursday, January 15, 2009 00:44:13

Joint Mathematics Meetings
Washington, DC, January 5-8, 2009 (Monday - Thursday)
Meeting #1046

• Wednesday January 7, 2009, 9:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Asymptotic Geometric Analysis, I
  Balcony D, Mezzanine Level, Marriott
  Organizers:
  Alexander E. Litvak, University of Alberta alexandr@math.ualberta.ca
  Dmitry Ryabogin, Kent State University
  Artem Zvavitch, Kent State University
  

  • 9:30 a.m.
    Projecting $l_\infty$ onto classical spaces.
    Hermann Koenig, University of Kiel, Germany
    Nicole Tomczak-Jaegermann*, University of Alberta
    (1046-46-1491)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Auerbach bases and minimal-volume sufficient enlargements for normed spaces.
    Mikhail I Ostrovskii*, St. John's University
    (1046-46-492)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Convex geometry, Sobolev inequalities, and information theory.
    Erwin Lutwak, Polytechnic Institute of NYU
    Deane Yang*, Polytechnic Institute of NYU
    Gaoyong Zhang, Polytechnic Institute of NYU
    (1046-52-2008)
• Wednesday January 7, 2009, 1:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Asymptotic Geometric Analysis, II
  Balcony D, Mezzanine Level, Marriott
  Organizers:
  Alexander E. Litvak, University of Alberta alexandr@math.ualberta.ca
  Dmitry Ryabogin, Kent State University
  Artem Zvavitch, Kent State University
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Variational formulas for the isotropic constant.
    Ralph Howard*, University of South Carolina
    (1046-53-1898)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Remark on isotropic constant of projections of convex bodies.
    David Alonso-Gutiérrez, University of Zaragoza, Spain
    Jesús Bastero, University of Zaragoza, Spain
    Julio Bernués, University of Zaragoza, Spain
    Paweł Wolff*, Case Western Reserve University
    (1046-52-1772)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Local and Equatorial characterization of unit balls of subspaces of $L_p,p>0$ and properties of the generalized cosine transform.
    Jeffrey Schlaerth*, Kent State University
    (1046-52-2006)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Erdélyi-Kober integrals on the cone of positive definite matrices and Radon transforms on Grassmann manifolds.
    Elena Ournycheva*, University of Pittsburgh at Bradford
    (1046-44-1483)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Discussion
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Quaternionic Busemann-Petty problem.
    Boris Rubin*, Louisiana State University
    (1046-52-1393)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    On embeddings of normed spaces in $L_{-k}$.
    Vladyslav Yaskin*, University of Alberta
    (1046-46-1823)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Algorithmic approximation of convex polytopes by simpler convex polytopes.
    Shlomo Reisner*, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
    (1046-52-1564)