As part of the Program, the Local Commitee organizes a Series of Seminars during the week before the conference June 16-20, 2008. The professors invited to impart them are:

Sergei Bobkov, Minnessota, USA

Apostolos Giannopoulos, Greece

Alexander Koldobsky, Columbia-Missouri, USA

Each Seminar consists on 4 lectures. Further information below.

For registration, just mark the option in the registration page.

The Seminars will take place at the Mathematics Building,
University of Sevilla.

For accomodation, an special arrangement has been made with the University Hall of Residence Rector Estanislao del Campo, near the Mathematics Building (deadline May 15th). Visit the accomodation page for more info.

SCHEDULE
	mon	tue	wed	thu	fri
9.30-10.30		G2	G3	B2	G4
11.00-12.00		K2	B1	B3	B4
12.15-13.15				K3	K4
17.00-18.00	G1
18.30-19.30	K1

CONTENTS
	Sergei Bobkov
	B1	Prèkopa-Leindler theorem and its dimensional extension
	B2	Characterization and hierarchy of convex measures
	B3	Infimum-convolution and the generalized Brascamp-Lieb inequality
	B4	Concentration and weighted Poincaré-type inequalities
	Apostolos Giannopoulos
	G1	Isotropic convex bodies: overview and the unconditional model
	G2	Lq-centroid bodies: results and questions
	G3	Concentration of volume, subgaussian estimates and mean width
	G4	Random points and isotropic constant of random polytopes
	Alexander Koldobsky 'Fourier analysis in convex geometry'
	K1	Extremal sections and slabs in lp-balls
	K2	Intersection bodies
	K3	The Busemann-Petty problem and related open questions
	K4	A path between sections and projections through Lp-spaces