Social Program
Monday 23 June 2008
20:00
   Cocktail reception at Rectorado
Tuesday 24 June 2008
20.00
   Guided tour to Reales Alcazares
Thursday 26 June 2008
21:30
   Conference dinner at Restaurant Río Grande.
   
Scientific Program (definitive) - abstracts
Monday 23 June 2008
8.00-9:00
   Registration (Sala de Juntas)
9:20-9:30
   Opening (Aula Magna)
9:30-10:25
   Hermann König
  Measure of sections and slabs of the n-cube
Coffe Break
   
11.00-11.30
   Nicole Tomczak-Jaegermann
  To be announced
11.35-12.05
   Nathael Gozlan
  Concentration of measure, Transport and Large Deviations
12.10-12.40
   Stanislaw Szarek
  Concentration for non-commutative polynomials in random matrices
12.45-13.15
   Sergey G. Bobkov
  Convex bodies and norms associated to convex measures
Lunch Break
   
16.00-16.55
   Shahar Mendelson
  To be announced
Coffee Break
   
17.30-18.00
   Elisabeth Werner
  On Lp affine surface area
18.05-18.35
   Yehoram Gordon
  Generalizing the Johnson-Lindenstrauss lemma to k-dimensional affine subspaces
18.40-19.10
   Alexander Litvak
  Covering convex bodies by cylinders
 
Tuesday 24 June 2008
9.00-9:55
   Ben Green
  The Gowers norms
10:00-10:30
   Mireille Capitaine
  Asymptotic spectrum of large deformed Wigner matrices
Coffe Break
   
11.00-11.30
   Andrea Colesanti
  The Minkowski problem for the torsional rigidity
11.35-12.05
   Olivier Guedon
  On the isotropic constant of random polytopes
12.10-12.40
   Emanuel Milman
  On the role of Convexity in isoperimetry, spectral-gap and concentration
12.45-13.15
   Matthieu Fradelizi
  Some functional inverse Santaló inequalities
Lunch Break
   
16.00-16.55
   Andreas Winter
  Some applications of measure concentration in quantum information theory
Coffee Break
   
17.30-18.00
   Rafal Latala
  Bounds on moments of linear combinations of log-concave random vectors
18.05-18.35
   Krzysztof Oleszkiewicz
  Precise tail estimates for products and sums of independent random variables
18.40-19.10
   Carsten Schütt
  Uniform estimates for order statistics and Orlicz functions
 
Wednesday 25 June 2008
9.00-9:55
   Daniel Hug
  Random polytopes and mosaics: asymptotic results
10:00-10:30
   Monika Ludwig
  General affine surface areas
Coffe Break
   
11.00-11.30
   Wolfgang Weil
  Generalized Averages of Section and Projection Functions
11.35-12.05
   Franz Schuster
  General Lp affine isoperimetric inequalities
12.10-12.40
   M. Angeles Hernández Cifre
  On the volume of inner parallel bodies
12.45-13.40
   Nigel Kalton
  The uniform structure of Banach spaces
 
Thursday 26 June 2008
9.00-9:55
   Ofer Zeitouni
  The single ring theorem
10:00-10:30
   Marius Junge
  To be announced
Coffe Break
   
11.00-11.30
   Alexander Soshnikov
  On the largest eigenvalues of large random Wigner matrices with non-symmetrically distributed entries
11.35-12.05
   Alexander Sodin
  Universality on the edge in Random Matrix Theory: around Soshnikov’s theorems
12.10-13.05
   William B. Johnson
  A characterization of subspaces and quotients of reflexive Banach spaces with unconditional bases
Lunch Break
   
16.00-16.25
   Ronen Eldan
  Pointwise estimates for marginals of Convex Bodies
    Gana Lytova
    Central Limit Theorem for Linear Eigenvalue Statistics of the Wigner and the Sample Covariance Random Matrices
16.30-16.55
   Chiara Bianchini
  Geometric inequalities for the Bernoulli constant
    Jesús Suárez
    On a problem of Lindenstrauss and Pelczynski
Coffee Break
   
17.30-17.55
   Pawel Wolff
  Spectral gap for conservative spin systems: the case of gamma distribution
    Joseph Lehec
    Equipartitions and functional Santaló inequalities
18.00-18.25
   Eugenia Saorín
  From Brunn-Minkowski to Poincare type inequalities
    Marisa Zymonopoulou
    Sections of complex convex bodies
18.30-18.55
   David Alonso-Gutiérrez
  An extension of the hyperplane conjecture and the Blaschke- Santaló inequality
    Maryna Yaskina
    Christoffel’s problem and the Fourier transform
19.00-19.25
   Peter Pivovarov
  On the mean-width of isotropic convex bodies
    Vladyslav Yaskin
    Christoffel’s problem and the Fourier transform. Part II.
 
Friday 27 June 2008
9.00-9:55
   Gil Kalai
  Fourier analysis of Boolean functions and applications
10:00-10:30
   James R. Lee
  Expander codes and pseudorandom subspaces
Coffe Break
   
11.00-11.30
   Nathanael Berestycki
  To be announced
11.35-12.05
   Semyon Alesker
  A Fourier type transform on translation invariant valuations on convex sets
12.10-12.40
   Nathan Linial
  What is high-dimensional combinatorics?
12.45-13.15
   François Bolley
  Mean field limits of stochastic interacting particle systems
13.20-14.15
   Subhash Khot
  Inapproximability of NP-complete problems, Discrete Fourier Analysis, and Geometry