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.

PROGRAMME

 

Wednesday, June 7th

09:00 - 10:00      Registration                   

10:00 - 10:05       Opening

10:05 - 10:55       Mikhail Gromov : Linearized isoperimetry.

10:55 - 11:20      Coffee break

11:20 - 12:10       Assaf Naor : Is  there a local theory of metric spaces?

12:20 - 12:45       Semyon Alesker : Some results and conjectures on valuations invariant under a group.

12:45 - 14:30      Lunch

14:30 - 15:20       Dario Cordero-Erausquin : Entropy of marginals and Brascamp-Lieb inequalities.

15:30 - 15:55       Boris Kashin : On some class of inequalities for orthonormal systems.

15:55 - 16:20      Coffee Break

16:20 - 16:45       Bo'az Klartag : A central limit theorem for convex sets.

16:55 - 17:20       Radosław Adamczak : Concentration of measure for U-statistics with applications to the law of the iterated logarithm.

17:30 - 17:55       Daniel Hug : Nakajima's problem: convex bodies of constant width and constant brightness

 

Thursday, June 8th

09:30 - 10:20       Noga Alon : Monotone Graph Properties.

10:30 - 10:55       Carsten Schütt : On the minimum of several random variables.

10:55 - 11:20      Coffee break

11:20 - 12h10      György Elekes : Incidences in Euclidean spaces.

12:20 - 12:45       Laura Wisewell : Covering polygonal annuli by strips.

12:45 - 15:05     Lunch

15:05 - 15:30       Dimitris Gatzouras : Threshold for the volume spanned by random points with independent coordinates.

15:40 - 16:05       Emmanuel Opshtein : Maximal symplectic packings.

16:05 - 16:30      Coffee Break

16:30 - 16:55       Ofer Zeitouni : Path enumeration and concentration for certain random matrices.

17:05 - 17:30       Matthias Heveling : Does polynomial parallel volume imply convexity?

17:40 - 18:05       Van Vu : Random discrete structures.

 

Friday, June 9th

09:30 - 10:20       Apostolos Giannopoulos : Geometry of random polytopes.

10:30 - 10:55       Vladimir Pestov : Lévy groups and the fixed point on compacta property.

10:55 - 11:20      Coffee break

11:20 - 12:10       Shiri Artstein-Avidan : Randomness reduction results in asymptotic

                                                                               geometric analysis.

12:20 - 12:45       Krzysztof Oleszkiewicz : On some deviation inequality for Rademacher sums.

12:45 - 14:30      Lunch

14:30 - 14:55       Bernard Maurey : Geometrical inequalities and Brownian motion.

15:05 - 15:30       Matthias Reitzner : Elementary moves on triangulations.

15:40 - 16:05       Witold Bednorz : Regularity of processes with increments controlled by many Young functions.

16:05 - 16:30      Coffee Break

16:30 - 16:55       Andrea Colesanti : Remarks about the spectral gap of log-concave measures

                                                                     on the real line.

17:05 - 17:30       Stefan Valdimarsson : Optimisers for the Brascamp-Lieb inequality.

17:40 - 18:05       Stanislaw Szarek : On the nontrivial projection problem.

 

 

Monday, June 12th

09:30 - 10:20      Marianna Csörnyei : Structure of null sets, differentiability of Lipschitz

                                                                       functions, and other problems.

10:30 - 10:55       Antonio Aviles-Lopez : Homeomorphic classification of balls in the Hilbert space.

10:55 - 11:20      Coffee break

11:20 - 12h10      Rafał Latała : On the boundedness of Bernoulli processes.

12:20-12:45         Guillaume  Aubrun : Approximating the inertia matrix of an unconditional

                                                                    convex body.

12:45 - 14:30      Lunch

14:30 - 14:55       Mark  Rudelson : Singular values of random matrices.

15:05 - 15:30       Stefano Campi : Volume inequalities for Lp-zonotopes.

15:40 - 16:05       Sasha Sodin : An isoperimetric inequality on lp balls.

16:05 - 16:30      Coffee Break

16:30 - 16:55       Alexander Litvak : On the vertex index of convex bodies.

17:05 - 17:30       Franz Schuster : Rotation intertwining additive maps - properties and applications.

17:40 - 18:05       Aicke Hinrichs : Normed spaces with extremal distance to the Euclidean space.

Conference dinner at 20:00

 

Tuesday, June 13th

09:30 - 10:20       Monika Ludwig : Affine geometry of convex bodies.

10:30 - 10:55       Emanuel Milman : Gaussian marginals of uniformly convex bodies.

10:55 - 11:20      Coffee break

11:20 - 12h10      Grigoris Paouris : Concentration of mass on convex bodies.

12:20 - 12:45       Jesus Bastero : Asymptotic behaviour of typical k-marginals of strongly

                                                            concentrated isotropic convex bodies.

12:45 - 14:30      Lunch

14:30 - 14:55       Nicole Tomczak-Jaegermann : Banach-Mazur distances and projections on random subgaussian polytopes.

15:05 - 15:30       Shahar Mendelson : On weakly bounded empirical processes.

15:30- 15:55       Coffee Break

15:55 - 16:20       Mariya Shcherbina : On the volume of the intersection of a sphere with

                                                                        random half-spaces.

16:30 - 16:55       Cyril Roberto : Rigorous results for relaxation times in kinetically constrained

                                                             spin models.

17:05 - 17:30       Sergey Bobkov : On isoperimetric constants for product probability measures.

17:40 - 19:10       Wine and Cheese Poster session

 

Wednesday, June 14th

09:30 - 10:20       Gideon Schechtman : Non-linear factorization of linear operators.

10:20 - 10:45      Coffee break

10:45 - 11h35      Andrei Okounkov : Algebraic geometry of random surfaces.

11:45 - 12:35       Terence Tao : The uniform uncertainty principle and applications.