Annual Conference 2006
"Phenomena in High Dimensions"
Paris, June 7-14, 2006
Second international Conference of the European network PHD
to be held at the Institut Henri Poincaré (IHP)

Supported by the European Network MRTN-511953, the Université de Marne-la-Vallée, the Institut Henri Poincaré,CNRS and the NSF.

Talks

Radoslaw Adamczak (Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland)

Concentration of measure for U-statistics with applications to the law of the iterated logarithm.
Semyon Alesker (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Some results and conjectures on valuations invariant under a group.
Guillaume Aubrun (UPMC, Paris, France)
Approximating the inertia matrix of an unconditional convex body.
Antonio Aviles Lopez (University of Murcia, Spain, appointed at University of Marne-la-Vallée)
Homeomorphic classification of balls in the Hilbert space
Jesus Bastero (University of Zaragoza, Spain)

Asymptotic behaviour of typical k-marginals of strongly concentrated isotropic convex bodies
Witold Bednorz (Warsaw University, Poland)
Regularity of processes with increments controlled by many Young functions
Sergey Bobkov (University of Minnesota, USA)
On isoperimetric constants for product probability measures
Stefano Campi (University of Siena, Italy)
Volume inequalities for L_p-zonotopes.
Andrea Colesanti (University of Florence, Italy)
Remarks about the spectral gap of log-concave measures on the real line.
Dimitris Gatzouras (Agricultural University of Athens, Greece)

Threshold for the volume spanned by random points with independent coordinates.
Matthias Heveling (University of Karlsruhe, Germany, appointed at TU Vienna)
Does polynomial parallel volume imply convexity?
Aicke Hinrichs (University of Jena, Germany)
Normed spaces with extremal distance to the Euclidean space
Daniel Hug (University of Freiburg, Germany)
Nakajima's problem: convex bodies of constant width and constant brightness
Boris Kashin (Steklov Mathematical Institute, Russia)
On some class of inequalities for orthonormal systems
Bo'az Klartag (I.A.S., Princeton, USA)
A central limit theorem for convex sets.
Michel Ledoux (University of Toulouse, France)
TBA
Alexander Litvak (University of Alberta, Canada)
On the vertex index of convex bodies
Bernard Maurey (University of Marne-la-Vallée, France)
Geometrical inequalities and Brownian motion
Shahar Mendelson (Australian National University, Australia) On weakly bounded empirical processes
Emanuel Milman (Weizmann Institute, Israel) Gaussian marginals of uniformly convex bodies
Krzysztof Oleszkiewicz (Warsaw University, Poland) On some deviation inequality for Rademacher sums
Emmanuel Opshtein (University of Toulouse, France, appointed at Tel Aviv University)
Maximal symplectic packings
Vladimir Pestov (Ottawa University, Canada) Lévy groups and the fixed point on compacta property
Matthias Reitzner (TU Vienna, Austria) Elementary moves on triangulations
Cyril Roberto (University of Marne-la-Vallée, France) Rigorous results for relaxation times in kinetically constrained spin models
Mark Rudelson (University of Missouri, USA) Singular values of random matrices
Mariya Shcherbina (Institute for Low Temperature Physics, Ukraine) On the volume of the intersection of a sphere with a random half-space
Franz Schuster (TU Vienna, Austria, appointed at University of Freiburg) Rotation intertwining additive maps - properties and applications
Carsten Schütt (University of Kiel, Germany) On the minimum of several random variables
Sasha Sodin  (Tel Aviv University, Israel) An isoperimetric inequality on l_p balls
Stanislaw Szarek (UPMC and Case Western Res. University, France and USA) On the nontrivial projection problem
Nicole Tomczak-Jaegermann (University of Alberta, Canada) Banach-Mazur distances and projections on random subgaussian polytopes
Stefan Valdimarsson ( University of Edinburgh, UK, appointed at University of Athens) Optimisers for the Brascamp-Lieb inequality
Van Vu (Rutgers University, USA) Random discrete structures
Laura Wisewell (Glasgow University, UK) Covering polygonal annuli by strips
Ofer Zeitouni (University of Minnesota and Technion Institute, USA and Israel) Path enumeration and concentration for certain random matrices